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Where have you registered? Have you registered with the State of MO Adoption Reunion Registry?
A birth index would greatly help you, then you could determine an adopted last name.
Searches can go quickly or draw on for years just don't give up hope. Only yesterday I located a ** for an adoptee who had been searching for over a year.
I live in St. Louis and if there is any "leg work" I can do for you let me know.
Dolores
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Call Division of Family Services 573-751-3221 and ask about the Adoption Reunion Registry. They will send out the necessary forms. If your birth daughter has or has not registered they will let you know.
I also wrote to the Family Court that heard the adoption and obtained copies of any paperwork that I had signed. There were no leads but I did want those papers and sometimes you an get a "lazy clerk" who happens to put in the adoptive parents info.
Have you contacted the Jewish Adoption Agency? Maybe she has or maybe they will help you, I do not know I have never worked on a case involving them.
You should really get the birth index for the date of birth it will cost about $52.50 unless they raised it again. The index lists all the births for that day but you simple eliminate all boys. Then eliminate ethnic last names, ie I doubt that a Chinese family would adopt a white child.
I have never seen an index but I do know that many adoptees/birthmothers have and have had success.