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In fact there are '''no known sources of adoption records''', apart from the fact that baptismal records may occasionally show original name and adopted name, as indicated in this India List post<ref>India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/1999-06/0928326886 post]dated 2 June 1999</ref> Adoption was a private process, perhaps arranged by a family member, as mentioned in this India List post<ref>India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2010-09/1285507993 post] dated 26 September 2010</ref> The churches appear to have had a role in adoptions or placements. *The subject of this India List post<ref>India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/1998-02/0886492485 post] dated 3 February 1998</ref> was born in the Eden Maternity Home, Calcutta in 1917. She was then taken to St Vincent’s Home Kidderpore (Calcutta) <ref>[http://www.childrenareangels.org/contents/newsletter3web/3stvincent.htm St Vincent’s Home Kidderpore] (Calcutta)</ref>, run by a Roman Catholic order, from where she was adopted at the age of six weeks.*This India List post regards a child, whose parents were not married to each other, born at the Lady Dufferin Hospital in [[Lucknow]] in 1943. At 10 days old he was removed from the hospital by the Minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Lalbagh and placed in the care of a couple who happened to be in Lucknow at the time involved in church work. The family subsequently returned to Scotland. He was never legally adopted.<ref>India List post [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2006-01/1137231853 Birth Parent Search] 14 January 2006</ref>

Adoption was a private process, perhaps arranged by a family member, as mentioned in this This further India List <ref> India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/20102013-0901/1285507993 post1358710160 thread] dated January 2013</ref> thread discusses various aspects.

The churches may also have arranged adoptions, at least the Roman Catholic church. The subject of this India List [http:== References ==<references //archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/1998-02/0886492485 post] was born in the Eden Maternity Home, Calcutta in 1917. She was then taken to [http://www.childrenareangels.org/contents/newsletter3web/3stvincent.htm St Vincent’s Home Kidderpore] (Calcutta),run by a Roman Catholic order, from where she was adopted at the age of six weeks.>