Joyce, Florida does NOT have an index to births as it is a "closed state." The paper listed births but don't think they do it now. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Saturday, February 10, 2001 1:47 PM Subject: Re: [FLDUVAL] Seeking hospital of 1967 >In a message dated 2/8/01 5:50:04 AM Pacific Standard Time, >[email protected] writes: > ><< Subj: Re: [FLDUVAL] Seeking hospital of 1967 > Date: 2/8/01 5:50:04 AM Pacific Standard Time > From: [email protected] (Tony and Julie Howell) > Reply-to: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > hi joyce - the old jacksonville beaches hospital is now part of the baptist > hospital system. you would likely have to call the baptist hospital in > jacksonville and see what records they still have. private adoption or not, >the > adoption papers would be filed with the clerk of the circuit court and would >be > kept at the courthouse indexed by the adoptive parents' last name. the >adoption > papers may or may not give the child's "real" last name (some do and some >don't. > my brother's, for example, had his birth-last name but mine didn't.) do you >have > any information on which attorney or person handled the adoption, and can you > provide any additional specific information on the adopted child? the duval >list > is a very helpful one, but we would need a little more to go on. thanks, > julie thames howell > jax, fla > >> >Thanks for your reply. Kind of think we have the attorney's name > and I found his office (after some 33 years), still in Jacksonville. Not >sure he handled it but found his name among papers belonging to the adopted >parent's. So sent his current address and phone to the adoptee. I'm sure they >are getting in touch with him soon. They realize however, that the adopted >parents may have been corresponding (back in 1967) with more than one >attorney...no way to tell from the papers they found. The fact that he was >born in Jacksonville and the attorney lived there then and now, makes us >think he is the right one. > Several people offered very good ideas on the hospital (what/where it is >today). But no one seemed to know if Florida has an index to their births >(statewide index, and searchable)? Thanks again. JOyce >