How to find adoption records in NY
please read in entirety before replying My grandmother gave birth to my father in 1919 in Texas She married someone around 1924-1929 who adopted my father and gave him his last name. My grandmother kept my father after she gave birth to him- he was never given away. How to i find adoption record? This was NOT an agency adoption. The original birth certificate is from Texas when my grandmother married she lived in Brooklyn.
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@KarenMartin710 KarenMartin710
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Karen
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How to locate adoption record
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How do I find adoption records in New York. My grandmother gave birth to my father. She kept him. Then afew years later married. Her new husband adopted my father. How do I find this record ?
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Brett
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Do you have his Original birth record?
I would think even if he was adopted by the husband there would be some record under the adoption registry
https://www.health.ny.gov/vital_records/adoption.htm
If the adoption just went through a lawyer I still think they have to file it with the state
JMO
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Yes from Texas. It has his birth name mother and birth father nane.
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Born Texas. Adopted in New York. Looking fir New York amended birth certificate
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have you contacted NYS dept of health?
I would ask them where you need to apply for his BC ...
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Yes. Nothing
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Yes got the run around. I explained in detail. No help
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I know you will term me NUTS! That is O.K. I have searched in every corner of the world. I have written letters by the hundreds. I have Emailed and have answered Emails by the hundreds. I have had four or five DNA tests. I have spent hundreds of sleepless hours. I have talked until my voice quit. All to no avail! As of today, nobody has been willing or capable of answering one simple question. Do the Maternity Ward files of the old Providence Hospital in Detroit exist on some shelf, in some warehouse or in the salt mines under Detroit for the period July 15 to August 30, 1938, or have they been destroyed, which I don't believe. Tell me, where does Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. of the TV Documentary program 'Finding your Roots', get his files for his searches? Sometimes he can trace slaves back to the slave ship they came to America on. But little old me, 82, can't get one stupid file telling me who my mother was? This is why I am slowly believing that I am an ET and not a natural born American who just wants to know who my real mother was?
Peter M. Olsen (?)
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Hi. No not nuts. I looked for biological grandfather for almost 10 years ! Found him. Here is what I did. I took ancestry DNA test. It came back. I then went to ancestry and looked at who I was related to. Then used their “message” system to contact everyone that came back 1st, second and third relatives /cousins. Some answered some did not. Four answered. Two were one side of family abd 2 were other side - I never heard of any of these people. Two of the four led Ned to my biological grandfather and proof of his existence with birth certificate. Try it. Ancestry DNA
let me know how this works out. It was a long journey.
karen
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If you have the DNA test already that is good. Look at the initials of those that are matches. Use the ancestry “message “ system. I can help you once you get your DNA results if you have difficulty.
Karen
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So I am confused
You have his birth records with his birth name & he obviously knows his adopted name so not sure what you are looking for ?
I would try the adoption registry in NYS & see what happens
They may have the amended BC
JMO
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@Karen Martin I have the same situation, only our family kept the adoption document, the court document, so I didn't have to rely on your only possible solutions for now:
If NY doesn't have it and your known family doesn't have it, you have no choice but to turn over rocks looking for it.
Some things to consider:
- Don't close your mind to the possibility that the adoption was never made official or that it occurred somewhere other than New York. Family stories are not always accurate.
- Learn what was required for a legal adoption in both Texas and New York (at the very least) in the years you think the adoption might have occurred.
- Don't restrict your search to looking for him as a little one. I was 19 by the time we got my legal adoption completed because of some legal hurdles.
- Use the resources available to you to connect with cousins, known and presently unknown, FamilySearch contributors, Ancestry contributors, DNA-identified cousins, etc. It's amazing who knows the family histories and secrets. Shocking actually. By combining all the bits of the story, 4 of us cousins flung all around the world, UK, AUS, USA and Canada, recently resolved a 99 year old mystery of the dreaded "missing father". That happened because different ones reached out to one another from 1 or more of the resources I recommended.
It may take a long time, but just keep connecting with people.
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