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Birth Mother Search – Obtaining Necessary Identifying Information-Part 2
Please note: A special FREE OFFER is included at the end of this post. In our prior post, Birth Mother Search – Obtaining Necessary Identifying Information, we mentioned that one way to obtain identifying information on your birth mother and your adoption is to request Non-Identifying Information. Non-identifying information is simply the background information surrounding your adoption. When it is prepared, the preparer typically (but often not too successfully 
) attempts to remove all the identifying information. Your non-identifying information might disclose…
- Age information on your birth mother
- Education background of your birth mother
- Her religious affiliations
- Her physical description
- Medical history of your birth mother
- Your family nationality
- Professions of the birth mother and her birth parents
- If the birth mother and father were single or married
- Hobbies
- Why you were put up for adoption
- Ages of the birth grand parents
- First names of grand parents
- Additional historical information
Ideally, it is best to request your non-identifying information from the agency that handled your adoption. If you don’t know the adoption agency, it’s possible to obtain your non identifying information from state and county entities. Our OmniTrace blog is brand new. In time, we will be providing posts and pages that detail exactly how you should request non-identifying information on your own. For now, we are providing you a VERY SPECIAL FREE OFFER – Provide us details about your adoption in a comment to this post and we will post back instructions on how you can obtain your non-id. We’ll likely need, at the very least, the following information:
- Name of Adoption Agency
- Date of Birth
- State of Birth
- County and/or City of Birth
The more details you care to post, the better we can assist you. We are looking forward to hearing from you, and we’ll try to write back with instructions in a timely manner. You can also email us at: info@omnitrace.com.
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for ca. births go to http://www.gsadoptionregistry.com they have a very good success rate for finding ca. birth index. the search angels do this free of chg and are very good at what they do. especially in ca., and oh.
Thanks for your post Terri.
Our readers also have the option of contacting OmniTrace, a licensed Private Investigation Agency, legally allowed to conduct searches of this kind. You can email OmniTrace at: support@thesearchadvisor.com or info@omnitrace.com.
We charge a very fair flat rate fee for our services. However, we will spare no expense (money out of our pockets) to find ALL your birth family members anywhere in the United States–not just California and Ohio.
i was talking abt g’s adoption search angels, are very successful in those states. i contacted omnitrace a while back for a quote, and never heard back, but will try again.
sincerely~ Terri
Hi. I am new to all this and a little lost as to how this all works. I have been wanting to locate info and maybe even the possibility that I may reunite with my BMother or BFamily. I was born on 8/20/76 in Cleveland, OH. I was born in a hospital on the west-side of town from what I can remember from my BC. I have since lost it and haven’t gotten around to getting a copy. I also don’t know if it will have all the same info on it from the original. I was adopted thru the Lutheran Children’s Aid Society(which is still up and running), I think I was also in some sort of foster home for a little while after I was born. I have an “all about me” book with a baby picture attached to it.(not sure where it is now, I have moved so many times.) I am interested in how I go about locating any and all info. Can anyone help. Thanks.
was born in hammond indiana on 9.26.1977
Name : Cathy (Frank adopted maiden name)
County Adoption San Mateo, California
County of San Mateo
Birthplace: San Mateo
5/15/54
I live in Sacramento and need to find non identifying to start my process. Can I obtain this info here in Sac and is it free of charge. Thank you
Hi Cathy.
To obtain your non-id, send a letter to:
California Department of Social Services Adoption
Support Unit 744
P. Street, MS 3-31
Sacramento, CA 95814
Phone: (916) 651-8088
Here’s what you should write:
“Dear CDSS:
I find myself in urgent need of a copy of the non-identifying information on my birth parents. The following is information you will need. Please note that I am not requesting any identifying information or an amended birth certificate.
Present Name:
Current Address:
Date of Birth:
Adoptive Mother’s Maiden Name:
Adoptive Father’s Name (when it is available):
Any efforts you can provide will be appreciated more than you could ever know. Thank you very much.
Sincerely…,”
Please have your letter notarized before mailing to CDSS.
It may take a few weeks or more before you receive a response from CDSS. Then after following their directions, it may take you several more months before receiving your non-identifying information.
Fees for non-identifying information in California vary depending on the agency involved and the place of birth.
Please write back if you have any questions.
Best regards,
Dana Betz
http://www.omnitrace.com
ty so much. So it wouldn’t do any good to go in person? I am only minutes away from P Street. Ok thank you for the head start on this. Don’t know what I hope to find, but you never know do you? LOL
I just wish people could understand that adoptees although we all see not to mind are faced with a life of wondering why.
I want to get my non-identifying information as soon as possible. Please advise how I can do this. I was born Karen Haley on 7/30/1965, birth mom is Barbara Haley. Born at Doctors Hospital in Shreveport, LA, Caddo County. I was adopted privately (don’t know atty.) Addoptive parents: David & Priscilla Beck, Greenwood, MS 38930, name was changed to Carole Ann Beck. Thanking You In Advance. Carole Ann Beck Edwards