Seeking brother, born Nov 4 1963, San Francisco

Best of luck to you in finding your brother. Just wondering if your brother knows he has sibling(s)? I often find myself wondering if I have any siblings out there. The mutual consent thing won't do any good if siblings don't know about eachother. So frustrating.

In this case, I doubt he'd be aware of younger siblings (3 of us). He is about 10 yrs older than my sister and I, and 20 yrs from his youngest sister. Additionally, this is one of three siblings I am presently seeking. I have another older half-brother, whom I've posted under New York's forum. Again, as he was born before me, and in a different state, he may not be aware of my existence. The last sibling, a half-sister, wasn't adopted, and she may not be aware that we share a common biological father. As no adoption agency was ever involved in her life, I don't think she'd ever go looking for siblings. (All told, it's a very strange nuclear family I have. I count six parents, biological, adoptive and step; and nine siblings, half and step.) Actually, the mutual consent do NOT work, period. As mentioned in my first post in this thread, no matching mutual consent has been received from Children's Home Society; Of myself and the six siblings eligible to register for mutual consent, I am the only one to have done so. One sibling, my younger half-sister, who was estranged through my adoption, was put in touch through a search angel. She'd never filed a mutual consent, indeed, as she was the youngest child of my birth mother, she didn't even know she had older siblings, until we were put in touch. My New York half-brother was probably never informed of having any younger siblings, and wouldn't know to register in CA. Worse, I attempted to register with NYS DOH, and received a reply stating I would need my original birth certificate, order of adoption, and amended birth certificate in order to register. Why have a mutual consent registry at all, when an original birth certificate is needed to register? Does that not defeat the purpose of "protecting privacy"? Given my experiences with mutual consent, nothing short of full open adoption records will ever suffice. But I digress. Part of posting is the wonderful way in which the internet catalogs, and indexes everything. Most people have at one time or another searched their own identifying information. Sooner or later, it is indeed my hope that one of my siblings may enter their birth date into a search engine. While it may not be the first search result, if one casts a net far and wide enough, you're bound to come across what you're after. Unless of course, the line of death has been crossed (which happens to be the case with my biological parents), but even then, people can be found.

You are right mutual consent does nothing if never told you can do it or as in my case never knew I had siblings either. I will keep trying though found 3 sisters and a deceased brother, we have a situation where mother is using her step father's name as her maiden name which if you don't know this the kids are gonna think she was Irish when she was actually Indian/gypsy. I apparently have many more siblings to find more girls and 1 boy from what I can determine maybe born in Cal like most of us or possibly out of state. Very frustrating without names and dates. Keep trying though cause I found aunts and uncles still alive and it's been great.