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Originally Posted by Alchemy
you seem to know a bit about this sort of stuff, if someone was adopted..... could they somehow find enough information through these things ????
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You would be very lucky, Clive, to find anything too much on adoption proceedings through any of the online sites. With adoptions, as you may know, most of the particulars are usually kept secret and in any case, the person adopting out the child may not want any contact information to be forthcoming. You most likely bet would be to approach the state archives or the relevant government agency for those adoptions beyond a certain time period, say before 1960 or so. With later adoptions, you will have a hard time trying to get the information as the adopted child and the parent/parents who give their kids up are protected by law.
It can be a bit of a legal minefield.