Adoption

Its funny that my friend Amy should bring up the subject of adoption because I've just been looking into my dad's adoption. He's always been alittle insecure about it and he never said he wanted to find out about his birth mother but just lately I ran across the papers that my grandmother left him and I 'm very all of a sudden interested in the information I found out. I only wish we had looked into it before we left California, it would have been sooo much easier. I went to the church history bldg downtown to try and enlist their help but we didn't really find anything out. I guess if I really wanted to find out anything I would have to pay someone who knows what they're doing to do it for me. But I'm really curious now. I know where he was born, I know which adoption agency adopted him out to my grandparents, I even know his birth mothers address at the time. I just can't put it all together to find any living relatives. They didn't keep very good records in those days, I'm appalled frankly but that is the way it was. I wish he had asked about it sooner, I would have liked to know his family history and maybe meet some relatives. It saddens me to think there might have been siblings or at least other family. On the other hand, I don't know what I might have found, the situation that he came from sounded kind of grim.????