Sacred Heart Hospital-Norristown

The reason you can't get your records is that PA has ALL adoption related records, (OBC, Adoption Decree, Hospital Records) sealed with Holy Water. Records were available to adult adoptees from 1975 until January of 1985. In 1984 PA passed the law at the urging of the -you'll love this- Catholic League to close records to the adoptees and their adoptive family. They said having records open to adoptees was a loophole that violated the promise of confidentiality guaranteed to birthmothers. Um, if the records were open when the baby was relinquished then the promise was fraudulent to begin with. In any event.... Register with ISRR [url]www.isrr.org[/url] or com go to [url]www.adoptpakids.com[/url] or org. It has info on the PA Medical Registry and where adoptees can send a form to to see if there are any letters of birthparent consent on file. It takes about 3months for each to respond. The medical registry will send you your Court of Finalization even if they have no medical info to give you. You can petition this court for your non id and identifying info. Though they probably won't give you your identifying. Finally, get mad enough to send an email in support of open records to all the people at this link. [url]http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/home/member_information/senemail.cfm[/url] It's all the PA Senators Tell them it's your right to know your roots, tell them the systems in place don't work. Tell them you're a citizen who votes.