![]() With the publication of Before We Were Yours, many adoptees read the book and began to suspect they might have been a product of Tann’s TCHS. Some of these children were orphans and others were stolen from families undergoing duress. With more than 5,000 children placed with adoptive parents by Georgia Tann, I wanted to know more of their stories. ![]() She allowed me to share her story via Family Locket and you can read it here: “Before We Were Yours” and a True Life Adoption Story from the Tennessee Children’s Home Society. If you share a love of reading and a love of writing your family’s stories, please join our book group! We read books about real people overcoming real challenges that inspire us to write our own family’s story of trials and triumph.Īfter reading Wingate’s first volume, Before We Were Yours, I connected with Deborah, one of the children adopted out of Georgia Tann’s Tennessee Children’s Home Society (TCHS) in 1949. We’re reading Before and After for our summer Family Locket Book Club selection on Goodreads. ![]()
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