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Massachusetts-State-Information
THE MASSACHUSETTS REGISTRY
updated 7-2-08
Here is a list of Massachusetts adoption agencies. MA ADOPTION AGENCIES
Be sure to call or write for your non-identifying info, and attach that BIRTHPARENT WAIVER if you are a birthmother and an
ADOPTEE WAIVER if you are an adoptee. For more info on waivers read on click on the blue links above.
If you cannot find your adoption agency on either of these lists, please contact Sheila Frankel at the phone number below. She will help you find the agency or it is possible that your record is held by the D.S.S. below.
Department of Social Services
24 Farnsworth St.
Boston, MA 02210
617-748-2240 (This is Sheila Frankel's direct line)
Please go to the agency where the adoption took place and request
non-identifying information. Also attach a waiver of
confidentiality. This waiver will allow the agency to release
identifying information about you, to persons coming to the
agency looking for you.
I now have
sample waiver letters online:
Click these on, print them out, write your own letter and send them to the agency ASAP.
For a list
of questions to ask when you go for non-identifying info QUESTIONS
click
here . Be sure to print out the questions and bring them to the
agency with you.
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Another thing you must consider doing is petitioning the probate court to unseal your records.
It is a relatively easy process. First determine the (probate) court of jurasdiction, call the courthouse to set up an appointment. (you can usually get in quickly) You will go before the judge. The best M.O. is to express a need for medical info and a desire to know your heritage. It is crucial that you present youself as a sane, well balanced person. If the judge unseals your record you will have your birthmothers name in your hands that day! Once you get it, contact me and I will help you from there. Just be sure to bring a notebook with you to the court, as they usually will not let you copy any records, just write down info. The court you need to petition is the county probate court from the county which your adoptive parents lived when you were adopted. Click here for a complete listing of courts, their phone numbers and adoption clerks to call: MASSACHUSETTS PROBATE COURTS
For more on SEARCHER'S MUST DO'S click here!
The following are search and support groups in Massachusetts:
Today
Reunites Yesterday
P.O. Box 989-214 State St.
Northhampton, MA 01961
The
Adoption Connection
O'Shea Building #6
11 Peabody Square
Peabody, MA 01960
Libby
Campbell
P.O.Box 381
Cambridge, MA 02238
The Family Center/PACT
385 Highland Avenue
Somerville, MA 02144
Safe Harbor, RR 1, E. Commercial St, Wellfleet, MA 02667
The Family Center/PACT, 385 Highland Avenue, Somerville, MA 02144
Safe Harbor, RR 1, E. Commercial St, Wellfleet, MA 02667
Cape Cod Adoption Connection, P.O. Box 336, Brewster, MA 02631
Adoption Resource Center, P.O. Box 383246, Cambridge, MA 02238-3246
You may want to write to the medical records department at the hospital where your were born for your birth records. Here are some site with Massachusetts Hospital phone numbers and addresses....
MASSACHUSETTS
HOSPITALS
Massachusetts
Hospitals & Health Org's
To obtain your birthrecords, you will probably need to know your
birthname or your birthmothers name as medical records are
usually filed by the mothers name. Also, the Hospital may tell
you the records are destroyed after 30 years. Do not believe
this, more often it is not true.
The records
should be on microfilm. BEG for them.
Contacting the medical records department by mail is probably
your best bet.
This is a
list of Vital Records addresses in MA:
Vital Record of MA
Massachusetts Archives Home page
Massachusetts
Registry of Motor Vehicles
BPL Home Page (Boston Public
Library)
This is a
listing of MA newspapers:
Ecola:
Newsstand: Massachusetts If you were not adopted immediately
after birth, and your birthparents were married and kept you for
some time, your birth announcement may have been published in the
local newspaper. Your birthparents names would have been
published, you can also search out obituaries in newspapers.
More Massachusetts Newspapers:
Welcome to the Jewish Advocate
Tango! Telegram Gazette Worcester
The Largest Newspaper Index On The Web! *
Obituary Sites
Obituary links (scroll on left to get MA)
Obituary Daily Times (go here to find death and date, then go here Obituary Registry to see if you can find an obituary on this person.
Search BPL Special Collections (Boston Public Library Obituaries)
The Boston Jewish Advocate Obituary Database
Records Room: Massachusetts Counties, United States
This is a place where you can find a lawyer. Perhaps you can find the one that handled your adoption:
Here is where you find a doctor in Massachusetts...
Mass DocFinder (physician locater)
Or find a
nurse..........
Registration
- Board of Nursing
You can also write or call the:
Attorney
Licensing Board:
Board Of Bar Overseers
75 Federal St.
Boston, MA 02110
617-357-1868
Physician
Licensing Board:
Board Of Reg. In Medicine
10 West St.
Boston, MA 02111
617-727-3086
Massachusetts Towns City Websites
Massachusetts Genealogical Research Services (order official documents online, birth, death cert's etc...)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plymouth County Registry of Deeds
Massachusetts Government Agencies
Massachusetts State and Goverment Link
Massachusetts Telephone Numbers for Public Information
Stetson Law -- Massachusetts Resources*
Cambridge, MA - Official Web Site
Cape Cod Canal Region Chamber of Commerce
Welcome to Greenfield, Massachusetts
The Marlboro - Marlborough Web
Pittsfield, Massachusetts - The Berkshires
Salem, Massachusetts - Welcome
Winchester, Massachusetts Home Page
I am still working on collecting Massachusetts Links. If you find
any links that have been helpful to you, please send them to me
and I will add them here.
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