For U.S.A. adoptees can you please explain what & how...?

Question

...your birth cert.is written? How exactly is it done different then non-adoptees birth cert.?Do you have any info given as to where exactly you were born?Thank you.

Answer 1

I was born in Ohio.

Mine amended certificate looks exactly like an original certificate.  All the information is filled in.

The only change is that my parents' names, ages, and address has been filled in as though they had conceived and given birth to me.  To an outsider, you'd never know it was amended.

That is, unless you knew where my parents were living on the day I was born.  The address listed on my certificate is not the address where they brought me home.  We lived in a different location when they first brought me home (a month after I was born).  The amended certificate has the address we moved to just before the adoption was finalized.

That's the only clue that something is wrong, I think.  And it would take some detective work to find it.

Otherwise, it has my place, time of birth, etc.

Answer 2

It's called an 'amended' birth certificate.  Mine says that my adoptive parents are my biological parents.  It doesn't include the name of the unwed mother's home where my natural mother gave birth (most people are born in hospitals, or at home), and it doesn't say my weight, or have a signature of the delivering doctor, obviously.

Mine is on thin, blue paper instead of the black, thick paper that most people have.

I guess it's more like a 'title' than a record of birth.

ETA: Mine is from Michigan.

Answer 3

Mine says I have only a father, no mother, and is filed in a state I've visited but never lived in.

Answer 4

My amended birth certificate looks like a regular one with some exceptions. The hospital I was born in is not listed, instead the address where my aparents lived at the time is on it. No doctor is listed either. My aparents information is substituted for my natural parents. My amother is even listed as having two children born to her prior to my birth (both my siblings were also adopted).

Answer 5

Some can only get a short-form certificate, which has the birth number, date filed, adopted name, s*x, date of birth, place of birth.  That's all

My parents also got the long-form amended birth certificate (which I have tried to get myself, but they deny me even the amended version of the long-form!)

This omits much of the information that would have been  on the original but it looks much as an original would look.  My parents names are replaced with my adopters namesand it does indicate the time of birth too.  Mine has no hospital or doctors information and no weight and length.  No clue as to my original identity.

eta  Yes, it has the city and county of birth

Answer 6

My amended birth certificate is from NYC.  When I compare it to my kids' birth certificates (also NYC) these are the differences:

Mine is signed by my (adoptive) parents.  My kids' ones are signed by the doctor.  There isn't even a space on mine for a doctor to sign.  And no space for parents to sign on my kids' ones.

Mine has a box in the corner that says "approved for filing" with a date nearly two years after I was born.  It also says "date of original report" which is two days after I was born.

Answer 7

minimal details, says my aparents are my parents of live birth. No signatures but my aparents. Says I was born on my birthday but the paper wasn't made until 6 months after my birthday ( when I was adopted ) its not a pretty birth certificate paper like my daughters, its more like... what do you call it....microfilm looking. A harder, thicker smaller paper than BC paper.

No cool details like length or weight of birth. My hair color and eye color are there though. No feet prints.

After reading everyone else's replies I GOT MORE JIPPED THAN I THOUGHT!!

PFFFT.

Answer 8

On mine I have where I was born (City, State) and the date and then my parents names instead of my genetic parents names. It doesn’t have weight, time, day of week etc, ,however I do have that information in my adoption file.

Answer 9

I didn't even have an amended birth certificate.  I just had a baptism certificate, with my birth information typed in on the bottom, and my adoptive parents' names put down as having given birth to me.  They had the date wrong though, it was off by two months.

A few years ago I applied for my OBC but they sent me an amended one instead, there was no birth information on it at all, except for the date (which was actually right this time) but no weight, length, time of birth, etc.  Just the date, my adoptive parents' names, and my adopted name.

Who I was at birth, my original name given to me by my n-mother, is sealed away for 99 years.

Answer 10

I'm California born and adopted, 1964.  My amended has the same items on it as a regular one, only edited to reflect adoptive parents' names, addresses and employment.  Otherwise, it has the correct city, county, hospital, doctor's signature, date and time of birth, marking that it's a single live birth, filing number.  It doesn't, of course, have my nmother's signature on it, as California bc's often do.  It also doesn't have my  parents' social security numbers on it.  Cali bc's back then usually did.

Answer 11

As it is only an extract it has date of birth, country of birth and name. It is very basic but enough for whatever it is needed for. :)