Jim T. Bauman(Roy Eli Belton Beard-birth name)I ,along with two older brothers,was taken away from our family during the middle of the depression years 1935 and were separated from one another.I was adopted at two or so years old. And was told only that I was adopted, but nothing more. When my adoptive Dad passed away in 1982,He left for me my original birth certificate and other papers.From all that I learned of my birth parents and family.Found my oldest brother after a sixteen year search.He was the only remaining member of the immediate family other than myself.It had been sixty five years that we had been apart.One of Bonnie and I first leads was through cemetery records where we locate my grandfather.From then on we have been finding more and more family.Family means so much.That is why my wife Bonnie and I are trying to enter everyone that we can so anyone searching may find an ancestor that might be a lead to help them find their family also.

Jim T. Bauman(Roy Eli Belton Beard-birth name)I ,along with two older brothers,was taken away from our family during the middle of the depression years 1935 and were separated from one another.I was adopted at two or so years old. And was told only that I was adopted, but nothing more. When my adoptive Dad passed away in 1982,He left for me my original birth certificate and other papers.From all that I learned of my birth parents and family.Found my oldest brother after a sixteen year search.He was the only remaining member of the immediate family other than myself.It had been sixty five years that we had been apart.One of Bonnie and I first leads was through cemetery records where we locate my grandfather.From then on we have been finding more and more family.Family means so much.That is why my wife Bonnie and I are trying to enter everyone that we can so anyone searching may find an ancestor that might be a lead to help them find their family also.