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Useful information for UK and Irish adoptees

To find out your original birth name if you were adopted in England or Wales
contact:

The Registrar General
The Office of Population Censuses and Surveys
The General Register Office
Adoptions Section
Smedley Hydro
Trafalgar Road, Birkdale
Southport PR8 2HH
44 (0) 151 471 4200

and ask for access to your original birth records (you will be sent a form
to complete and return. The service is free but you may be required to be
counselled by a social worker.

They publish the following leaflets

ACR1 GRO - Tracing records of births, marriages and deaths

ACR99 GRO - Information for adopted people and their relatives

ACR100 Access to birth records - Information for adopted people living in the UK

ACR101 Access to birth records - Information for adopted people living outside the UK

ACR110 The adopted contact register - information for adopted people and their relatives

ACR114 Access to birth records - counselling organisations outside the UK

For access to your original birth records in Scotland contact

The Registrar General
New Register House
Edinburgh EH1 3YT
44 (0) 131 334 0380

In Northern Ireland contact

The Registrar General
Oxford House
49/55 Chichester Street
Belfast BT1 4HL
44 (0) 1232 250000


All the above addresses can supply birth marriage and death certificates by
post. They also publish their own versions of the leaflets AC1 etc. listed
under England and Wales.

In the Republic of Ireland contact

The Registrar General
Joyce House
8/11 Lombard Street East
Dublin 2
35 31 6711863

In London you can apply in person for birth, death, marriage and
adoption certificates at

The Public Search Room
The Family Records Centre
1 Myddleton Street
London EC1R 1UW
Phone 0181-392-5300
Web page http://www.open.gov.uk/pro/prohome.htm

The Family Records Centre also has a bookshop and a computer link to
Edinburgh.

They are open
9-5 Mon, Wed, Fri
10-7 Tue
9-7 Thu
9:30-5 Sat

Recommended professional searchers

Paul Field
Lookup United Kingdom
http://www.lookupuk.com
webmaster@lookupuk.com

Alan Collins
http://www.missing-links.co.uk

UK Private Investigators
http://www.ukprivateinvesigators.com/Special.html

Gwen Richardson
7 Okeford Road,
Broadstone,
Dorset
BH18 8PA
Phone & Fax 01202 693102

Gwen has her own copy of the English and Welsh indexes of births, deaths,
and marriages. She operates two services; Searchline for adoptees and
Name Search for birthparents; she also a runs a contact register.

Susan.Vanstone@Virgin.Net
Co-ordinator for "The Research Network"

The Research Network Homepage:
http://freespace.virgin.net/susan.vanstone/home.html

Search Charities

Please get details of your original birth records before contacting any of
the following search charities

Norcap
112 Church Road,
Wheatley,
Oxfordshire
OX33 1LU

Notes: Norcap publishes a search guide for members. Do not try to phone or
fax Norcap as the lines are very busy and the office is only manned
part-time.

Search
PO Box 1947
Leigh-on-Sea
Essex
SS9 4EJ

Birth Link
Family Care
21 Castle Street
Edinburgh
EH2 3DN
Telephone 0131-225-6441
Email: famcare@hotmail.com

Ad.O.P.T.
The Peskett Centre
2/2a Windsor Rd.
Belfast
BT9 7FQ
Telephone 01232-382353

TRACE
(Transatlantic Children's Enterprise)
11 St Tewdric's Place,
Mathern,
Near Chepstow,
Gwent NP6 6JW,
Wales

Useful addresses and phone numbers

General Register Office for Scotland
Adoption Unit
New Register House
Edinburgh
EH1 3YT
0131-314-4443

Scottish Records Office
General Register House
Edinburgh
EH1 3VV
0131-556-6585
Ext. 1395

Public Record Office
Kew
Richmond
Surrey
TW9 4DU
Phone 0181-878-8289
Contact: Miss A. Crawford

The Society of Genealogists
14 Charterhouse Buildings
London
EC1M 7BA

Specialist Adoption Counselling Agencies

BirthLink
Family Care
21 Castle Street
Edinburgh
EH23DN
0131-225-6441

Barnardos
Scottish Adoption
Advice Service
16 Sandyford Place
Glasgow
G3 7NB
0141-339-0772

Other Voluntary Agencies who may provide Adoption
Counselling in respect of placements made by their Agency

St Margaret of Scotland Adoption
Society
274 Bath Street
Glasgow
G2 4JR
0141-332-8371

St Andrew's Children's
Society Ltd
Gillis Centre
113 Whitehouse Loan
Edinburgh
EH9 1BB
0131-452-8248

Scottish Adoption Association Ltd
2 Commercial Street
Edinburgh
EH6 63A
0131-553-5060

Internet discussion groups

ADOPTEES-UKIE

Subscription Address:
LISTSERV@LISTSERVER.PIPEMEDIA.NET

Description:
The adoptees-ukie mailing list is a forum for discussion among adult
adoptees either living in or searching in the UK or Eire of any topic
related to adoption. It is not intended to be a general discussion forum
for adoption among non-adoptees.

