Price, shown here with his wife, Gloria, did not learn he was adopted until he was 45 years old. That may be the case with Berry Price. In spite of that, he has been unable to convince the courts that he has a right to see his original birth certificate. It would give him the name of his birth mother, and give his search a needed boost. Price has registered with the state's registry for adoptees and birth parents, but it was started in 1984 and few older birth mothers know of it.
Registries are also notoriously ineffective.
The Internet's largest registry has less than a 2 percent success rate. Because of when he was adopted, Price has no information other than a brief description of his mother as a petite, attractive woman. Price doesn't even know his nationality.