Hello My mother's name was Esther Maxine Atteberry. She went by "Maxine". In our search for our older sibling, my mother's first child, we have information that she/he was just handed over the baby to a family for which my mother worked for and lived with at a bar on Macadam Street. I guess my mom liked and trusted the family so much that she was willing to register in the hospital as the Lady who owned the bar and the couple who owned the bar were able to raise the baby as their own without any legal documentation, making it hard for us to EVER track down this sibling. We don't know if the sibling is a male of female, however, I have a strong feeling the child is/was a male. Unless this family who owned a bar have told this sibling about the adoption, he/she may never know of the truth. When mother found out she was having this baby the father left her. Once she gave up the baby he came back to her. She was young and in love. My mother actually had 3 children with the father of this sibling. The father was Lauren Klinker. She would just take this man back and it happened 3 times. However, the other two adoptions were legal. After the 3rd adoption my mother moved to California where she met and married my father and my brother and I were born. I would have never known about any of these siblings as my mother took this secret with her to her death bed, no one knew with the exception of my 2 uncles and my father. We found out when baby # 2 searched for mother and found mother had passed away in 1979, but she found my brother and I from my mom's obit. I am hoping someone who knows something will read this message Thanks for listening. -- Regards, Sandy Please visit my homepage and see if you have any clues in my hunt for my elusive grandfather http://www.rootssearch.net/mygensite/sscarletgen/index.html Searching for the Ancestry of John ATTEBERRY List Mom for: FAULL-L@rootsweb.com HOLEMAN-L@rootsweb.com RASEY-L@rootsweb.com Board Administrator for: F A U L L R A S E Y J E F F E R S __________________________________________________________________ Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. Experience the convenience of buying online with Shop@Netscape! http://shopnow.netscape.com/ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/