In preparation for my (as yet unsuccessful) quest to have my adoption annulled, I decided to request a copy of the records from my second adoption, so I filled out the form, had it notarized, and mailed it off to the Department of Families and Children. Soon afterwards, I received an e-mail from one of the employees of the "Adoption Search Unit" with the following information:
The application for adoption states the following:
[Grandfather], sole surviving legal guardian of [me], a minor child, desires to place said [me] for adoption with [uncle] and [uncle's wife]. And whereas [uncle] is the natural uncle of said child and thereby a blood relative descendent from a common ancestor not more than three generations removed from said child. That the court approve a certain adoption agreement between [grandfather] the surviving legal guardian, [uncle] and [uncle's wife], the proposed adoptive parents of said child, to adopt said [me], which agreement is dated 12/28/67 at [city, state].
The record indicates that you were placed with maternal aunt and uncle on 11/9/67. Your grandmother's burial per her death certificate was 11/6/67 in [cemetery] in [city, state].
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| The follow-up letter, which didn't provide much information beyond what I'd already learned. |
