For Vietnam adoptees
See current searches at the bottom of the page
To Vietnamese adoptees who are seeking help in finding/tracing their birth mothers.. here's a kind offer from Sister Susan McDonald who is a nun and
worked in Vietnam to get many of you out and into your countries of adoption many years ago. Please read through below and if you are interested,
follow the directions on how to provide your signature and information to Susan (you can email her at susanmcdo@aol.com if you have questions).
If you are willing to sign the letter or ask others to sign it, each adoptee would need to print off the letter, then sign it with ink. Below their signature they
need to print or type their full name and address. The letter, of course, will be presented in Vietnamese and English.
Sister Susan currently has birth/orphanage information for over 4,000 Vietnamese adoptees. If other adoptees would like to give her their information I
will include it in the database in case their birth mother responds.
Details the adoptee needs to include for the database is:
> Adoptive name:
> Country:
> Nursery name:
> Entry date to nursery:
> Agency:
> Sex:
Information on birth document or birth judgment that was used:
> name, birth date, birthplace:
> Orphanage of origin:
> Original name at original orphanage:
> Date of arrival at original orphanage:
> Release form information including orphanage giving release paper:
> Danang register name if from Sacred Heart Danang:
> Vietnamese or white/Vietnamese or Black/Vietnamese or other Montanyard, Cambodian, etc.
> Any identifying birthmarks, scars, cleft lip/palate, etc:
>
> Condition on arrival at orphanage:
> Condition on arrival at nursery:
> Date of departure from Vietnam:
> Adoptive parents name and address when child adopted and now:
> Most recent address of adoptee:
> Most recent e-mail address of adoptee:
> Special circumstances:
> Last place child was cared for in Vietnam:
> Recent news, life story:
All of this information I keep confidential and do not share without the permission of the individual adoptee. I have been able to assist nine adoptees reunite
with birth families with the use of the database, also am able to connect adoptees with one another--others at same orphanage, same nursery, in Vietnam
around the same time, departed from Vietnam around the same time, etc. I also have information on at least 40 orphanages in Vietnam.
Then mail this to me by post at:
Susan Carol McDonald
826 N. Rock Hill Road
St. Louis, MO 63119
Dear Mothers in Vietnam,
Children who were born to you during the years of the war and adopted in other countries want to thank you for giving them life. (This section needs to
be in larger print in newspapers)
Your children simply want to know who their birth mother is. They wonder if they look like you or look like anyone in your family since they have grown
up with people who do not look like them.
Many of the children do not have names of their birth mothers. The terrible difficulties of war resulted in mothers putting children in areas where they
would be found and cared for, and often no papers were found with the children to identify them.
Other mothers gave their infants to an orphanage because they were completely unable to care for their child due to the war. Most of the children
understand severe circumstances resulted in them not knowing their birth mother.
Any women in the world, facing such extreme conditions would have had to have made the same decision.
I am a nun. I worked with these infants and young children in Vietnam during the war. Now I am in contact with thousands of these children throughout
the world.
If you are a mother of one of these children, please consider letting your child know who you are.
Send me this information:
1) As close a date as possible of the child's birth
2) where the child was placed (do not be embarrassed to tell)
3) what you believe happened to the child; which orphanage, hospital might the child have been taken for care when you and the child parted.
4) the sex of the child
5) anything you can remember about the child (hair, skin color, any marks on the child's body, size of child, etc.
6) your name
7) your relationship to the baby or child
8) an address or e-mail where I can contact you
9) was your child ill or undernourished when you and the child parted?
This is so important in caring for the wounds you and your child endure today even though the war is past. The hope is to erase as much sadness as
possible and give wholeness to your life and to your child's life. I think of you only with the greatest compassion. I will keep all information you send me
completely secure unless you give me permission to share the information.
You can write to me. I only speak English, so if you can get someone who speaks English to translate any letter from Vietnamese to English, this would be
helpful. If you cannot have the letter translated, just put this at the top of the letter, in English--MOTHER.
