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My name is Tammy Crow , my maiden name was Tammy Rich ,but my biological mother's name was Lillian Sarah Ann Zawada. She married my biological father Burtis Rich in 1969 in Chicago, IL. Do to circumstances that I have only heard stories about my brother ,my half sister and myself were removed from their care because of physical as well as mental abuse. Unfortunately, I was only about 1 yr of age and have never seen my mother since. I have tried to locate her but have had no such luck. With that being said I started looking into the name Zawada, I was told that her parents migrated to the United States from Poland but I do not know what year. We think that their names were John and Mary Zawada and that he was known to be very mentally abusive. What records I have been able to recover all list Lillian's family as mildly retarded, which leads me to think that maybe this is why they migrated to the United States maybe because they were looked down on in their own country. Honestly I have no idea why they came to the United States.   Since I have not had very good luck trying to locate my biological mother , I wanted to at least know my heritage and where my grandparents came from. I have been told that besides my mother ,she also had a sister and a brother that was known of but not sure if there were more in the family. I am very interested in learning everything I can about the Polish heritage of my biological family. Any information that I might be able to get would be tremendously appreciated. I really need this ,I have been having a very hard time in my life as a result of the family that the court system did place my brother and I with. The family was our biological fathers family that we were placed with. My brother was treated very well mainly because he was a boy the preference of the foster mother or in other words our Aunt ,but me being a girl I wasn't treated so well. I was physically abused by one of their sons, sexually molested by another of their sons and raped at the age of 7 by a the husband of one of their daughters. Nothing I ever did was good enough and I had to do a lot of home cleaning and when I wasn't doing that I had to stay in my room or never leave the yard. I loved school because it was my sanctuary. Eventually my life became so unbearable at the age of 14 I ran away. After I was repremanded back into the courts custody I was placed in a number of different homes. I asked if they could let me just go back to my biological mother and the reply was no , even if she could be found the answer would still be no. At the age of 15 I ran again, all I ever wanted was to find my place in this world, where I belonged and was accepted and loved for just being me. The whole time I was a runaway I continued to look for my biological mother. I met my now husband at the age of 16 and have been with him and his family since. He knows everything and has tried to help me search for my mother as well , but we have just had no luck. I will continue till the day I leave this world to search for her or any of her family,but while I'm looking I want to find out everything I can about where she and her family came from. So any information that I can get would be so appreciated beyond belief. I can be contacted at my e-mail address or by mail at 5017 N. 100 East Road, Mclean,IL.61754 If there is anyway possible that any kind of information can be located to trace my mothers family back to Poland please let me know. Sincerely , Tammy Crow