But for many, it’s led to heart-rending reunions ... Birth certificates often were stamped “illegitimate” and sealing them was thought to protect the baby, the adoptive family from ...

Every Walls family reunion begins when Hersey Gray speaks ... ceremony by presenting them with commemorative gold medals and certificates. Albert Walls, an ancestor, also died while serving ...

The long history of voter disenfranchisement in the United States is a central theme that guides Ms. Griggs’s family reunions, held every other year in Shreveport, La. That is because in the ...

And especially now, during the holidays, the desire to reunite becomes more intense, say those involved in such reunions. “Around the holidays, people tend to have a renewed interest in family ...