ADOPTION RESOURCES

General Resource Sites

• ABCgenealogy: Adoption
• AdopteeForum.com
  A forum offering members of the adoption triad a place where they can openly voice their experiences and feelings surrounding adoption.
• Adoptees.com - Adoptee Support. Adoption, Adopted, Forums, Issues, Article, Forum
• Adoptees Contact Line
  A registry for adoptees and birth parents.
• Adoptee Searcher's Handbook ~ Canada
• Adoptees Genealogy Search Links
• Adopting.org
• Adoption and Orphans Research
  From RootsWeb's guide to tracing family trees.
• Adoption.com
• AdoptioNetwork
• Adoption Information, Laws and Reforms
  From Kevin McCarty.
• Adoption Puzzle
  Search tools, registries, laws, reform, mailing lists, and more for adoptees, birth parents and adoptive parents.
• The Adoption Registration Coalition
  Official Sponsors of International Registration Day.
• Adoption Registry - Records, Record, Reunion Registries, Adoptees, Search Reunite
  Provides many adoptee resources, such as searches, articles and online support.
• Adoption Resources for Your Family Tree
  From the About.com genealogy section.
• Adoption Reunion
  Provides many adoptee resources, such as an online adoption reunion registry, searches, articles, online support and more.
• Adoption Reunion Registries
  Provides many adoptee resources, such as an online adoption reunion registry, searches, articles, online support and more.
• Adoption Search and Reunion
  Adoption reunion search. Full search series, information about all 50 states, lists of mailing lists and registries, over a thousand links to other sites where you can also get help.
• Adoption Search Links by jlight
• Adoptions Reunited
  Post adoption registry service.
• Adoption Triad Outreach
  An online forum for adoptees, adoptive parents, and birth parents. Featuring a free reunion registry, chat, discussion boards, links, and more.
• Adoptee Birthfamily Connections
• All About Adoption Research
  Online article by Maureen Taylor.
• Ancestry Message Boards - Adoptions
• Becky West's Adoption Page
• BirthQuest
  Online searchable database for searching adoptees, birth parents, adoptive parents and siblings.
• Carrie's Adoptee & Genealogy Page
• Dawn's Birthmother/Adoption Resource Page
• FamiliesLost.com
  An adoptee and birthparent reunion site.
• Family Workings Adoption Query Index
• Forget Me Not Family Society
• G'S United States Adoption Registry
• History of Adoption in the United States
• How to Search for Birth Family or Adoptee
• Jewish Orphanages in the United States
• Lia's Links: Adoption Reunion Registries
  Over 190 online adoption reunion registries listed and over 130 other adoption search links! Plus support links.
• Looking 4 Kin - Adoption Genealogy Links
  To aid you in your adoption genealogy research.
• Looking for someone? Find them here!
• Luanne Pruesner's Internet Adoption Page
• Mari's Place - Adoption Links
• Metro Reunion Registry
  A free reunion registry for all members of the adoption triad.
• Missing Birth Children - from Genealogical Journeys in Time
• Missing Birth Parents - from Genealogical Journeys in Time
• Missing Persons - from Genealogical Journeys in Time
• National Statistics - General Register Office - Adoptions ~ U.K.
• Orphan's Home Website
  Transcriptions of orphan, adoptee, and foster children listings in orphanages, homes, and poorhouses from U.S. and Canadian censuses.
• Orphan Voyage Memorials
  Dedicated to adoptees, birthparents and other birth family members who died before they had an opportunity to be reunited with the one they lost to adoption.
• Parent Finders of Sarnia-Lambton
  Search and support group for adoptees, birth relatives, fostered persons; genealogy and completing family tree.
• Relinquished
  International adoption registry focusing on Catholic related adoption searching.
• Reunion Registry.com
• Reunite - Adoption Reunion, Search, Find, Look, Birthmother, Son, Daughter, Family
  Provides many adoptee resources, such as an online adoption reunion registry, searches, articles, online support and more.
• RootsWeb's Guide to Tracing Family Trees - Lesson 31: Adoption and Orphans Research
• R-U-Out There
  Adoption search bulletin board and information site.
• Searching For People
• Searching for Birth Relatives
• T.I.E.S Homepage
  "Terminal Illness Emergency Search." Program provides free search and support to terminally ill adoptees searching for their birthfamilies.
• The Volunteer Search Network (VSN) Information Page
• Welcome-I'm Adopted
  Adoptee able to get information from sealed records and RAD attachment/intimacy issues.
• World Wide Web Library of Adoptee Related Sites
• www.Aborn.org - Adoptee and Birthparent's for Open Records Nationwide
• Wildfyre's Adoption Reunion Registries
• Yahoo!...Adoption
• Yourfamily.com - Long Lost Family Bulletin Board

