There's never been a record of Sadie Nelson's birth. Nelson, 67, was born on Aug. 8, 1957, in Sunflower County, Mississippi, to sharecropper parents. A midwife helped her mother deliver her, but died ...

HOUSTON – For most people, a birth certificate is a given—a fundamental document that grants access to a passport, social security benefits, and countless other necessities. However, for many ...

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 ...

Since 1841, those vital records have been registered with the state and for all of those years have remained public. Now ...