NRS-14658 | Private adoption agency contact files [Dependent Children and Adoptions Branch, Department of Community Services]

These files assisted in providing biographical details for people seeking information about private agency adoptions under the Adopted Persons Contact Register scheme. Two different types of files containing differing information have been brought together. Most files are private agency adoption files containing a wide range of information including transcripts of interviews with prospective adoption parents, applications, reports and other correspondence before and after the adoption takes place. The information on the natural parents and child varies in detail. The other type of file is the one originally created by hospital social workers when a natural mother indicates her intention to relinquish her child for adoption. These files, almost exclusively from the Queen Victoria Hospital for Women, include the mother's social history and information on the father, medical reports on the child and signed forms for the adoption. In some cases both types of files have been created for the one adoption and the Department has combined the two. Many files include correspondence in answer to recent enquiries from the child, natural or adoptive parents about the adoption or child's background.(14/833-968). 136 boxes. Note: This description is extracted from Concise Guide to the State Archives of New South Wales, 3rd Edition 2000.

本批档案旨在为查询《被收养者联系登记计划》(Adopted Persons Contact Register Scheme)下私人机构收养相关信息的人员提供生平细节资料。本次共归集两类信息内容各异的档案。绝大多数档案为私人机构收养档案，涵盖收养前后与拟收养父母的访谈笔录、收养申请、各类报告及其他往来函件等丰富资料。生父母及被收养儿童的相关信息细节不尽相同。另一类档案最初由医院社工在生母表明送养意向时编制，这批档案几乎全部来自维多利亚女王妇产医院(Queen Victoria Hospital for Women)，内容包含生母社会经历、生父相关信息、儿童医疗报告以及已签署的收养文件。部分收养案例同时生成两类档案，由档案部门将二者合并归档。多份档案中包含针对近期儿童、生父母或养父母就收养事宜或儿童身世提出查询的回复函件。（档案编号：14/833-968），共计136箱。备注：本描述节选自2000年第三版《新南威尔士州档案馆简明指南》。