My original birth certificate was sealed by court order in 1947, due to adoption. How would I get a copy?

Question

this happened in Denver

Answer 1

You can come to the Adoptee Rights Demonstration and protest your sealed records at the Annual State Legislators Convention in New Orleans this July 22, 2008. The state legislators are the people who have the power to open our currently sealed records which are a violation of our civil rights.

You can't get a copy of your original birth certificate. Not even when you're in reunion with your first parents. You can try and petition the courts for one, but i rarely hear of sympathetic judges giving adoptees their sealed records. It happens, few and far between.

Only 6 states in the United States give adoptees unconditional access to their original birth certificates. Colordao isn't one of them.

Even if a match is made on the registry ( and colorado charges a pretty penny for the registry ) they still won't give you your OBC.

Even after my reunion with both my parents, the courts won't give me mine.

good luck! and come to the protest! http://www.AdopteeRights.net

Answer 2

You can't get a copy of your own birth certificate.  What can you do?  Join the fight to reinstate adoptee rights so that we have equal rights to our own information

Answer 3

Contact the office of vital statistics. I think all you can get without the birth mothers permission is non-identifying information. Soem states have registries for if either party DOES wqish contact, perhaps your birth mother is already on it?