My mother was adopted and we need help;?

Question

We were wondering if there are any websites where can we can get a list of all the names that were born on the year and day she was born. If anyone could help that would be great =]

Answer 1

Post this question in the adoption section.

Answer 2

You'd have to narrow it down first. Start with her birthdate and check with the agency that handled her adoption.

Answer 3

I think Genealogy.com  and Ancestry.com  would be good sites.

Answer 4

A lot of it depends on what country the adoption took place in. If it was in the UK or Australia, there is no such thing as sealed records anymore. If the adoption was in the US, only very few states have restored access rights to adult adoptees and their adult children.

You can view the state by state laws here:

http://adopteerights.net/nulliusfilius/?...

I'd also suggest re-posting this question in the adoption category, as there are a number of experienced searchers there who could help you with a little more info. Just put the year the adoption took place, and what state it was in your question, and the folks there will direct you to some resources that can help.

Answer 5

Where are you from?.  In the UK Social Work or Social Services must keep adoption files for many years and your mother would have the right to request access to those files.

Answer 6

Been a while since I searched...however, some states have open records, others don't.  Try a search "adoption" and pick the ones you think will help.  Good luck! :}

Answer 7

The answer to your question is no. There was a time that it was possible in a handful of states, particularly Vermont where you used to be able to walk into a reading room with bound volumes of every birth certificate ever filed in the state. Then a sad reality hit. People started stealing the birth certificates and using them to assume other people's identities. Since then, records on living people have become more and more restrictive. The federal laws have gotten extremely restrictive on any record less than 72 years old, except for death records.

The only thing you can do (if you know the town where she was born) is to go through the newspaper films at the library in that town to see which births were published within a few weeks of her birth. The problem you'll have is that "back in the day", they happily created new birthdates for babies and kept them in nurseries until they were almost 6 months old before placing them with their adoptive parents. Pinpointing the real date of birth was obfuscated on purpose to keep you from being able to trace things later. Why is beyond me...but it is what it is.

Answer 8

SOME states have online birth indexes. It just depends on which state.. the year, and the ones I have used, are through ancestry.com (fee based).  If you mean one centralized list of all births, no.. that does not exist.  

The other issue is concerning what would show up. Since any index is computer based, it will show what is in that record. It will be as on the birth cert. that you now have.  In MOST adoptions, that means that the original has been amended, to show the adoptive parents, and by law, the "original" is sealed.

In general.. records regarding living persons are not normally online, for privacy reasons and id theft.  In fact, I am surprised to find those that ARE out there.

Nothing to keep you from trying, if you want to post the date and place.. however, you are NOT supposed to post personal info on living persons on yahoo.

The other option is working with living family members to get what details you can.. even when records ARE sealed, a good number of adoptions are "friend of a friend" and the bio parents are known within the family. I am also aware that Texas (for example) now has a govt sponsored site, which is a registry for parents/ children looking for each other.

Answer 9

Contact the Probate Court at the courthouse in the county seat of whichever county she was born in.  They should be able to help you.

Or if her adoptive parents are still alive she can ask them where they got her from.