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potts
Hi
If you rec'd your non-identifying information from the Alberta Government, {which I most definitely hope you have applied for!}
and it says your mom was single and of a young age,
chances are it's your mother's name (maiden) that you were born with;
if it said your birthparents were married to each other then it would be your fathers surname.
The only time this isn't the case is that I have seen it where the mom was married then divorced, kept her married name, gave a child up for adoption and that child was born with whatever name the mom had at the time, in this scenario a married name.
I am not 100% certain that in the early 80's the unmarried birthmother was able to give the child the fathers last name, ...later in the 80's this happened, of course the father had to sign papers.....one would think this is not a common occurence though when adoption was to take place.
Chances are, if your birthmother was a younger age 16-21, I would bet that the surname you were given was her maiden name.
Hope this helps figure it out....hope I didn't confuse the issue more.
~Shannon
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