1.   Because his adoption records were sealed, Green was unable to pursue the accepted means for contacting his birth parents.

2.   Brass obtained an emergency order to unseal adoption records from a district judge Wednesday.

3.   A CIs job is to investigate confidential adoption records, use them to reach the person being sought and discreetly explain that a biological family member wishes contact.

4.   Adams traveled back to Fort Worth to examine her adoption records.

5.   Adoption records now can be opened only by a court order.

6.   After some legal wrangling to open Harris County adoption records in Houston, Wilson found the two younger sisters a week before Christmas.

7.   After years of aggravation, Carlton eventually got access to his adoption records last winter.

8.   Fennel recently tried to get her adoption records unsealed, but for that, she discovered, she needs an attorney.

9.   I sit across a desk from a man with my adoption record in his hands.

10.   In March, after searching and with help from adoption records, Mrs. Williams, who lives in Minneapolis, found her mother.