I have done much in recent years. Have very low frustration tolerance. I got the nationality info through a sorority sister who worked in the juvenile court system...she told me how to request it. I had to get my (adooptive) parents' death certificates and send copies...the county where I was born is different than the county where my parents lived when they adopted me (at 2 weeks), and both counties claimed that the other county had the records.

I've also listed my info on Colorado's adoption registry for parents/kids trying to connect, but that's about all. No money for investigators or such such, so here I am...by now, my mother would be in her early 70's, so really, what's the point.

But I love hearing stories like yours! Gives me warm fuzzies.