[JLigosky]

I gave a newborn girl up for adoption 18 years ago last month. I picked her parents, and we kept contact for a while (us, not the baby). It was an open adoption, but the state agency came for a visit I remember that. I since married, and moved and have lost contact with them. My name has changed. Since the baby is now 18, I thought she might want to be finding me, and I wanted to make myself available to her should she want to do that. I have their phone number,but not their address, and I don't want to upset their household (possibly) by dialing up their number and/or leaving a cryptic message to her parents.

Is there a state agency or some way I can deposit my current address and phone number so that if she is lookign for me, she can find me?

This is my first post on this board ever, and I appreciate any help you could give me.

[shirleyville]

Welcome to the Forum! :-)
Here is some info that I copied from a website about California adoption.....
I hope it helps!
Best of luck and please keep us posted!
Hugs,
Sally


Access to California Adoption Records or Information Non-identifying information, as well as letters, photographs or other items of personal property in the possession of the agency are to be released to the person for whom they were intended after the adoptee turns eighteen, provided that there is a written consent to the release of the person items.
In the case of adoptions occurring before 1984, contact between an adoptee and birth parent may be arranged if the adoptee, birth parents and adoptive parents have filed waivers of confidentiality with the Department or agency. The Department or agency is prohibited from soliciting such waiver.
In the case of adoptions occurring after 1984, adoptees may receive identifying information about their birth parents (including the most current known address) at the age of 21 if the Department of Social Services or a licensed adoption agency has received an affidavit from the birth parent authorizing such disclosure.
Identifying information is available to adoptive parents any time the Department or agency determines that "medical necessity or other extraordinary circumstances justify the disclosure."
In the case of adoptions occurring after January 1, 1984, birth parents may receive information regarding the status of their child any time after the adoption, except identifying information respecting the adoptive family.
Identifying information regarding the adoptee may be disclosed if the adoptee is over 21 and has filed a consent to such disclosure.
Biological siblings may be "matched" with an adoptee who is over 21 if waivers of confidentiality are filed. The birth parent must consent to release of identifying information if the sibling lived with the birth parent until he or she reached 18. For further registry information, contact:
Department of Social Services, Adoptions Branch
744 P Street, M.S. 19/68
Sacramento, California 97814
Telephone: (916) 322-5973.
Cal. Civ. Code 224o; 227b, 224v, 230.6 - 230.8.




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Driver's license Transcripts
Dept of Motor Vehicles
P.O. Box 11231
Sacramento CA 95813
FEE: $2.00 need name and license number or name and DOB State Medical Association
969 Gough Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
Office of Vital Records and Statistics
304 S Street
P.O. Box 730241
Sacramento CA 94244-0241
(916) 445-2684
FAX (800) 858-5553 The Office of Vital Records and Statistics is a fount of information for all people seraching in California. If an adoptee has just started searching, send your adoptive name, adoptive parents' names and your date of birth to VRS requesting all information available. Typically, you should receive a letter back from them giving you the name, address and phone number of the agency that handled your adoption.



Click here for Contact Info on: California County Recorders Offices
If you are looking for marriage or death information, VRS can help with the following
Deaths-$9.00 Deaths from July 1 1905
Marriages-$13.00 Marriage from July 1 1905
Births-$13.00 Births from July 1 1905
Divorces-$13.00 Divorce from Jan, 1962
An additional fee is charged for each 10 years searched.
One certified copy or certification of "no record" is included in fee. Processing time is 8-10 weeks.
Use a credit card and add $5.00 but cut the processing time in half.
Call VRS for the appropriate forms that must be filled out.




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Haven't told your a-parents yet and need some help? Check out:
Letter to my Adoptive Parents
This is what I wish I had written when I started my search, but did not write until the search was complete. Fortunately, I was able to tell my mom early on, and this is the method I used on the telephone, since we live 2,000 miles apart.


California Adoption Agencies
Request Non- identifying information Department of Social Services
Adoption System Unit
744 P Street, M.S. 19-31
Sacramento, CA 95814
916-322- 3778
County of Los Angeles Department
of Children and Family Services
Adoptions Division
695 S. Vermont Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90005
213-739-6262
Gen. Info: 213-738-4798 San Diego County Department
of Social Services - Adoptions
5454 Ruffin Road
San Diego, CA 92123-9788
619-495-5426


County of Los Angeles
Births, Deaths, Marriages and Divorces

Los Angelese Maternity Homes Crittenton Center for Young Women and Infants
234 East Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90031 St. Anne's Maternity Home - Long Beach
1027 Linden Avenue
Long Beach, CA 90813 St. Anne's Maternity Home - Los Angeles
155 N. Occidental Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90026
St. Anne's Maternity Home - Pomona
P. O. Box 303
Pomona, CA 91769 Salvation Army - Los Angeles
Booth Memorial Hospital
2670 Griffin Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90031 This last one's a guess:

Big Sisters Los Angeles/Wilshire Blvd.
6022 Wilshire Blvd., #202
Los Angeles, CA 90036




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Some California Searchers Julia Allen is the wonderful searcher who found my birth mother and my half-sister.
Reconnections: Patty Lawrence

Please note that being listed on my site is NOT an endorsement for these searchers. However, they are well known in the search community. Caveat Emptor! Buyer Beware! Get an estimate up front. Find out what the searcher will provide for that sum of money. Ask for references. Many of these searchers also search in other states.

[BrandyHagz]

Hi

You could contact the agency that you used for the adoption. You can place a “consent to contact” form in the “file” and they can give her identifying info if/when she asked for it.

Another option would be go to http://www.whitepages.com and do a reverse look up of the phone number. If it’s listed, it will give you a name and address. Then you can write a letter directly to the adoptive parents, since you have already had contact at some point.

Good luck!

[JLigosky]

This is wonderful information, and I so appreciate your helping me out.

I just want to do whatever I can to help her out *if* she decides looking me up is something she wants to do.

Thanks again,

Jamie

[lbgh001]

If you know the city she went to school in, look at Classmates.com. A lot of kids register there and you might be lucky and find her on her schools page. Lorraine

[JLigosky]

Thank you all for your great advice about reconnecting with the adoptive parents after all these years. I have their address (again) and am able to now write the letter so that if my biological daughter decides she wants to make contact, she will know how to reach me.

Best to all. Off to write the letter.

Jamie