GUEST BLOG: Ways for Adoptees to Search for Their Biological Parents
Special thanks to Marjorie for preparing this list for our readers.
Some of our readers are adoptees who have found their birth parents, others are not and are searching. I asked one of our guest bloggers, Marjorie, to prepare a list of how to go about searching for birth parents. If you have any other suggestions please post them in the comment section below this blog or send me an email at lisas@ouradopt.com. At Adoption Under One Roof we feel it is essential to offer help to all members of the adoption triad and to share any information we have. To those of you who are searching, good luck.
In getting started, you will first need to know your biological parents first and last names. While browsing the Internet for locating people just simply insert their names and if you know what city or state they reside in the information will come very handy. Making contact with your natural parents is likely to be time-consuming but it's not likely to be time wasted.
Then:
1. Join every search registry you can
2. Find out in what state or country you were born ..what hospital if you can as the birth records are there.
3. Find out the adoption agency from which you were adopted and see if they have any information for you or ways to search.
4. Adoptees Liberty Movement (ALMA) is very helpful.
5. Get a copy of your Adoption Decree if you can as it states the name of your biological mother on it in many instances
6. American Adoption Congress is also very helpful
7. Join the forum on the internet called Adult Adoptees Advocating for Change to talk to other adult adoptees
8. If you are willing to pay there are many ways to find your biological parents or relatives through private investigators, The Locator, Search Angels and various groups in all states.
9. Utilize Facebook, Myspace, Google Search
10. WACAP World Association for Children and Parents
12. Searching in China: Research-China.org
13.Unsealed Initiative for New York adoptees On the “more info” page of the UI Unsealed Initiative site is how to search in NYC
14. Register wth ISRR
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I was able to obtain a copy of my birth records from the hospital which had my bio mother's name and address on it..I called information and found her that way. Others aren't so lucky.....I have a friend whose mother had a little girl and used a fake name supposedly so she will never find her sister.
The adoption decrees for my five sons cover three states, CA, OR, and MA, none have any birthparent information. The adoptive parent information is there, along with the child's new name, and old first name, if it changed.
I did ask an attorney, he indicated that all birth information is intentionally kept off the decree, he was amazed that I expected to see it. This was with adoption from foster care, where I had been given the Original Birth Certificate before finalzation, obviously it wasn't for privacy or secrecy, except perhaps to prevent the birth parents from making contact, each case had a TPR based on child abuse.