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SEARCH LINKS -

• Adoption databases - http://www.skylace.net/adoption/
• Adoption Disclosure Laws, by State - (Quick Reference) http://www.bastards.org/activism/access.htm
  For state-specific codes,search resources and more, browse or download The Ultimate Search Book
• Adoption Laws, Canada - http://nebula.on.ca/canadopt/
• Adoptees' War Memorial: Adoptees, Parents Who Have Died in War, & Adoptees & Orphans created by War - http://amfor.net/war.html
• Age/Name Database- Search by First/Last Name/Age (free) - http://www.birthdatabase.com
• Australia Adoption Jigsaw - http://www.bensoc.asn.au/parc/
• Baby Broker Directory (by state)- helps searching Black Market Adoptees - http://AmFOR.net/BabyBrokers
• Black Market Adoptees - Helpful Links: Surrogacy Agency Directory, Egg Donation Service Directory, Attorney Directory, and IVF Directory are all at "Everything Surrogacy" - http://everythingsurrogacy.com
• Black Market Adoptee's Registry (Free) - http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Garden/2313/
• Black Market Adoption Links - (See "Registry, Black Market Adoptees" and "Registry, Black Market Babies and Baby Broker Directory; and Black Market Adoption Web Ring)
• Black Market Adoption Web Ring - Personal web pages and registries - http://q.webring.com/hub?ring=bmaring
• Classmates Search - http://Classmates.com & http://Reunion.com/
• Concerned United Birthparents (CUB) - http://www.cubirthparents.org/
• Credit Reports - Get all 3 Free Annual Equifax/Experian and Trans Union Credit Reports (under FactAct) from one online form - (no credit card needed) - http://annualcreditreport.com
• Credit Reports (fee) - http://www.ameri.com/121.htm
• DMV Searches (fee; first check to see if you can order direct from state's DMV
  available for fee - CO, FL, GA, IL, ME, MN, MT, NH, NM, NY, OH, OK, UT, WA, WI, WY) http://www.docusearch.com/dmvf.html
• DMV ID Card Search (for non-drivers; free) - http://searchsystems.net/
• DMV-Messaging (CA fee is about $5) - Contact any branch of CA DMV for form
• Donor-Link Registry (United Kingdom) - http://www.ukdonorlink.org.uk/default.asp
• East Indian Adoptees- Connected Indian Roots website: http://people.freenet.de/connectedindianroots/
• "Everything Surrogacy" - directories, all on one website - Surrogacy Agency Directory, Egg Donation Service Directory, Attorney Directory, IVF Directory - at "Everything Surrogacy" - http://everythingsurrogacy.com
• German adoptee/parent search - Leonie Boehmer - email:  Boehmer@aol.com
• German-born Adoptees "Geborenor Deutscher" Newsletter - http://hometown.aol.com/wmlgage/gd/gd.htm
• Holocaust-Shoah Victims - http://www.yadvashem.org/wps/portal/!ut/p/_s.7_0_9m
• How To Search - http://UltimateSearchBook.com
• Hurricane Katrina - Free Resources to Find the Missing in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi: http://www.firstgov.gov/Citizen/Topics/PublicSafety/Hurricane_Katrina_Recovery.shtml
• Italian Adoptees - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ITALIADOPTION/
• Korean Adoptees - GOAL (advertises search in Korea newspaper) - http://www.goal.or.kr/
  •      (San Francisco):  http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Garden/3947/
  •      (New York):  http://www.akaworld.org/
  •      http://www.findparent.or.kr/index_e.htm
  •      http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Shrine/8654/search.html
• Military Fathers (Past Wars)
  • WAR BABES: Founded by Shirley McGlade, 15 Plough Avenue, South Woodgate, Birmingham B32 3TQ She is the daughter of a World War II GI, that she traced in 1986.
  • THE ASSOCIATION OF LIBERATION CHILDREN, founded in 1984, renders assistance to the Dutch descendants of soldiers from the Second World War in the search for their biological father and/or relatives. It also has links with Canada. http://www.liberationchildren.org
  • PROJECT ROOTS is an organization set up in 1980 to help find the Canadian fathers of British and European War Children - http://www.project-roots.com/
  • REGISTRY OF JEWISH HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS - http://www.ushmm.org/remembrance/registry/intro
  • RESOURCES FOR CHILDREN OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS: Tracing Ancestors - http://www.judymeschel.com/coshtrace.htm
• Prisoner Locator (US) - http://www.ancestorhunt.com/prison_search.htm
•      See also Adopted Prisoner Penpals - http://amfor.net/AdoptedPrisoners.html
• Public Records, Nationwide - 34,000 Free Databases - http://www.searchsystems.net/index.php
• Registry, Bi-Racial/African-American - http://lilbastard.faithweb.com/biafreg.html
• Registry, Birth Quest (second largest) - http://ReunionRegistry.com/
• Registry, Black Market "Babies" - (a CENTRAL REGISTRY for ALL Black Market babies delivered by Bessie Bernard, Katherine Cole, Crittenton Homes, Easter House, Hicks Clinic, Ideal, Gladney Homes, Seymour Kurtz,Tennessee Home Society, The Veil, etc.) -
  http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Garden/2313/Links.htm
• Registry, Butterbox Babies Survivors (Nova Scotia) - http://www3.us.sympatico.ca/bhartlan/PAGE1.htm
• Registry, Canada - http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/adoptionregistry.html
• Registry, D's Search Posts (huge, archived) - http://www.birthfamily.com/bmom2amy/coverpage.html
  or http://www.birthfamily.com/bmom2amy/SearchPosts.html
• Registry, Donor Offspring/Parent - http://amfor.net/DonorOffspring/
• Registry, Date of Birth - http://adoptionregistry.com
• Registry, First Names (unique names) - http://www.genealogytoday.com/names/first/unique.html
• Registry, First Name & Birth Date - http://www.skylace.net/adoption/g-firstnames.php3
• Registry, International Soundex Reunion (oldest/largest) - http://www.isrr.org/
• Registry, National Next of Kin - http://www.nokr.org/nok/restricted/home.htm
• Registry, Orphan Trains - http://www.adoptiontriad.org/library/weekly/aa030398.htm
• Registry, Twins Reunion, National - http://home.www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/9942/twinregform.com/
•      (see also Twin Adoption Web Ring of individual websites)
• Search Angels - (by state; free/expenses only; careful--some fee-based searcher ads too) -  http://www.the-seeker.com/angels.htm
• Scotland Adoptees - email:  think@charity.vfree.com/
• Social Security Locator Services (Free Messaging) - Write to:
  Social Security Administration Location Services,
  6401 Security Boulevard
  Baltimore, MD 21235
• State-Specific Search Help - http://members.aol.com/deitrahs/
• Terminal Illness Emergency Search (TIES) - if available;  check search engine for any new volunteers' listings-  http://www.ties-search.org/
• ULTIMATE SEARCH BOOK - http://UltimateSearchBook.com/
• Unlisted Phone Search (fee) - http://www.phonesearches.com/
• Unlisted Phone Search (US & Canada; fee) - http://www.infoplaza.com/
• Vietnam Reunion Planning (Holt Agency; fees) - email:  reunion@holtintl.org
• Vital Statistics Online (Links for state-held public records) - http://vitalrec.com/
• Volunteer Search Network - http://www.vsn.org/
• Voter Registration online - (check search engines by State)
• Who Me? - http://who-me.com/
• Worldwide Phone Directories - http://www.contractjobs.com/tel/
• Yearbook Attic; Yearbook Lady - http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/2236/attic2.html

