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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
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would have been in either </span></font><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Umatilla</span></font><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'> </span></font><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>County</span></font><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'> or </span></font><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Morrow</span></font><font
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>County</span></font><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'> as that is where she was living in 1917. Someone on the list
found her and her husband with only one child in an Oregon State Census that I
think was on ancestry.com. I am only assuming that she was put up for
adoption because my grandmother never told anyone about having this oldest
daughter or even that she had been married before my grandfather came along.
Her entire family clammed up about the little girl and some told a story that
she was murdered by her father and that he was hanged in </span></font><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Walla Walla</span></font><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> State prison. I
have proved that this is not true. So my final thought is that the big
secret was that she was given up for adoption and that is why I can find no
record of her death or of a burial or anything. She just seemed to drop
off the earth at the age of about 3.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Dale</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> or-roots-admin@sosinet.sos.state.or.us
[mailto:or-roots-admin@sosinet.sos.state.or.us] <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b></span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Kith-n-Kin</span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Friday, December 09, 2005
8:08 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> </span></font><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us</span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: [or-roots]
Redirection of Big Cat discussion</span></font></p>
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>If I can segue into a question that I am hoping someone on the list can
help me with? Does anyone know if there were any official adoptions of
children in the period of 1916 to about 1919? I am looking for a sister
of my mother who was most likely put up for adoption when her mother got
divorced. Dale<</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Where? There were
adoptions (legal) at that time, but (a) not everywhere, and (b) not always,
especially if the child went to a relative.<br>
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Take a look at this: <a href="http://www.uoregon.edu/~adoption/index.html">http://www.uoregon.edu/~adoption/index.html</a><br>
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I suggest that if this was an Oregon placement, the people at UofO should be
able to help you, in terms of where to look for these records.<br>
<br>
AND, by the way -- GO 'CATS! Beat the Huskys! Beat the Beavs! Beat the Cougs!
Beat the Ducks!<br>
<br>
[sorry, I got carried away]<br>
<br>
Pat (in Tucson)<br>
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