About adoption in Delaware County: I would address a letter to the President Judge Joseph F. BATTLE, to get a court-order to open these adoption records. I would send the letter registered or certified before you make a trip for the adoption records. If you are the birth parent or the child that has been adopted, you may want to fill out a form in the Register of Wills Office, giving them permission to give out information on you to who ever is interested in that info. I understand there is another way to find out info, other than going through the adoption records at the court house, but I have not found out how this side track method works yet! You may also want to check out: <A HREF="http://members.tripod.com/rombergers/searchlist.html">PA Adoption</A> http://members.tripod.com/rombergers/searchlist.html If you are a birthparent looking for a child you put up for adoption & you do not know his/her/their name(s)--you use their birthdate to find them. I understand you can have a driver's license search done on that birthdate & whether male or female--this will narrow your search down. It will give you a list of those born on that date in that State I have never used the following but I came across it while surfing on the web. <A HREF="http://locateme.com/step1.htm">$50.00 Person Locator</A> http://locateme.com/step1.htm If you think the child/parent may have graduated from a certain high school, contact others who may have graduated with them & ask them if they know a boy or girl in their graduating class who talked about being adopted or had a certain birthday. Some yearbooks give out the students birthdays. And do the same to find a birthparent, ask did any girls have to leave school because they were pregnant? <A HREF="http://www.highschoolalumni.com/">High School Alumni- </A> http://www.highschoolalumni.com/ <A HREF="http://www.classmates.com/index.tf?">High School ClassMates.Com - Welcome to ClassMates</A> http://www.classmates.com/index.tf? <A HREF="http://www.gradfinder.com/">High School Gradfinder - Keeping people in touch around theĀ </A> http://www.gradfinder.com/ If you make a phone call to the person you are looking for: mother for daughter or daughter for mother you will be able to tell right away if it is your mother or if it is your daughter by her voice!! Think of what I'm saying here, when you call someone's house, don't you have to listen closely to see if it is the mother or daughter, (father or son) ??? :) This works for fathers & sons, too. Now you do have to consider smoking, old age & other factors that will change the voice to some degree! Happy hunting, Helen (DCGS)