BIRTH INDEXES
(including those searchable by birth date & either birth or adoptive names, cross-referenced)

• Family Birth Records Search (by State) - http://www.familybirthrecords.com
• CA - Colleen Buckner (fee) - therighttoknow@hotmail.com
  AdoptionSearchCalifornia.com and TheRightToKnow.info
• CA - 1905-1995 - http://searches.rootsweb.com &
  http://www.vitalsearch-ca.com/gen/ca/_vitals/cabirthm.htm
• CA - Adoptee Amended Names 1904 thru 1991 - Paul Winston Services,
  827 Pacific Ave., #178,
  San Francisco, CA 94133;
  (415) 956-9817
• CA - Pat Bowers - patkb@ix.net/
• CT - Lucille Shea (fee only if found) - LucilleShea@prodigy.net/
• FL - http://www.geocities.com/preston081/publicrecords.html
• IN - Birth Indexes available from LDS Family History Library
• KY - (also some CA & OH; fee) - Caroline Prowser - HUMNGBRD@aol.com
• MO - State Dept of Health sells "all born in state" for about $30 per date searched
• NY - 5 boroughs (Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens, Manhattan, Staten Island) indexes available to public; for legwork contact Joe Soll cera@idt.net
• NY - rest of state - contact Joe Soll/Adoption Crossroads - cera@idt.net
• SD - Pre-1900 (need year & name) - http://searches.rootsweb.com/
• TX - http://ABORN.org - if not online at http://www.tdh.texas.gov/bvs/registra/birthdx/birthdx.htm
• TX - 1926-1949 & 1950-1995 (need name & year) - http://searches.rootsweb.com/

DEATH INDEXES

• http://www.ancestry.com/search/
• Death Index, Supplemental - Ameridex database for Deaths not on Social Security Death Index; small fee - http://kadima.com/prices.html
• Find A Grave (International - by state, province, country) - http://www.findagrave.com/tocs/geographic.html
• Ranch Hands Index - http://searches.rootsweb.com/
• http://ssdi.rootsweb.com

