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Bobbi Beavers from OBC for ME tells us that the state’s Vital Stats office has been overwhelmed with requests for original birth certificates. As of January 9, 274 requests have been handled and a lot more are waiting. Dan Companion, who received his obc on January 2 and met his first family the following day has sent me a couple links I didn’t have before and am posting here: WCSH-TV, PortlandRestrictions lifted on original birth certificates featuring TV interviews with Dan who came up from Florida and other out-of-state-Day1ers. Here is Dan’s’ slideshow of Opening Day events, pictures of the Statehouse in Augusta, and his reunion. Congratulations Dan and all Maine adoptees!

If you are looking for information on the Dmitry Yakolev/Chase Harrison case and other Russian adoption news, please scroll down to previous blogs ***** Just a few more days and Maine joins the charmed circle of free states: Alaska, Alabama, Kansas, New Hampshire and Oregon that allows full and unrestricted access to all adoptees of their original birth certificates. Here is a press release from OBC for ME about the grand records opening and surrounding events. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts: Bobbi BeaversCo-founder, OBC for MESouth Berwick, [email protected] Cathy RobishawCo-founder, OBC for MEFalmouth, [email protected] New Law Affects Maine Adoptees Maine has restored a basic human right to all Maine-born adult adoptees – the right to know their identity at birth! Just as New Hampshire, Alabama and Oregon legislatures have done in the past 12 years, the 123rd Maine Legislature made the decision in June 2007, via LD 1084, to correct an injustice the Maine Legislature enacted in 1953 when they declared that the original birth and adoption records of adoptees were to be sealed upon adoption of any child after August 8th of that year and leaving adoptees access to their original identity only at the discretion of the courts and Continue Reading →