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Chats and Forums
Adoption Genealogy Forum, Adoption Junction, DakMinn_Adoptees, Lookup United Kingdom, My First Steps
Cole Babies
Cole Baby Adoptee, Cole Baby Registry
Personal Pages
A Birth Mother's Story, A Journey of Faith and Time, A Road Called Reunion, A Starting Place, Adopt-A-Web, Adoptee and Birth Parent Searching, Adoptees Seeking Closure, Adoption, Adoption and My Search for the Truth, Adoption Archives
Professional Services
A Loving Journey, A Search Genie, Adopted We Search, Adoption Connections, Adoption Search, Adoption Search and Reunion, Adoption Search Bureau, Adoption Search Specialists of Wisconsin, Birth Name Search, Birth Searcher
Registries
Adoptees Contact Line, Adoption Contact Register, Adoption Reunions (South Africa), Adoptionmatch, AdoptionRegistry.com, Black Market Adoptee's Registry, British Columbia Adoption Reunion Registry, California Mutual Consent Registry, Canadian 2000 Project, Closing The Gap
Adoptee Birthfamily Connections
Features organized links to search and support resources for adoptees and birth family members, registry, forums, and mailing list.
Adoptee Searcher's Handbook
Directory of information on a wide range of adoption related topics. It is focused on Canada but also has pages for U.S., Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.
Adoption Africa
Registry, search tips, personal stories, and legal information for adoptees and birth parents in South Africa, Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, Malawi, and Zambia.
Adoption Crossroads
Network of adoption search, support and reunion organizations. Includes message board and chat room.
Adoption Forum Pittsburgh
Offers search and support guidance for birth parents and adoptees. Holds local meetings and workshops. Meeting details and resources are presented.
Adoption Pennsylvania
Information and resources for searching in Pennsylvania.
Adoption Puzzle
Information about searching, adoptee rights, and adoption reform. Includes links to search tools, registries, and mailing lists.
Adoption Search and Reunion
Dedicated to Colorado adoptees, birth families, and adoptive families, but providing general search information and tips for anyone.
Adoption Search Links
Collection of links related to searching for birth family.
Adoption Tracker
Online research database matches up children and parents separated through adoption. Includes news on related legal and social issues.
AdoptionFamilyNetwork.com
Offers fee-based services in addition to free resources, including forums, registry, tools, and reunion stories. [Registration is required for some sections.]
Adoptionopoly
A satire, modeled loosely on the board game Monopoly, that highlights the frustrations experienced by adult adoptees who are trying to search for their origins.
Baby Theft Investigation
Focuses on the case and investigation of the theft of newborn twins from a hospital in the late 1960s.
Birth-Family-Online
Offers free knowledge and guidance to people searching in the UK. Includes stories, links and photos.
BirthQuest
An online searchable database dedicated to searching adoptees, birth parents, adoptive parents and siblings.
Brick Wall Survivors
Support for adoptees having trouble in their search process.
Colorado Adoption Search & Reunion Resources
Tips, links and book recommendations for adoptees and birth parents.
Connected Indian Roots
Networking community that helps adoptees search and learn what it means to be of Indian origin but brought up in a totally different culture. Includes articles and links.
Everlasting Search
Tips and information from an adoptee who has gone through the process.
Heartland Adoption Connection
Features a registry, search tips, reunion stories, and related links.
International Soundex Reunion Registry
A non-profit agency which serves and promotes the reunion of next-of-kin or family that have been separated at birth, by adoption, institutional care, abandonment, divorce or foster care.
Kenchan's Search and Reunion Links
Dozens of links for adoptees searching.
Organization for Adoptees - Search and Individual
New Jersey-based search and support group for adoptees only.
Orphan Voyage Memorials
Dedicated to adoptees and birthparents who died before being reunited. Includes stories and memorials.
PA Adoption Search and Education
Contains general information about searching in Pennsylvania, United States. Includes a review of legislative and political issues, copy of relinquishment documents, and list of area support and search groups.
Search Triad, Inc.
Helping to reunite people separated by adoption, foster care or divorce.
Shea's Search Series
"Self-Empowered Adoptee Search" from Adoptee's Right to Know guides you from making the decision to search, and choices in searching through petitioning the court.
State Specific Resources
Adult adoptee and birthfamily search and reunion resources organized by state: Registries, support groups, vital statistics information, and databases.
The AdopTalk Center
Comfort, guidance and hope for adoptees in search. Features search resources, book recommendations, adoption stories, and a bimonthly newsletter.
Tina's Adoption Reform and Search Pages
Adoption search information, including online databases, legislative addresses, vital statistics, and court addresses.
Torn Asunder
Registry and investigative resources to aid family members seeking reunion after adoption.
Triad Online
Information for individuals who wish to begin a post-adoption search involving Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Includes general information for all adoptees.
TRY Resource and Referral Center
An adoption resource and referral center located in Northampton, Massachusetts. Supports and assists in adoption searches, finding adoption triad members, and offers consultation on adoption issues.
UK Reunite
Provides free research services to adopted children (born in England or Wales) and birth parents seeking to be reunited. Profile, research rules and contact details are presented.
Volunteer Search Network
A worldwide group of volunteers who have come together to offer services to people touched by adoption who need search help.
Washington Adoption Reunion Movement
Provides search, reunion, and educational resources and services. Includes a fee-based registry, information about free and fee-based services, and membership details.
West Texas Children's Aid and Welfare Associa
Information about the W.A. Nicholas Home which operated in Abilene, Texas from 1921 to 1945, and placed children in Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico.
White Oak Foundation
A not-for-profit organization offering free post-adoption services to all triad members with an Illinois connection. Site includes information about searching, legislation, services and programs.
Young Once, Indian Forever
Information about and for Native Americans who were adopted or fostered and who are searching for their birth family members.