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:grr: Hello fellow searchers! I am still helping my god-son find his birth family. I think he was raised by his grandmother, Bunny, and her husband, who claimed to be his real parents and they are both now deceased. My godson is now married with a large family and needs some answers. For certain, there was NO ADOPTION. I have a certificate from the state of California that no one with his name has ever been born in California. He uses a false Baptismal record.
Bunny spoke fluent Swedish and was from Pennsylvania. I have her high school graduation picture which she claimed was taken iin 1958, but we think it was taken around 1943. She claimed to have been born in 1942 but guess 1925.
We think my godson's original birth certificate is that of Burton Barto, mother Barbara Ann Barto, born between 6/22/36 and 6/21/37. The birth date, first and middle names, and name of the hospital match what he was told. Either the Barto certificate is his, or ... Bunny wanted him to believe that it is, when he "found" it at age 18.
Possible family names for his Pennsylvania Swedish relatives are Barto, Drake, Hoagland, and Barto. We know Bunny was in Los Angeles in 1967, when she applied for a social security card and think she was born in PA around 1925 but might have been placed into social services in Illinois to be adopted there. If we could track her from say 1943 to 1967, we could discover say a daughter named Barbara Barto at the time of my godson's birth, or a son who could have married a girl named Barbara Ann. Bunny did use a lot of aliases.
Bunny may have been born "Bunny Drake", received a social security card as Bunny Jarvis, and passed away as Bunny Saldana. Then again, these may be three different "Bunnys".
Thank you for reading this saga - please email me if you know of any "Bunny" from PA who left in 1967, never to return. And God bless everyone who is searching for their family.
--Mary S.
p. s. I currently have access to the Ancestry records and to the California birth, marriage, and death records, if I can assist someone else along the way.
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Hi again, Joyce!
Yes, there is a Bunny Drake in the 1930 census in Illinois, who may be connected to a large Swedish family in Pennsylvania. In fact, the Bunny I knew did speak Swedish and did have a very young mother! From IL she may have moved to Tennessee and then to California. Is that your thought?