My mom is adopted, lately we have been talking about search for her birth parents, where do we begin looking?

Question

We have looked at a few websites but have found nothing but dead ends. Pluss we don't have a ton of money to be paying all these so called "Family finders" money to maybe find her birth parents. My moms birth records are sealed and make it very hard to locate any information. All we know is that she was born in 1959 and was adopted out of some place in Oakland. Other than that there is nothing to go by. Any information would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Online they have county records  for each 'county'

if not. . .ancestry.com may be able to help.

Answer 2

look into the adoupshin agencey that the adoptive parents went tru thay shold help

Answer 3

If you are referring to Oakland CA, the CA birth index is online at ancestry.com.  You can access this information with a 14 day trial.  

Search this CA birth index using only the date of birth and county of birth and female.  This will give you a complete listing of all of the females born on  that day in that county.  Look at the list, you mothers post adoption name should be on there and there most likely will be at least one other name on there where the child's and the mother's name are the same.  If the father was listed the child will be listed under the fathers last name, which will make the search more difficult.  

The next step is to continue to use ancestry and the web to search for all of the possible names on the list to see if the person still exists today.  It just process of elimination to determine the birth mothers maiden name.

From there you can search for the birth mothers birth record, which often times is in the same or a surrounding county.  Once you have a possible for the birth mothers record, search for the birth mothers other siblings.  You are hoping to find a male sibling who will be easier to trace since they do not change their name.

It's quite a process but has worked over and over for me in the searches that I help with

Answer 4

I'm adopted and I found my birth-mom.  But the way I did it was so simple so it might not work for everybody.  I simply typed my birth-date and place into the yahoo search engine.  I found a tiny little advertisement of a woman searching for the daughter she put up for adoption, with both of our permission we were able to get our records unsealed and it turns out she was my birth-mom.  If you can't afford to hire a private detective, maybe you could write a letter to a talk show host, like Dr. Phil or Oprah, you just never know, it might work.  Best of luck, I hope she finds them.

Answer 5

It depends how much she knows

Here in Quebec city, Canada, there is a show especially destinated to help people find each other and it works!

It's called mouvement retrouvailles

http://www.mouvement-retrouvailles.qc.ca...

Good luck

Answer 6

It's hard search.  Here are two useful web sites:

The International Soundex Reunion Registry

http://www.isrr.net

and b*****d Nation, an adoptee-rights group

http://www.b******s.org