There is a website called MichiganSearching which is throug Yahoo groups that can be of help to you. The email address is MichiganSearching@yahoogroups.com There are several people on that list who can be of help to you and answer your questions. Sign on to the site and ask for help. Jean Payton ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karen Krugman" <miprofgenie@wwnet.net> To: <MIOAKLAN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 12:08 PM Subject: RE: [MIOAKLAN] Adoption in Michigan > Adoption records are pretty much closed in Michigan unless you can go thru > the courts. Good luck! > Karen > > Check out some of our web pages: > * http://www.wwnet.net/~krugman1 (Main home page) > * http://www.miprofgenie.com > * http://www.nebulacomputers.com (Our son's page!) > * Are you a Boomershine descendant? Vol. 2 is now available! Email me for > details! > Karen Krugman, P.O. Box 577, Birmingham, MI 48012 > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Caroline Landrum [mailto:caroline_landrum@yahoo.com] > Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 4:34 PM > To: MIOAKLAN-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [MIOAKLAN] Adoption in Michigan > > > My uncle, born in Michigan in 1919, was adopted first by my grandfather's > sister; then, after her death, my grandfather and grandmother adopted him. > He has been dead now for several years. However, his wife, children, and > grandchildren are still living. Is there any way to acquire copies of his > adoption papers quietly? I do not think that his family is interested in > knowing his origins, but as a genealogist, I would like to have that > information for posterity, if possible. > > Caroline Landrum > > > > > So instead of loving what you think is peace, love other [people] and love > God above all. And instead of hating the people you think are warmakers, > hate the appetites and the disorder in your own soul, which are the causes > of war. If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed - > but hate these things in yourself, not in another. > - Thomas Merton, from "New Seeds of Contemplation" > > Reply address: > caroline_landrum@alum.emory.edu > > > > > ==== MIOAKLAN Mailing List ==== > You can contact the listowner at Judy@BirdGenealogy.org > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go > to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > ==== MIOAKLAN Mailing List ==== > You can contact the listowner at Judy@BirdGenealogy.org > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >