Resources | DNAAdoption

Reference Documents and Charts

Article on Ashkenazi DNA Results

Combined_Relationship_Prediction_Chart

Cousinship charts to help you figure out Relationships

How DNA is Passed Down

How Much DNA Should Two People Share

Leeds Method – Sorting Your Matches in to Grandparent Clusters

What Else Can I Do With My DNA Test Results? – Some items are outdate

What is Identical By Descent (IBD) – The DNA You Inherited

Working With Family Tree Website

X- Chart showing ancestors Men could Inherit X from

X- Chart showing ancestors Women could Inherit X from

X – How can the X chromosome help with maternal versus paternal?

X – Unlocking the Genealogical Secrets of the X Chromosome

Y-SNPs at 23andMe – How to find Them

Books, Newspapers and Maps

FamilySearch.org Free Books
Google Books
Internet Archive
The Making of America from Cornell University
World Cat
Ancestors Newspaper Source
Brooklyn Eagle Brooklyn, New York 1841-1902
California Digital Newspaper Collection
Dick Eastman’s Link to Newspapers
Google Newspapers
Historic Newspapers – Chronicling America
Historical Newspapers – Elephind
Historical US Newspapers – National, State & Local Newspaper Archives
Library of Congress
New York Newspapers
New York Northern NY Newspapers
Newspaper Archive
Newspapers
Pennsylvania Historic Newspapers
Rensselaer County New York newspapers back to 1790
The Ancestor Hunt – Newspapers
Tipton County Newspapers
Wikipedia Newspapers Index
Belgian Surname Map
Dutch surname map
French Surname Match
German Surname Maps
Irish Surname DIstribution
Italian Surname Map
Jewish Surname Map
Polish Surname Map
References to Surname Maps

Public Records and Vital Records

Bureau of Land Management

Criminal Search

llinois Court Records

Chicago Genealogy

Native American Child Welfare Act of 1978

Black Market Adoption Information

Black Markets by State
Booth Babies _ Salvation Army birth information sources
Florence Crittenton Home Reunion Registry
Florida Cole Babies

US State and City Resources

Arizona Genealogy

Arkansas Gravestones

California Archives

California Genealogical Society and Library

California San Francisco Genealogy

Colorado Adoption Records Information – Colorado information is complex. This is a guide to the different years of birth or adoption

Colorado Archives

Colorado Denver Public Library

Connecticut State Library

Delaware Archives

Family Tree 2014 List of Search sites

Florida Legal Notices

Florida Memory Project

Florida Searches – paid searches through CHS

Georgia Digital Library

Georgia’s Virtual Vault

Hawaii Archives

Idaho Children’s Home Society

Illinois New Adoption Law

Illinois State Archive

Indiana Library

Indiana State Archives

Maryland Court Document

Michigan Searching

Missouri Birth and Death Records

New Colorado Laws Passed

New York City Births In New York Library and at this site. More recent records in the library

New York Court Records

New York Rochester Vital Records

New York Town Records

North Carolina Research

Ohio Obituary Searches

Oklahoma Genealogical Society – State Resources Page – See ODL Digital Prairie and Genealogy Pages

Oregon Statute on Adoption Info

Pennsylvania – Getting non-ID in Pennsylvania

Reunion Registry for Delaware, Maryland and Virginia

Tennessee State Library and Archives

Texas – Identify Court of Adoption

Texas -Early Texas Marriages

Texas Adoption Agencies That Turned Over Records

Texas Adoption Registry

West Virginia Vital Records

Articles

Article on Ellis Island and Genealogy

David Pikes Utilities

Family Tree 2014 List of Search sites

Jewish Surnames Explained

Origin of Norwegian Names

Non-US Information

Canadian Obituaries
Caribbean, Central America and South America resources
Dutch ancestry information
Italian Searches
Lithuanian Jewish Ancestry
Norwegian Genealogy
UK Search Angels help for searches in the UK

Adoption Organizations

American Adoption Congress

Concerned United Birth Parents

Donor Sibling Registry

First Mother’s Forum

ISRR Adoption Reunion Registry

Genetic Genealogy Blogs

Kitty Cooper’s Blog

DNA Testing Advisor

Genealem’s Genetic Genealogy

Your Genetic Genealogist

The Legal Genealogist

The Genetic Genealogist

Through the Trees

UK & Irish Genealogy and Adoption

Maurice’s 2013 Presentation on Autosomal DNA, Adoptees & LLIR
Maurices’s DNA blog
New UK Adoption Records Access

Discussion Groups

DNAAdoption Discussion and Support Group

Orphan Train Research

FTDNA group for orphans from Orphan Trains
Facebook Page for Orphan Trains
Facebook Page for Orphan Trains “Orphan Train Depot”
Genealogists Ride Search for Orphan Train Rider Ancestors
Family Search Blog on Orphan Trains

African American Searches

African-American How-To

African-American Slavery

African American Libraries

FamilySearch.org Wiki

FamilySearch.org

Freedmen’s Bureau

Slave List of St Mary’s County Maryland

Cyndi’s List – African American Resources