How exactly does one set about to search adoption records? It's not like there is a webpage that says adoptionrecords.com. Or is it just that you can search adoption records if you live in an open adoption state?
I mean...I can't just hop off down to the courthouse and commence searching, can I?
Not that I would, but am just wondering.
I was born in Los Angeles, California...and adopted in Los Angeles...so it's not like there are just one or two people adopted from that wee little city. ha
I've looked on a couple of different sites and there are multiple, multiples of people registered for that exact date. Obviously you can weed out the boys and the ones with more specific information.
But goodness....the 'search' would seem to be so open-ended, especially in a city the size of Los Angeles that finding adoption records would be of the needle in a haystack variety.
And, like I said, I'm not on some quest to find out where they live or whatever...just more of a curiousity about the whole process people go through in order to find their biological parents.
Really shouldn't be so hard to find out what ought to be a given.
In my opinion.
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No you're right, it shouldn't be. Sadly it is.
If your adoption took place in California, I'd suggest joining the California Adoptees group at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CaliforniaAdoptees/
They can help you there with getting your non-id and petitioning the county.
It's always good to register at registries and everything, but the success rate is really low because not a lot of people know about them.
Good luck.
But there IS a website called www.AdoptionRecords.com. It even has self-generating forms that you can use to get your non-id and waiver. Here is a song from a birthmother to a child that is on the website too: http://www.AdoptionRecords.com/Child_I_Cannot_Claim.mp3
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