------- Mary Bakeman <mbakeman@parkbooks.com> wrote--------- >Subject: Re: [MNHennep] Adoption Record Laws 1920's > >There is a 100 year privacy period in MN by law -- though it is >possible in some cases to get information during that time. If there >is a need to know (health, for example) some judges are willing to >unseal the records. > >One of my research notes refers to adoption and the challenges of searching > <http://www.parkbooks.com/Htlm/res_adpt.html> > >Mary Mary -- the link to your research notes on adoption did not work. Is there another way I could reach this information? I was born in St. Paul in 1926 and adopted at age of 1 month. My birth parents and my adoptive parents are now all gone. I know the names, birth dates and death dates of my biological parents and have a death certificate for my birth father, who died in Minneapolis. As I knew my birth mother (and her later family), I have personal information on her death and assume I could get a death certificate from California where she died without much trouble. I also have my adoption papers which spell out the information about my birth parents. What I would like is a copy of my original birth certificate. Do you think that is possible? And, if so, where would I write for this information. Thank you very much for your help. -- Helen YOST JOHNSON helen@mindstorm-inc.com RESEARCHING: AMBS/ARNDT/BLATTNER/HAACK/KIEFER/RANARD/WEISHAAR/WOLF/WOLFE/YOST