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Members of Adoption Triangle at the Registry demonstration yesterday.About 40 adoptees and adoptive and natural parents marched on the Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages in Sydney yesterday protesting against government plans to destroy public hospital in-patient records after 15 years.Medical records are often the only historic source for adoptees of information on their natural families. At present, they are entitled only to "non-identifying" information from these records.Protesters also applied for birth certificates at the Registry yesterday, but were told their applications were pointless because they needed the consent of the Department of Family and Community Services or a court order to obtain the birth certificate of an adopted person. September 20, 1988. (Photo by Bruce Milton Miller/Fairfax Media via Getty Images).