Request non-identifying information from the agency that handled the adoption. Contact the Department of Vital Statistics (http://www.vitalrec.com) for the state you were born in and they should be able to direct you to the agency.
Sign up with the state registry. Contact the Department of Vital Statistics for the state where the adoptee was born and where the adoption was finalized.
Speak with your adoptive parents. Many adoptive parents have additional information that they were waiting for the "right time" to share with their children. Not sure what to say? Read "A Letter to My Adoptive Parents"
Join a support group.
What Can You Find On This Site?
How to conduct an adoption search (adoptee searches)in most states
Adoption records and release information
Adoption facts and adoptee statistics
Articles, poems, and other references for birth parent and adoptee searchers
