Uncovering your origins can be one of the most profound and life-changing journeys you'll ever take. For adoptees, the search ...

An adopted woman from Georgia recently embarked on a mission to find her birth parents — and she discovered in the process that she has been Facebook friends with her birth father the whole time.

In the search for her biological family, one Upstate woman has created a space for others who were adopted to do the same.

"The moment he looked at me, he knew that I was his daughter," the woman said Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously appeared in places ...