Although I was raised by a very loving family, there is still something there that says, I need to know. Know what? I'm not sure. I'm not sure what there is to know. Maybe nothing, maybe my birth family doesn't even remember me. Maybe they have their own families and could care less about me bothering them just for a medical history, and to be able to thank them for the decision they made. I'm sure it was a very difficult decision that was made to put me up for adoption. Or maybe, just maybe, they feel the same way I do. Wondering where I am, what I am doing, and curious as to what kind of person I've become.

Maybe this page will help. I'm 47 years old now, born April 4, 1956, and have just become curious about these things. Weird? Yeah, probably. Different? I really don't think so. In my travels around the net, I have read many letters from adoptees that feel the same way I feel. There is an emptiness. I really don't think this emptiness can be explained. I don't know what I'm empty for. I don't need a mother and father. I have one each of them. I don't need aunts, uncles, cousins, or any other relative. I have plenty now that have enriched my life. So, just what is it I need? I think it's just the knowing. Knowing the real answers, Knowing what was going on at that time of my biological parents' lives. Knowing where I really came from. I know where I've been, I just don't know where that journey started. Maybe it's a closure, that seems to be a popular phrase right now. Maybe it's something less than that. Maybe it's just a curiosity. Who do I look like? Why am I 6'3" tall? Was my Biological Father that tall? My biological Mother? Why do I never get sick, when others all around me catch every little bug known. There are a lot of questions. Maybe this page will help me answer a few, or possibly lead to a finish of my search.

Name at birth: Ronald Ladner
Place: Waiblingen, Germany
Biological Mother: Charlotte Toth, age 29
Biological Father: William Lovell, age 19

William Lovell was originally from the Arthur, Vernon County, Missouri area. My adopted parents have told me as much information as they know. He was 19 at the time of my birth and that would have made his birth in about 1937.

Charlotte Toth was originally from Waiblingen, Germany. From my understanding Her father was a town marshall or constable or something as such. She was 29 at the time of my birth which would have made her birth in about 1927.

I was adopted on the 26th of July 1957, In Boeblingen, Germany. I was a ward of the court at that time. My guardian at the time of my adoption was Mr. Adolf Knauer, County Councillor in Boeblingen, Germany. He was the Director of the Boeblingen Juvenile Office.

The adoption was translated by Mr. Helmut Kaul, Interpreter in Boeblingen, Murkenbachweg 75.

If anyone reading this has any information that may help me in my search, or if any of this sounds familiar at all, please contact me as soon as possible. I would appreciate any kind of information regardless of how insignificiant it may seem.

Our search in the United States is going a little slower, and to think I thought it would be the easier of the two. Again, if anyone has any information at all on a William Lovell, please don't hesitate to contact me. Regardless of how small a clue it is, it may be just the clue I am needing.

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