RESEARCH LINKS -
alphabetical adoption reference resources, for:
o activists,
o litigants
o writers,
o chat

• A-Team (Father's Rights, legal referral) - http://www.a-team.org/
• Abolish Adoption, A Petition - http://amfor.net/
• ABOLISH ADOPTION-CANADA - http://abolishadoptioncanada.com
• Addiction & Adoptees - http://www.amfor.net/chosenchildren.html
• Adopt-A-Quote - http://www.amfor.net/adoptaquote.html
• Adoptees & Birthparents for Open Records Now/ABORN- http://ABORN.org/
• Adopting Back Our Children - http://www.geocities.com/families_healed/index.html
• Adoption Connection - http://www.geocities.com/geoadopt/
• Adoption Deaths/Jean Paton - http://www.geocities.com/orphanvoyage1953/jean.html
• Adoption Forums - http://forums.about.com/ab-adoption
• Adoption Horror Clips and Adoption Newswire- http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/6743/oct2.html
• ADOPTION (Horror) NEWS, by Country - http://adoptionnews.org/news.asp
• Adoption and Disclosure Laws by State - http://laws.adoption.com/statutes/state-adoption-laws.html
• Adoption: Legalized Lies (ALL) - http://www.geocities.com/antiadoption/
• Adoption Medical Victims - http://members.aol.com/deitrahs/
• Adoption Newsletters Directory - http://www.familyhelper.net/ad/adnlu.html
• ADOPTION NEWSWIRE - http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/6743/oct.html
• Adoption Research and Stats - http://adoption.about.com/cs/researchreports
• Adoption Scams - http://www.a-team.org/f_custody_b.html
• Adoption System (expose) - http://www.amfor.net/chosenchildren.html
• American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) - http://www.aclu.org/
• AMERICAN FAMILY RIGHTS ASSN. (AFRA) - http://www.familyrightsassociation.com/members/membership.html http://familyrightsassociation.com/horror_stories/index.html http://parentnews.net/~parent_stories/
• Anti-Adoption: What Does it Mean? http://members.tripod.com/reuniting/anti_adoption.html
• Australia's Origins Inc - http://www.angelfire.com/or/originsnsw/
• Baby Theft (Joanne Swanson) - http://www.babytheft.org/index.htm
• Bastard Nation (adoptee activists) - http://www.bastards.org
• Biblical View (Open Adoption) - http://www.pactadopt.org/press/articles/biblical.html
• Birthmothers for Open Records Now/BORN - http://born123.homestead.com/
• Blue Ribbon Online Free Speech - http://www.eff.org/blueribbon.html
• Child Custody Law Firms Search site - http://ChildCustodyLawFirms.com
• Child Guardianship Law - http://consumer.findlaw.com/topics/child/nolo/nature.html
• CPS Watch (Child Protection Services abuses) - http://www.cpswatch.com/
• Concerned United "Birth"parents (CUB) - http://www.cubirthparents.org/
• Directory of Pro Bono Attorneys, by State http://www.abanet.org/legalservices/probono/directory.html
• FindLaw: http://www.findlaw.com/
• German Adoptees Newsletter - http://hometown.aol.com/wmlgage/gd/gd.htm
• Ghost Dancer - http://www.geocities.com/Wellesley/9950/
• Global Internet Liberty Campaign - http://www.gilc.org/
• Green Ribbon Cam/Open Records- http://www.50megs.com/levgen/grcampaign.html
• Incarcerated Adoptees - http://www.amfor.net/chosenchildren.html
• Libraries on the Web - http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Libweb
• Mothers Exploited By Adoption - http://www.firstmoms.org
• Mothers In Exile - http://www.exiledmothers.com
• Mouvement Retrouvailles (French/Eng) - http://www.mouvement-retrouvailles.qc.ca/
• Musser, Sandy - http://www.angelfire.com/fl2/musser/
• Natl. Adoption Information Clearinghouse (NAIC) - http://www.childwelfare.gov/
• Natural Families - (support for staying together!) - http://www.naturalfamilies.org
• Newspaper Archives (all states) - http://www.newslibrary.com/
• Non-Attorney Representation - http://www.amfor.net/nonattorney.html
• Origins USA-(Legislative Inquiry) - http://originsusa.org
• Orphan Voyage Memorials - http://www.geocities.com/orphanvoyage1953/jean.html
• Pro Se Legal Help - http://www.legalfreedom.com/prc/
• Statistics of Adoption - http://www.amfor.net/statistics.html
• Sunflower "Birth"moms (700+ members) - http://www.bmom.net/ (Click subscribe)
• Support for Pregnant Women & Exiled Mothers - http://www.keepyourbaby.com
• Ultimate Search Book- http://www.amfor.net/ultimatesearch.html
• U.S. National Archives - http//www.nara.gov/
• Voices of Adoption Chat - http://www.ibar.com/chat-o-rama/

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