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Have You Have Been Adopted: How Can You Find Your Original Birth Certificate?
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If you were adopted after birth, you probably want to know who your biological parents were. In
most cases, getting a copy of your original birth certificate will let you do this. Your original birth
certificate will almost certainly identify your biological mother, and it may also identify your
biological father. Your original birth certificate may contain additional details such as the addresses
of your parents and their occupations.
While researching my book “Sailing to The Moon”*, I worked out many strategies to make progress
in my research. One particular dead end concerned my immediate family. As a child, mum had
told me I had an older “sister” who had been “stillborn”. She also told me I would have been
American if she had accepted a marriage proposal from an American serviceman.
* Sailing to The Moon is not yet finished. I hope to finish it and publish it in 2025.
While writing Sailing to the Moon, I started looking for my “sister”. My research resulted in a
paper how to do it called “You Have Been Adopted: How Can You Find Your Original Birth
Certificate?”. If you click on this link, you can read and download a copy of my paper.
Unfortunately, because of limits imposed in most countries on the availability of birth records, I
cannot promise that you will always be able to locate your original birth record – but if you follow
the steps set out in my paper, many of you will finally be able to identify your biological mother
and (perhaps) your biological father.