This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3BC.2ACE/1618.2.2.1 Message Board Post: Dear Christine: I'm not really up on WA., State adoption laws, but yes, it is entirely possible an adoption could have taken place out of Washington Home. As some advice I got from a young woman who works for them now was going to suggest how I could find out about an adoption process. However I already know about my father's situation and he was not adopted from the Home, he (and his brother) was brought back to Pend Oreille Co., by his own father, who when he could not care for him placed him into foster care and those people became the adopted grandparents I knew. We already have those papers, as my adopted Grandmother never let them get lost. There was never any secret about the process in our family, the legal adoption happened in 1918 and my father was old enough to know what was going on. And even concurred in the process. He raised us his legal adopted surname, but always kept us aware of his birth family who kept in touch with us and still do. Of course my Dad and his siblings are now deceased, but cousins, etc., are still in touch. Wish I could help further, Mary Gilmore