i was adopted how do i find myadption records?

Answer 1

Hey JH,

Depending on where you were adopted, the records are open or closed. Search for "Adoption Law " and find the official laws for your location. This will help you to understand what if anything you need to do.

You can always register and if the birth parents register, you can find them. But it takes both.

If you have open records, just get your birth record, and go to that locations Vital Records keeping facility (you can find it on the internet generally), then apply for the adoption records.

If it is closed, you will need to make an appeal to the court for medical reasons (i.e. some sort of genetic disease and your likely hood to have it).

Read more about it at these sites, and register.

Answer 2

Have you seen your original birth certificate, did your adoptive parents have any records and if so can you get access to them. If you are in the UK there are indexes to Adoptions in the Record Office at Mydleton Street London. They are on open access, if you know your birth name and year of adoption you should be able to find your details.
Never ever take on this task by your self if you know the agency through which you were adopted they should be able to help you and also offer you counselling.
I helped someone find their records and they had to have counselling before they were allowed to view their very small file.
Be aware you may come across things which can be quite traumatic and also your "natural family" may not have told their present families about you.
I wish you lots of luck and good things in your search.

Answer 3

Depending on where you were adopted, you may not find them. For many generations, adoptions were kept very hush, hush. Great lengths were taken to hide all information from both the birth mother and adopted child so that they couldn't find each other. Here are examples of the difficulty in finding records:

If you were born in Canada and adopted through a Catholic agency by a couple from the US, your adoption records could be in either Canada or the US. But the odds are high that they are sealed and you can't even find the case number to have them opened.

If you were born in Europe and adopted by an American couple, your adoption records would be in Europe. You would have been adopted in a court there, then taken to an American consulate or embassy where your adoptive parents would have taken the Oath of Allegiance for you and you'd have been sworn in as an American citizen. But it didn't have to be the consulate or embassy for the country where you were born, nor for the country that handled your adoption...and those 2 countries don't have to be the same. You could have been born in Russia and adopted in Czechoslovakia, but the nearest embassy might have been Austria.

You could have been born in Arkansas and kept for a few months by your mother, then put up for adoption through a national agency like The Ark, and adopted by a couple in Oregon. But in the meantime, the agency may have taken you and your mother to their center in Illinois to be held until your birth mother signed over her rights. Illinois would have had jurisdiction over you and they'd have your adoption records, even though your birth certificate says Arkansas.

So the "how do I find" becomes a matter of detective work. You need to start by finding out if you were adopted privately or through an agency. If you were adopted through an agency, you need to find out which one and in which state your parents were working with them. Most states will allow you to have very general information...ethnic background, a sense of the family from which you came, brief medical history, etc. They will also allow both you and your birth parents to use the agency as an intermediary. You can leave letters for each other so that if one or the other goes searching, the letter is waiting in your file.

The older you are, the worse the privacy walls in place. It's much better if you are able to work with your adoptive parents to find out what they know. If you were adopted from the 1970s forward, your parents were probably given a fair amount of information about your birth parents. I worked with a young man who had to snoop to find them, but Catholic Family Services had given his adoptive parents an entire biography of his birth parents, who were married and had a child 18 months older than the young man who had been adopted. We had enough to know that the mother was a member of a local Indian nation and worked as a secretary for the tribe. It took us about 3 days to find her. She was still married to the birth father and never had another child. From there, the young man was sponsored into his tribe by his birth mother and they've developed a pretty healthy relationship. The key to the whole thing, though, was the biography from the agency that was given out in 1980.

Answer 4

Do you know where you were adopted? First start with the agency that handled it. If you get no where there, petition the court where the agency is to have the records opened to you.

Answer 5

ask from your parent......kindly Tell them You are entittled to know your being.....or you can ask a copy from your biological parent.

Adoptation papers are present on both sides, the adopting family and the source family.....you can ask them both. or with the aid of a lawyer.

Answer 6

first you apply for your original birth certificate then you apply to the court where your adoption was certified

Answer 7

try mortimer house,,