Are you searching for a birth relative? Start your journey at the Montclair Public Library!
Our trained reference librarians can help you search Ancestry.com, find adoption registries, locate obituaries, find support groups, and more.
General Links
Provided by Gabrielle Glaser, author of “American Baby: A Mother, a Child and the Shadow History of Adoption.”
View Gabrielle’s recent author conversation on Open Book / Open Mind Online on MPL’s YouTube channel, MontclairLib.
- Adoptee Law Rights Center
- American Adoption Congress
- Concerned United Birthparents
- Joyce Maguire Pavao
An adoptee and therapist with 45 years of experience in the fields of adoption and complex family systems. - DNA Detectives
A group that helps reunite birth families with kin. - SearchAngels
A nonprofit group that helps adoptees search for birth families
New Jersey Links
- NJARCH (New Jersey Adoption Resource Clearing House)
- GS Adoption Registry
- State of NJ Department of Children and Family Services Adoption Registry
- Birth Parent Support Group – Children’s Aid and Family Services, 201-740-7038