How to find out about an adoption in michigan?

Question

my sister gave up a child for adoption in the early 70s, in lavonia michigan. she has since died of breast cancer, which seems to appear every other generation. she had a girl. if this girl has a girl also, she would be right in line. in this part of the gene pool, every family has had 1 girl that got it, and it has been unbelievably consistent. any help would be great. thanx

Answer 1

If you can find her daughter, good luck! It all depends on how the adoption was handled to be able to find the person you are looking for.

Answer 2

i was born in garden city and adopted through the lenawee county courthouse. what i did to find my birthmother was go the the courthouse where i was adopted through with my birth cert. there i filled out paperwork to be added to the adoption registry. there was a place for other family members too, not just parents. they told me the file number on the top of my birth cert was the same on my 'original' that my birthmother filled out and the one that was printed for my mom and dad.

even if you dont have this cert i would try. it cant hurt. make sure you keep on checking with them. i let it go for a while thinking the process was still going when it had actually got lost in the shuffle, i lost almost a year because of that. it took someone to go to the basement and bring up the archives to check the numbers.

other than that if you dont have a name or anything you may end up having to hire a p.i. i dont know how much they cost, but i cant think of any other way.

good luck, i hope you can find her. this is valuable info you have and she needs to know. you are a good woman to put forth the effort you are.

p.s if by chance you find a name and city, i found my birthfather through classmates.com. sounds cheesy, but it worked. but you need names and cities for that.