This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3RB.2ACE/299.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Oops; sorry wrong century. I misread the subject line. The adoptions or foster care was in the 1850's. I don't even know if there was a legal proceedure then. In the old census records, there were a lot of children who appear in families who's names are not theirs. I just have prior knowledge that the Clark family raised Delos.