Birth Information & Tracing Act
You can now apply for your birth and early life information.
If you were adopted, boarded out, subject to an illegal birth registration (or suspect you were) or spent time in a Mother and Baby or County Home Institution as a child, the Birth Information & Tracing Act provides you with a clear and guaranteed access to information and records about your birth and early life, where this information is available.
These services are provided by the Adoption Authority of Ireland and Tusla. To proceed with one or more of these options, please click on the relevant button below.
Where are my records held?
Many societies, institutions, or agencies that held records in the past on people who were adopted, boarded or nursed out, had their birth illegally registered, or who resided in a mother and baby home as a child, have since closed.
At the time of closing, available records were transferred either to the Adoption Authority of Ireland or Tusla for safekeeping.
Please review the list of societies, institutions, and agencies here. If you already know who holds your information you an follow one or both of the links below to apply.