Adoption records HELP!!!?

Question

We are looking for adoption records for my boyfriend....we have looked a few places such as online county records and can't get far ....so looking for any help anyone can give us....THANKS

Answer 1

Adoption records are sealed in most states.  Go to this site to determine what information is available to him and how to access the information.

http://local.reunion.adoption.com/

Register with as many registries that you can find including the following:

www.isrr.net

registry.adoption.com

findme.org

http://www.gsadoptionregistry.com/home.h...

and any state sponsored and private online registries you can find.  DO NOT GIVE ANYONE ANY MONEY TO SEARCH FOR YOU.  There are many, many search angels who have access to the same databases that "search org." use to locate people and will try to locate for free.

If you medical issues are severe there are groups that search based on medical needs as well but normally work with the more life-threatening types of ailments.  

There are currently 5 states were the adoptee can request and receive their original birth certificate.

AK, OR, KS, NH, AL, ME opens in Jan 2009 and MA gives adoptees born on or before July 14, 1974 access to their BC on Dec 3, 2007.  Many states have a confidential intermediary programs for a fee that allows a state sponsored company to open the records and make contact with the person being searched for.  This is fee based and should only be used if a free internet search angel can not help.

Adoption records are not online in any state no matter what promises a site give you, nor are they available to companies such as Omnitrace.

Answer 2

When you find out please post the info so that many of us here can perhaps also start to look for their personal info on their adoptions> Thanks and good luck!

Answer 3

It really depends on where you live.  There are 4 states that allow an adotpee access to their original birth certificate (sadly, there are 46 states that don't).

If he can't get that, the next step would be to contact the agency that facilitated the adoption, and ask for his non-identifying information.  There might be information in there that can help with his medical issues.

Maybe there's something in his file, as well; she could have left a letter or something for him.

Some agencies provide search services, in MN where my adoption was handled, the agency charged me a fee to locate my mother and contact her for me (Warning: using anyone as an intermediary is bad business, you just never can trust the motives of the intermediary.. ESPECIALLY if it is the agency itself).  But if you have no other options, you have to do what you have to do.

If it is a medical emergency, you might be able to petition a judge to open his records, but that is very hard to do unless you luck out and get a sympathetic judge.  Remember, adoption is big money for the legal system, so they are not very sypathetic when it comes to opening records.

Keep trying at his mom.  Try to find his adoption papers in the house.  Talk to other, older relatives and family friends who were around during the time of his adoption.  Someone might know something...you never know.

And REGISTER...on adoption reunion registries, see if your state has a registry, put his name and stats OUT THERE in case she is looking for him!!!

Good luck, and I suggest contacting Gershom (she answered above), I know her well and I know that she is a SUPER source for adoption search information.  She knows a lot more than I do!

I wish you and your boyfriend the best of luck!

Answer 4

I live in the uk and about 10 years ago i telephoned the local council offices and they advised me which branch to call to make an appointment to see my adoption records. The appointment was made for the next day and I went into a room myself with my "file" which I was free to take notes from but not photocopy. It told me my parents names, addresses, brothers and sisters, reason for adoption etc. To be honest though I wish I had just left it as my birth mother had 5 other children that she kept and put me up for adoption and the next youngest had just started school, This felt like a massive rejection to me and I never made the effort to try to get in contact with her as a result of what I read.

Answer 5

what state?

Answer 6

If you know where he was born, you can do to the local social services office.  They should have some information.  And if that doesn't work I would call the state offices and ask for the adoption section they should direct you in the right direction.  They should have a file on his parents.

Good Luck!