Posted on: Gray Co. Tx Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/Gray/10160 Surname: Bond ------------------------- The index to birth certificates in the Gray County courthouse records the birth of this person on 7 August 1950. Father: Waymon Eddie Bond. Mother Loyce Ann Jacobs. The fact that the record could be read and was not crossed out may indicate that the child was not given up for adoption, at least in the state of Texas. I think that at that time the practice was for the court to seal the original birth certificate, and to issue a new one indicating that the child had been born to his adoptive parents. The birth index books occasionally have entries crossed out by heavy ink, and these may refer to adopted children. But I could be wrong.