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Hello, my name is Emiliana and I’m from Pavia. I would like to take advantage of your forum to voice details of my age-old problem. I am a 65-year old woman and when I was two years old I lost my parents. With my two brothers I was initially sent to an institute and then adopted, but since then I have heard nothing more from my brothers. I tried to trace them on two occasions but I never succeeded in doing so. Lately I was told that with the new privacy laws it will become even more difficult for me to obtain information about them. What should I do ?

Dear Madam, the Privacy Laws have no bearing on your situation, they may only have some bearing if your parents had decided to refuse you, giving you up for adoption, but this is not the case.
Go to the municipality where you lived as a young girl and ask for your family history certificates and residency records. You have a right to obtain such documents because they are relative to you personally. From this initial search you may be able to find our your parents’ surname or your two brothers names and personal information. Once you have obtained this information you may find it quite easy to find out where they are living. Please do not hesitate to contact us should you encounter other difficulties. In similar cases it may prove useful for you to contact the “Chi l’ha visto?” TV programme, which often overcomes bureaucratic difficulties and lack of documentation by launching a direct appeal in cases such as yours.

Published on: 24 Feb 2005



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