glenn wrote: > Hi All , I have just discovered that two of my Essex girls were > adopted. When their mother remarried the children were adopted by > the new husband. This was 1964\5 . Is there any way I can get the > adoption certs. The girls are half sisters to my son in law. When a mother marries or remarries both she *and* her new husband have to adopt the children even though the mother is the children's natural mother. Adoption severs all ties to the birth family, therefore, if only the new husband were to adopt the children, their natural mother would not only have no legal responsibility to or for them, but would cease to be their mother. Yes, it's daft but it's the way the law on adoption works. If you could get copies of the adoption certificates, they would tell you nothing more than the normal birth certificates. They would show the adoptive parents but not the natural parents.