Genealogy Chat

Hi......Can anyone tell me how I can find details/adoption sociey/papers? I have a copy of my original birth certificate but that's all!! Attempts to find my birth mother have drawn a blank. Many thanks Ann

Hi Ann, What Jess said is correct first contact Social Services they can tell you who arranged the adoption. This may take months though :O( but you may be lucky and get some information in this, I had hardly any as mine was a private adoption, but my sister had quite a bit in hers including correspondance from our birth mother to an Aunt, so you never can tell. However, it is not necessary to have all this information, to start you search, was your mother single when she had you? If so start searching marriage records for the years after your birth to see if she married and see if you can find her new surname. If you find anything mail me and I will do a look on my elecotral roll for you. In the meantime check out the follwoing sites. www.myfolks(.)co.uk www.scotsconnected(.)com www.lookupuk(.)com www.missing-you.net And as Jess said if you dont know anything just ask there is a wealth of information on here, also you mentioned your birth father in a previous thread. You may be lucky and find some information in your records, dont know, but I think in order for your fathers name, to be entered on the birth cert, if it differed from your mothers he had to be there at the registrars office to agree to it, someone, will correct me if I wrong :O) Good Luck with your search Sheila p.s. it may be better if you just abbreviatte to adopt in the search box it throws up more threads :O)))

Hi Ann You are lucky, as I am, to have your birth name. Do you want to see your adoption papers, find your natural mother or both? This site is about 2 years old, so not sure if it is still there, will give you some idea how to trace adoption info. www(.) ffhs(.)org(.)uk/GeneraL/Help/Adopted/htm Best wishes Amanda (adopted)

From the Getting Started section of this website: the adopted person (or their next-of-kin if they are deceased) can apply for the original birth certificate to the Registrar General's office at the Office for National Statistics, General Register Office (Adoption Section), Smedley Hydro, Trafalgar Road, Southport, Merseyside, PR2 2HH, who will issue an application form. People adopted before 12 November 1975 you will need to attend a 'Birth Records Counselling Interview'. Smedley Hydro also maintain a National Adoption Contact Register for England and Wales, where adopted people and relations of people who were adopted can register their interest in being reunited nell