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/AFB.2ACE/1739.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Don. Yes, Probate Court is only in Cambridge ! Their address is: Probate and Family Court Dept. Middlesex County Division 208 Cambridge Street P.O. Box 410480 East Cambridge, MA 02141 Perhaps if many people wrote a letter to them and all ask the same question, they might take note of our collective problem ! When I went there, I had to bring a whole collection of birth certificates and death certificates, plus a story of why I wanted the File opened, and who I was in relation to the person adopted, etc. They wanted to be "assured" that the Adopted person had passed on, and that I had a "direct" descendancy to him or her !