This site is a non profit site owned and operated by Cher Caldwell.
There are no fees for any services used. However, we do accept donations to help with expenses, but you are not
obligated to donate in any way. Cher Caldwell has been known to do many searches for free. Cher Caldwell has been
reuniting families for over 15 years. She has been featured in many newspaper articles and as well on the Talk Show
known as The Greg Behrendt Show. To contact Cher Caldwell, her email address is chercaldwell@yahoo.com or you can
locate her on www.myspace.com/chercaldwell
If you are in need of Help in any area of your Search or are just looking for support, please feel free to fax us your information at 734-758-3155 or email C.A.S.R.
Another person that we highly recommend in obtaining a California birth name or adoptive name is Jan. Jan can be
contacted at jndiego@aol.com
Searching is another way that adoptees and birth parents cope. Searching can take a number of routes: using support
groups; hiring an investigator or search consultant; reading literature; surfing the Internet; contacting agencies
or Attorneys' offices; or hunting down clues yourself.
If you do search, your goal should be for the truth. You must be willing to face whatever you might find out,
even if it's the death of your birthchild or birthparent. The information you learn may be painful; however, peace
of mind mostlikely will come with the pain. If you search for your birthchild or birthparent only to find that he
or she won't take your calls, answer your letters, or send a photograph, at least you tried. Others before you have
found that the process still helped them set aside their fantasies and accept their current life situation with a
more positive attitude.
While you may want to take other people's feelings into consideration when deciding to search, your own feelings
are also important. One route to take, short of an all-out search, is to register with voluntary registries for
birth parents and adult adoptees.
Most people take for granted the fact that they have access to their genetic and medical information. For those
who were adopted, however, it is very difficult to obtain updated medical information unless birth parents have
updated their file.
Nonetheless, adoptees thinking about searching hear many voices. One voice tells them not to open Pandora's
box"they may be devastated by what they find. Perhaps they will experience rejection or find a birth parent who
needs emotional or financial support they are not prepared to give. What about the rights of the birthmother who
may have carved out a life for herself and does not want the intrusion? Adoptees must also consider their adoptive
parents and the grief that a search may bring them. Adoptive parents may feel unloved, unappreciated, and hurt by
their child's need to find his or her "real" parents.
Here at C.A.S.R. we are here to give support with Adoption Issues. We are also here if you are looking for
experienced Triad Members to help assist you in your search, whether it be advice, Support, Search Information, or
If you are in need of Help in any area of your Search or are just looking for support, please feel free to fax us your information at 734-758-3155 or email C.A.S.R..
Julie and Celeste
Julie wanted to locate her birthmother, but had no idea where to begin. Julie knew what her birthname was through her older adoptive Sister. Julie came to CASR with knowing only her birthname and very little information about her birthparents. She knew they were married yet going through a divorce and that her birthfather was previously married with two small children.. After talking many times with Julie, she decided that We could converse with her Adoptive parents.Her adoptive parents gave us vital clues in her search. Julie's birthmother's name had also been the same name she was given at birth. Julie was excited to learn new information about her birthfamily and herself. With this new information, we knew two things, one that she was given her mother's legal name. Two, we knew we had to locate her birthmother's maiden name. We researched a well known California source for births and was able to obtain her birthmother's maiden name.
We at CASR then went and ran every Public record on her birthmother. We located her in San Diego, California. While searching for her birthmother, we also searched for her two half siblings, two girls from her birthfather's first marriage. Needless to say they were also located in San Diego California. Above is a picture of Celeste, Julie's half sister and Julie's neice.
We wish you well in your Reunion Julie and Celeste!!!
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J.C's Reunion
J.C was searching for her biological family. Mainly her birth mother! She had searched for a very long time. With many leads, yet no direct results. Finally J.C had been in touch with a CASR Staff member. Within a few hours, CASR determined that her mother had been married in California although she resided in Texas. Now J.C had a new last name to work with. Shorlty J.C pulled her birthmother's driver's license and pulled up an address and CASR located a phone number. CASR called her mother as JC was nervous. Within a short time J.C and her birthmother had been on the line together and this is J.C's story in her words of their first conversation:
On Tuesday, 1/26/99 at 8:40 PM, I made that first call to my mother. We began talking and just couldn't seem to slow down to take a breath. It was just so unbelievable to me that I was speaking to that person that I had been searching for, for the past 9 months. The very first thing that she asked me was if I had a happy life. She said that she had always hoped that I would look for her. She herself had posted on an online registry or two, but was afraid to aggressivly search for fear that she would disrupt MY life. We went through the basics ... what each of us looked like, a few of our interests, medical history and a lot of happy giggles. We finally got off of the phone about an hour later - only because we were so excited about telling our family what we had found out about one another, and we had made plans for me to call her the next day.
The best to J.C. and her new Family!
-CASR Staff
We wish you well in your Reunion Julie and Celeste!!!
J.C was searching for her biological family. Mainly her birth mother! She had searched for a very long time. With many leads, yet no direct results. Finally J.C had been in touch with a CASR Staff member. Within a few hours, CASR determined that her mother had been married in California although she resided in Texas. Now J.C had a new last name to work with. Shorlty J.C pulled her birthmother's driver's license and pulled up an address and CASR located a phone number. CASR called her mother as JC was nervous. Within a short time J.C and her birthmother had been on the line together and this is J.C's story in her words of their first conversation:
On Tuesday, 1/26/99 at 8:40 PM, I made that first call to my mother. We began talking and just couldn't seem to slow down to take a breath. It was just so unbelievable to me that I was speaking to that person that I had been searching for, for the past 9 months. The very first thing that she asked me was if I had a happy life. She said that she had always hoped that I would look for her. She herself had posted on an online registry or two, but was afraid to aggressivly search for fear that she would disrupt MY life. We went through the basics ... what each of us looked like, a few of our interests, medical history and a lot of happy giggles. We finally got off of the phone about an hour later - only because we were so excited about telling our family what we had found out about one another, and we had made plans for me to call her the next day.
