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.

The Utah Adoption Registry allows Utah adoptees age 18 and older to access a non-certified copy of their original birth certificate. It also allows sharing of contact information of adoptees, birth parents, and blood related siblings as long as they each agree. 

H.B. 129 Adoption Records Access Amendments

What the Utah Adoption Registry Offers You

Original records

The Utah Adoption Registry offers 1. An adoptee aged 18 and older who was born in Utah, access to a non-certified copy of their original birth record. 2. Access to sibling or parent contact information upon mutual consent by the parties.

Participation

Contact information sharing is by mutual consent, meaning that each person in the registry voluntarily registered and is willing to share their contact information with 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 your contact information will only be shared if you consent. 

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

Portrait of Chantelle Phelps
"Without the registry, I would not have known my biological grandmother. The registry brings families together."
- Chantelle Phelps, granddaughter
Portrait of Meagan Smith
"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
An older woman and a younger woman smile and pose for a photo together indoors
"I am glad there is a way to get the information we need as birth parents and adoptees."
- Deneal Dooley, birth mother
A man has his arm around a smiling woman as they pose for a photo
"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
A mother and her young adult son smile for a photo together, with his arm around her shoulder
"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

Testimonials

Portrait of Chantelle Phelps
"Without the registry, I would not have known my biological grandmother. The registry brings families together."
- Chantelle Phelps, granddaughter
Portrait of Meagan Smith
"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
An older woman and a younger woman smile and pose for a photo together indoors
"I am glad there is a way to get the information we need as birth parents and adoptees."
- Deneal Dooley, birth mother
A man has his arm around a smiling woman as they pose for a photo
"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
A mother and her young adult son smile for a photo together, with his arm around her shoulder
"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
Frequently Asked Questions