trying to find birth parents families.  mother was gladys hoar, father
was harold cronin, baby was named benjamin, after gladys's father. 
baby was born sept. 21, 1930 in Brighton, MA, put up for adoption at
Florence Crittenden Adoption agency in Boston area.  would like help,
records are sealed.  His name is now Edward James Robson, was adopted
by James Randolph and Lillian May Robson.

Greetings, joneslds!

Even when records are sealed, it is sometimes possible for adoptees to
be reunited with their birth parents or their descendants. Voluntary
registries exist for the purpose of creating a central place where
adoptees and parents who are searching can post their information, and
possibly connect if their parent/child is searching for them as well.

Massachusetts has such a registry:
"This is a FREE adoption reunion registry exclusively for
Massachusetts adoptees-birthparents-siblings & relatives of...
currently in search...
4032 registrations have been posted at this site since it's creation
in May of 1997.. Well over 450 of these have been found."
http://members.aol.com/Espaura/MAadopt.html
Check out their page of "must do" steps at:
http://hometown.aol.com/Espaura/must.html

Other possible sites are AdoptionRegistry.com "Currently 274,081
Adoption Records":
http://www.adoptionregistry.com

ReunionRegistries.com
http://www.reunionregistries.com/massachusetts.php

AdoptionForums.com - Massachusetts
http://www.adoptionforums.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=290

Tina's Massachusetts Adoption Page 
http://www.geocities.com/capitolhill/9606/states/massachusetts.html

About.com's Adoption Resources page and Registry:0
http://adoption.about.com

The Adoptee can also try contacting:
Massachusetts Adoption Search Coordinator
Department of Social Services
24 Farnsworth St.
Boston, MA 02210 
http://www.koyote.com/personal/hobb/listings.html#Massachusetts

A large directory of resources can be found on the Open Directory
Project (ODP) - DMOZ (Directory Mozilla):
Home: Family: Adoption: Search and Reunion: Registries  
http://dmoz.org/Home/Family/Adoption/Search_and_Reunion/Registries


Search Strategy

Massachusetts adoption reunion registry
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Massachusetts+adoption+reunion+registry&btnG=Google+Search


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I hope that this Answer provides exactly the information that you
needed. My best wishes to the adoptee in their Search!
    
Regards,  
  
aceresearcher

I've already checked out most of those sites, which I found online,
searching.  Thanks for the info!  I'll try the ones I haven't
contacted!  I really appreciate it!  Joyce

Would checking the 1930 census for the birth parents help? Perhaps if
there were siblings of the birth parents (whom I'm assuming were not
married to one another at the time) , these people would also have
descendants? Are the birth parents deceased? Would they be in the
SSDI?