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/pBC.2ACE/3842 Message Board Post: I am a female adoptee searching for my birthparents. The adoption agency has provided me with the following non-identifying information: Her first name was Beverly. She was in her late teens (17 or 18) at the time of my birth (June 1949.) She attended PUBLIC SCHOOL in Seattle, where she met my birthfather, Robert. He was older (early 20s) and had worked in a box factory following his graduation from high school, but joined the Navy thinking that it would help him provide better for Beverly and their baby if they would be able to marry. I believe Robert was a 1946 graduate of high school and that he met Beverly during his senior year when she was a freshman. Beverly would have graduated in 1949 had she not been expecting me. Beverly was about 5’4” tall, brown hair with blue eyes and is described as “very beautiful.” She wanted to be a model or a teacher like her mother. Her father was a butcher and is described as bald. He may have owned a meat market in Seattle. Robert had dark wavy brown hair and blue eyes. He played the saxophone and enjoyed participating in athletics. Beverly was of Scot/Irish descent. Robert was Irish. Beverly’s mother refused to allow Beverly and Robert to marry. Beverly was sent to a maternity home in Seattle pending my birth. In the file it says that Beverly’s mother planned to explain Beverly’s absence from school by telling people that Beverly needed to go to California for “health” reasons. I was born in Seattle at Doctors' Hospital, however. When Beverly was about 19 there was an article in a magazine about her running off and marrying without any family members in attendance other than one sister. (She did not marry my birth father.) The article was torn from a magazine and sent to the adoption agency approximately two years after my birth. I have not been given any indication of who may have sent the agency the article. Thank you for any information and for taking the time to read this.