Maryland

  

Maryland has a mutual consent registry for adult adoptees (age 21), birth parent(s) and biological siblings.

For registry information, contact: Mutual Consent Voluntary Adoption Registry, Social Services Administration, 311 W. Saratoga Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21201. Telephone: (301) 333-0237.

Md. Fam. Code Ann. Subtitle 4A.; State Gov't Article, Sec. 10-616, originally enacted in 1970 as Ch. 698, Laws of MD. 

UPDATE: Effective October 1, 1995: (HB846)  
* Adoption agencies (state and private) required to provide medical and non-identifying information to adoptees and birth parents upon request.  
* Adoptees and birthparents do not need to demonstrate a need for medical or non-identifying information.  
* non-identifying information defined as anything that does not reveal the location or identity of an individual.  
* 3 provisions for situations in which the placing agency no longer has the records or fails to provide the information.  
* Most adoptions prior to July 1, 1947 are open. Contact the MD State Archives 800-234-4045.  

Search and Support Groups

Adoptee-Birthparent Support Network (ABSN of the DC Metro Area)
P.O. Box 6485
Columbia MD 21045-6485
Telephone: (202) 686-4611
email: abowman@mail.loc.gov (Anne Bowman)
(serves DC, VA, & MD)

Adoption Connection Exchange
1301 Park Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21217

ENCORE
101 Church Lane (meeting address)
Baltimore, MD
Telephone: (410) 466-0222
or write:
R.D. #8, Box 419
York, PA 17403
e-mail: EllenB717@aol.com
fax: (717) 428-3137

Support group for Baltimore metro area

Adoptees-In-Search, Inc.
Joanne W. Small, Exec. Dir.
P.O. Box 41016
Bethesda, MD 20824

CUB
Box 15258
Chevy Chase, MD 20825

Lost or Found
7290 Shirley Dr.
Easton, MD 21601

Searchlight, Inc.
P.O. Box 441
Glen Dale, MD 20769

CUB
Marjorie Koch
P.O. Box 151
Mount Airy, MD 21777