indiana adoption registry

Register with the Indiana State Department of Health Mutual Consent Registry to obtain your Certificate of Birth, Original Adoption Record, and Restricted Information Release Authorization.

You will file forms (47896 & 47897) even if you have filed previously under the old law. Please include a copy of your state-issued photo ID.

1. Please print and fill out both forms, below, 47896 and 47897, the non-identifying info form AND the identifying info form. 

2. Fill out both forms with any information you know.

3. Copy your driver's license or other state-issued photo ID.

Repeals, effective July 1, 2018, provisions applicable to adoptions finalized before January 1, 1994, that prohibit the release of identifying adoption information unless a contact form is on file.