Partly based on the author's experience gained while searching for her own birth parents, this book covers a wide range of topics related to adoption search. Among these are deciding to search, getting moral support and handling resistance from families and friends, the costs of searching, support groups, researchers and consultants, intermediaries, dealing with adoption agencies and the courts, reunion registries, finding and using various types of records, using computer resources, and ending the search. In addition, readers will find a searcher's checklist, sample letters and forms, print and nonprint reference sources, and a state-by-state listing of addresses and applicable state laws. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.