'It would be nice to at least have a name' says 81-year-old woman waiting to find out who her birth mother was Erin and Mike Merrigan, center, were college students at Saint Benedict and Saint John's ...

After 85 years, adopted Minnesotans regain access to their birth records In 1939, birth records for adopted children in the state went dark with an “act relating to vital statistics.” After decades of ...

About 2,000 children are placed for adoption in Minnesota every year. When a new law takes effect next year, the Minnesota Department of Health says more than 85% of the birth records it has on file ...

MINNEAPOLIS — A busy 2023 legislative session has ushered in 77 new Minnesota laws this, but it will take nearly a year before one landmark law change impacts adoptees and their birth parents. On July ...

Penelope Needham advocated for the passage of the new law. A team of volunteers who joined her in this effort gave her a book illustrating its history. [MUSIC PLAYING] CATHY WURZER: Today, July the ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – When she was about 7 years old, Marni Hall’s parents sat her and her older brother down and revealed that they’d both been adopted. Then that was it. She didn’t press her parents for ...

MINNEAPOLIS — In the five months since Minnesota's new adoption law took effect, 2,800 Minnesotans have requested an original copy of their birth certificate, impacting countless others in the process ...