Many parents like to “stay in the loop” once they have adopted from Kazakhstan – while others wish to learn as much as possible prior to adopting. What some do not know is how to go about receiving daily “alerts” about Kazakhstan or adoption to their in box to save the Internet search time.



I have two different “alerts” search engines set up – one is goggle. To sign up for what you like to get delivered to your e-mail and how often – please visit the site at:

http://www.google.com/alerts

Goggle offer alerts to be sent to you about News, Web, Blogs and Groups. Below is an explanation from their site about each of the alerts:

A 'News' alert is an e-mail aggregate of the latest news articles that contain the search terms of your choice and appear in the top ten results of your Google News search.

A 'Web' alert is an e-mail aggregate of the latest web pages that contain the search terms of your choice and appear in the top twenty results of your Google Web search.

A 'Blogs' alert is an e-mail aggregate of the latest blog posts that contain the search terms of your choice and appear in the top ten results of your Google Blog search.

A 'Groups' alert is an e-mail aggregate of new posts that contain the search terms of your choice and appear in the top fifty results of your Google Groups search.

A 'Comprehensive' alert is an aggregate of the latest results from multiple sources into a single e-mail to provide maximum coverage on the topic of your choice.

Yahoo also has alerts and they even offer various ways to receive these alerts, via e-mail, instant message, pager or cell phone! I only have elected to have them emailed – so I’m not so certain how the others work. Yahoo also seems to have a larger “selection” category of items you may wish to be “alerted” to.

To establish an alert request please go to: http://alerts.yahoo.com/ you will need to join the Yahoo community – which many of us already have with the various yahoo adoption support groups.

Another way to stay connected with what is happening directly with adoption in your child’s birth city is to join their adoption city yahoo group – you may find a way to join at

http://kazakhadoptivefamilies.com/groups.html
Page down till you see Kazakhstan City Yahoo Groups

Below are direct links to my children’s birth city groups:

Semey - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Semey_Adoptions/
Taraz - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/taraz_adopt/

I am a member of both communities along with being a member of the large group, PAKK group and Midwest Kazakhstan Group. It just amazes me how much adoption has changed because of the Internet and I hope today’s blog helped you find some resources to hear and learn more about Kazakhstan.