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/ScB.2ACE/1145.1 Message Board Post: I have been searching for adoption information for someone for several years. Like yours, it was a confidential adoption . I went to the place that handeled the adoption and was told that some birth mothers gave ficticious names. That really complicated the search. I had the supposed birth parents names that were given to the adoptees, but years of searching has proved futile. I now believe that ficticious names were in fact given. Paying handsome search fees in that case would probably be useless. Being as you know the place of adoption, I would start by using the rootsweb mailing list for that locale and post a message such as "Looking for Birth Parents & give your sex and birth date). You may get real lucky ,who knows? Also check out some of the adoption mailing lists on the internet. Good Luck!