Hi, I don't know where you live, but Texas has an index to birth records. It only lists the persons name and date of birth and county of birth. It is indexed by year and I think up till 1975. It is on microfilm at Clayton Library in Houston. If the girls were born at Jefferson Davis Hospital which has been torn down you could get the birth certificate copy from the City of Houston Bureau of Vital Statistics. Jeff Davis was the County Hospital, but since it was in the city limits the records would be with the City of Houston. I am looking for a half-brother myself and I recently got information from the State of Texas regarding the Central Adoption Registry for Texas. You can get information from their website www.tdh.state.tx.us/bvs. Bureau of Vital Statistics Central Adoption Registry (ZZ055) P.O. Box 140123 Austin, TX 78714 (512) 458-7388 >From: Dana Beavers <18feb00@gte.net> >Reply-To: TXGALVES-L@rootsweb.com >To: TXGALVES-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [TXGALVES] Female BIRDSONG >Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 06:58:34 -0400 > >I am searching for a female BIRDSONG who was possibly born in Galveston >or Harris County between the years of 1948 and 1950. Up until two years >ago, my mother, Georgia Nadine BIRDSONG, never knew who her father was. >After searching for quite sometime, I finally discovered that he was >Robert Walker BIRDSONG, born in Alabama in 1910. After receiving copies >of his military records, I also discovered that he had an older daughter >from his first marriage named Dorothy (Dottie) Verlon BIRDSONG (my >mother's half sister). Now, after alot of searching again, I found her >living in MS. She tells me that my mother has a full sister that was >1-3 years younger than my mother but doesn't know what her name is/was. >She also said that she remembers the two girls being placed in the >Galveston County Orphanage at one time. This female BIRDSONG's father >would have been Robert Walker BIRDSONG and her mother, Georgia Henrietta >HEMPHILL. They were married in the 40's and lived in the Houston and >Galveston areas. My mother was born in Houston at the Jefferson Davis >Hospital which leads me to believe that her sister may have been born >there as well. If you happen to have any information regarding this >female BIRDSONG, please write to me. I am an amateur at genealogy and >would also be open to any suggestions as to how I might locate this >person. My email address is 18feb00@gte.net. > >Thanks! >Dana Beavers > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com