This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/BGB.2ACI/483.1 Message Board Post: We have found the living niece of my maternal grandmother Idah Florence Colton Van Linder Strungart, my mother's birth mother. Now my mother, Florence Clara Colton (now Florence Marian VanLinder Gibbs Conover) wishes to learn the whereabouts of her birth brother Fayette. He was adopted August 1922 in Alpena County at the age of 5-1/2. His birth is Sept. 10, 1916 in Kalamazoo, MIchigan. At adoption he was given a completely new name. He is the final piece of the puzzle for my mother who is 86 years old. If alive he would be 87 years old.