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I'm hoping someone familiar with Children's Home Society and VA adoptions in the 1960's can answer a question for me.
I have my final adoption decree which states not only that my a-parents are adopting me but includes the order for a legal name change as well. (born Jan. 1967, decree dated Oct. 1968) My legal name prior to adoption is listed on this document. My non-id info says that my b-mom relinquished me to CHS when I was 9 days old.
My question is this: What are the odds that the name listed on the adoption decree was given to me by my birth mom? I know it could possibly go either way, but what have your experiences been? I'm wondering if the agency would have gone to the trouble of legally renaming me if my b-mom had given me a name.
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Smalltowngirl67, In my experience, we were told if the baby was not named, it would be listed only as Baby Whatever last name. Baby was given a name but the adoptive parents gave her the name they wanted. So I'm thinking the name is the original name given and not changed by the agency but by adoptive parents. Good Luck:grouphug:
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