This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Colton, VanLinder Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/BGB.2ACI/483 Message Board Post: Looking for information on the adoption of Fayette VanLinder in Alpena County Probate Court August 1922. His birth mother is Ida Colton VanLinder and birth father Clintron VanLinder. He was born September 10, 1916, made a ward of the Jackson County Probate Court in May 1920, and placed in the State Public School at Coldwater, MI, until his adoption. His younger sister, Florence Vanlinder Gibbs Conover, is my mother.