- 1). Talk with your adopted parents. Your adopted parents may have information you don't know, including your birth father's current location.
- 2). Contact the adoption agency that you were adopted from if your adopted parents make that information available to you. Adoption agencies sometimes have programs that help connect adopted children with their birth parents. Your birth father may have had the option of leaving his contact information with the agency. The agency passes it to you if you ever request it.
- 3). Contact the records department for the hospital in which you were born. Not all adopted children will have this information. Your medical records might include contact information for your birth father.
- 4). Review your state's adoption laws. These can be found through Howtoinvestigate.com. Some states, such as Alaska, turn over adoption records when you become an adult. However, other states only turn over records with a court order.
- 5). Hire an attorney to obtain the court order necessary to release your adoption records. But even attorneys are not always successful at getting your records handed over to you.
- 6). Acquire assistance from a search angel. Search angels are people trained to help track down birth parents and can be found through organizations such as The Volunteer Search Network and The Seeker.
- 7). Join an adoption support group. There, you can build relationships with people who have attempted to track down their birth fathers. Ask for input about what strategies did and didn't work.
- 8). Utilize online resources such as FreeLawLinks.com and GenealogyBank.com to determine if your birth father is still alive. If you've hit a dead end in your search, it's possible that your birth father has died. If this is the case, online resources such as Findagrave.com can help you find out where he is buried.
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