This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Moseley, Brown, Rohloff, Raddant Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2EC.2ACE/3189 Message Board Post: I am searching for my maternal grandmother's adoption records. She and I have tried, to no avail, to find the records, her search dating back to 1949. Granny was adopted in 1925 by Erwin Louis Rohloff and Nora Esther Raddant Rohloff. Born Helen Caroline Brown, February 21, 1924 at the Clara Barton Hospital in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The mother, Helen C. Brown, was born at Marshfield, Wisconsin, American by nationality, and baptist by church affiliation. Occupation was a nurse, residence was Marshfield. On June 5, 1924, Helen Carolyn (Caroline) Brown was placed in a foster home by the name of Groenevald. Later she was placed in a foster home with Erwin Louis Rohloff and Nora Raddant Rohloff, later adopted in on February 5, 1925. The mother kept in contact, three letters inquiring about the welfare of her daughter are mentioned in the letter Joyous received from the State of Wisconsin Department of Public Welfare. In August 1924, the mother wrote that she was a nurse in Milwaukee and wanted to continue to remain in Green Bay, but moved to Milwaukee to find work. In November of 2004, I received a reply (and a check that cleared the bank for 75 bucks, for nothing) from the State of Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services stating that no information was found, that "it appears the original Wisconsin Home Finding Society and Orphan Rescue Society records were destroyed". My leads: 1). On February 12, 1924, a woman named Mrs. S. D. Moseley wrote to the "Children's Home at 702 South Webster Street, Green Bay, Wisconsin, explaining that there was a young lady of her acquaintance who needed help because she was pregnant. She asked whether it would be possible for this institution to help her. I looked for the Moseley family in the census, the Head of house hold ws Seldon D. Moseley, wife was Caroline, three daughters, Helen, Emma, and Inez. Odd coincidence that the mother and daughter were named Caroline AND Helen. Could Helen have been married to a Brown, maybe got divorced, or gave birth out of wedlock and used a different name? Lead 2). Helen Brown listed as single and a nurse in Milwaukee in 1930 census, working aat Milwaukee Asylum for the Chronically Insane. Helen Moseley cannot be located without a marriage record. Anyone with any information on these Orphan's Societies, or on an adoption in the Brown or Moseley families, please contact me with ANYthing. Thanks! Diona Parker Dickerson, Mobile, Alabama