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Your right to access birth and adoption information

Find out about your rights to access information about your origins and how to access adoption records by reading these questions and answers:

You can also learn about the process by watching these videos:

Listen to an expert: Search and reunion basics

Here you can watch Julia Feast answering some common questions about the process of searching for birth relatives.

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