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I read the following:
"While most or all of the court records may be officially sealed, in some cases a searcher may be able to view the court's Docket Appearance Book, a daily record of who appeared in court and why on a particular day, or even the Minute Book log, with the results of each court appearance (Culligan, 1996). Also, local newspapers from the time of the adoption may carry a notice of the filing of the Petition to Adopt in the classified section. This normally includes the name of the couple adopting, as well as the birth name of the child/infant and the name of the social worker assigned to the case (Culligan, 1996)." From the Child Welfare Information Gateway.
My question is, does anyone live close enough to Los Angeles Superior Court or the Main Los Angeles Library that they could go and look for this information? Or does anyone know if the court docket information in Los Angeles County is available to be searched?
I am trying to locate information for an adoption on "Baby Boy" King, born August 1, 1964 at Oak Park Community Hospital. According to the NID info, his mother's maiden name was Jones, her married name was King and the birth father's name was Stahl. Also the birth mother and her husband (who signed as the "legal" father) signed the relinquishment papers on August 19, 1964. The adoptive parents last name was Werderman.
The baby was placed with his adoptive family on October 13, 1964 and the adoption was finalized on October 11, 1965.
We live in Kentucky so a physical search is not possible for us and we have tried contacting the Los Angeles Library, they will not search for us, because they don't have the staff for that they say. Any help in this would be greatly appreciated.
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UPDATE: We got confirmation today that Lawrence Dale Stahl WAS my husband's birth father. He passed away in 2006. We were able to track down his ex wife, and he had told her about my husband!! She also gave us the birth mothers name - Linda King!! Now I am looking for ANY info I can find on her. We know that she was born in Michigan, was 22 in 1964 (making her born 1941 or 1942). Her mother was living in Illinois in 1964. She was married with two boys - one was 5 and one was 3 in 1964. Linda was adopted by her step father when she was a young child, her maiden name was listed as Jones, but we don't know if that is her fathers name or her step fathers. She also had stated to the adoption agency that her father was part Chippewa Indian. If this means anything to anyone, please contact us.