Peggy, I am the wrong person to ask. Am pretty good at finding people 100 - 150 years ago but actually have no clue as to finding people this century. Mostly because have not had to do it. As you know, adoption records are a tough nut to crack. Have you tried the Social Security website? If she died in NYC, have you tried to get a death certificate? Can some of the other list members give suggestions. Martha >From: Terry and Peggy <hawks2@home.com> >X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Win98; U) >Resent-Bcc: > >Martha > >I am hoping you can help or know someone who can. I have been trying >for years to find my father's sister. I think you already know that I >descend from Jesse Hardy and Sarah Eliza Worley. Well my father's >sister was adopted out when she was about 10 or 11 years of age. Their >father Jesse Daniel Thompson had died and their mother Nancy Price could >no longer take care of them. My father says that a Kennedy or Cannady >family adopted them from Duplin co. All I know about her is: >b Dec 19, 1916 in Lenoir co NC >d Sep 23, 1949 in New York. >She was married twice to McKnight and Pollock (I think). She had at >least two children. My father went to her funeral but we have never >been able to find the family. Is there anyway you can help? >Peggy > >