[pierprincess]

Most births are anounced in local papers. Call hospital and find out what local paper they use( at the time of your birth) for birth anouncements. Go to libary and look up(date after your birthday or the next sat paper). Older papers should have name of parents, your birth name, your time of birth and wight. this is not hard to do. I did this in one day. I was born in one town and adopted in another and live in another. It was just a little foot work. I found My B/dad, B/Mom, and baby sister in one day. I just took someone elses suggestion. It was to easy. and to think i looked on line for 7 years. Monique pierprincess@aol.com Good Luck. this is for those looking for birth parents.

[gilberte`]

Monique, I luv your idea but I don't know how to use it for my situation. I was born in Canada, raised in Kansas. I speak no French, I can't find anyone to tell me anything like hospital name or newspapers. I have name of Parish where baptized which is supposed to be where info is kept but they all speak only french. oh I know they all take english in school, however when they find out you are looking for adoption records they suddenly know no English. Thanks for sharing your heartening story. If you have any ideas for me please send them, I am new at this. thanks, Rene` heidi9148@hotmail.com

[silverqueenbee]

Glad it worked for you; I tried that lookup in my case and came up empty the several times I tried. I even live in the next town over from where I was born and you'd think they'd have complete newspaper archives. I learned from someone that works in a research room at a local library that if the birth was not welcome (in my case unplanned) the parents or grandparents may not put a paid ad in the paper. It is up to the discretion of the parents in many cases; it is not always an automatic when there are births in the local hopital, at least in our area of CA.

Best of luck on the rest of your journey...have you contacted your bfamily yet?
B

[jbb66]

I tried this also after reading this thread. No luck. I live in VA. born in Norfolk. Adopted through Portsmouth Soc Services. In my area there is one paper that covers several cities. It was voluntary. I found only married couples that were proud to announce.... no unwed or unplanned parents..... which confirms my hunch that my bmother was young and unwed.

Seems like this would be a great idea for someone that wasn't given for adoption right away.

BTW... ISO any bfamily Baby girl Born 6-10-66. Adopted at 3 days old through Ports Soc Services

Good luck to all

[skinni]

I know my birth would not be listed, in a newspaper, as I was unwanted. Listings are at the discretion of the birth mother and I believe her secrecy was so valuable that the last thing she would do is announce my arrival. U were fortunate to find Ur b/family in that way, but that is an exception, not a rule. I have been searching for 30 years. Some mysteries just aren't solved. I believe I am 1 of those cases.

[condetti123]

Hi. I know that most of you here are looking for help to find your birthparents and I just wanted to post a little information regarding Georgia requirements on newspaper legal ads. My daughter(whom I hope will search for me one day) was born in Georgia at an Atlanta hospital in 1988. When she was born, a newspaper legal ad had to be placed(by law) in the local newspaper of the town where the birthfather was located(if known). This was to notify the birthfather of the birth and states if he has any rejections to relinguishing his rights, that he is required to show up in court on a certain date. It states the childs birthdate and birthmothers name and I am not sure about the hospital name. I am also not sure if the legal ad has to be placed in the town of where the hospital is located and do not know if this is mandatory anymore but it can be helpful for some people that are searching. I hope that one day my daughter will come looking for me and I am already registered with the Georgia Reunion Registry to make it as easy as possible for her. I wish any of you searching for your birthfamily good luck!!!

[shirleyville]

Condetti....you are amazing! I just recalled the fact that when my God Daughter, who was born in 2000, was adopted, the attorney handling the adoption did, in fact, put out public ads in the papers, notifying the birthfather of his "rights" should he wish to dispute the adoption! I remember my friend and her husband being on pins and needles thinking that perhaps the father would surface and enter some dispute! I had totally forgotten about this!!!!
I wonder if they did that even in the "old days" (1964 )???
Do they do that only if the birthmother lists a birthfather on the forms? I was told...although I have no idea if it's true...that no father was listed for me.
Just curious....always looking for a lightbulb moment!
My birthmom supposedly never told a soul who my father was....even tho she lived with her sister, whom she is very close to, during the time of her pregnancy and my birth. My aunt maintains to this day that she has no idea who my father is....and my birthmother refuses contact with me, so there's no chance she will ever come off the name. I still look for "stab in the dark" ways I might someday uncover who he is without her help.
Oh...and as a brief aside, my birth was not among those reported by the hospital I was born in....I got the list from the local paper and I wasn't there -- BUT, my birth announcement was in the section of the paper where people pay to put in an announcement, and it read just as if I were born to my adoptive parents! I felt really lousy about that for awhile....I felt like it was such a SHAM, even tho I love my parents dearly -- I was NOT "born" to them!
Hugs,
Sally

[alexjgeller]

Dear Anyone,

I have always wanted to Know the reason?

But, I have been looking for any birth information about me since I gave birth to my own son 8/10/00. I was born 11/20/1971 in Buffalo, New York through a private attorney named Norm Effman(friend of my adoptive family) I have recently come across health complications after giving birth to my own son.
I truley, wish I could find out any information on my birth family. I wrote a letter to the adoption records agency and all they could tell me after a year was my mother was 19 and born in the USA. I was 9.1 lbs and there were no malformations at birth. All I can say is if I had a 9 lb baby I wouldnt forget. I would atleast make I had registered and she had all vital health information.

If someone knows how to help that woud be awesome.


Thank you,
Laura

[lonzygray]

Alex...I was born in Hudson, NY in 1970. I had a lot of complications during my pregnancy and my physicians tried to get my birth records unsealed. They were told that if I were laying on the table, getting ready to die of a complication, they would unseal them. In fact, I coded 3 times while giving birth and after the ordeal was over, during recovery, my physician asked me if I wanted to have them unsealed. I opted not to because I'm weird about things and didn't want to chance coding again....

When I later researched this, I found out that most of the records were saved on microfilm and archived. I was told that records were not kept up very well in the early '70's (at least in Hudson) and even if they were to find them, they may not even be any good. Unfortunately, when records were sealed back then, they meant it.

I don't know if things were different in Buffalo... Hudson was and still is a VERY poor city and that may have made the difference.

Wish I could help you more...............

[LadyDi]

To Rene,
I saw your message and I'm from Canada, live here and would be glad to help in return for anyone's assistance for informations from Ohio's newspapers or hospitals. I have a brother that was born in Ottawa & his adoption was finalized in Ohio state. I am new to this and I have some Identifying information on the familly but have no clue as to where to start my search for the information I need.

PS -> Not all french people are like that -> smile

pls help???
Merry Christmas & all the best as well, Diane

[Jackiejdajda]

georgiagal123

Those posts were posted in 2003..
I hope the person you match with is still around.. I would love to know how you are doing with the contact.

Jackie

[InionGrinn]

I recently got my non-id info from the NYS Dept of Health and it was just like what you got - mother's nationality, age, my weight at birth, VERY little info. BUT I got much more info from the actual AGENCY that handled the adoptin - in my case Family Services of Westchester.
Do you know your agency? If it was private I think the attorney has your file. I know at my office we have archived files of some private adoptions.

About the publication thing - my adoptive mom told me they DID do this in my case - I did research the law and in NY it was optional/discretionary to publish notice but some judges did it - MY judge did... I have checked some NY newspapers but my birthfather was in Ireland so my next step is to find out which paper the publication was done in... but YES it was done so good luck to you sleuths out there in finding the legal notice!!