adoption

Have you tried DNA testing?

If she died in the UK you can get a copy of her death certificate from the National Archives in Kew. Look on google for their address. The death certificate will give you cause of death. Good luck.

i know the cause of death.i want to find who her real patents were.dna wont tell me that i dont think.thanks for your help

Hi,
Have you tried the GRO. You can contact on line and fill in forms to order certificates. If you have some idea where she was born you can sometimes check hospital entries etc. Good luck with your hunt.

Good luck with your search,

https://www.gov.uk/adoption-records/the-adoption-contact-register

Now she is dead you can apply to have her adoption records unlocked they are sealed for 100 years and can only be opened at her request or now by you with proof of her death. They will use her death certificate and 'new' birth certficate issued on her adoption to trace her original one

I believe that before about 1920 most adoptions were unofficial so may not have any paperwork. If after that there may be paperwork. So she could have been adopted by a relative. EG Aunt unable to have children etc.

Dianne Shenton is correct that adoptions were unofficial, the Uk Law on Adoptions only became official in 1926.

I really would suggest you take a dna test, I tested with ancestry first and then transferred the data to both Geni and my heritage. I am not adopted but have found taking a dna test very helpful.

If you get a look at her death certificate start a search for the person who registered it. I found a brother and a sister that way.

I would also recommend dna testing. Ancestry. co. uk has the biggest data base. You capfuls get a match from a half sister or a cousin who would lead you directly to the birth parents

My husband and his sister, Anne, were adopted in 1940s and Anne was interested to know more about her birth parents so we made an appointment with the local Social Services department and they looked in to this for us. Might be worth a try.

Hi All,
I just want to tell you how awesome it is to find information on an adoptee's family. I only had kernels of information that had been given to me over the years & it wasn't until using the advancements in DNA research and associated sites that I found what I was looking for. If you get a match by all means make contact with that person, because what I found from my highest match was that the few kernels of knowledge were correct & I found a person as enthusiastic about learning more about our shared history. I has been the best & when she was able to share photos...I knew I had found the information I was looking for! And the best part I have connected with a kindred spirit!
Becky (Blueskies)

You can also try www.afteradoption.org.uk which is a registered charity based here in the U.K. Good luck in your search, hope you are successful.

Interesting and relevent announcement from our sister site MH:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dlcu42zyavo&utm_source=newslett...

thankyou all so much for her help

To correct a common mistake BMD certificates are issued by the GRO as Brian states and access is via :-
http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/default.asp
To add to the confusion I do not believe that any connection to one's immediate family can be made via the DNA route. Researchers have found widely varying analyses from SINGLE sample DNA. It is interesting for the science, but for me and many others utterly fruitless for genealogy.
Record research, national. parish, local government, a large helping of imagination and serendipity of accidental discovery of relatives is the only way. Unless that is you employ a professional who will have all those abilities plus experience to help a family history researcher.
I should add here I am not a professional researcher. I have discovered my own previously unknown family history.
One should not despair. The excitement lies in the pursuit of the goal.
BSB

Susan if you got a DNA test it would give you a list of close genetic relatives so with the adoption records you could figure out close relatives to her and to you with DNA and be able to contact them if you wish to.I was adopted out and was able to find my fathers and mothers relatives with DNA matches as well as using birth death marriage info and family tree information .

thankyou so much