Adoption Search Log

We have received a printout from the Norristown City Dirctory from the Montgomery County Historical Society (www.hsmcpa.org) . It is a list of the Weavers that lived in Norristown in 1968 and we are researching their family trees, trying to find a possible tie to David Weaver. They seem to be mostly related to each other, which seems strange by todays standards, but I guess was fairly normal back then (the not leaving the town you were raised in part). We have sent off for my Non-Id. I sent letters to Stanley Ott (The judge who handles adoption in Montgomery County), and the Register of Wills and Child Orphans office in Montgomery County (http://rwoc.montcopa.org/rwoc/site/default.asp). I also sent a letter to George Ozorowski, but have spoken with him as stated earlier. We have begun searching through Newspapers () from that time frame looking for Birth announcements (highly unlikely if you're going to abandon your child/highly unlikely if you're the AMom as it would be hard to explain the immaculate birth without a gestation), Hospital admissions (Needle in a haystack since we don't know BMom's last name or if the Weaver last name was hers through marriage), and looking for any newspaper story about a child (me) abandoned around that time frame. I found a site on the Montgomery County Government website (www.montcopa.org/registerofwillsorphanscourt/rwocviewer) that allows you to search wills probate. It seems to go back to the mid 80's or so. Anyways, at first glance I wasn't really sure what I would really do with it, although it was kinda cool. Well the interesting thing is, you can see a) First Name-Middle Name/Initial-Last Name, b) any Aliases said person may have gone by (often time not their given name, c) Date of Death for a given person, d) Last known address, e) Executor(s) Name(s), and f) Executor(s) address(es) . This allows you to see who at least one of their decedents was, possibly someone you were trying to tie to the family (ie different last name via marriage) but weren't sure about. I am very proud of myself for this one. We decided that since my AParents were the ones that had me baptised, a baptismal record search will probably yield nothing more than we already know. We have contacted the Montgomery County Historical Society to do a newspaper search for us, we are going to have Jeff McGranahan do a search for all hospital admissions, discharges, and birth announcements for a 2 week timeframe March 28th 1968-April 10th 1968, a week prior to my DOB and a week after. We are also going to enlist them to do a church directory search for the now defunct Penn Square Community Church (Penn Square Church) for 1966-1970 to see if any Weaver attended that church as that is where I was baptised. We figured out one weird thing, it was literally across the street from where we lived @ 606 Briar Lane at the time of my adoption. I used to play on the playground at that church all the time.