I'm looking for birth mother, but live far what can I do?

Question

I live in California, but I was born in Texas and I think I'm ready to find out a little more about my birth mother.

Answer 1

Register with adoption registries (as many as you can find) to seek out your birth family.

You might consider retaining a private investigator (check around some may be better & more reasonably priced than others).

You can also contact the Vital Records department in TX to see what you can find:

http://www.dshs.state.tx.us/vs/default.s...

I hop this helps!

Answer 2

Have you asked your adopted parents for the information that they have.  Then you can post on some of the adoption boards.   Texas is not far away. Find out what agency placed you in your adopted family.   Go through the agency that you were adopted through and some of them let you write them a letter or there may be letters there for you.   Finding a birth mother you might find that she is a good person or you might find that she is into drugs and not a good person. Either way you have to be ready to accept what you find.  There are a lot of adoption web sites.  Google adoption web sites and go from there.  Good luck. If you have a name google the name.

Answer 3

You can contact the Texas Central Adoption Registry.  Here is their web address:

www.dshs.state.tx.us/vs/reqproc/adopti...

You can also look at Tina's Adoption Search and learn how to do your search.  

Good luck!

Answer 4

Where was you adoption finalized? TX or CA?  This is where your adoption records will be held.  Fortunately for you both states have their birth indexes available online or with adoption search angels.

You can see the birth indexes on Ancestry.com.  they offer a 14 day free trial.  Your other option is to register your information with this site.  

G's adoption search.  

http://www.aci.net/schaefer/page60.html

There are several very experienced CA and TX searchers on there.  They work as a team and also have the TX birth books archived.  The index may or may not have your record but it will be in the birth books.

If you have not applied for your non-id, you need to do this first!  Here is a link that explains each states laws regarding access to information and how to obtain info.

http://local.adoption.com/

Good luck!

Many searches go across states lines as well as overseas, yours may be easier than you think.