Adoption registries, or adoption reunion registries, are mechanisms through which adoptees and their birth families can find one another. Adoption registries may be operated by government agencies with access to documents identifying a birth family or adopting family; or by private entities, often operated by members of the adoption community. This category lists topics relating to adoption registries.
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This web site provides information about its registry for finalized adoptions; for adoptees, birthparents, and their advocates.
http://www.adoptionlinx.com/
The function of the worldwide adoptee and birth parent search registry is to unite adult adoptees with their birth parents and siblings. Interested persons will begin by searching its database of registries, then by adding their own registry to the database.
http://www.adopteeconnect.com/
Adult adoptees and birth parents may register to be included among the hundreds of thousands of records that are available, which may be browsed by name, year of birth, state, adoption agency, country or record, or searched through a number of variables.
http://registry.adoption.com/
This web site features an adoption reunion registry which specializes in reuniting adoptees with their birthparents.
http://www.findme.org/
This web site provides information about its registry, as well as its other services to locate adoptees and birth mothers, especially within the state of Texas.
http://www.givenright.com/
