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What Is RegDay (FAQ) RegDay 2008 2008 Site Listing Add Your Site Promotional Materials Handouts & Pamphlets Volunteer For RegDay Site Coordinator's Guide Overview Securing A Location Recruiting Volunteers Promoting Your Site Obtaining Materials Talking About ISRR The Day Of RegDay RegDay Home RegDay On MySpace 
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The 14th Annual RegDay is Saturday, November 8, 2008 RegDay is an annual event to increase public awareness of the International Soundex Reunion Registry; a free humanitarian service better known as ISRR. ISRR is a non-profit mutual consent registry dedicated to reuniting adult family members separated by adoption, divorce, or other dislocation. Lauded in the nationally syndicated Dear Abby column (8/26/97), the ISRR has reunited thousands of adults all over the world. RegDay is organized by the Adoption Registration Coalition, a network of volunteers from various search and support, adoption reform, and adoptee rights activist groups. There are typically many sites nationwide. Among the venues that have hosted RegDay sites around the nation are such businesses as Borders Bookstore, Barnes & Noble, and other independent book stores. For adopted people who wish to search for lost kin, state laws permanently sealing adoption records can make it that much more difficult. Original birth certificates are even sealed in cases of step-parent adoption. RegDay can be a source for information on a variety of records-access reform issues of interest to both the adoption and genealogy communities. Recent open records victories in New Hampshire, Alabama, and Oregon have helped to raise awareness of the need to make these personal government-held records available to those to whom they most intimately pertain. With over 6 million adoptees in the U.S and countless other siblings, relatives, spouses, and friends affected, this topic is not only timely, but it is also universal. RegDay volunteers around the nation staff tables set up with ISRR registration forms, informational brochures, and lists of resources helpful to those interested in search, reconnection and adoption reform. RegDay visitors can obtain assistance in filling out ISRR registration forms, and receive referrals to local resources. Learn more about the ISRR from the official ISRR web site at www.isrr.net. |
