This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xU.2ADE/423 Message Board Post: Mr. Pritchett, I have read w/great interest your replies to those in need. What a dedicated and very thorough person you are! One of the searches of great interest to me was the one you did for Diane Winters who was looking for her birth father. I have a puzzling question. You suggested that she look at her birth certificate (for which she had sent) and maybe it would give her some info she needed. My 2 brothers, my sister and I were adopted. All that shows up on the birth certificates is the adoption parents names and addresses. My sister tried about 2-3 years ago to get an "original" birth certificate with our natural parents' names on it, but she was refused. We, now adult children, and our adoptive parents know all aboout our natural parents. In fact my oldest brother was raised by our natural mother's parents and my other brother and I were adopted by our natural mother's cousin. My question is: Can we get birth certificates with our natural birth parents names, ! etc? If so, how would we go about doing it? I can get permission from my mother, but my oldest brother and my sister have no way of getting such permission. Thank you and keep up the terrific job of helping others. Sue