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In just under a year, you can apply for and receive your original birth certificate.
[url=http://www.odh.ohio.gov/en/vitalstatistics/legalinfo/adoptfnl.aspx]Adoptions - Finalized 64-96[/url]
In the meantime, you can register your search on the Reunion Registry on this site. It's a static registry and hopefully someone is looking for you. You can also search the registry, but I recommend not including the day because memories fade, it could be a sibling searching who doesn't know the exact date so just do month and year and state - don't even include sex. Sorry I can't tell you where to find the registry now because everything has changed on this site because of new owners. Just look at all the different headers? - I know it is still there, somewhere.
You can also send in your search to ISRR.net that database is not searchable but they will do a search for matches. That too is free.
You can also contact the agency you were adopted from to obtain non-id and if you do, request any letters put in your file as well. Do the same with the state. Even with the law changing, I'd get your non-id from both places.
Good luck,
Dickons
Senate Bill 23 modified the law governing records of adoptions that were finalized between January 1, 1964, and September 18, 1996. The bill was signed into law on December 19, 2013. This law will allow those whose adoptions were finalized between January 1, 1964 to September 19, 1996 to gain access to their adoption file and original Birth Record from the Ohio Department of Health. The law has a one-year waiting period before any records will be released. The first day adoptees and their lineal descendants may request the adoption file is March 20, 2015.
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