Top Resources for Adoptees Who Wish To Identify Their Birth Parents

  1. Adoptee Rights Law Center on obtaining your original birth certificate by state - https://adopteerightslaw.com/united-states-obc/ 

  2. American Adoption Congress for up-to-date adoption search laws - https://americanadoptioncongress.org/state.php 

  3. International Soundex Reunion Registry to register with the largest reunion registry in the world - http://www.isrr.org/Register.html 

  4. American Adoption Congress for adoption search support groups by state - https://www.childwelfare.gov/nfcad/?CWIGFunctionsaction=nfcad:main&CWIGFunctionspk=2

  5. Search & Reunion Etiquette by Monica Byrne - https://www.americanadoptioncongress.org/docs/etiquette8_.pdf 

  6. AncestryDNA to register your DNA - https://www.ancestry.com/ 

  7. New Hope Investigations for loads of blog posts that answer all kinds of questions about the who, what, when, where, why, and how of searching - https://newhopeinvestigations.com/blog?category=For%20Adoptees 

For more information or if you need assistance with your search, please contact me at rdavis@newhopeinvestigations.com.