It’s a more difficult question than you might think, at least according to New Mexico State Registrar Renée Valencia. “In New Mexico, people think they know their name — and then they get their birth ...

The social worker said no. The judge said no. The local phone books were useless. For decades, no one and nothing could help Sue Warthen find the people who gave birth to her in the mid-1960s. Then ...

DNA testing web site Ancestry has begun legal action to access millions of family records held by National Records of Scotland (NRS). The Scottish government body has refused to enter into a financial ...

For decades, California law has required adult adoptees to petition the courts and show “good and compelling cause” to access ...