[grannybeaver60]

My mother was born in 1929 birth parents Ike Grayson and Helen(Ellen)Nichols Grayson on the birth certificate just gives unnamed female Grayson
Ike divorced Helen soon after the baby was born, stating in documents the baby was not his.
Helen gave my mother to Roy and Nannie Hatcher, these grandparents was in my life all my life. I didn't find out till I was 50 yrs old that they wasn't my biological grandparents. My mother denied all my question to who was her mother and father, but I did find out about Helen the friend of the family who came to visit when I was a little girl.
I told my mother what I knew and she just stubed up and wouldn't talk about it. My mom became sick with cancer and passed in 2002 since then I began researching Helen and Ike Grayson. Once I thought maybe Helen had an affair with Roy Hatcher while married to Ike Grayson but soon ruled that out, just awhile back I found Helen married Wm Ginn
And soon after divorced him, no child mentioned in that divorce that she sued him.
That were I am now... Possible grandfathers Ike Grayson or William Ginn
All persons have passed away long ago. I don't know if the adoption was legal recorded , It would have taken place in Knox county Tennessee around 1930 that the Hatchers took my mom.
Just looking for suggestions maybe someone has gone through something similar.
Thank you for your time reading this, I think I have put everything in this that I have found out?
Granny Jane

[JudyKayTee]

During that period there were very few formal records. I doubt very much that you can determine who your blood grandparents are.

You can always check County records but I would presume they are sealed.

[cdad]

What is your question? Are you trying to put pieces together or are you trying to find out if an adoption took place?

[Synnen]

If there WAS a formal adoption, your birth certificate would have been changed.

Records started to get sealed for adoptions in about 1910 or so, and getting those records UN-sealed is next to impossible.

If you WERE adopted, it is unlikely that you will find any records of it, and even more unlikely that you will be able to have those records unsealed at this point.

If you are just trying to determine paternity for your mother, then the odds would be greater if you had some DNA testing done with other members of the families of the two possible fathers.

Unfortunately, it has been so very long that it is unlikely that you will find anyone who actually knows what happened and who will talk about it after so long.

[grannybeaver60]

Thank you all for suggestions, I know it's a lost cause to find my mothers bio father. Only family members have answers and its 50/50 on who my grandfather was.
I appreciate the help
Jane

[Synnen]

I wish I had more suggestions for you.

I'm a birthmother myself, but I have worked with adoptees for many years now, and I know the frustration they go through trying to get information about their genetic history.

Do either of the men have other descendants to compare DNA to?

Remember that having a child with someone other than your husband was an offense that would get you completely ostracized from society back then. And the fact that she was granted a divorce! That was nearly unheard of!

You may be able to get the court records of the divorce to find out what reasons were behind it--if it was infidelity, you may have more of an answer than you did.

[cdad]

You might have a chance if your related somehow to these people. They have been in business since 1929.

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