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About the Adoption Records Site Current Status There are 77,812 entries in the database. During the last week 41 new adoption records were added. Total questions answered since August 1999 exceeds 20 million. History The adoption records database started rather by accident back in 1996. By a fluke, someone made an entry regarding adoption in an online forum dedicated to family history in Utah. The search engines picked it up, and the Utah genealogy forum was quickly taken over by queries from adoptees and parents looking for their families. It became the most popular site on the UTgenWeb. Knowing a good thing when it showed up, the site administrators converted the forum into a site dedicated to adoption records. The bigger the site became, the more people were making entries, and the faster it grew. By 1999, the site had grown to 5000 pages, and keeping up with the rapid growth became very cumbersome. Even though the site has always had full-text search capabilities, folks were running into problems while searching because too many pages showed up. Peace Monastery took over the site in 1999 in order to resolve these issues. The monks at Peace Monastery live under a vow of poverty, and spend all our time helping to bring spiritual, emotional, and physical healing into the world. The site was converted into a database. This allows the system administrators to keep up with the growth of the site, (we can now review an entire days worth of entries in a moment). The database also provides a more elegant approach to searching, as well as prompting the visitors for more detailed information than allowed by the free-flowing text format of the message boards. Once the database was operational, we stopped allowing new records to be posted to the message boards, but we don't intend to delete the message boards, because so much hope has been put into the entries therein. Select Year 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 1985 1984 1983 1982 1981 1980 1979 1978 1977 1976 1975 1974 1973 1972 1971 1970 1969 1968 1967 1966 1965 1964 1963 1962 1961 1960 1959 1958 1957 1956 1955 1954 1953 1952 1951 1950 1949 1948 1947 1946 1945 1944 1943 1942 1941 1940 1939 1938 1937 1936 1935 1934 1933 1932 1931 1930 1929 1928 1927 1926 1925 1924 1923 1922 1921 Thanks for visiting and good luck in finding your family. Between April 2000, and November 2001, 34 people wrote to thank us for finding their family. We suspect that many more were helped who forgot to say thank you. Your donation will help many families to be reunited. (Perhaps your own as well.) Donations may be mailed to: Father of Peace Ministry 96 North Center Hyrum, Utah 84319 Best Regards, father joseph