OPERATION
IDENTITY
Serving Albuquerque, N.M., and all with New Mexico Records since 1979
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The
OPERATION IDENTITY LOGO is made up of various
southwestern symbols. It represents the
aspirations of people with longing thoughts ready to meet
and overcome the challenge presented by the inevitable
difficulties regarding their creation and roots. The logo
also depicts the unknown factors to be encountered in our
desires for happiness, as well as the feeling of belonging
generated by helping each other in our whirlwind search.
It was designed by Judy Jones in April 1980.
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Operation Identity is a peer-led support group for all members of
the adoption triad, which includes adoptees, birth parents, and adoptive
parents, or anyone with an interest in adoption.
The American Adoption Congress has ceased to exist as of August 2024. All of its assets, after payment of all outstanding payables, have been given to Adoptees Liberty Movement Association.
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Operation Identity is a non-profit organization whose
mission is to provide confidential support to those who have been affected by adoption.
Operation Identity is supportive of those in their search for family members. Although we do not conduct
searches, we offer helpful suggestions and input throughout the search and reunion processes.
Operation Identity has reference materials and a variety of pamphlets and books in our Lending Library. In
addition, we publish a newsletter.
Operation Identity is a member of the American Adoption Congress (AAC), a national organization whose mission
is to promote honesty, openness, and respect for family connections in adoption, foster care, and assisted
reproduction through education and advocacy.
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O.I. meetings are held on the 4th Thursday of each month
(except November and December) beginning at 7:00 p.m.
During our confidential meetings,
we share personal updates and news about current events and legislation in adoption.
SALLY FILE
(April 14, 1944 - February 23, 2011)
O.I.’s Founder and Past President
LEONIE BOEHMER
(November 1, 1933 - June 8, 2018)
Past President of O.I. (1982-1994) and
Independent Search Consultant
BETTY JEAN LIFTON
(June 11, 1926 - November 19, 2010)
Author of Twice Born: Memoirs of an Adopted Daughter (1975),
Lost and Found: The Adoption Experience (1979), I’m Still Me (1981),
and Journey of the Adopted Self: A Quest for Wholeness (1994), among many other works.
FLORENCE FISHER
(May 28, 1928 - October 1, 2023)
Founder, Adoptees Liberty Movement
Association (1971), and Author of
The Search for Anna Fisher (1973) |
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Special Events are denoted in RED
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January 23, 2025
Regular Meeting
February 27, 2025
Regular Meeting
March 27, 2025
Regular Meeting
April 24, 2025
Regular Meeting
May 10, 2025
Birth Mother’s Day
May 22, 2025
Regular Meeting
May 24, 2025
O.I.’s Anniversary
June 26, 2025
Regular Meeting
July 24, 2025
Regular Meeting
August 28, 2025
Regular Meeting
September 25, 2025
Regular Meeting
October 23, 2025
Regular Meeting
November 20, 2025
Regular Meeting
December 2025
Holiday Potluck
in lieu of Regular Meeting
(Date, Time and Locale to be
announced at November Regular Meeting.)
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Some Adoption-Related
Books That Appeared in 2024
Adoption Memoirs: Inside Stories
by Marianne Novy
Novy considers 45 memoirs, mostly from the 21st century, by birth mothers, adoptees, and adoptive parents,
about same-race and transracial adoption. These adoptees, she recounts, wanted to learn about their ancestry and appreciated
adoptive parents who helped. (Temple University Press / Non-Fiction)
Pulled by the Root: An Adoptee’s Healing
Journey From Trauma,
Shame, and Loss
by Heidi Marble & Alysa Zalma MD
Pulled by the Root is a raw, vivid, and cinematic account of Heidi Marble’s lived experience as an adopted person
as she pieces together her identity and comes home to her true self. (Koehler Books / Non-Fiction)
When the Ocean Flies by Heather G. Marshall
What begins as a short trip back to Scotland for her father’s funeral soon becomes a journey that puts adoption,
sexuality, and identity on a collision course as Alison Early finds herself caught between the life and family she has so carefully
constructed on one continent and the family from which she was taken on another. (Vine Leaves Press / Fiction)
Genetic Stigma in Law and Literature:
Orphanhood, Adoption, and
the Right to
Reunion by Alice Diver
This book critically analyses the way in which traditional sociocultural and legal biases might be perpetuated
against those with unknown–or unknowable–genetic ancestries by reviewing the law and works of literature across differing eras
and genres. (Palgrave Macmillan / Non-Fiction)
Inclusion in this list does not necessarily constitute a recommendation
by Operation Identity. Thanks, in whole or in part, to Adoptee Reading. |
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On March 4, 2011, the Albuquerque Journal remembered our Founder,
Sally File.
Read the October 4, 2010
Albuquerque Journal article about our Founder, Sally File’s reunion!
All original material published on this website is the Property of Operation Identity,
which retains all applicable rights under international law.
Website designed and maintained by Willaim L. Gage
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