Important Information For Ohio Adoptees

~*Important Posting Information*~

Its wise to be aware that several types of scams are on ALL adoption message boards on the internet: Many people have been scammed by someone pretending to be the relinquished child or birthmother. Click on this link for more information: [url="http://forums.adoption.com/t98290,15,1.html"]http://forums.adoption.com/t98290,15,1.html[/url] These scammers change their user names and email addresses frequently so be aware of any suspicious contact. Scammers will also contact you pretending to be a FREE search angel when they are not. Or they will say "contact ....who did my search". Generally they are recommending themselves as a "fee for service" searcher. It is not wise to post your non-identifying information on a public message board. If you are contacted by someone who might be your birth relative you will want to ask questions that relate to the information in your non-identifying report. For ease in others reading these many messages it would help to post as a ғnew thread and to include the following information in the subject line PLUS in the content of the message: gender of adopted person date of birth city of birth state of birth For example: male 01/01/1960 Chicago Illinois Other people reading the message board will be more likely to identify with this basic information and will be more likely to read your complete message and contact you if there is a match. Also post in the message boards for the year of birth and state of birth for the best exposure for your search information. ~*Posting Email Addy's*~ Please be advised that the POSTING of YOUR email addy is NOT PERMITTED ON THE BOARDS. IF you need to exchange email addys with another individual, please do so through a Private Message. IF you post your email addy the post will be brought to the administrations attention,and the email addy WILL BE REMOVED. This is for YOUR OWN SAFETY. ~*Requesting Your Non-Id*~ IF YOU DO NOT have YOUR Non-Id...you need to request it before starting your search. IF you need the request form ask Mackie or myself and we will see that you get it.

*Adoptees whose adoptions were finalized PRIOR to 1/1/1964 CAN have access to their original birth certificates . Contact the Bureau of Vital Statistics. You can also print/fill out an Affidavit Of Adopted Person. Where to send it and how much to send is on the bottom of the form. If you need this form please contact myself or Mackie and we will gladly email it to you. You also will make your search easier IF you obtain your Non-ID Info. Also the following years are either missing or only partial listings on the Ohio Birth Index. As Mackie has stated previously these years are best searched manually in Columbus. We can NOT search that wich is NOT there.These years would be... 1969...Missing

1971...10% Listed

1972...Missing

1973...CAN be searched but most are Missing

1974...10% Listed

1975...10% Listed IF the ADOPTEE was born during these yrs we will need an EXACT DOB for them before we can search the Amended Birth Index for them. IF you or the person you are searching for were NOT born in OHIO...there will be NO listing for you/them on the OHIO birth index. You will need to do your searching in the state/country you/they were BORN in. Even IF you/they were born in another state/country and your/their adoption was handled by OHIO courts...you still will NOT be listed on the OHIO birth index. Supplemental or Original. ~*Please Stay In Touch*~ I wanted to post this simply because it is becoming a regular happening on here. IF you post and ask a search angel to assist you and you are being assisted by a search angel...PLEASE STAY IN CONTACT WITH THAT SEARCHER.

There are people on here who have posted and have been contacted by myself and I am sure the other search angels that HAVE completed their searches..BUT even with an email and PM sent..haven't heard back from the Origional Poster. Search Angels have alot of people to assist and we do NOT have time to sit on info. So IF YOU POST and a Search Angel assists YOU...PLEASE STAY IN CONTACT WITH US either via email or PM. ALSO....IF you are being assisted by a search angel...Please DO NOT post asking for help from another search angel. Not only is this frustrating to the search angel but can become confusing to the person searching. PLEASE DO NOT EXPECT the search angels to make first contact for you. ALL information given to YOU by the search angel is YOUR responsibility to verify. Thank you for your understanding....and good luck with your searches.:) ~*Angelwings*~