[or-roots] Adoption Records

[ffarner at coinet.com]

Actually, it's not so 'rare' today.  I 'adopted' my 'daughter' twelve
years ago.  I was then 56, she was 22.  With her I 'adopted' her 4 year
old son.  I drove to Texas [from Oregon]and retrieved her, grandson and a
U-Haul full of possessions her marriage fell apart.  They lived with me
for several years as she put her life back together.  Six years ago I
walked her down the aisle and gave her away on behalf of both her
biological mother and myself.  She has given me two more wonderful
grandchildren.  She and my biological son call each other 'sis' and
'brother'.  She is my daughter and will show as such in my will.  She is
fully explained in my genealogical files so that no one will have to
'search for the proof', as many seem to do.  She is my daughter, and I am
her dad.  The courts do not have to be involved to have a bonding.

My two cents,  FF

> Many times in years gone by adoptions were not "formalized".  My
> great-grandfather was "adopted" and raised by the Little's who moved from
> Kansas to CA and then Coquille, Oregon.  All of his school records say
> Novia Little.  When he went to get married they told him he might want to
> go by his birth name, Novia Landreth (1876-1961).  Actually they had
> changed his first name but he kept the name he grew up with for a first
> name.  He was never formally adopted.  I have not yet been able to learn
> if his sister (Floy Little b. 1881 Oregon) was adopted or whatever became
> of Floy.  Anyone with clues or ideas is welcome to make suggestions.  I
> have a photo of the Thomas & Annie Little Family from the 1890's.  Thomas
> P. Little is the father who has been illusive to find after 1900.
>
> I have another friend who was "adopted" in the 1940's I believe - it was
> never formal either.  He was never told he was adopted and didn't find out
> until he was in his 50's.  I think that will be less common in that time
> period.
>
> Just tonight I was working on the family of Frederick W. Folsom and he has
> an "Adopted daughter" Nellie C. b Mar 1876 Oregon.  She is clearly listed
> in census as an orphan (1880), adopted dau (1900), adopted dau (1910) but
> I doubt I'll ever find any legal papers for the adoption.
>
> Denise
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: 58cjpeterson at comcast.net
>   To: Oregon Genealogy List
>   Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2009 5:30 PM
>   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)
>
>
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