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Member Since: January 2003 Posts: 49,504 Send Message	Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it	Report	7 Dec 2009 10:01
	Legal adoption didnt start till 1927 so any fostering/adoption prior to that would have been between the families as a private arrangement, On 1800 census.s adopted child would mean the child of one of the spouses from a previous relationship. A head of house would describe his wife's children that she brought into the marriage as adopted but this would be to distinguish that he wasn't their natural father
	Researching: Surname Fahse. Germany. Essex .South East London My avatar is one of our wedding photos of 1957
Member Since: September 2003 Posts: 2,513 Send Message	Sheila	Report	7 Dec 2009 10:00
	HI Formal adoptions only started in 1927, before this it was a casual arrangement,
Member Since: December 2003 Posts: 3 Send Message	Bluegrass	Report	7 Dec 2009 09:20
Member Since: December 2003 Posts: 3 Send Message	Can anyone tell me how I can find a persons original birth when I only know the the adopted details p.s I n the 1800's did adoption mean the same as it does today or anything else?