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Research in Other Countries => Canada => Topic started by: grammatj8 on Thursday 14 March 19 19:15 GMT (UK)
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If anyone can help me. I know you guys are great. If I wanted to get adoption papers for my Dad who is now passed and was adopted by my grandparents who have now passed. Is there a way. I thought it could be done if proof of death. Im asking for a friend. And the adoption was in Toronto, Ontario Thanks for any help.
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This might be worth a read............
https://www.mcss.gov.on.ca/en/mcss/programs/community/records/index.aspx
Sandra
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Sandra if I read it right, she wouldn't get any information that she is looking for. Ie: Mom and Dad biological. Am I correct.
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This is what it says under the heading - Getting information
Adopted adults and birth parents can apply for information from birth and adoption records, if the adoption was registered in Ontario.
This information is called post-adoption birth information. It may include identifying information, like the original name of an adopted adult or the name of a birth parent.
With post-adoption birth information, adopted adults may be able to find out what their original names were, as well as the names of their birth parents. Birth parents may learn the name their child was given after he or she was adopted.
Unless they choose the last option listed here
Protecting your privacy
Adopted adults and birth parents also have the option to protect the privacy of their post-adoption birth information. Adopted adults and birth parents can:
file a notice of contact preference to specify how they would like to be contacted
file a no contact notice if they do not want to be contacted, but are willing to have their identifying information released
file a disclosure veto if the adoption was finalized before September 1, 2008. This will prevent identifying post-adoption birth information from being released.
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Crisane, Correct me if Im wrong, but that is only for living adoptees. Im girl is looking for her deceased Dad's adoption papers. Thanks
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Hi,
I believe that civic adoption did not occur until after 1935 in Canada., although I am not positive about the date. I am unsure about how adoptions were recorded or if they were before then. I do know that there were quite a few adoptions in my family prior to that date, many of them among family members and were unrecorded.
JDC