SherLock Resources

• 192.com UK databases
• Alumni Resources
• Birthdays:
  • AnyBirthday.com Free database of over 135,000,000 names and birthdates.
  • The Birthday Server Birthdays entered by individuals
• Attorneys Directory
• Australia Library Indexes and Databases
• BirthQuest 
• Black Book Online - Guide to Free Web-Based  Database Searches For PI's
• Carter's Adoption Page
• City Directories - Listings through Google Search Engine and through Yahoo Directory 
• City Directories - Listing of City Directories available at the National Archives and Records Administration
• Compuserve Homepages Locator
• Database America
• Database Searches
• Deja.Com news groups related to adoptees
• D's Search Posts D's Site provides many resources, 
  well organized and thorough
• DMV Searches
• DocuSearch - Free database resources
• Family Ties Adoption Search Database
• Geoscience Membership Organizations
• Many databases are listed in each of the In-Common Resources sections
• Investigative & Research Resources
• Janet's Investigative Links (Also see her Adoption Links)
• Long Lost Family Bulletin Board - Searchable database
• Lostfriends.org Free databases
• Miscellaneous Research & Investigative Resources
• Missing Persons Index listings of missing people, including adoptees
• MISSING PERSONS - LOST IN AMERICA
• MISSING PERSONS CYBERCENTER
• Missing Persons Page- Instant Technologies, Ltd
• Orphanages
• PBN Reunion Bureau
• Physician Directory, indexed by City & State
• POW/MIA Search Engine
• Public Records Resources
• Records.org searchable databases on the internet
• Reunion Hall (School Reunion Listings)
• Ref Desk - Facts & References searchable on the 'net
• RootsWeb Alphabetic List of Databases
• Search Bug - Email, telephone, business, etc. searches
• Search Systems over 2376 Free Searchable Public Record Databases
• Searching Adoptees Database (Adopting)
• Secret Site - The "Database of Databases" - Excellent Resource!
• Social Workers, National Association
• Stalker's Home Page (Links to databases)
• State-by-State registries and resources
• Vets.com Veterans Alliance Service Center
• Vital Records Databases & Resources
• Web Data.com - Searchable databases divided by category
  • Zip Codes Keyed by County
  • City/State Zip Code Associations  

• Angry Grandma's Archives - Handy for older email addresses of those searching
• BigFoot's Find People
• Email Search - Links to email directories and search engines worldwide
• Email Search - Finding Someone's Email Address
• Email Search - Find the new email address if you have the old one
• refdesk.com's whitepages.com - Email, reverse directory, address/telephone, people search, etc.
• Email Search - Advanced search at Yahoo - When you have the old e-mail address, this may help you find the new one  
• Email Search - Specialized (membership organizations) 
• Email Search - Meta Email Search Agent
• Email Search - W.E.D. worldwide email address directory
• Email Search - Also see the miscellaneous investigative resources
• MESA, MetaEmail Search Agent
• Search Bug
• Some of the Telephone Directories include people searches & email address searches
• Worldwide Email Directory Search
• Ultimate E-Mail Directory

Registries

• Adoptee Birthfamily Connections Registry
• Adoption Registry Owners Mailing List member registries
• Sunflower Birthmoms Information Pages 
  and Birthmother Registry
• FindAgain.com  - Free web site where you can try to find people you have lost touch with and check to see if anyone is trying to find you
• Find Lost Ones
• FindMe Online Registry
• GOOGLE listing of registries  
• Hicks Clinic Birth Registry - includes information about/for adoptees born in McCaysville, GA in the 1940s, 50s and 60s and placed for adoption by Dr. Thomas J. Hicks, the delivering physician, in black market adoptions
• Hispanic Adoption Registry
• Ideal Maternity Home, East Chester, Nova Scotia. Anyone who thinks that they may have any connection to "The Butterbox Babies," Home may write to register, or for assistance in their search to Bob Hartlen. 
• The in-common resources list many registries
• Janyce's Root Diggin' Dept. - Registration & Search Page
• Many registries are listed in each of the In-Common Resources sections

• Maiden Name Registries and Research:
  • Adoptee Birthfamily Connections' Registry allows entry of the natural mother's maiden name.  Search for the maiden surname or other known names with the site search engine (but search birth dates using the registry navigation page)
  • Her Heritage Maiden Name Directory Free listing for all women by their maiden name. The site has discussed a privacy option (at one time when I checked, they were asking a $20 one-time fee to keep the information listed private); however, the database is not currently searchable.
  • Lynch's Maiden Name Registry
  • maidenname.net
  • Seeking the Roots of Married Women - Genealogy resource
  • Also see Alumni and School resources, along with the In-Common Resources
• Maternity Homes:
  • Maternity Home Registry
  • Maternity Homes

• Metro Reunion Registry
• Open Directory listing of registries  
• Owen's Quick-Link Adoptee Resources - More registries in one place than anywhere I've seen.
• Registries & Resources with common location, ethnicity, etc.
• Searchings Homepage
• The Seeker
• Seekers of the Lost - This site says it is the largest free registry on the internet; there is no online database, and you are offered an option to purchase database search services if no match is made in the free registry. When I checked, costs for database searches were not listed; however, the types of database searches that can be run are informative in the event such a service is desired from this business or others.
• Sunflower Birthmoms Information Pages and Birthmother Registry  
• Tennessee Adoption's List of Other Registries
• Torn Asunder - A Florida Reunion Search and Information Source, includes registry
• Texas State Central Adoption Registry and the TxCare Fact Sheet about it.
• Top 50 Adoption Reunion Registries
• TxCare Online Registry.
• World Wide Registry
• YBLost.com