Grayson County TXGenWeb

Adoptions
This page: Places to search for Adoptions and suggestions.

Grayson County Adoption announcements and articles. Scroll Down.

Finding Adoption Records can be difficult.
You sometimes even need a Judge to release papers.
There are many kinds of adoptions also.
Some Good Places to guide you as genealogist' as well
help you find a more recent adoption.
Once the Railroad crossed Texas Many people went to the various orphanages to adopt.
So records wouldn't be local necessarily.

Children's Aid Society New York City, Sent many children by Train and boat across the Nation. Guide to Records there. Article 1920 Children's Aid Society Places Children in Whitewright Homes		Grayson County Texas Clerks office Talk to them to find the right court records you need. They will guide you depending on the time period you need and how the records are filed and if they are open to the public or you need to know how to petition for records.
Guide to Catholic Church Records Remember they not only helped with adoptions but ran homes for Unwed Mothers		Texas Central Adoption Registry (State Department of State Health Services)
Orphan Trains to Grayson County		adopted.com Search for Voluntary Adoption Matching
Family Search' Texas Adoption Advise		Texas Law Help.org Articles about Texas Adoptions
Family Search Orphan Registers. Free access.(make a sign in) Catholic Parish and orphanage registers, 1870-1956 images. Archdiocese of San Antonio		Texas Institutional Records Can Help locating places like Poor Farms that children might have come from. Grayson, Fannin, Cooke, Collin, Hunt, all had poor farms.
History of the Boles Home Hunt Co, Texas (This County is close by)

Hints; sometimes if you know the adopted child's
name from before he was adopted. You can sometimes look
in the census's and see if you can spot them in an orphanage.
That opens up where records may be found.

Hint; Many times adopted children received an amended birth certificate after adoption. In half of the US you can fill out a court petition to have the original forms information released. You must check the Grayson County Clerks office to know what court you need. It is different in other counties. Different time periods also change the offices where the documents are filed. But Remember birth certificates only started in 1903.

Hint; for lists of orphanages in Texas, consult city and counties directories, for the period you need.

Grayson County Adoptions That were mentioned in the local Newspaper paper.
If you have any information on an adoption announcements
before 1950 Please email me.

1890 McVey Children	1906 Baby Boy Moore	1917 The State vs. Lena Hardaway
1893 Hattie Legate	1911 Charles E. Bates
1900 Jim Woods Doyle