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• Society: People: Lost or Missing  (140)

The AdopTalk Center - - Comfort, guidance and hope for adoptees in search. Features search resources, book recommendations, adoption stories, and a bimonthly newsletter.

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 especially for Southern Africans (South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Malawi) adoptees and birth parents.

Adoption Crossroads - - Network of adoption search, support and reunion organizations. Includes message board and chat room.

Adoption Forum, Inc. - - 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.

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.

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 Wyoming hospital in the late 1960s.

Birth Search America - - Provides search, intermediary and reunion services to adoptees and birth parents in the Lafayette, Louisiana area.

Birth-Family-Online - - Offers free knowledge and guidance to people searching in the UK. Includes stories, links and photos.

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 (East)Indian origin but brought up in a 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, and reunion stories.

Organization for Adoptees - Search and Individual Support - - 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. Includes a review of legislative and political issues, copy of relinquishment documents, and list of area support and search groups.

Protestant Home for Babies - - Information about a maternity and adoption home located in New Orleans, Louisiana. Includes search help and tips.

Reunite - - Resource for information on all aspects of search and reunion, including where to start, a free registry, and search guide.

Search Triad, Inc. - - An all volunteer, non-profit, search and support group, helping to reunite people separated by adoption, foster care or divorce.

Shea's Search Series: The Definitive Guide to Self-Empowered Adoptee Search - - Guides provide advice from making the decision to search, and choices in searching, through petitioning the court.

Tina's Adoption Search and Reform 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, MA. Supports and assists in adoption searches, finding adoption triad members, and offers consultation on adoption issues.

Washington Adoption Reunion Movement - - A non-profit organization that provides information, referral, support and search services to adoptees, birth families and adoptive parents. Includes membership information and list of support groups.

West Texas Children's Aid and Welfare Association - - 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.