This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JOY.2ACEB/472.546.1 Message Board Post: My dads mother adopted him around 1916 Gertrude grace Grimes is his Mother and Francis M.Grimes his dad who adopted him(JosephBarozinsky) and moved him to Illinois,Chicago,then Harvey,Il. Story is the Grimes worked or owned a grocery store in St.LOuis and took a fancy to My dad when he visited at early age.His real mom died when he was 2 and dad died when he was 4.He is 92 this year