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Tracing links
Organisations to help those wanting to trace birth parents, siblings or adopted children
General Register Office
Details of how to apply for original birth records.
Adoption Tracker
A UK-based site, with a database, where people can register FREE their details and those of whom they are seeking.
Joan Allan's search site
Searches carried out in UK.
Julie's People Search Site
Message board, information on how and where to trace, adoption database plus organisations and researchers worldwide.
Adoption Match
Two part register designed to help people affected by adoption to make contact with each other.
Barnardo's
Barnardo's Counselling Service provides a tracing service but only for adoption through Barnardo's.
NPN (Natural Parents Network)
Support organisation for birth parents and relatives. Offers advice on tracing only.
NORCAP
National Organisation for the Counselling of Adoptees and Parents
Rejected Adoptee Group
A sub-group of Norcap aimed at those who have had unsuccessful attempts and reunion.
Barry Phillips
Offers tracing services with "a particular expertise regarding searches for birth parents and siblings in the USA, especially those connected with the USA Military."
Contact via email: bazo1@tesco.net
or by telephone 01782 394666.
PeopleTrace
Adoptee-founded organisation offering various services to assist people in tracing natural/birth relatives.
TRACE - Transatlantic Children's Enterprise
Pauline Natividad
25 Shooters Hill Close
Sholing
SOUTHAMPTON
Hampshire
SO19 1FW
Phone: 023 8044 3808
A self help group to help people trace their American GI fathers who
they have never known, or have lost touch with.
After Adoption Wales
7 Neville Street
Riverside
Cardiff
CF11 6LP(temporary address)
Wales
Helpline: 02920 575711
Email: aadoption@aol.com
Independent advice, helpline, information, face-to-face counselling and groupwork and support to anyone whose life has been affected by adoption. Also training for professionals working in the adoption and post-adoption field. Staffed by a team of professional counsellors and fully trained volunteers, many of whom have first-hand experience of adoption. Offers Welsh speaking service by appointment only.
General Register Office for Scotland
Family Care Adoption Counselling Centre
21 Castle Street
Edinburgh
EH2 3DN
0131 225 6441 (Mon-Fri 9.30am-4.30pm)
Support organisation offering counselling and information for adoptees, birth and adoptive families. Holds the adoption contact register for Scotland. Also operates Scotland's adoption contact register, Birthlink (same address and tel no). This is a confidential central point of contact for all those who have been involved in the adoption process. Provides counselling and information.
Scottish Adoption Association
(East of Scotland only)
Support organisation for adoptees, birth and adoptive parents.
Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA)
Manx Churches Adoption and Welfare Society
Support organisation for adoptees, birth and adoptive parents on the Isle of Man. Offers advice on tracing.
Adoption Board
Shelbourne House
Shelbourne Road
Dublin 4
Republic of Ireland
00353 1 6671392
Holds records of all adoptions in Eire.
www.gitrace.org
This is a website dedicated to providing information to assist people tracing their GI fathers/families.
Adoption Search Reunion
This website, by BAAF, is intended to be one of the first ports of call for anyone thinking about searching for or making contact with birth and adopted relatives.
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