Hello, I'm wondering if anybody has any suggestions. My great grandfather was born in 1893 in the village of Huck. He has always told my grandmother that he was adopted as a baby. His name is Jacob Jacoby and I have several documents showing his fathers name as Conrad Jacoby. >From what I have read about Huck and other villages I'm guessing it was probably not an adoption as I know it in present time. Was it common for the children to be taken in by family as opposed to an orphanage? If he was taken in as a baby does that mean his real last name is probably not Jacoby nor is his real father Conrad? I have hit a brickwall and I'm starting to wonder if this may be the reason. I would assume an adopted child would not be on a Pleve chart for the adoptive family... what about the biological family? Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks, Marcie (Jacoby, Ault)