This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/pZB.2ACE/269.1 Message Board Post: I'm an adopted mom, writing the family history for my kids and their descendents. You should be able to get the legal adoption papers, like my son did. Those papers give names etc. that will be very helpful. I used those papers to start my search and I now have considerable information on their birth family ancestors.