Table 1.

Scoping review process

Step	Resulting references	References identified alphabetically by author(s)
1. Database Keyword Search	13	Bottorff et al. 2006a, 2006b,2009, 2012a; Gage, Everett, & Bullock, 2007; Gilbert 2007; Greaves et al. 2010; Haines et al. 2010a; Johnson et al. 2009; Oliffe et al. 2010; Roberts 2006; Tan 2011; Tinkler 2003
2. Ancestry Search	31	Amos & Haglund 2000; Anderson, Glantz, & Ling 2005; Barraclough 1999; Bottorff et al. 2005a, 2005b; Bottorff et al. 2010a; Cortese & Ling 2011; Cullen 2010; Dutta & Boyd 2007; Greaves, Kalaw & Bottorff 2007; Greaves & Hemsing 2009a; Haines, Poland & Johnson 2009; Kohrman, 2007; Macdonald & Wright 2002; Michel & Amos 1997; Morrow et al. 2002; Morrow & Barraclough 2003a, 2003b, 2010; Nawi, Weinehall & Öhman, 2007; Nichter et al. 2006, 2009; Oliffe et al. 2008; Oliffe, Bottorff & Sarbit 2012a; Pachankis, Westmass & Dougherty 2011; Rugkasa et al. 2003; Tinkler 2001a, 2001b; Toll & Ling 2005; Wearing & Wearing 2000;Westmass, Wild & Ferrence 2002
3. Descendancy Search	13	Alexander et al. 2010; Bottorff et al. 2010b, 2010c; Burgess, Fu & Van Ryn, 2009; Cook 2008; Gage, Everett & Bullock, 2011; Greaves & Jategaonkar 2006; Greaves & Hemsing 2009b; Haines et al. 2010b; Hemsing et al. 2012; Jackson & Tinkler, 2007; Robinson et al. 2010; White, Oliffe & Bottorff 2012a
4. Manual Inclusion	23	Amos et al. 2012; Bottorff et al. 2012b; Cook 2012; Ernster et al. 2000; Graham 1994; Greaves 1996; Greaves & Tungohan 2007; Haines-Saah 2011; Hunt, Hannah & West 2004; Mao, Bristow & Robinson 2012; Mao 2013; Nichter et al. 2010; Oaks 2001; Okoli et al. 2011; Oliffe, Bottorff & Sarbit 2012b; Rudy 2005; Schmitz 2000; Tinkler 2006; Wakefiled et al. 1998; White, Oliffe & Bottorff 2012b, 2012c, 2013a, 2013b
Total:	80