COLUMBUS (AP) -- Thousands of Ohio adoptees are about to take advantage of a law giving them access to their adoption files and birth certificates. Beginning Friday, individuals who were adopted ...

The Arkansas Department of Health announced Friday that birth parents of adopted children may now fill out a form on the ADH website if they wish to redact their name from an adoption file or update ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KTHV) - People who are adopted often face a host of questions that can only be answered by their birth parents. Adoptees in Arkansas could soon find the answers they seek, including ...

A new North Carolina law allows residents to get certified copies of adoptive birth certificates from their local register of ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (News release) – Starting Aug. 1, individuals who have been adopted (adoptees), and who are at least 21 years of age, may request their adoption file from the Arkansas Department of ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – A new Indiana law is giving adoptees from the “closed records era” access to their birth records and many Hoosiers are calling it a huge relief. Senate Bill 91 passed on ...

RICHMOND, Va. -- A newly published audit focusing on Richmond's Department of Social Services (RDSS) is shedding light on the agency's adoption program. According to the report by the office of city ...

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 ...