I hope to hear tomorrow that the CCCWA employees are matching, but we may hear that they are still preparing to match. One thing to keep in mind — we are heading into the period of time where the CCAA was moving to a new building. There was a great deal of confusion during that [...]

Every so often we get rumors that the White Swan is closing for renovations. I’ve seen floors closed a few times, and pricing go up because less rooms were available, but I don’t believe we’ve seen the whole shebang close all at once. But, once again there is a rumor that the hotel will close [...]

I’m creating the structure for the registry. Well, planning the structure, I suppose. My original plan was to have a “room” for each province/municipality/autonomous region. But there are a lot of them, and the software is really only set up for a couple of rooms/categories on the front page. So, do I have two rooms [...]

It is my belief that any search site is going to need a lot of entries on it, and evidence of a lot of traffic, before people in China take the plunge and enter their own information. I think there will be many who search but do not enter their information, even if the site [...]

TA’s for the most recent batch of NSN referrals began arriving yesterday. An agency has posted that the CCAA is preparing paperwork for the next set of referrals Hopefully that means they will be in the matching process next week.

My idea for some sort of register, to help birthparents and adoptees find each other, would begin with a form to fill out – date left/found, place left/found, what the child was wearing, male/female, and the estimated age when left/found. I will caution a-parents to not put much more information than was in the finding [...]