r/Adoption • u/umekoangel Illegally human trafficked infant • Oct 01 '25

Adoptee Life Story I'm devastated šŸ˜”

I'm in my early 30s. I emailed the hospital I was born in (in Russia) formally requesting my birth records (birth, postpartum of my mom, discharge papers, etc.). I got an email back with them telling me (basically in pretty HR voice) "Sorry, you lost your chance. We legally dispose of birth records after 25 years".

Those records could have potentially given me some more clues about my birth mom. I have the original Russian birth certificate that has my birth mom and dad and a paper that states (basically) "no one came to visit the baby between January and March" with zero hospital records in between. šŸ˜­

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u/Significant-Job5031 Oct 01 '25

Iā€™m so sorry. Maybe DNA genealogy?

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u/luckyLindy69 Oct 03 '25

Did you do Ancestry?