Adoption record received

My close DNA  match "Gail", was finally granted access to her late mother's adoption record.

We hoped it would identify the birth father. The mother was identified but the father was listed as Unknown. But the time and place fits the same pattern as another illegitimate child fathered by my uncle John Henry Buchanan.

So he is probably the father. The records of the other adoption fully identify him.

The other possibilities are Dad and his father. I consider Dad as unlikely because it seems totally out of character. Of course I never knew Dad when he was a 20 year old. His father seems even less likely because of the difference in age between him and a teenaged girl. The people in question are deceased and unable to provide additional information.

It is too bad the adoption records failed to give the answer we were hoping for.