Don - Teresa is correct. If a regular adoption is completed properly, a new birth certificate is issued. Of course it is possible for the attorney handling the adoption to "drop the ball." A person must get a court order signed by an appropriate judge in order to have access to these adoption proceedings as they are sealed records. The privacy of the children and both sets of parents is highly protected. - Jan Original Message ----- From: Don Holland <holland@ix.netcom.com> To: <TXWILLIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 5:58 PM Subject: RE: [TXWILLIA] FW: Birth Records taken down from Web > How would the birth record show an adoption? I am curious. > > I have been wondering about these records and adoptions. I have had two > families where I have heard for years that the children were adopted but the > Texas Birth General Index shows the parents who I thought would be adopted > parents as the birth parents. Are these records by any chance manipulated > with when filed at birth/adoption to make it look like an adopted parent is > the birth parent? > Don > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Anna Price [mailto:annaprice@compaq.net] > Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2000 3:47 PM > To: TXWILLIA-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [TXWILLIA] FW: Birth Records taken down from Web > > > I thought everyone should be aware of this. > > Thanks, > Anna Houston Price > Austin, TX > 512-231-0640 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: James Hollas [mailto:jameshollas@austin.rr.com] > Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2000 3:32 PM > To: AnnaPrice@compaq.net > Subject: Birth Records taken down from Web > > > Dear AGS Members, > Secretary Ginger Goetze passed this along for our members: > > Texas Birth Indexes. This page is temporarily unavailable. > > The Government Code permits indexes to be open records documents if the > fact > of adoption cannot be revealed. The Bureau of Vital Statistics has > identified > a possible case where the indexes may have assisted in the > identification of > an adoption. As part of the review process, we must evaluate the > existing > birth indexes to ensure compliance with the State law. Therefore, the > indexes > are temporarily unavailable until this review has been completed. It > could be > several months before the final review process is completed. > Ginger > > PS -- The pages are still available on RootsWeb.com where all can be > searched at once. -- james > > PPS -- Please note that my e-mail address has been changed to > jameshollas@austin.rr.com > >