Questions tagged [adoption]
Questions related to adoption, birthparents, and obtaining information for the same.
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How can I locate orphanages in Bond, Madison, Cole counties in Illinois from 1930 to 1937?
Cleo McCain was put in orphanage by Henry McCain (father) sometime between 1930 and 1936. He was removed by foster parents Oscar & Fredia Suess by 1937. They lived in Bond County, Illinois in ...
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Do DNA results support theory of 1860s adoption of illegitimate nephew?
I suspect that George Kober, born 12 Feb 1858 at New Haven, CT, was the illegitimate son of Mary Agnes Kober, born 27 July 1839 at Liebelsburg, Calw, Germany. I also suspect that he was adopted by ...
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Conflicting information about my husband's maternal grandmother's ancestry/DNA
We have had a ton of research done on my husband's maternal grandmother, Emma Louise Radunz Frank. She was born in Menominee, Michigan on May 24, 1894. The research done all shows that she was ...
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Showing Adopted Name and Birth Name on Family Tree
My biological parents gave birth to 9 children. When my birth father died, the 4 youngest children (including me) were put up for adoption and our names were changed. (4 different adoptive families)
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DNA implications if my Gr Grandfather is also my Dad's father? (incest)
I am trying to find my family of origin.
My dad died several almost 15 years ago before DNA was a common thing. He was adopted and never knew anything about his birth parents and he never wanted to ...
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How can I find out about the Oklahoma Children’s Home (Finding) Society
Searching for records/lists/info from this organization after it moved from Guthrie Oklahoma to Oklahoma City. Anyone know if there is a book or anything about the history of this particular branch of ...
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What is the cut off for a half-sibling and first cousin in CM's?
I am adopted and was searching for my birth family and found a cousin and since then I had someone in the family helping me with the search. I found someone who I think is my half-sibling. She did a ...
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Hungarian sham adoptions?
With great help from shoover and JPmiaou in the other Q&A about the marriage between Marie Emma Kafka-Somfai and Dr. Karl Ritter von Taussig I found out that both husband and wife were adopted but ...
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Finding birthparents for 1957 Florida adoptee?
My mother was adopted but i have no information to find her birth parents, what should i do to find them?
She was born in 1957 in Florida that's all I know. I do not know any other details except the ...
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Would a private adoption in Minnesota's Swedish community in 1880 been handled by the Lutheran Church?
My mother's mother, first name Anna, was born in Minnesota (probably Frontenac) in 1879, and privately adopted by Solomon Long and Anna Lindberg, who lived in Princeton, Minnesota. Anna wasn't listed ...
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Are adoption records for the U.K. available for 1892?
In the 1980's I requested a birth record for my grandpa from the U.K. post office in London. The researcher couldn't find his name or anything like it for that year or for several years before or ...
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What is this German document from the mid-1950s?
I've been asked to look into the ancestry of a friend of a friend, who was adopted mid-1950s in Germany.
She has a document, but doesn't know whether it's a birth certificate or something related to ...
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Adoption records in 1871 based on census info
I have just stumbled over the fact that my Great x 3 Grandmother remarried a Charles Chant.
My Great x 2 Grandfather Henry is listed along with his sister Fanny as step children.
Does this mean ...
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Placing adoptee in family tree when What Are The Odds cannot help?
I am trying to figure out where an adoptee fits in my family tree. I know he are is related on his paternal side, since his maternal side has been identified and is not related to my family. I have ...
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Finding 1920s Adoption Information in New York State?
I am looking to find information on my deceased grandmother's adoption.
The story is that she was adopted from a New York orphanage in the 20's or so I am guessing since she was born in 1925.
She ...
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Possible Half Sibling
I was adopted as a small child and have never known my natural mother or father. I recently completed an AncestryDNA test and have been matched against a lady with a score of 1,912 cM across 73 ...
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Finding German birth father who emigrated to Canada?
I was adopted in 1961. I think that my birth father was born in Germany and was around 19-20 years old when he emigrated to Canada and met my birth mother. They didn't marry and she later returned ...
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Are birth records of US adoptees really sealed?
My family history used to be cut and dry...My Mom was adopted to a good home. Taken in by the dentist of her biological mother, an 18 yr old immigrant from Ireland who was impregnated by her employer——...
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Strategies for finding biological grandparents using DNA matches?
I need some advice to help track down my biological grandmother. My father was adopted in 1920 and died in 2000 without knowing the identity of his biological parents. I have his birth certificate but ...
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Is birthmother sharing only 1549 centimorgans possible?
I'm adopted. I found my birthmother over 20 years ago. After a DNA test it shows we share 1549 centimorgans over 51 DNA segments.
Is it possible that the DNA test had inaccurate results while ...
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Finding Birth Parents of Child from New England in 1850s?
Ella Louisa Fuller, born 16 February 1850, was adopted by Hiram Fuller and his wife Emilie Louise Delaplaine.
I'm not sure when the adoption occurred, but they had been living in Halifax, MA, and ...
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Adopted and making sense of my DNA matches: which are paternal vs maternal?
I am adopted. I know who my birth mother was and that she came from France. I was conceived in a Brothel in a small town that ironically, my adoptive parents lived only miles from, and that I raised ...
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Distinguishing half sibling from niece/nephew using AncestryDNA?
I did the ancestry DNA test and also uploaded my raw data to GEDmatch. I have located two close family matches and I'm wondering how to find out how close we are. Either half siblings or niece/nephew. ...
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John Rebbler/Latour of New Orleans brickwall and adoption
My great, great grandfather, John E. Latour was always listed as the son of James A. Latour and Emma C. Lacqueret in different family trees. I had no luck for years finding much about this couple, ...
