ST. PAUL – Adopted people born in Minnesota will have access to their original birth records starting July 1 under a new law.
State Registrar Molly Crawford says you can fill out a request form and send it to the Minnesota Department of Health Office of Vital Records. She says the agency will be able to issue a person under the law a non-certified copy of that original birth record. It will have birth parent names, the person’s name, date of birth, and place of birth.
There is a 40-dollar fee to receive birth records. Crawford says parents who placed a child up for adoption can fill out a preference form to indicate whether they want contact with the adopted person.
Crawford says they anticipate that there is somewhere in the ballpark of 172 thousand original birth records that would be eligible to be released under the new Minnesota law.
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