Below you'll find what I hope to be many helps for you. I can only wish you the best on your travels down the road of adoption research and hope that the locked doors of sealed records will open themselves to you. You truly have a winding road ahead. Information about the other party usually limited to ages, physical descriptions, talents and hobbies and basic medical data. Cost as well as the amount of information received will depend on the agency or court that releases it.
Some registries require as many as five signatures.
One party registers with a public or private agency and a third party contacts the person being sought for their consent to be contacted or have information released. A document filed by one party allowing for disclosure of records or identifying information to the other party. The intermediary then searches for the other party to obtain consent for identifying information to be released. Similar to an active registry. Today I looked into the eyes of my Granddaughter and told her how it would be.