GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – Friday was “Opening Day” for adoptees born in Ohio: thousands of adoption records sealed for 51 years are now accessible. Ohio law was changed in 2013 naming March 20, 2015 as ...

Thousands of Ohio adoptees are hoping to learn more about their history, including family medical information, thanks to a new law granting them access to their adoption files and birth ...

Florida resident Shannon Nibarger, who gave a child up for adoption through Catholic social services in Wyoming in 1993, says her daughter would have to go before a judge there and get a court order ...

SALT LAKE CITY — A bill allowing adult adoptees to access their original birth certificate passed through the Utah Legislature Friday with a final vote in the House. HB129, sponsored by Rep. Raymond ...

Old adoption records housed at a state agency in St. Paul soon could become a more important resource for people researching their family histories. Minnesota is making plans to digitize about 5 ...

PITTSBURGH (NewsRadio 1020 KDKA) -- Since 1985, Pennsylvania has closed adoption records to adoptees, but a a new bill introduced by State Representative Kerry A. Benninghoff would allow adoptees to ...

I was adopted in the 1950s when adoptions were often shrouded in secrecy. Indeed, while my parents were open with me about my adoption, they told me not to tell anyone. But I was always curious about ...

Calonna Carlisle and her 12-year-old dog Pluto sit in the bedroom in the Lakeville home she shares with her adopted mother on July 26, 2019. Carlisle has spent years trying to get local and state ...

Oregon mother says she would have never found her son if not for adoption records law change Karen Gjerning talks about reuniting with her son four decades after she gave him up for adoption thanks to ...

BOULDER — On an unseasonably warm day in January 2012, Shayne Madsen bought a bouquet of flowers and drove with a friend to an apartment in a northeast Denver retirement community. They parked, and ...