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For those of you who
haven’t already heard, I ceased publishing both of my newsletters—Geborener
Deutscher, a newsletter in English for German-born adotpees; and Das
Adoptionsdreieck, a similar newsletter in German—as hard-copy periodicals
many years ago. As an alternative, I established a Group
on Yahoo! called Geborener Deutscher. When Yahoo! decided to delete all of the
content on its Groups server, I downloaded the files and am migrating the data to
a similarly named group on
Facebook.
Like the Yahoo! group, it’s private-access, so you will have to request membership;
but while it may be exclusive, it’s not restricted! As a member of the group, you
will have access to an archive of back issues of Geborener Deutscher.
My online bibliography,
The Readers’
Guide to Adoption-Related Literature, had been updated through March of 2015
when I decided to cease adding new titles, for reasons explained on the site. I
will be keeping the existing data available for review and research, sometimes adding
new entries if/when I discover any relevent titles published within the existing time frame that
previously escaped inclusion, so please be sure to check it out! (If you haven’t
visited recently, I’ve added a limited search function, in case you’re looking for
something in particular.)
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In June 2018, I
realized a lifelong dream when I moved to Frankfurt, Germany,
following the deaths of my husband, in 2015, and adoptive father, in 2016 (my
adoptive mother had passed away in 2010). I did not want to remain in New Mexico, and,
while moving to another part of the U.S. was quite feasible, it would have required
an amount of research that was rather daunting and discouraging; I likened it to trying
to decide between 49 different countries, so different are the individual states, one
from another. Plus, moving to Germany has always been a goal I had repeatedly expressed,
and so I put that at the top of the list. If it turned out that such a move was, in fact,
impossible, or otherwise unworkable, then I could turn to the option of a domestic
relocation as a “fall-back” position. It was my great good fortune, as it
turned out, that it was both possible and workable! But while my physical address has
changed, my email address remains the same.
Despite the significant change in my
living arrangements, I continue to serve as the webmaster for the New Mexico search-support group
Operation Identity; and continue to
typeset O.I.’s newsletter, thanks to both data digitization and the international
connectivity provided by the Internet.
— William L. (“Bill”) Gage
February 11, 2020