To subscribe, mail to listserv@listserver.pipemedia.net with

"subscribe adoptees-ukie first name second name" in the body of the text.


ADOPTEES
Subscription Address: ADOPTEES-REQUEST@UCSD.EDU
Description:
The adoptees mailing list is a forum for discussion among adult adoptees of
any topic related to adoption. It is not intended to be a general
discussion forum for adoption among non-adoptees.


To subscribe, mail to adoptees-request@ucsd.edu with

"subscribe [address] adoptees" in the body of the text.


GENUKI-L GENUKI-L@APPLE.EASE.LSOFT.COM
UK and Ireland Genealogy Discussion List

ROOTS-L
Subscription Address: LISTSERV@MAIL.EWORLD.COM
Description:
This list is for the discussion of genealogy-related issues, including
tools, techniques, and requests for information on genealogical research.
The list may also be helpful in doing the research by sharing information on
specific ancestors co-operative research, (See also soc.roots on
USENET/NETNEWS news). Monthly public notebooks are kept.

ROOTS-L
Contact: roots-l-request@rootsweb.com
Purpose: ROOTS-L is a discussion list where those who have interest in
Genealogy may communicate via Email messages in hopes of finding more family
history information.
http://www.rootsweb.com/roots-l/
To subscribe, send email to
roots-l-request@rootsweb.com
and in the body of the message, put subscribe

FreeBMD
Free Birth, Marriage, Death look-up project mailing list
Contact address
FreeBMD-Admins-L-request@rootsweb.com

Usenet groups

soc.adoption.adoptees Discussion of adoption by adoptees. (Moderated)

soc.genealogy.computing Genealogical computing & net resources.

soc.genealogy.methods Genealogical methods and resources. (Moderated)

soc.genealogy.misc General genealogical discussions.

soc.genealogy.uk+ireland Genealogy of Britain, Ireland & offshore isles.

Web pages

UK births, deaths and marriages
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/graham.pitt/bdm/contents.htm

Irish births deaths and marriages

http://www.doh.ie/consumer/infoguid/regbmd.htm
http://www.murnane.org/igilim.htm

http://www.adoptees.org

Scottish database for obituaries - and coming soon will be births and
marriages.
http://www.scotsman.com

http://www.netwales.co.uk/gentrace/home.htm

FreeBMD
http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/genuki/StCathsTranscriptions/

Family History Research Register
http://www.symbcon.co.uk/fhistory

Irish Family Connections
http://www.city2000.com/sh/family.html

http://members.aol.com/COD18460/IRISHADOPTEES.html

UK and Ireland Genealogy
http://cs6400.mcc.ac.uk/genuki/

Searching in Ireland
http://www.csfit.edu/~steed/

http://box.argonet.co.uk/users/adopt/

UK Genealogy
http://www.aha.ndirect.co.uk
http://www.wwide.co.uk/backtoroots
http://www.j15.co.uk/4corners/

UK names and addresses
http://www.lookupuk.com
http://www.192.com

Scottish information
http://142.92.40.53/Newcert.htm

UK/European information
http://www.euroferret.com
http://www.muscat.com
http://www.excite.co.uk
http://www.lycos.co.uk
http://www.searchuk.com
http://www.yahoo.co.uk
http://www.yell.co.uk
http://www.ukdirectory.co.uk
http://www.ukindex.co.uk

http://www.ancestry.com

Missing Persons
http://www.lookupuk.com
http://www.naggies.demon.co.uk/Missing_UK/index.html
http://www.netsalesuk.co.uk/missing-you/

Search database
http://www.homeusers.breathe.co.uk/lordy/
Government departments
http://www.dss.gov.uk
http://www.inlandrevenue.gov.uk

Resources available from Adoptees-UKIE members

Howard
Phonebase (UK phone numbers)
Access to Family Research Centre in London (English and Welsh
certificates)
A list of all English/Welsh registration districts
A list of all UK telephone directories

Name and address lookup via 'i-cd' cd-rom version 2 (same
as www.192.com but can be searched on surname alone)

Works next to a library

Electronic Documents (Word documents and text)

This document
Channel Island & Isle of Man contacts
Eire contacts
Family Care leaflet
N.I. overseas counselling contacts
Sample contact letter
AdOPT adoption details registration form (NI search charity)
AdOPT membership form
AdOPT letter
Norcap leaflet
FRC leaflet
The Shea guides to searching in N. America

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