Series includes adoption or name change decree issued by the courts, giving name, sex, and date of birth of child, and names, ages, birthplaces, and residences of natural and adoptive parents; original birth certificate; and related documents. Original birth certificates may also pertain to children initially deemed illegitimate. Once a person's parentage is altered by adoption decree or legitimacy is legally established as to the natural father, a new birth certificate is authorized. Under these circumstances the original certificate is placed under seal and a new certificate is created with the updated identifying information and filed among the birth records as the official record (Md. HEALTH-GENERAL Code ann. § 4-211). Arranged by case number. Some files also available on film [MSA TM9]. Series not fully processed.