[or-roots] Adoption Records

[Leslie Chapman]

I don't know od a particular "adoptionn" data base. There are some sites that you can post info on in hopes of connecting with the other parties. If you want to pay the bucks to be a member I think you can get a birth cert here;

http://www.vitalsearch-ca.com/gen/ca/_vitals/cabirthm.htm

but before you risk that you want to search the data base and see if she is there, you have to get the guest pass, and then when you get to teh search page there will be a "search" botton somewhere near the bottom of a web page that will be playing an obnoxious add, the good news is boyd is a four letter word which means all you have to go through is the boyds, but there may be a lot of them. I'd do it for you, but I sliced open a finger today and my putering is limited.

You might see what Vital search has for Indiana, I think their offical VR  birth info is limited to the person, or a legal rep or some such. Oregon will let you have a copy in about 15 years.

Les


-----Original Message-----
From: or-roots-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us [mailto:or-roots-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us]On Behalf Of 58cjpeterson at comcast.net
Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2009 5:30 PM
To: Oregon Genealogy List
Subject: [or-roots] Adoption Records


Hello Listers:

I would like to know if there's a resource to see if old adoption records are online. Do you know? 

My ggrandparents raised their niece as if she was their own, even giving her their last name (Bachelder). She was born Frances Boyd on Feb. 25, 1923 to Earl Wayne Boyd (my ggrandmother's brother), possibly out of wedlock. 

I don't know if she was born in Oregon (where gg lived), California (Earl married Winifred Helliker in Calif about 1924), or Indiana (Earl's birthplace).

Thank you for your assistance.
Carol Holzgang Peterson
(Holzgang, Bachelder, Cantrall, Boyd, Wilson)