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Member Since: June 2006 Posts: 14 Send Message	Wendy	Report	4 Jun 2007 20:36
Member Since: June 2006 Posts: 14 Send Message	Hello I am quite new to this family tree stuff and have hit a brick wall already!!! I am tracing my husbands tree and his grandmother and grandfather were both orphaned. Is there any info which can be obtained or anywhere I can go to get any further info? Thanks in advance Wendy
Member Since: February 2004 Posts: 6 440 Send Message	An Olde Crone	Report	4 Jun 2007 21:07
	Their fathers' names will be on their marriage cert, and both their parents names on their birth certs. OC
Member Since: April 2003 Posts: 452 Send Message	Wendy	Report	5 Jun 2007 00:27
Member Since: April 2003 Posts: 452 Send Message	Bear in mind that adoption was not legal before about 1925? Someone will correct me on this I'm sure. Depending on the dates of your grandparents' adoptions, they may well have been taken in by family members. That is what happened to my mother, born 1915, mother died of TB, raised by her father's brother.