This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Abeln Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/iMB.2ACI/1009 Message Board Post: My mother was adopted. She died in 2002 and my sister and me wanted to find her family just to see what our ancestry was. The name on her adoption papers was Nellie Abeln born March 28th 1912. Her adoptive parents named her Daisy Marie Perry. The story handed down was that Mrs. Abeln ,who was pregnant with Nellie, husband was killed in a train wreck ( around 1911 or 1912) and as she had six other children she had to give her baby girl up for adoption. These are the only clued that we have. If this story rings a bell with anyone please let me know.