Community Record Inquiry · StoryScope Studio

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Who you are

Start wherever feels right. No field is required unless marked. Use the names that feel true to you — given, adopted, Vietnamese, chosen.

First name (current) *

Last name (current) *

Vietnamese birth name (if known)

Nursery name (if known)

Adoptive family name (if applicable)

Name you prefer to be called

Email address *

Preferred contact method

Phone (optional)

Where you live now

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Your connection to this history

The Children of War community spans seven distinct streams of displacement and diaspora. Tell us where you enter this story — check all that apply.

If other, or if you want to say more

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Your origin record

These fields map directly to the Operation Babylift Collection. Share only what you know — gaps in knowledge are themselves part of the record.

Date of birth (approximate is fine)

How certain are you of this date?

Province or city of birth (if known)

Nursery or orphanage (if known)

Adoption agency (if applicable)

Date of departure from Vietnam (approximate)

Destination country

City or state of initial placement (if known)

Flight, vessel, or transport information (if known) The C-5A Galaxy crash occurred April 4, 1975. If you were on this flight or believe you may have been, please note it here.

C-5A flight status (if applicable)

I survived the C-5A crash I was not on the C-5A I don't know if I was on the C-5A I lost a family member in the C-5A crash Not applicable

FFAC record number or file ID (if you have access to your file) If you've seen your original paperwork, any code printed on it helps us cross-reference the archive.

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What you are looking for

The archive holds records that may speak to your history. Tell us what questions you carry — and what, if anything, you are ready to encounter.

What brings you here? (check all that apply)

I am looking for my origin record — intake file, manifest entry, or nursery documentation I am searching for Vietnamese birth family I am looking to connect with peers who were on the same flight, at the same nursery, or in the same cohort I am interested in DNA testing as part of my search I want to document my story as part of the archive I want to participate in community — gatherings, research, or the StoryShare platform I am a researcher or educator seeking access for academic or educational purposes I am interested in attending Invisible Threads or future StoryScope gatherings I want to support the Archives in Love and War project — through funding, in-kind, or collaboration

DNA testing status (if applicable)

Are you open to being contacted by the archive steward?

The question you carry (in your own words)

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Your story

These fields are entirely optional. They help the archive understand the living dimensions of the record — identity, language, belonging, place. You decide what you share.

How do you identify? (optional) Use the words that feel accurate to you.

Race / ethnicity (optional)

Vietnamese language (optional)

Connection to Vietnamese culture now (optional)

Other documentation or known information (optional)

Witness role (optional) The archive recognizes witness as a practice — not a requirement, but a role some community members are ready for.

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Consent and stewardship

LEAP™ (Love Ethic Archival Practice) holds that you are always the primary steward of your own story. These choices are yours to make — and yours to change.

I consent to the following use of my information *

Record-only — my information is held in the internal archive and not sharedNothing is published or shared externally. For archival cross-reference only. Community use — my information may be shared with verified community members and researchersShared within the StoryScope Studio community network, with researcher access by case-by-case approval. Public — anonymized — aggregated or anonymized findings may be publishedYour name and identifying details are never published. Statistical or pattern-level findings only. Public — attributed — I am open to being named or quoted in public work with my review and approval

Additional permissions (check any that apply)

I am open to contributing a first-person voice or reflection to the StoryDeck community voice layer I am open to participating in an oral history interview (conducted by Mike Marrotte, oral historian) I am a second-generation family member and open to contributing my family's story to the archive I consent to my record being used to support in-country research in Vietnam (anonymized)

Anything else you want the archive to know (optional)

I affirm that the information I have provided is accurate to the best of my knowledge, and that I understand my consent choices above. *

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of the record.

Who you are

Your connection to this history

Your origin record

What you are looking for

Your story

Consent and stewardship

Your record has been received.

You are part of the record.

Who you are

Your connection to this history

Your origin record

What you are looking for

Your story

Consent and stewardship

Your record has been received.

You are part
of the record.