Adoptees Requesting a Birth Record
If you are adopted and your adoption has been properly filed with the State Vital Records office, your original Michigan birth record should be sealed, based on an order from the court that approved the adoption. Therefore, the State Vital Records office can only issue a copy of the replacement birth record that indicates your adopted name and the name of your adoptive parents. When applying for a copy of your adoptive birth record, please list your name at birth (if you know it), your adopted name and your adoptive parents' names on the lines for the name of the mother and father.
This office does not have copies of the actual adoption decree. You will need to contact the court in the county where the adoption was finalized to obtain that information. If you do not know the county where the adoption was finalized, you can request a copy of your adoptive birth record (by mail) and specifically request that we identify the court that ordered the adoptive record be created.
If you are trying to obtain a copy of your original birth record, or to locate information about your biological parents or siblings, the court that finalized your adoption or the agency that handled your adoption may be able to assist you. The Michigan Department of Human Services also has a brochure entitled "Release of Information from Michigan's Adoption Records" that may be useful to you. If you would like a copy mailed to you, please call our Eligibility Unit at 517-335-8666 and ask a customer service representative to mail one to you.
"Out-of-State Agencies * Confidential Intermediary Program
* Out-of-State Agencies * Confidential Intermediary Program
* Closed Adoption Agencies and who holds their records
* Michigan Search and Support Groups *State and National Registries, * Adoption Booklist: Search & Reunion
*Closed Adoption Agencies and who holds their records
*Michigan Search and Support Groups
State and National Registries
*Adoption Booklist: Search & Reunion"
A mutual consent reunion registry for family members who have been separated from each other by adoption, divorce, foster care institutional care, abandonment, etc.
"A mutual consent reunion registry for family members who have been separated from each other by adoption, divorce, foster care institutional care, abandonment, etc."
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"The Central Adoption Registry is a file that is maintained by the Department of Human Services in Lansing, MI. This file contains former parent and adult former sibling statements giving consent or denial to have information about themselves released to an adult adopted person who is searching.
The former family statements are forwarded to the child placing agencies and courts upon request so that they then can make a determination whether identifying information can be released to the adult adopted person or an adult adoptee's direct descendant in those cases where the adopted person is deceased."
"Former parents may complete a "Parent's Consent or Denial to Release Information to Adult Adoptee" form, FIA-1919.
An adult sibling may file either the "Adult Former Sibling Statement to Release Information to Adult Adoptee" form FIA-1917 or the "Release of Information to Adult Adoptee by Brother/Sister as Proxy for Deceased Parent" form FIA-1918.
These forms are available by contacting the family division of circuit court, a child placing agency, local Department of Human Services, the Central Adoption Registry, or by downloading the form from your computer. "
Evan B. Don Aldson Adoption Institute - Adoption Registries and Intermediaries by State: Below is a state-by-state list of adoption registries and intermediaries for those who would like access to their adoption records.* Laws for each state determine the procedures by which adoption information may be accessed and the types of information which may be disclosed.
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