1 Getting Your Feet Wet 1 --
2 Your Personal Search Planner 11 --
3 Beginning an Adoptive Search 35 --
4 How to Find Old Friends and Relatives 61 --
5 How to Find Lost Loves 69 --
6 How to Find Deadbeat Parents 75 --
7 Finding Someone Who Was or Is in the Military 83 --
8 Key to Success: Letter-Writing that Gets Results! 95 --
9 Power of Persuasion: The Best Telephone Techniques 139 --
10 Strategies for Tracing and Locating 147 --
11 Using the Internet in Your Search 191 --
12 Shortcuts of the Pros 203 --
13 A Closer Look at Adoptive Searches: Helpful Case Studies 213.
