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Did you know that Minnesota’s Department of Children Youth and Families is storing adoptees personal belongings?  Items date back 100 years!  Personal belongings in adoption files may have been contributed by birth parents, adoptive parents, adoptees, or case workers. Items can still be submitted at any time. Between the 1940s and 1960s, the department began removing and safekeeping personal belongings, logging and storing them separately with references in Continue Reading