Reunion Registry

Reunion Registry: Large databases that contain both identifying and non-identifying information about birth parents, adoptive parents, adoptees and adoptions, which are searched under controlled conditions in an attempt to establish a link between adoptees and members of their biological families. These registries exist in a wide variety of formats, both on and off the Internet, are maintained by a variety of private and public entities and will contain information that has been entered either on a cooperative and voluntary basis by the involved individuals or on a blanket basis by the entity that maintains the registry.

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The definition of this term has been taken from the "Adoption Glossary," which contains definitions of a wide variety of words that relate to adoption and infertility. The entire Adoption Glossary is located at http://glossary.adoption.com.

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