Looking for family of John Lewis Costello born 7/6/1917 given up for adoption 11/13/

Hi there, I spent some time on Ancestry and there were many false leads. What I did find interesting was that there were Hegler families that lived in Bowie Tx when Lewis Costello was born...no idea if that will lead you anywhere... 1. Have you checked whether you can access the adoption records from 1920 in Missouri? Some states kept adoption records open before a certain year because they hadn't been sealed (hope that made sense) but you should be able to find that out pretty easy since closing of the records was done in the middle of the last century. 2. As you have a date of the adoption you may be able to search many many pages of the 1920 census that should have been completed before the Nov 1920 adoption went through under the Costello name...problem is you will have to search any matches from any state...but probably only neighboring states. 3. Do you have any idea of nationality? I found Costellos from Mexico, Italy, Austria so that would help narrow the search. 4. Have you considered going the route of surname/family matching through the male line? Did Robert have a son that is still alive to go through route? Or a grandson through a son? You would then be able to find relatives as long as there is a Costello (or variation of the name) surname group to compare to. Sorry I cannot be of any more help. Kind regards,Dickons

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