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Finding Michigan adoption from 1896?
How do I go about finding adoption papers from Michigan in 1896?
Trying to find my great grandmother adoption papers I have tried writing to Michigan adoption office and they are unable to help me.
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Adoption in New York 1927
I have my mothers adoption papers from New York in 1927. The name given as the
person giving her up for adoption is suspect in my opinion. Was it possible
in that day to use another name to hide their ...
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Is there a way to search for 1935 inferred residence from the 1940 census?
I am searching for the birth father of someone conceived in 1935. They didn't marry and everyone was long gone by 1940. Is there a way to search the 1940 census to find who all said they were living ...
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Verifying adoption of ancestor born 1816 in Tennessee, USA?
I have a great grandmother who was born in 1816.
Her name was Elizabeth G Smith Armstrong, born in Tennessee, and maybe married to William Armstrong who died in Yolo County California.
In 1862 ...
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Distinguishing Half Siblings from First Cousins using DNA?
My husband is adopted and we were given non identifying information by the adoption agency. After doing a DNA test on ancestry we have found his mother, unfortunately she is not open to sharing any ...
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Who raised two orphaned children in 1765?
A mother died 11 January 1765, two weeks after the baptism of two children. Her gravestone refers to leaving two children and a friend. One source (local history group) says father died in the same ...
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Finding evidence for Daniel Connors' birth in Wales about 1880?
My grandfather, Daniel Francis Connors came to Pennsylvania from Wales in 1882. He was about 2 years old. I know this for a fact as evidenced by Ship Records and the US Census. His mother was Margaret ...
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Searching for possibly adopted great aunt?
I'm searching for my great aunt, Wanna Evans #L2B8-VDJ.
She is listed on the 1910 US Census as living with her uncle Orval Evans and his sister also lives in the household and shows having 1 birth ...
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Searching 1940s census database without names?
I'm adopted. I have non-identifying information about my birth mother and birth father, which I was able to use to find my birth mother's family through the 1940s census data (I also had her last name,...
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Tracing child adopted from Washington County, Tennessee Poor Farm in the 1930s?
I am looking for a 3rd cousin. I have been working on ancestry information, and came across a close family member Florence who was adopted out.
She was born in 1927 in Johnson City, Tennessee. In the ...
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Finding birth details of baby abandoned in New York, 1938?
I am trying to determine the background of my deceased wife. She was left in Central Park N. Y. on a bench in 1938. She is deceased as of 2001.
We had two daughters, and one daughter has tested most ...
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Finding details of an 1821 Berks County Pennsylvania Guardian appointment of two minors?
I am looking on Ancestry.com and trying to locate the detail of the following records to establish more information and parents and the orphans themselves.
It is known two Michael Saussers were in ...
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Finding birth parents in Utah 1865
One of my (very) great grandmothers is known as Mary Alzina Knapp Smith. She was adopted by Elias and Amy Jane Smith upon the death of her mother in childbirth. Elias wrote a letter (Or so I am ...
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Making Research Plans for studying the Genetic Genealogy of an Adoptee?
I have accounts on 23andme, gedmatch, ftdna, and ancestry.com's ancestrydna (all autosomal at this point).
I also, even though I'm adopted (from bulgaria, have the full name, most recent address (as ...
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Finding information about 1920s adoption in New York State?
I am trying to find out information on my great great uncle. I need some advice on how to go about finding the information. All I know about him other than his name at birth which I am unable to post (...
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Interpreting a name on a Genogram (family tree diagram)
I'm here because while recently sorting through some of my deceased grandfather's belongings I came across a partial genogram pertaining to my deceased mother whom was adopted.
She is noted as "...
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Can a person adopt their own parent or grandparent?
A recent question on Finding Loops in GEDCOM files got me to wonder if there are some loops that are valid.
Of course there is science fiction, where a person goes back in time and parents their own ...
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Seeking birth or adoption record for adopted ancestor in 1860s USA?
My great-great-grandmother Leona was born in the early 1860s. She was adopted as a young child (we think less than five years old) when her mother died; her father was apparently unfit in some fashion,...
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Pre-official adoption years
If a child born at England in 1914 was placed in foster care and stayed with their foster family, wouldn't that child somehow have to prove their identity when they started work? For example, they ...
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Facilitators for Adoption
I have just tried to help with a question elsewhere on adoption and it has fuelled me with a fresh question. Someone wanted to find a connection between a family who "adopted" an illegitimate child, ...
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How to deal with adoptions given the changes made to some records?
In Brazil, when some adoption is authorized by the Justice, it's possible to change the records of the child so the adoptive parents are reported as the parents, leaving no trace of the biological ...
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Researching ancestors of someone adopted from Hungary?
One of my close living relatives was adopted from Hungary at the age of two, in 1991. Unfortunately, the only real information we currently have is the full name of her birth mother and her city of ...
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Where are Illinois County Court records archived?
According to the Illinois State Genealogical Society newsletter, between 1867 and 1964, adoptions were handled by the County Courts, which were abolished in 1964.
Where does one look now for ...
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Recording same person as foster and adoption parent in Ancestry.com tree?
The Mildner couple in my tree became foster parents of a young girl in the early 1900s. In 1912, they were sued by the birth mother of the girl for custody, but the judge ruled that the girl could ...
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Finding original surname of adopted child from New York?
My late father-in-law was adopted by his step-father when he was 10. My late grandmother-in-law never talked about her first husband and there is some confusion on the first husband's surname.
My ...
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What software can reliably store and manage non-linear (eg non-blood or remarried) relatives?
In follow-up to this answer on How to handle indirect family?, what software tools can reliably manage "non-traditional" relations (remarriages, adoptions, step-relatives, etc)?
As a part B to this ...