>
> Address:
> Sr. Susan McDonald
> 826 N. Rock Hill Road
> St. Louis, MO 63119-1341
> E-mail: susanmcdo@aol.com
See current searches at the bottom of the page
To Vietnamese adoptees who are seeking help in finding/tracing their birth mothers.. here's a kind offer from Sister Susan McDonald who is a nun and
worked in Vietnam to get many of you out and into your countries of adoption many years ago. Please read through below and if you are interested,
follow the directions on how to provide your signature and information to Susan (you can email her at susanmcdo@aol.com if you have questions).
If you are willing to sign the letter or ask others to sign it, each adoptee would need to print off the letter, then sign it with ink. Below their signature they
need to print or type their full name and address. The letter, of course, will be presented in Vietnamese and English.
Sister Susan currently has birth/orphanage information for over 4,000 Vietnamese adoptees. If other adoptees would like to give her their information I
will include it in the database in case their birth mother responds.
Details the adoptee needs to include for the database is:
> Adoptive name:
> Country:
> Nursery name:
> Entry date to nursery:
> Agency:
> Sex:
Information on birth document or birth judgment that was used:
> name, birth date, birthplace:
> Orphanage of origin:
> Original name at original orphanage:
> Date of arrival at original orphanage:
> Release form information including orphanage giving release paper:
> Danang register name if from Sacred Heart Danang:
> Vietnamese or white/Vietnamese or Black/Vietnamese or other Montanyard, Cambodian, etc.
> Any identifying birthmarks, scars, cleft lip/palate, etc:
>
> Condition on arrival at orphanage:
> Condition on arrival at nursery:
> Date of departure from Vietnam:
> Adoptive parents name and address when child adopted and now:
> Most recent address of adoptee:
> Most recent e-mail address of adoptee:
> Special circumstances:
> Last place child was cared for in Vietnam:
> Recent news, life story:
All of this information I keep confidential and do not share without the permission of the individual adoptee. I have been able to assist nine adoptees reunite
with birth families with the use of the database, also am able to connect adoptees with one another--others at same orphanage, same nursery, in Vietnam
around the same time, departed from Vietnam around the same time, etc. I also have information on at least 40 orphanages in Vietnam.
Then mail this to me by post at:
Susan Carol McDonald
826 N. Rock Hill Road
St. Louis, MO 63119
Dear Mothers in Vietnam,
Children who were born to you during the years of the war and adopted in other countries want to thank you for giving them life. (This section needs to
be in larger print in newspapers)
Your children simply want to know who their birth mother is. They wonder if they look like you or look like anyone in your family since they have grown
up with people who do not look like them.
Many of the children do not have names of their birth mothers. The terrible difficulties of war resulted in mothers putting children in areas where they
would be found and cared for, and often no papers were found with the children to identify them.
Other mothers gave their infants to an orphanage because they were completely unable to care for their child due to the war. Most of the children
understand severe circumstances resulted in them not knowing their birth mother.
Any women in the world, facing such extreme conditions would have had to have made the same decision.
I am a nun. I worked with these infants and young children in Vietnam during the war. Now I am in contact with thousands of these children throughout
the world.
If you are a mother of one of these children, please consider letting your child know who you are.
Send me this information:
1) As close a date as possible of the child's birth
2) where the child was placed (do not be embarrassed to tell)
3) what you believe happened to the child; which orphanage, hospital might the child have been taken for care when you and the child parted.
4) the sex of the child
5) anything you can remember about the child (hair, skin color, any marks on the child's body, size of child, etc.
6) your name
7) your relationship to the baby or child
8) an address or e-mail where I can contact you
9) was your child ill or undernourished when you and the child parted?
This is so important in caring for the wounds you and your child endure today even though the war is past. The hope is to erase as much sadness as
possible and give wholeness to your life and to your child's life. I think of you only with the greatest compassion. I will keep all information you send me
completely secure unless you give me permission to share the information.
