As Birth Parents

This page provides information on different relevant databases that collect information of Chinese parents that are searching.

Year	Date of Birth	Lunar or Gregorian DOB	DOB Estimated	Gender	Missing Province	Missing Date	Lunar or Gregorian Missing Date	Missing City	Missing Location	Missing Age	Orphanage	Items Left With	DNA Collected	DNALocation	Circumstances of Disappearance	Special Needs	Physical Characteristics	Additional Information	Who to Contact
1995	08/14/1995	Gregorian	Yes	F	Hunan	01/01/1996	Gregorian	Yiyang, Hunan	Brought to Xinhua County SWI at approx. 5 months old. The family believes she was transferred to Yiyang City SWI and adopted Internationally.	5 months	Yiyang City Children?s Welfare Institute		Yes	MyTaproot/Haiwaixunzi					Nanchang Project: hello@nanchangproject.com
1995	08/xx/1995		No	F	Hunan	12/20/1995		Xinhuang County		4 months	First sent to Xinhuang County Welfare Institute and later transferred to Yiyang City Children’s Welfare Institute		Yes	BCH database, Chinese national database, DNA tested also by DNAconnect	Taken by family planning officials			Adopted overseas in 1996	Viola, Wechat: ViolaLian
1996	05/01/1996	Unknown	No	F	Hunan	00/00/1997	Unknown	Yangguang	Yangguang SWI	1 year old			No					Was left at Yangguang SWI. But no adoptions from that orphanage. Probably adopted from Changde or Hunan first or second SWI	janet-qi@163.com Wechat：Janettaoqi0525
1998	09/01/1998	Gregorian	No	M	Hunan	03/19/2003	Gregorian	Chenzhou City	He was abducted and disappeared from the Jinyang kindergarten in Chenzhou City				Yes	Henan	abducted from kindergarten		hair is slightly curly, the face is white and clear, big round eyes, long eyelash, high nose, small mouth, there is a small mole on the left buttock.	Lunar birthdate: 4:50 AM July 11, 1998	Ann Hermansson, ann_lihermansson@hotmail.com
2000	05/23/2000	Lunar	No	F	Hunan	Around 04/07/2000	Lunar	Yiyang	Yiyang Welfare Home	About 1 month	Yiyang Welfare home		Yes	DNAConnect has collected the DNA	A welfare house worker at the time said the child had been adopted abroad, possibly to the United States.			The name given by the welfare house at that time may have been Yijin (益金) or Yixin (益鑫)	Birth sister, email: 964193001@qq.com or ICSA volunteer Viola, WeChat: ViolaLian
1992	02/09/1992	Gregorian	No	F	Jiangsu			Yancheng	A house in the south of Binhai County, Yancheng City	0 months			No		Family planning was too tight and the family conditions were too poor.				Kathy Schroepfer WechatID: lygchinamom & email: icsa.kathyjs@gmail.com
1994	05/03/1994	Lunar	No	F	Jiangsu	06/18/1994	Lunar	Taizhou	Taizhou	1 month	Yangzhou City Children?s Welfare Institute	a pink rug for children, two brown striped velvet sweaters and a white gauze sweater bottle and milk powder	Yes	Baby Come Home and Jiangyin Tracing	Due to family planning, the parents adopted the child to the Yaowangzhuang family in Shilidian The surname Zhu's family was adopted by her son-in-law, and then the family did not have to hand it over to a villager called a single dumb dumb man to Zengjiazhuang with a family name of Zhu Mingliu Shou. It was said that he was sent to Taixing Yuyingtang. At that time, because there was no computer to intercept it, the information was lost. Later, I heard from Yuyingtang that he was sent to Yangzhou Welfare Home, and that he was taken away by Henan people or adopted by foreigners.		A small mole in the middle of the side of her face.		Kathy Schroepfer WechatID: lygchinamom & email: icsa.kathyjs@gmail.com
1996	12/22/1996	Gregorian	No	F	Jiangsu	02/28/1997	Gregorian	Yancheng	Changdang Family Planning	2-6 months		Light colored padded jacket	Yes	Public Security Bureau	Child was originally adopted locally on 2/8/1997 in Yancheng. The child was handed over to Changdang Family Planning on 5/28/1997 because the family was not allowed to adopted the girl. Two years later the family planning officer, Zheng Buxia, told the birth mom that the girl had been taken to the Dongtai Welfare Home.				Kathy Schroepfer WechatID: lygchinamom & email: icsa.kathyjs@gmail.com
2000	11/10/2000	Gregorian	No	F	Jiangsu	11/20/2000	Gregorian	Suzhou	Second Floor of Sanyuanfang 1 neighborhood, Suzhou Renmin Road	20 Days		Wearing the same outfit as her younger sister in picture except it was pink. The outfit has small animals on it. Milk powder and bottles were also left.	No		Parents were not prepared for raising a child with special needs.	Cleft Lip and Cleft Palate			Kathy Schroepfer WechatID: lygchinamom & email: icsa.kathyjs@gmail.com
1994	04/18/1994	Gregorian	Yes	F	Jiangxi	06/01/1994	Gregorian	Yihuang, Fuzhou, Jiangxi	Civil Affairs Bureau	2 months			Yes	MyTaproot/ Haiwaixunzi				photos are of sister and father	Nanchang Project: hello@nanchangproject.com
1994	08/29/94	Gregorian	Yes	F	Jiangxi			Yujiang	Yujiang Civil Affair Bureau, Yingtan, Jiangxi		Jinjiang Children?s Welfare Institute		Yes	MyTaproot/ Haiwaixunzi				Photos are of sister and parents. Parents were told she was adopted Internationally.	Nanchang Project: hello@nanchangproject.com
1997	11/10/1997	Gregorian	Yes	F	Jiangxi	11/11/1997	Gregorian	Gao'an	under a tree outside the gate of a school in Gao'an Jiangxi			milk bottle, 20 RMB, and a note.	Yes	MyTaproot/ Haiwaixunzi				Photos are of mom and brother as a child	Nanchang Project: hello@nanchangproject.com

At the ICSA we regularly collect information on search posts, posters and messages from Chinese parents. On this page you can search the ICSA database of birth families in China who are searching for children they relinquished.

Click on any entry in a row to open up the details page. Any text cut off in the table view can be read in full. You can also see photos of the birth family on the details page if available.

Note: dates are written MM/DD/YYYY

Submitting Additional Birth Parents

To add new families, download the ICSA Birth Parents Collection Form/亲生父母报名表格. Complete it and send it to Viola:

WeChat ID ViolaLian

Or you may also email it to 88icsa@gmail.com. Please include province name in the subject line.

Other databases

Besides ICSA, there are several other parties collecting information in their own databases.

DNAConnect’s list of located birth parents
Nanchang Project
The Roots of Love
Baby Come Home/Baobeihuijia is a Chinese website and you can follow the instructions in our how-to guide 'How to Search on Baby Come Home (Baobeihuijia)' found on our Resources page.

DNAConnect also has contact information for foster families for a few orphanages.