How does an adoptee research to find birth parents and medical history?

I now have grandchildren and my own children have had health problems as well as myself.


I was born in Long Beach, California.


I have listed with a couple of organizations but have never gotten a response.

How does an adoptee research to find birth parents and medical history?
http://www.findmybiologicalparents.com
Reply:The church of Latter Day Saints has tons of info - a lot of it online - their service is called Family Search.





LDS have genealogy centres around the U.S.A and each centre has volunteers who help you look up the relevant information.





You can find them at: www.familysearch.org





Hope this helps
Reply:I don't know. If I did perhaps I'd be answering questions at that message board. Genealogy is about researching dead ancestors.
Reply:Have you gone to the organization or lawyer or whoever arranged the adoption to find out if they will help you? Sometimes that is an avenue. You can frequently get non identifying info from them and if your state is one that helps searches, they will try to contact the bmom to see if she agrees to give you the identifying information. There are also a number of adoption/birth family sites on the web where you can find voluminous info on searching. AOL.com parenting message boards is one place. Or just put "adoption search" in google and check out what comes up. If nothing else is helpful to you personally, there are private search agencies that can help, although these cost money to use.





Another way to perhaps obtain medical info is to petition the court to open the medical info in your adoption file.