Utah Adoption Registry

The Utah Adoption Registry is a voluntary, mutual consent registry that helps adult adoptees born in Utah and their birth parents and blood related siblings reunite with one another. This changes on November 1, 2025.

3/14/2025 - Utah House Bill 129 Adoption Records Access Amendments passed in the 2025 Utah Legislative Session and may be signed into law. This bill allows an adopted person, 18 years and older to access their adoption records unless sealed by the birth parents through a court order. This bill goes into effect November 1, 2025.

We are working to update our procedures to comply with this bill for the November 1, 2025 effective date. Please check back here, we will provide more information on how to access that information in the coming months.

H.B. 129 Adoption Records Access Amendments

What the Utah Adoption Registry Offers You

Original Records

The Utah Adoption Registry is the only adoption registry with access to original pre-adoption birth certificate records for Utah births. No other adoption registry has access to all of the Utah original pre-adoption birth certificate records.

Voluntary Participation

The Utah Adoption Registry is a mutual consent registry, meaning that each person in the registry voluntarily registered and is willing to be known to their birth family. Whether you are an adult adoptee born in Utah or a birth parent or birth sibling of someone born in Utah, you can join the registry with confidence that you will only be matched with a birth family member who is seeking to find you.

Accurate Matches

Each match between a birth parent and an adult adoptee in the Utah Adoption Registry is 100% accurate because matches are done using information found on original pre-adoption birth certificate records.

Join the Utah Adoption Registry

Joining the Utah Adoption Registry is easy!

Submit your Registration online OR mail in your paper application.

Follow all the steps to submit your ID verification and your payment and you will be registered!

Online Registration Portal

Paper Application

Birth parents can attach their Non-Identifying Health History to their online registration so their adopted child can download it at any time after a match is verified, whether or not they choose to share other contact information. Birth parents can update that form with current information at any time. Click here to download the form: Non-Identifying Health, Genetic and Social History form for birth parents.

Testimonials

"Without the registry, I would not have known my biological grandmother. The registry brings families together."

- Chantelle Phelps, granddaughter

"I was on the registry for less than a week when I got a phone call that there was a match."

- Meagan Smith, adult adoptee

"I am glad there is a way to get the information we need as birth parents and adoptees."

- Deneal Dooley, birth mother

"Our reunion has been an absolute gift and we have grown very close. I couldn’t have asked for a better turn out. If only we had known sooner, my mom could’ve met her biological son but she passed just a few months before our reunion."

- Sonia Morgan, adult adoptee's biological sister

"I registered and it was very fast. We had a match and were meeting each other in no time. It's been one of the best and happiest experiences of my life."

- Megan Wolf, birth mother