I ask this because so many of you seem to have a wide breathe of knowledge.

How is it possible to find background information on someone when you really have no information. Our daughter in law was born in Vietnam. She is very dear to us. As a toddler she was found by American soldiers -- her parents were dead they presumed -- and taken to an orphanage in Danang. Her papers say her age and birthdate were unknown, as was her name and the family name. She celebrates her birthday as the day she came to the US adopted by an American family. She would love to know "who" she is and if she has any family in Vietnam. We have promised her and our son (with us, of course) a trip (hopefully a cruise) to Vietnam, but we have no idea how to start searching. Going through the State Department, I was able to get her citizenship paperwork that had been lost but other than the date she came to the US and the name given her at the orphanage, it has no information. Everything else is unknown. When they went on a cruise for their honeymoon (just after 9/11) the port authority in Miami would not let her board the ship (she didn't need a passport but she needed proof of citizenship which she didn't have). They had to get a judge to sign her affidavid that she was an American citizen -- at the time, her paperwork had been lost.

Any thoughts on this would be appreciated. Judith