Black Market Registries

Melanie Haviland was a SOAR board member, and was also a "Cole Baby".  Hers was a black market adoption arranged by Dr. Katherine Cole, of Miami, Florida.  Melanie recently passed away, and the SOAR board members have chosen to honor her, to help in continuing her work with black market adoptees, and to help other black market adoptees by providing the list of black market registries below.

Black Market Adoptees Registry

The Cole Baby Registry  (Miami, Florida)

Children of Hope: Adoptions Handled by Helen Tanos Hope  (Miami, Florida)

The Springer Connection: Springers's Private Hospital, in Union, New York

Hightower Home: The Hightower Babies of Texarkana, Texas

Origins Tasmania's Registry for Australian Black Market Adoptees

The Ideal Maternity Home - "Home of the Butterbox Babies"  (Nova Scotia)

Silent Legacy: The Hicks Clinic Birth Registry  (McCaysville, Georgia)

The Peacock Home of Quebec

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