hello - i was adopted via the children's home society through tampa. i was actually born in st. joseph's hospital (not a very attractive place when i saw it years later) and then dear old mom put me up for adoption. don't know if st. joseph's had any connection to the children't home society but they may have some records. when i tried to find out about my birth mother from the local c.h.s. they finally gave me some "birth information" - physical background, etc. of my "birth parents" (which i think was about as far from correct as they could have gotten) and said that they couldn't find my mother. some months later i heard back from them and they had then supposedly found a "half brother" (who had also been adopted after spending 6 or 7 years in an orphanage) who i later met. i don't personally think there was any connection there, either. the legal records for adoptions after about 1945-46 no longer carried the "real" last name of the baby. (my brother - we were not related before birth - was also adopted but his real last name is on his adoption papers at the courthouse.) bottom line for all of this, for me, was that i simply didn't care that much about finding about about the woman who put me up for adoption. the mother and father, imperfect as they (and we) were, they did all of the caring, loving, providing, nursing, etc. etc. etc. and as far as i'm concerned ARE my "real" mother and father. julie thames howell, jax, fla surnames: THAMES and DUDLEY (NOT some long-lost "birth" name) BARLYNN22@aol.com wrote: > Sorry I didn't reply to this page, so I'll add this now. > > Greetings from Tampa, > I believe the Magdelene Precinct refers to the Lake Magdelene Area, which > is in north Tampa. I am sure you must know that Dade County is in the Miami > area. I am not sure, but perhaps you shoud start with the Children's Home to > see about getting your records. Their listing is as follows: > CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA > 10909 MEMORIAL HWY > TAMPA, FL 33615 > Phone numbers are: (813) 885-4435, 885-5017, 885-5106, 885, 5220 > And in Clearwater(Pinellas Co.) (727) 298-2600 OR 1-800-940-2147 > Hope this helps, I don't know if obtaining your birth record would do any > good, because they change them when you are adopted. Good luck to > you........Barb > > His reply as follows------ > > Thanks for your reply. I have found out also there was a home for unwed > mothers in this area. Also I am having some success getting info from some of > the Dade Co records. > Harry E Martin > > ============================== > Search ALL of RootsWeb's mailing lists in real time. > RootsWeb's Personalized Mailing Lists: > http://pml.rootsweb.com/