How would you find out if you were adopted.

merlin68

My birth certificate says the same year as my sisters not the year i was born.
Also me and dd have a heriditary illness but know one else in the family does.
I've sent of for the original would that show anything.

Kalama

When you say it says the same year, do you mean that your date of birth is different from what you thought, or that your birth was registered or the certificate was issued the same year as your sister?

It is possible for a birth to be registered many years late (though not as common in the last 20 years or so). My gran was born in 1938 but her birth wasn't registered until the late 90s. It is also posible that your birth certificate was either issued a while after you were born, or that your parents had to get a new one.

My birth certificate was issued in 2002 (I was born in the early 80s) as I managed to destroy my first one!

merlin68

The certificate says 1970 but i was born in 1968.

dizsiebubba

Have you asked your parents why it says that? Surely after all this time they would admit if you were adopted?

clairec79

My husband has one registered years after he was born - his step father adopted him - so his mum was always his mum - could it be possible there is something similar

hazyjo

If you were adopted, you would need to see a counsellor to get your original birth certificate. Anyone born before 1970-something or other ('73 or '74 I think) would have to.

I was adopted in 1970. Can get a replacement certificate, but could not just get my original one.

Jx

InsideInsurance

When I was adopted (late 70s) as a baby I was not given a new birth certificate but an adoption certificate instead.

By applying to the court that was noted in the certificate I was able to get more information including my birth name and going to the General Registery I was able to simply get a copy of my original birth certificate - it was never raised with me that I about speaking to anyone such as a councilor or social worker

jane130

if you look for your original birth cert in the register it will have a reference number next to it refering to the adoption if you are adopted

hazyjo

InsideInsurance wrote: »

When I was adopted (late 70s) as a baby I was not given a new birth certificate but an adoption certificate instead.

By applying to the court that was noted in the certificate I was able to get more information including my birth name and going to the General Registery I was able to simply get a copy of my original birth certificate - it was never raised with me that I about speaking to anyone such as a councilor or social worker

!!!!!!, just deleted a post when computer didn't load.

Basically, I said that the law changed in early '70s so that any adopted child could trace. Before that, children were given up on the understanding it was impossible for them to ever trace.

Therefore, those adopted before 1970-whatever have to see a counsellor to prepare for possible rejection as their parent/s had given them up on the understanding they'd never be traced.

You were born in late '70s, so wouldn't have to have seen a counsellor as you were given up for adoption on the understanding that you might trace one day.

Jx

InsideInsurance

I was a private adoption, one of the last allegedly, so my adoptive parent's met my birth mother before I was even born but she is totally unrelated to the rest of the family. Unfortunately the courts appear to have lost the papers on my case.

I know the laws changed at certain points but I dont know to what extent as I've only ever had an interest in my case rather than trying to help others or just a general interest

merlin68

I did ask but she said she couldn't remember and dad isn't alive anymore.
I also have no pictures of me before about six months old. Yet there is plenty of mum and dad together.
I think my first pic was of my christenning.

Also why did they send me to a catholic school when there not even religious.