Adoption Resources — General

Adoption History

• “Topics in Adoption History,” The Adoption History Project

Records Access

• “State Statutes Search,” Child Welfare Information Gateway
• “State Legislation,” American Adoption Congress
• Native American, see 25 U.S. Code § 1917, Indian Child Welfare Act

Search Registries

• “Adoption Reunion Registry,” Adoption.com
• “Adoption Search Registries and Reunion Registries Listed by State, For Adoptees, Birth Parents and Relatives,” Genesearch.com
• G’s Adoption Registry
• International Soundex Reunion Registry

Links

• “Adoption,” Cyndi’s List

The Bookshelf

• Amanda H. L. Transue-Woolston. Lost Daughters: Writing Adoption From a Place of Empowerment and Peace. CQT Media and Publishing, 2014.
• Ann Fessler. The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade. Penguin Books, 2007. NOTE: See my blog post reviewing this book.
• Carol Schaefer. The Other Mother. CreateSpace, 2013.
• Nancy Newton Verrier. The Primal Wound: Understanding the Adopted Child. Gateway Press, 2003.
• Reg Niles. Adoption agencies, orphanages, and maternity homes: An historical directory. 1981.
• Reg Niles.The Reg Niles Searchbook for Adult Adoptees, Vol. 1. (2013)
• Reg Niles. The Reg Niles Searchbook for Adult Adoptees, Vol. 2. (2012)

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