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Some relevant web links with information on adoption
www.norcap.org.uk NORCAP Supporting adults affected by adoption. Operates U.K. adoption contact register. Offers search & mediation services.
www.foundlings.org Support group for foundlings
www.rejection-network.org Support group for anyone rejected following family separation.
www.bereavement-network.org Support group for those who discover that the person they were seeking contact with is deceased.
www.baaf.org.uk Adoption & Fostering Information
www.nepas.org North East Post Adoption Services ( England )
www.statistics.gov.uk/registration Adoption Contact Register for England & Wales
www.groni.gov.uk Birth Certificates and public records for Northern Ireland including the Adoption Contact Register for Northern Ireland
www.familyrecords.gov.uk Public records England & Wales
www.adoptionireland.com Adoption Contact Register for Eire
www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/famrec General government advice on adoption issues and how to access original birth certificates for adopted people.
www.afteradoption.org.uk Offers adoption support services in the North West , North East and Wales .
www.talkadoption.org.uk U.K. National freephone helpline for young people with a connection to adoption
www.postadoptioncentre.org.uk/ Offers post adoption services for London and South East England
www.missing-you.net/missing.htm Looking for missing people
www.n-p-n.fsnet.co.uk Helpline
for natural parents and relatives who have lost children to adoption
www.lawandparents.co.uk Public
interest website focused on the law, your rights and your responsibilities
as a parent
www.bensoc.org.au/parc_resources/adoption_kit.html
www.clovapublications.com Evelyn Robinson Adoption & Loss – The Hidden Grief
www.peoplesearch.com.au/Adoption_Search/ Search for birth families and information with these Australian adoption search and reunion resources
www.bastards.org/downunder/ Don’t be put off by the name – Interesting site
United States of America resources
www.americanadoptions.com/adopted/adoptee_search
www.ovareau.com/adoptee/index.html
Some relevant web links with information on adoption
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http://society.guardian.co.uk/adoption/story/0,8150,1071924,00.html
http://www.adoption-net.co.uk/news/2001/june/010630trips.htm http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/suecarroll/tm_objectid=15554718%26method=full%26siteid=94762-name_page.html
http://society.guardian.co.uk/adoption/story/0,8150,812848,00.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3187998.stm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/threecounties/content/articles/2004/10/27/rn_john_chapman_feature.shtml
http://society.guardian.co.uk/adoption/story/0,8150,677780,00.html http://www.adoptionnet.co.uk/news/2002/feb/020201helpus.htm
http://women.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,17909-1425656,00.html http://www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/2004%20archive/080704/n080704_5.htm
http://www.wiganmbc.gov.uk/pub/council/borough-life/issue6/motherchild.htm
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1499571,00.html http://archive.thisisthenortheast.co.uk/2003/08/06/81915.html
http://www.adoption-net.co.uk/news/2001/november/011123firstmeet.htm
http://www.adoption-net.co.uk/news/2001/november/011119happyfamily.htm http://www.guardian.co.uk/parents/story/0,3605,1564241,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/jersey/4236095.stm http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/06/20/wlost20.xml
http://www.adoption-net.co.uk/news/2002/oct/071002reunited.htm http://village.vossnet.co.uk/c/champion/amazing.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/northwest/sites/familyhistory/pages/liannebaily.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/homeground/archive/2005/sisters_reunited.shtml http://www.sundaymail.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=16585852&method=full&siteid=64736&headline=join-the-family--name_page.html
http://www.trishs.net/story.html http://www.adopting.org/uni/frame.php?url=http://www.telusplanet.net/public/grubb2/index.htm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/06/20/wlost20.xml
http://217.31.128.184/PACTDOCS/REUNIONSTORY1_020802.ASP http://217.31.128.184/PACTDOCS/ADOPTEESTORY1LIZ.ASP.ASP
http://www.bravado.demon.co.uk/trackers/ti_art_14.htm
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