DNA testing web site Ancestry has begun legal action to access millions of family records held by National Records of Scotland (NRS). The Scottish government body has refused to enter into a financial ...

'It would be nice to at least have a name' says 81-year-old woman waiting to find out who her birth mother was Erin and Mike Merrigan, center, were college students at Saint Benedict and Saint John's ...

The workshop, which is free and open to the public, will feature a guest speaker from the Fulton County Veterans Service ...

Photo caption: Since a new law took effect in August, the Louisiana Vital Records Registry has processed nearly 1,000 requests for original birth certificates from adults who were adopted as children.

A man who discovered his biological father’s name through DNA testing has inspired a new process for adding a parent’s name to an Iowa birth certificate. A new state law will let adults apply for a ...

ALBANY — A proposal that would dramatically reshape how the state Department of Health maintains and releases records that include birth and death certificates has prompted an outcry from genealogists ...

The Louisiana House of Representatives voted Monday night to advance legislation that would allow adults adopted as children to obtain an uncertified copy of their original birth certificate at the ...

For more than 50 years birth certificates for adopted Arizonans have listed the adoptive parents, while the names of biological parents were off-limits to adoptees. That could change if a bill that is ...