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N. T. Rama Rao (1923 - 1996)
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William Nelson Copley (1919 - 1996)
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Welcome to Geni's Adoption Portal!

This is the starting place for Geni users interested in exploring adoption within their branches and within the broader World Family Tree. If you are researching your own adoption, the adoption of an ancestor, or where an adoptee in your family may be today, please feel free to use the Discussion area here to collaborate with others.

Adoption-related sub-projects can be found linked to the right. We also have planned projects you can help get started, including:

Notable Adoptees
Notable Adoptive Parents
Intrafamilial Adoption

If you have profiles for adoptees, please feel free to add them to this project for future sorting.

Goals

Some broad goals for this portal are to:

advocate for sensible adoption integration into Geni
develop consensus-based standards for showing adoptions

Resources

You can help build this portal by linking to relevant genealogy resources here!

Worldwide: DNA Quest - MyHeritage is giving 15,000 free DNA kits to help both adoptees and parents who have given up their child for adoption find each other
Canada: OriginsCanada: Guide to Adoption Records
Denmark: FamilySearch.org Wiki: Adoption in Denmark
"'Germany'": []
New Zealand: Ministry of Social Development: Finding Your Birth Family
"'Nederland'": []
"'Norway'": []
United States: FamilySearch.org Wiki: United States Adoption Research