In a message dated 3/8/2006 9:29:55 PM Central Standard Time, khines1@qwest.net writes: Which seems hypocritical of MN, since you can't read some 100 year old birth records at the MN Historical Society because there was an adoption involved I have checked on people who I know were adopted and also know the birth name and not one of them appear in that index under either name. Now the state of CA is a whole other story. Annie in Minnesota