Adopted people in Mississippi have trouble getting birth certificates

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Adopted people in Mississippi have trouble getting birth certificates

When Judi Cox was 18, she began searching for her biological mother. Two weeks later she discovered her mother had already died.  Cox, 41, was born in Gulfport. Her mother was 15 and her father didn’t know he had a child. He would discover his daughter’s existence only when, as an adult, she took an ancestry test and matched with his niece.  It was this opaque family history, its details coming to light through a convergence of tragedy and happe…