This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Johnson Russ Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zhB.2ACI/1145 Message Board Post: Does anyone know if adoption records are kept at the county office? If you have any experience or guidance in researching adoption events, specifically the adoption of Cherokee Indians I would like to hear from you. I'm looking for the adoption records of a person ultimately named Cleo Johnson, supposedly a full-blooded Indian adopted by a Johnson family. I've been told she was from Murfreesboro or the immediate area, but I have no other data to go on. She was born about 1878 and was married to A. H. Russ in Lewisburg in Mar 1897, so I'm starting my research in these two counties.