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Finding Your Real Parents










If you want to locate your birth parents, the British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering has the following advice:

Obtaining your birth certificate
If you know your birth name, you can obtain a copy of your birth certificate, from your local public record office. All adoptees have the right to search for their real parents once they are 18 years old, 16 in Scotland. The birth certificate will give your mothers maiden name, your date of birth, mothers occupation and her address at the time of your birth.

If Your Were With Adoptive Parents
If you were placed with an adoptive family by an agency, it may be possible for them to provide information about your birth parents.

Social Services
If the agency who placed you with your adoptive family have closed down, you maybe able to find out more details from your local social services, who may have your adoptive records.



Contact Register
Put your details onto a Adoption Register, this is set up so that adopted people and birth relatives can let it be known that they want to be contacted by one another.

Public Record Office
The Public Record Office can help you locate documents, such as marriage and divorce papers. Find them in the local telephone directory, or contact them at www.familyrecords.gov.uk

Be Prepared
Also try and prepare yourself if you do locate your real parents, they may not want to be found, or they might be over the moon. Just make sure you realise that there could be disappointment.