You can write to me. I only speak English, so if you can get someone who speaks English to translate any letter from Vietnamese to English, this would be
helpful. If you cannot have the letter translated, just put this at the top of the letter, in English--MOTHER.
>
> Address:
> Sr. Susan McDonald
> 826 N. Rock Hill Road
> St. Louis, MO 63119-1341
> E-mail: susanmcdo@aol.com
Even though AFF does not focus on adoptee searches, you are more than welcome to post your search here. Currently there are no forms to fill out. Just put as much information as you can and hopefully someone will recognize your search efforts. We recommend you contact either Adopted Vietnamese International or Operation Reunite for more help in your search. |
| Those who are searching for their Vietnamese family |
Looking for Children: To Thanh Dung (1968) and To Thanh Hung (1972)
Birth mother: To Thi Lein Posted March 2007.
My name is Phong Nguyen. I currently reside in Houston, TX. Recently I was contacted by a Vietnamese woman who asked me
to help her look for her two Amerasian sons who were separated from her in Vietnam in 1975. Here are the information she
gave me:
Her name (mother): To Thi Lien (last middle first)- born 1947. Her two son's name: To Thanh Dung (born 1968) and To Thanh
Hung (born 1972) The two boys were placed in an American-Vietnamese child center on 17 Ky Dong street, Saigon between March
and April of 1975. At that time their mother had to go to her home town in Long Khanh and when she returned, her children
were gone. Mrs. To Thi Lien used to work at an American office/company on 92 Cong Binh, Saigon. This is all the info I have.
Please let me know if you can help.
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Birth mother: To Thi Lein Posted March 2007.
My name is Phong Nguyen. I currently reside in Houston, TX. Recently I was contacted by a Vietnamese woman who asked me
to help her look for her two Amerasian sons who were separated from her in Vietnam in 1975. Here are the information she
gave me:
Her name (mother): To Thi Lien (last middle first)- born 1947. Her two son's name: To Thanh Dung (born 1968) and To Thanh
Hung (born 1972) The two boys were placed in an American-Vietnamese child center on 17 Ky Dong street, Saigon between March
and April of 1975. At that time their mother had to go to her home town in Long Khanh and when she returned, her children
were gone. Mrs. To Thi Lien used to work at an American office/company on 92 Cong Binh, Saigon. This is all the info I have.
Please let me know if you can help.
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"Searching for lost family:
I believe I was on one of the first planes that left Saigon in April 1975. Below is what I know:
1. Vietnamese name: Nguyen Tan Loc, A.K.A. Nye Tan Loi
2. Orphanage stayed at : Go Vap Orphanage, Gia Dinh
3. Hospital born at: Gia Dinh, Hospital: Hiep Binh, Tu Duc, Gia Dinh
4. People who signed my release papers were Sister Doan Thi Khen, Sister Kateri Koverman and Vu Thi Bich Ngoc.
When I came to states, I was at the New York Foundling Hospital in Brooklyn, New York and was adopted through Angel
Guardian Home.
If you know or think you know about my history, pls contact me at jamesterpenning@yahoo.com
I believe I was on one of the first planes that left Saigon in April 1975. Below is what I know:
1. Vietnamese name: Nguyen Tan Loc, A.K.A. Nye Tan Loi
2. Orphanage stayed at : Go Vap Orphanage, Gia Dinh
3. Hospital born at: Gia Dinh, Hospital: Hiep Binh, Tu Duc, Gia Dinh
4. People who signed my release papers were Sister Doan Thi Khen, Sister Kateri Koverman and Vu Thi Bich Ngoc.
When I came to states, I was at the New York Foundling Hospital in Brooklyn, New York and was adopted through Angel
Guardian Home.
If you know or think you know about my history, pls contact me at jamesterpenning@yahoo.com
