Some possibilities to try: Have you contacted the court for more information from the adoption records? Check out Cyndi's list - she has a section on adoptions that lists places where you can post the info and see if there is a match, someone looking for you. <A HREF="http://www.CyndisList.com">Cyndi's Genealogy Sites</A> On Cyndi's list, there is a section on mailing lists - have you posted to the New York list and maybe a list for Italian-American genealogy? AOL also has some bulletin boards - Keyword Roots. Post to New York, and anywhere else that would be pertinent. Check out this woman detective's site - she has some unusual ways of finding people and info... <A HREF="http://www.ratdogdick.com/">Rat Dog Dick Detective Agency</A> She writes articles for newspapers on finding people. (When you can't find the person through genealogy research, you look at it like a detective and it gives you some new ways to search!) One quick idea that works great for me: I use my word processor to write a message offline, so I can make sure that I have all the dates and info correct, and I have not forgotten anything, then when I find a place I want to post, I use the Edit feature in AOL and the word processor to "copy and paste" the message I have written into a blank email form. I save the message in my word processor as a file with the family name or what the email is for, so it is easy to find when I want it. A good title for it would be Search, so you would know where the file is when you are looking at sites where you want to download a message. Makes it so easy and quick to send to a site when you find it. I am working on seven families, so I have a lot of family files and it saves me hours of rewriting emails.....Good luck with your search, Pat Jorgensen