A second cousin of mine on dads side(found through ancestry yesterday - woo hoo and her dad, my cousin - who I remember as a rather suave 20 year old when I was a little kid - is still alive and kicking) has been talking to me on the phone today.
She was saying that she would dearly like to find a girl born to her great aunt - hence her mums aunt - during the war years. Apparently she was illegitimate and likely the daughter of an american GI. The mother remained single and later went into a tb sanitorium and the child was fostered out and eventually adopted. Thats all her mother knows, apart from the girls name, which I guess I cant put on here as she may well be alive still.
Second cousin says her mum is desperate to find this cousin as her mother always felt guilty at not being able to adopt her herself at that time.
She says she has searched the bmd with no sign of the name given to her and found on the back of an old photo - before the girl was adopted. Now are any of the bmd missing for the war years, which is what she had been told? And has anyone any other ideas of tracking down this girl. Apparently she has made enquiries of various likely adoption agencies but drawn a blank.
She was saying that she would dearly like to find a girl born to her great aunt - hence her mums aunt - during the war years. Apparently she was illegitimate and likely the daughter of an american GI. The mother remained single and later went into a tb sanitorium and the child was fostered out and eventually adopted. Thats all her mother knows, apart from the girls name, which I guess I cant put on here as she may well be alive still.
Second cousin says her mum is desperate to find this cousin as her mother always felt guilty at not being able to adopt her herself at that time.
She says she has searched the bmd with no sign of the name given to her and found on the back of an old photo - before the girl was adopted. Now are any of the bmd missing for the war years, which is what she had been told? And has anyone any other ideas of tracking down this girl. Apparently she has made enquiries of various likely adoption agencies but drawn a blank.
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