Facebook group reunites families separated by adoption: 'We're doing people puzzles'

One Facebook group is showing the true power of social media by helping people find the missing pieces of their lives. A group named Search Squad uses old-fashioned snooping skills and connections on the social media app Facebook to help reunite family members around the world who have been separated by either adoption or other factors. The group, which is volunteer-based and who call themselves ‘Search Angels’, say that everything they do is free of charge. To date, the group has helped thousands of people learn more about who they are, where they came from and — perhaps most importantly — complete their forever families. “I had no idea when we made the group that it was going to be such a need out there,” Bonnie Holley, the group’s founder, told NBC correspondent Kaylee Hartung. For nearly 10 years, volunteers like Holley have been using their social media sleuthing skills to find lost family members, solving upwards of 100 cases a month. “We do what we do because it’s a passion and because we love people,” Kathey Williams, a member of the Search Squad group, told Hartung. “But we also have that side of us that we just love a good
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