Adoption Records
If you were adopted through one of the following adoption agencies, PACT may be able to help you obtain information about your adoption files and family history.
- Childlink Adoption Society, formerly Church Adoption Society (Please note this is not the Church of England Children’s Society)
- Church of the Latter Day Saints
- Oxford Diocesan Council for Moral Welfare
- Oxford Diocesan Council for Social Work
- PACT (Parents And Children Together)
Please fill out the form below to make an enquiry.
If your adoption search is for records not held by the organisations named above, find out how to locate other adoption agencies’ records, including for those adoption agencies that have now closed.
Adoption records request
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Searching and Tracing
If you want to search for, and make contact with, a relative lost through adoption, you will need to ask a registered intermediary agency such as:
Your own local authority’s adoption support team may provide this service, or you can try:
- PAC-UK’s services for adopted adults - you can also email them at advice@pac-uk.org
- Father Hudson’s Origins service - you can email them at origins@fatherhudsons.org.uk
- Joanna North Adoption – adoption tracing and intermediary services
For adopted adults who want to conduct their own search please visit http://www.adoptionsearchreunion.org.uk/search/howtosearch/
For general information on post adoption services, news, locating records etc. then please visit www.adoptionsearchreunion.org.uk
