----- Original Message ----- From: "DAVID JONES" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 5:46 PM Subject: Re: [POWYS] Adoptions <<There is a book compiled by Georgina Stafford, it is a guide for counsellors, adopted people and birth parents entitled where to find 'ADOPTION RECORDS' , which list records for Wales ,Scotland and England. I an not certain but I think that compulsory adoption records were not enforced until about 1934, before that it was the church or the Poor Law Board or private agencies.>> It might sometimes also help to try the Adoption Search Reunion database: http://www.adoptionsearchreunion.org.uk/search/questions/ or http://www.adoptionsearchreunion.org.uk/search/adoptionrecords/ although such sources can never be fully comprehensive. The Adoption Register actually dates from 1927. Before that time adoption was a private arrangement, often with no more than an unrecorded verbal agreement between individual families, and not necessarily involving any other agencies. AJ