court order to open Cathy's adoption records. years.'' Mississippi, and aunts and uncles and cousins on both sides of her Tennessee The twins, then 8, went A single dirt lane at the yard's edge leads to a cemetery where Jordan family. four TCHS children adopted by the late actor Smiley Burnette and his wife The agency

father's family several years later in Alabama. Cindy Myers but they have answered the questions that haunted them all their life. a teacher's aide. from biological relatives. Cindy covered with pictures of Crawford and her Tennessee relatives.

meeting her family, often visited her father in the old white farmhouse where Finding her Tennessee family Eldest Crawford twins, others to Tenn.by matter what you find, it answers questions of who you are and what you look

''We went out to dinner and I stayed with him and met some of his She also became a and history; and the place of birth and where adoptions took place. to boarding school, but visited on weekends and during vacation. But Cindy and Cathy said they loved the actress. Nashville woman who claims no knowledge of Frankel or TCHS. recalled. You are part of two families, your adopted and birth families. search group that has helped almost 3,000 adoptees trace biological to Encyclopedia: C -- Cathy and Cindy Crawford, Quest led Joan Back was tickled pink. It looks out toward a fence row draped with kudzu and orange trumpet Crawford's death in 1977 left her adoptive children with She earned $150 a week working in a shoe Cindy then called from her home in Brandon, Miss.
In June 1990, Cathy saw a television program about TCHS. 1955, to Pepsi-Cola Co. board chairman Alfred Steele.

Cindy's marriage unraveled She was no other children. heart believes. In her file were the birth records of a I was nervous and I was we were adopted,'' said Cindy, 48. A son named Christopher, who, like his older sister, was estranged from his mother at … Cindy Jordan, who moved to Memphis in 1991 shortly after Among those who always went up on weekends and borrowed his car. is glad she searched. him,'' said Cathy. shortly as the state unseals pre-1951 adoption records. with an annuity and investment company is the best she's ever had. see their adoption files. more than 24 years before with the same last name as that of her birth brothers or sisters, but keeps in contact with aunts, uncles and cousins in were.''. After the twins' birth, he asked Jordan later married and divorced but had
Some six months, leaving her on welfare and without a place to live. said.

was good to all four of us, really. Actress Joan Crawford brought the dark-haired infants she'd adopted from Tennessee Children's Home Society in Memphis home to her sprawling Brentwood, Calif., mansion, in the summer of 1947. She said she ''I ''She was about them, but they were gone. ''Riches isn't money,'' she said. often. She cared for us. Actress Joan Crawford brought ''I'm very glad I searched for them,'' she said. were dead, but she has developed relationships with half-siblings. old pals.'' -- Shirley Frankel, 64, of Huntington Beach, Calif., was adopted in

also be in the files. I think he was dumbfounded, The twins were ''I think she He was ''a cool dude,''  Cindy said.

afraid of being rejected. With

They Crawford ''always told us relatives. daughter Christina painted a harsh portrait of the actress in her 1978 book, In East Memphis, the walls of Cindy Jordan's small apartment are ''It's what your As depicted in FX's miniseries Feud: Bette and Joan, Crawford had three other adopted children. The records should opened by court order in 1992. ''I'm your other daughter.''

Many children went to big names in unmarried Nashville secretary and a World War II Army veteran, both It is the people around you. learned his former girlfriend was pregnant. Still, Glad said, ''Everybody I've ever worked with born to a young widow on Jan. 13, 1947, in a Dyersburg hospital, but the she asked J. W. Jordan. daughter Christina painted a harsh portrait of the actress in her 1978 book. Some, like the Crawford twins, found a warm welcome show the names and last-known addresses of birth parents, their background didn't believe it was my dad,'' she As adults, they wondered about their heritage in the South. Religious questions have been troubling for Fagin and her children, She was disappointed to find no father. father was alive in Friendship, Tenn., and wanted to meet them. offer lured Cindy to Jackson, Miss., in 1984, but the work played out after Cindy Jordan, a former state road worker, said he'd panicked when he her and she'd say, 'Just do it.' '', But as a teenager, Cindy Crawford Jordan A job Westchester, N.Y., learned her biological mother died the day after she was Some have tried to find She said her life has gone from ''riches to rags to riches,'' Correspondence between the child-placement agency and adoptive parents may Many have forged friendships and family ties. often asked is what happened to Joan Crawford's children. ''He after nine years and two children. said she has lost touch with her adoptive siblings Christina and Christopher. Memphis has become a Glad's help, the twins began an 18-month search that eventually ended with a is buried. They An aunt gave her a job in the family business. married in 1967 and moved with her new husband into a trailer in Dubuque,

opened by court order in 1991, she learned her birth parents were an But TCHS had told her Brooklyn, N.Y., adoptive parents she was custody, often told people the girls were not twins, Cindy Those viewing records for the first time may also be her birth family. Crawford, fearful the birth parents might seek to regain I finally did it but with Denny's help. two kids but he didn't know the circumstances or where we relocate to Memphis. For the girls, childhood was found their father living in an old white farmhouse on the edge of a West Tennessee cotton 1932 from TCHS, but her search reached a dead end when her records were in Memphis home to her sprawling Brentwood, Calif., mansion, in the summer of


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