When a child in Texas is adopted in a closed adoption, the original record isn't expunged. It's just taken out of the recordkeeping process, put in a super-secret vault and isn't part of the adopted person's birth records, which show the adoptive parents as the ones giving birth to the child. My daughter and son's birth records look just like I gave birth to them, even though they were each several months old when we adopted them 27 and 28 years ago. Under some circumstances, original records can be opened to the adopted person.