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Main Adoption-related Sites
- Access to Adoption Information
State regulations covering access to non-identifying info and how to obtain. - American Adoption Congress
30+ years of information, updates on the latest legislation, and list of support groups. - California Adoptees Mailing List
Keeping the California connection alive. - California Adoption Information Page
State legislative information, office addresses and phone numbers. - California County Courthouses
Listed alphabetically by county, with mailing addresses and phone numbers. - Open Counties
Some CA counties will allow adoptive parents access to identifying information. Contact information can be found here at Tina Musso's great site. - PACER
Post Adoption Center for Education and Research offers support, search workshops and information for anyone touched by adoption. - ReConnections of California
California volunteer adoption search and support group. - California Newspapers
Links to online papers from around the state. Fee for archival searches.
Other Resource Sites
- ABCgenealogy: Adoption
- About Area Codes and Phone Numbers
Search area codes and lookup the location of cell phone numbers, landlines, or unlisted phones. Each area code contains information about the city, state, carrier, and other area codes to help you find out who called you if it is missed call or unknown number. - Adoptee Connect Forum
- Adoptees.com - Adoptee Support. Adoption, Adopted, Forums, Issues, Article, Forum
- Adoptees Genealogy Search Links
- Adopting.org
- Adoption and Orphans Research
From RootsWeb's guide to tracing family trees. - Adoption.com
- 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 Registries
Provides many adoptee resources, such as an online adoption reunion registry, searches, articles, online support and more. - Adoption Registry Connect
- Adoption Search Links by jlight
- Adoption Triad Outreach
An online forum for adoptees, adoptive parents, and birth parents. Featuring a free reunion registry, chat, discussion boards, links, and more. - Ancestry.com - Message Boards - Adoptions
- Concerned United Birthparents
National non-profit support group that welcomes all members of the adoption circle. - David Gray's World Wide Registry
- Eyes Wide Open Registry
- Gary's Adoption Registry
- Genealogy.com - Adoption Forum
- Genealogy.com - All About Adoption Research
Article by Maureen Taylor. - GeneSearch Adoption Registries and Reunion Resources
- LookWhoCalled - Reverse Phone Search
Search area codes and lookup the location of cell phone numbers, landlines, or unlisted phones. Each area code contains information about the city, state, carrier, and other area codes to help you find out who called you if it is missed call or unknown number. - Metro Reunion Registry
A free reunion registry for all members of the adoption triad. - Missing Birth Family Registry - Genealogical Journeys in Time
- Newspaper Obituaries
Access newspaper obituaries and discover your genealogy online. Discover how to use vital records, obituary resources, old newspaper obituary archives, genealogy forms and printable family tree charts. - Online Searchable Death Indexes, Records and Obituaries
- RootsWeb's Guide to Tracing Family Trees - Lesson 31: Adoption and Orphans Research
- Reunion.com
- The Volunteer Search Network (VSN) Information Page
- World Wide Web Library of Adoptee Related Sites
- Yahoo!...Adoption
- Yourfamily.com - Long Lost Family Bulletin Board
Genealogy Resources
- Ancestry.com
Discover your ancestors with the world's largest family history website. Start a family tree, browse census records and more. - Rootsweb Genealogy Search
An Ancestry.com community - Social Security Death Index
This database is an index to basic information about persons with Social Security numbers whose deaths have been reported to the Social Security Administration. - Obituary Times
Daily index of published obituaries. - StateGenSites
Database of genealogy web sites by state.
People Locator Databases
- Nationwide birthday site
Obtain almost anyone's birthday in one step - Veromi
A great people locator database - Pipl
- ZabaSearch
- KnowX
- Black Book
- BRB
- NetrOnline
- Birthday Lookup