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So many people are touched by adoption at some point in their lives. U.S. families last year adopted about 120,000 children in the United States and from around the world. Genealogy Today has a special area devoted to this issue that brings you everything about adoption: search tools, registries, mailing lists, support groups, and more for adoptees, birth parents and adoptive parents. Click here to visit the Adoption Puzzle section.

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