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