This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Nicloux, DeKelver Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/7aB.2ACEAE/771.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Lorrine. If you want to try posting to some of the Mailing Lists at www.rootsweb.com there is at least one list for "unsolved mysteries" and I think there is one for people seeking their birth parents. If you go to the above web site and scroll down and click on the Mailing List INDEX .. you will find ..all.. the Lists. Make sure you check out the various Miscellaneous and Other categories. The instructions on how to join the Lists are found there also. And, don't forget to go to the Archives of the Lists; at the same place there is a way to either "search" or "browse" the Archives. By doing this on both the Mailing Lists and Message Boards, I have found postings from 3 years ago which provided me with information on my family tree. One provided me with a "distant cousin" on the family tree of my grandmother. She was born in Boston in Feb. 1889 and was "a foundling." She went into "foster care." Around 1891? an older couple strangely left Killingly, CT, and moved to Boston and adopted my grandmother in Mar. 1892. Unfortunately, Mrs. DEXTER died in Apr. 1899, and Mr. DEXTER was ill, so my grandmother went back into "foster care." She remained "in Homes" until after she became 18. The "cousin" I found was also a descendant of Mrs. DEXTER's mother, and she has been very helpful. Also .. a genealogy hint is that more people will read your queries if you type the important surnames in capital letters.