I have never worked with adoption before, at least not in this century, so I am confused. I am working on a friend's ancestry. His father was adopted in 1964. The friend has a copy of the court record, the baptism record, and the birth certificate. On all of these, the adopted parents are listed as parents. Even the birth certificate shows the birth in 1962, the file date as 1962, all with the adopted parents' names as birth parents. The court record shows that Catholic Charities Bureau as the official and proper guardian. The child is listed as unnamed, but a name is then given during the proceedings.

My first question is this...would the state go back and file a BC with the adopted info and backdate it? I am sure I will have more questions.