Adoptees who want to identify and find their birth parents often turn to volunteer genealogical researchers for help. These "search angels" conduct painstaking, time-consuming searches that progress ...

New York has become the 10th state to allow adopted adults unrestricted access to their original birth certificates, a step that will help some investigate their family histories. A new law effective ...

Beginning January 1, 2026, individuals who were adopted and born in Johnston County will be able to obtain certified copies ...

'It would be nice to at least have a name' says 81-year-old woman waiting to find out who her birth mother was Erin and Mike Merrigan, center, were college students at Saint Benedict and Saint John's ...

Shawna Hodgson and her birth father Bo Garrison. Courtesy of Shawna Hodgson Shawna Hodgson, a mother of four who lives in Tomball, learned about her deep Texas roots the hard way: As an adoptee, she ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In 1963, when Carole Whitehead was an unwed 18-year-old mother in New York, she ...

When Bob MacNish was 22, his dying father told him that he’d been adopted. MacNish spent the next 50 years searching for his birth parents. Jayne Gastineau lost her adoptive mother, father and brother ...

When others question my surname, I quickly disclose my Korean-American adoptee status before they check my left ring finger. At one job interview, I was told: “You don’t look like a Heather Schultz. I ...

Shawna Hodgson speaks at a Texas Senate Committee on State Affairs meeting. Every year on her birthday, Shawna Hodgson and her brother drive out to East Texas, and they visit her grave. Hodgson was ...