Whilst there is no specific organisation to help to trace the natural parents of children who were not adopted, you can try to trace using electoral registers (rolls) and registers of births, deaths and marriages.
Are you looking for your birth family / adopted relatives?
National Organisation for Counselling Adoptees & Parents (NORCAP)
112 Church Road, Wheatley, Oxfordshire OX33 1LU
Tel: 01865 875 000
Web: www.norcap.org
- Help and support for people who are adopted, birth relatives of adopted people and adoptive families, including tracind
- Accredited researchers
- Search resources
- Trained volunteers across UK who can help & advise
- Support for people who have been fostered or brought up in care and have lost touch with their family
Do you want advice / information about adopting / fostering?
British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF)
Skyline House, 200 Union Street, London SE1 0LX
Tel: 020 7593 2000
Web: www.baaf.org
- Membership organisation for agencies handling adoption and fostering
- Advice on adoption agencies UK and overseas
- Helps to locate potential adoptive families
Do you want help regaridng an international adoption case?
International Social Services (ISS)
Cranmer House, 39 Brixton Road, London SW9 6DD
Tel: 0207 735 8941
ISS is a professional social work agency, which has a department specilaising in tracing relatives in other countries. They are able to help in the following situations:
- Where there has been adoption and a search is needed to find the birth parents.
- Where the child was brought up by one parent only and is now (as an adult) seeking to re-establish contact with the other parent. Similarly they are able to help where the parent has lost contact with a child.
- Where there has been disruption in the family leading to separation or divorce.
ISS are not able to trace friends, nor assist in cases where maintenance is the prime concern. There is a charge for the service. Do you want advice / counselling in relation to adoption?
Post-Adoption Centre
5 Torriano Mews, Torriano Avenue, London NW5 2RZ
Tel: 0207 284 0555
www.postadoptioncentre.org.uk
- Advice line
- Counselling for anyone involved in or linked to adoption
- Training and workshops
Try also...
www.search-line.co.uk
A website specialising in reuniting adoptees and birth parents | 