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Locality Specific

• Adoptee's UK - Search & Reunion Help
  A new site aimed at anyone that is affected by adoption. Primarily aimed at people searching for birth families in the United Kingdom.
• Adoption
  From the United Kingdom's familyrecords.gov consortium.
• Adoption Contact Register
  UK adoption contact register for adoptees and birth relatives.
• Adoption/Genealogy Searching in Illinois
  Links and tips on how to conduct adoption and genealogical research in Illinois.
• The Canada-Wide National Registry & Family Finders
  Adoption resources & registry.
• Canadian Adoptees Registry Inc.
  For adoptees, birth mothers/fathers, siblings, relatives, fostered adults & adoptive parents.
• Central Adoption Registry - Michigan
  Information maintained by the Department of Human Services in Lansing. Contains former parent & adult former sibling statements giving consent or denial to have information about themselves released to an adult adopted person who is searching.
• Central Adoption Registry - Texas
  From the Department of State Health Services. The Texas Vital Statistics Central Adoption Registry is part of a voluntary mutual-consent registry system. It enables an adult adoptee, birth parent or sibling to place his or her name on the registry and locate other family members who are also registered.
• Cole Baby Adoption Registry
  Adoptees born in Miami, Florida, between 1927 and 1963.
• Colorado Adoption Search & Reunion Resources
• Family Search
  Information on adoption searches in Oklahoma from the Daily Oklahoman.
• Geborener Deutscher
  Quarterly newsletter that addresses the issues, interests and concerns of German-born adoptees and their birth/adoptive families.
• Illinois Adoption Search Resources
• Hightower Black Market Babies of Texarkana, Texas
  Information about Hightower Babies that were adopted on the black market.
• The Hispanic Adoption Registry
• IOWASEARCH Adoption Search Resources
  An Iowa dedicated database, free registry form, message board, mailing list and links.
• Irish Adoption Contact Register
  From the Adopted Peoples Association.
• Kentucky Adoption Reunion Registry
  Free registry is for Kentucky adoption searchs. Lots of useful search tips and current law regarding Kentucky adoptions. Registry was founded in 1980.
• Kentucky's Adoption Search Services
• Lost In Nebraska
  A site dedicated to adoptees searching in Nebraska. Registry and guestbook.
• The Maine Registry
  For adoptees and birthparents with ties to the state of Maine.
• Maryland State Archives Adoption Records 
• Montreal Angels Adoptee's ~ Quebec, Canada
  Birth family search registry free for canadians.
• National Archives of Scotland Fact Sheets - Adoption
  Requires the free Adobe Acrobat reader software in order to be viewed.
• New Mexico Adoption Registry
• Ohio Adoption Registry
• Oregon Adoptive Rights Association
• Pennsylvania Adoption Search and Education
• Research Guide - Good British Stock - Child & Youth Migration to Australia
  From the National Archives of Australia.
• Researching an Adoption ~ Manatee County, Florida
• Searching In Florida
  Links for adoptees and birthparents searching information mainly in Florida.
• Searching in Ireland - Resources for Irish-Born Adoptees
• Searching in Manitoba
  For Manitoba born adoptees.
• S.E.A.S.Y.P. Greek Adoptees Reunion Registry
• Seeking A "Stranger"
  A Georgia adoptee's adoption and search story. This site provides specific information to help those searching in Georgia in additional to general adoption search information.
• South Dakota Voluntary Adoption Registry
  From the South Dakota Department of Social Services. The Voluntary Adoption Registry consists of adoptees & biological parents who have consented to the release of identifying information about themselves.
• Sylvia's NY Adoption Page
  For adoption triad members that are searching in New York state to register their information. There are also links to sites that may be helpful in their search.
• Tina's Illinois Adoption Information Page
  Free adoption registry for those searching in Illinois.
• Tracing the Birth Parents of Adopted Persons in England and Wales
  From the Federation of Family History Societies. Online brochure provides basic information on adoption searches in England and Wales.
• UK Adoption Tracing Service
  Adoptees or birth relative tracing in the United Kingdom.
• UK Birth Adoption Register ~ Nottingham, England
  UK online birth and adoption cross reference registry.
• Vermont Adoption Registry
  Register if you were adopted in Vermont and are seeking non-identifying or identifying information regarding your adoption or your birth child's, siblings adoption. Also information about Vermont's adoption laws.
• WARM--Washington Adoption Reunion Movement
  Our mission is to provide support, search, reunion, education and training in the life long issues surrounding adoption.
• West Texas Children's Aid and Welfare Assoc. ~ Abilene, Texas
  Information on this Abilene agency (1920-1949) and on its administrator, Rev. W.A. Nicholas.
• White Oak Foundation
  Illinois adoption search information.

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