Former Butler County resident Mark Pelusi has spent years trying to obtain official documents to solve a century-old family ...

An Ohio law that has kept 32 years of adoption records sealed will sunset Friday, permitting some 400,000 adoptees to ask for their original birth certificates. The day continues a slow-moving trend ...

The Open Adoption Families forum at adoptivefamilies.com has a discussion about getting an original birth certificate before finalizing a domestic adoption seals the file. (After adoption is final, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Birth certificates and adoption records can no longer be used by public-aid applicants to prove they are legally in the U.S. following a spike in “seemingly ...

NEW YORK - A new law took effect this year allowing adopted adults access to their original pre-adoption birth certificates for the first time. Some, like Patricia Wilson, say after filing requests in ...