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From: "Jenny Bottcher" <>
Subject: Re: Adoption & Illgitimacy
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 03:44:40 -0700
References: <EBEBJHNCFOPCOEMGMIKMCENICEAA.Watchdog1@bigpond.com.au>


No, Laverton PRO's not open - more's the pity - you have to do it all
through Casseldon Place in the City - much more accessible, and just across
the road from Parliament Station - but nothing as user-friendly as Laverton
was!! You can order by email - if you have the exactly right numbers - no
leeway, which means a trip there if you need to look up stuff. And then a
return trip to read them.

Good luck!


----- Original Message -----
From: Watchdog <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 9:53 AM
Subject: RE: Adoption & Illgitimacy


> I live in Altona which is in the next suburb from Laverton, basically a
five
> minute drive. I"m not sure if the Public Records Office is still there
but
> I'll try and find out and let you know.
>
> Gale
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter M Thomas [mailto:]
> Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 1:40 AM
> To:
> Subject: RE: Adoption & Illgitimacy
>
>
>
> there is a fyche of an index of adoptions. When I visited Victoria a few
> years ago, I went to PRO Laverton & inspected the records: very
> informative.
>
>
> Peter THOMAS
> Darwin, Australia
> <>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: M Edwards [mailto:]
> Sent: Saturday, 8 December 2001 07:19
> To:
> Subject: Adoption & Illgitimacy
>
>
> Hi All,
> Just hoping to draw on everyone's amazing knowldege here...
>
> I , quite by accident, as is often the case, discovered that my Gt. Gt.
Aunt
> gave birth to a child when she was 21, whom she named James, but I've
never
> been able to find any trace of him.
> I have tried those few places in Melbourne (where he was born) that
continue
> to hold information about adoptions and Orphanages. Thus, the question I
am
> left with is what sort of people, places/instutions would she have turned
> to, to have him adopted out? I had the notion that the Church would be one
> place and that maybe even people in private enterprise worked as 'baby
> brokers'. I'd like to be able to write something intelligent about this in
> my family tree, rather than just making things up! Therefore, can anyone
> please provide any more details, ideas, recommend some background reading
> etc?
> Thanks and best regards,
>
> Mellissa Edwards
>
>
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