In a typical closed adoption, the adopted person knows very little about his biological family members. In many cases even basic family medical history is unknown. When these adoptees reach adulthood they often decide to search for their birth relatives to get answers about where they come from. Get Adoption Facts to Begin a Successful Search for Birth Parents

The first step for an adoptee wishing to find his birth family is to make a list of everything he knows about his birth and adoption. The adoptive parents are the best – and possibly only – source of this information. Of course they can only reveal what they were told themselves during the adoption process. Usually the adoptee will have to fill in the blanks during the search process.