Adoptions FAQs

Eligible family members can receive an unofficial copy of the birth certificate through the Adoption Matching Registry. Individuals eligible for the Adoption Matching Registry include adult adoptees, adoptive parents, birth parents, and birth siblings. Spouses and relatives of deceased adoptees or deceased birth parents may register with the appropriate proof of relationship

Vital Records must abide by the content of the contact preference form.

Available medical history is dependent on the year of birth. Medical history information is unavailable prior to 1986. Vital Records may not have the information on file, and therefore the request for this information was not provided.

Complete the forms for The Adoption Matching Registry. For more information, visit the adoption page.

Confidential Intermediaries (CIs) are trained and certified by the Director of the Social Services Administration to search, contact and assist in the reunification of birth relatives.

If birth parents have not provided a contact preference form, the birth parents may be contacted. Available medical history is dependent on the year of birth.

The birth father’s information may have been unknown, or the birth parents may have been unmarried.

Yes, this information is on the Adoption Matching Registry form, the adult adoptee can select this option.

Birth parents can choose to designate an expiration date on the contact preference form. If the form is set to expire, Vital Records would follow proper procedures that are on the contact preference form.