Adoption Registries

An adoption registry is a system for matching persons who desire contact with their birth relatives.

If your state has a registry, it may be found under the adoption laws of your state.  The registry is for any adoptee who is 18 years of age or older, birth parents, siblings and birth relatives, and adoptive parents of an adopted child who are still under the age of 18. 

To find the adoption registry in your state you may also want to contact you state child adoption specialist or your state child welfare agency.  You may also want to type "Adoption Registry for ----(the state where you were born or gave birth)" into your search engine.  It may also help you to check out the link Birth Parent and Adopting Family Registry and the links below.

AdopteeSearchInfo has information about all 50 states, lists of mailing lists and registries, and many links to other sites where you can also get help.

AdoptionSearchReunion website is about searching for or making contact with birth and adopted relatives or researching an adoption that took place in the UK.

AdoptionSearcher.com helps reunite adoptees, birth mothers and birth fathers.  Note that there is a fee for services.

AdoptionRegistryConnect is a worldwide adoptee and birth parent search registry designed to reunite adoptees with their birth parents and siblings.

Another site, AmericanAdoptionCongress.org, may be of interest.   For a comprehensive site on all adoption related laws visit ChildAdoptionLaws.com.  For general pregnancy, health and development issues in children, please visit PregnancyAndChildren.com.