I forgot to mention that both parents are deceased,and their is no other living

Question:

I forgot to mention that both parents are deceased,and their is no other living relatives that I can asked?

also my real last name is_"GRIFFIN"that I found out recently!
I LIVE IN Columbus,Ohio is there a agency that I can contact?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: The answer depends on what state handled the adoption. If you were adopted in a private arrangement, then you might have more luck, especially if you find the attorney who handled it. If you were adopted through an agency, you'll have to track them down. The best way is to go through old family records, especially if your parents actually kept all their old cancelled checks. Sometimes you can even find out by going to old neighbors and distant family members. When people adopted years ago, they were very open about it. All you need is to find that neighbor who never moved and who remembers your parents.

The hard ones to track are the "unofficial" adoptions. It took me 8 years to track my sister-in-law's birth parents. The birth mother was a 19 year old girl who was pregnant in 1958 and didn't want to be sent away. Her parents knew of a couple who weren't wealthy, but really wanted a child. When the girl went in labor, she signed into the hospital under the name of the "adoptive" mother and provided all the information of the "adoptive" father as the birth father. There wasn't a legal proceding, nor were there any records to help me identify anyone who would have information. All the "adoptive" parents knew about the girl was her first name was Mary Anne and that she was Lutheran...oh yeah, and she lived somewhere in a very rural part of northern Michigan and never graduated from high school. It took meticulous searches of every church directory, elemetary school library, and dumb luck to find "Mary Anne". But we found her. She never left her little town...and she never forgot about her little baby. In fact, she kept the little footprints she was given when she checked out of the hospital and that was her only tie to my sister-in-law for 42 years.

So it can be done...but you have to be a real blood hound and track down every last possible tiny lead because you never know when you'll find the person who remembers the smidge of info that will help you.