I found Yuri's post on CousinConnect.com. (I have a copy of it below.) He was adopted by Americans from Ukraine in 1992. It startled me because the adoptee is doing the search.

See up until this point, adoptive families searched for their children. Their kids were too young to do it themselves. I was startled by the idea of an adoptee doing the search because I didn't do the math.

:)) (laughing at myself... because I didn't realize so much time has past)

2006 - 1992 = 14 years

International adoption from Ukraine started in 1991 when the Soviet Union dissolved. And these children from the early 1990s are old enough to search now. And of course older teenagers adopted with the last 5 years are now old enough to search.

But still the majority of Ukrainian birth families searches are done by adoptive families.

Note: I couldn't help myself. I corrected many of the grammar and spelling issues in Yuri's posting below.

CYNTHIA MILLER : GERALD HENRY MILLER : KUNOV : KUNOV OR KHUNOV : YURI ALEXANDER MILLER

I am searching for my birth parents from the Ukraine. My name is Yuri and I beleive my last name is spelled Kunov. I was put in a orphanage since nearly birth in Kharkov.

I was adopted in the United States by a new family, the Millers.

I now live in New York City in the USA. I am looking for my real parents or relatives. I am now almost 18 years old. Born 06/21/88.

I am having a baby boy in July of 2006 and I don't live with my adoptive parents. I emancipated myself. I am soon to get married. I don't know or seen any of my real family and am asking for help.

This will mean the world to me to just have some type of records, or pictures or numbers or address or just names but most of all just see one family member. I left the orphanage in october of 1992.

Please help someone.

I am 6 foot 5 inches tall. I weight 215 pounds. I have brown hair hazel eyes. My full name in America is Yuri Alexander Miller. My adoptive parents name is Gerald Henry Miller. My adoptive mother is Cynthia Miller. i was adopted from the Ukraine/Kharkovor Kharkiv from an orphanage.

From: The Genealogy Query Database

Via the CousinConnect.com web site I sent Yuri a couple of suggestions on searching.

Look at the bottom of this page for World Searching Resources.

And Ukrainian adoptees can write the new adoption authority (SDA) for a copy of his/her adoption records. Under Ukrainian law an adoptee 14 years or older has access to his/her adoption records.

And last but not least Karen Holt keeps a list of sibling registries and birth family searching options.

I have heard nothing but good for Ruslan / Anna's search service. I know many families who used them. There are other search options that aren't listed on these pages and I won't post. However you can email at adoptukraineblog@adoptionmail.com and I will share them.