Might not be a bad idea, doesn't hurt to try. I know of one case where someone had their records unsealed due to American Indian ancestry (wanted to join an Indian tribe). It worked, the records were unsealed. Probably sympathetic to the natives - lol.
Tell them you're suspicious you may have Indian ancestry and want to research the tribe you came from !!!
Heck, I know through my adoptive family I have Indian Heritage, too! LOL My (adoptive) paternal mother’s Grandmother(?) was a Cherokee Indian woman who (according to the family story) was on the trail of tears and was hurt and couldn’t continue on... Our family took her in and she ended up marrying one of the sons when they fell in love...
My adoptive family’s heritage is so rich and wonderful, it makes me upset that I can’t research my bloodline. I’ve “adopted” my husband’s family as my own (for my kids) basically, and have researched his back to Poland (which becomes very hard due to all the divisions over the years... One polish family ended up being in Prussia, and on the other side were from Galicia (both Polish families stuck under the rule of others...). It’s hard to research back beyond the ones that came over here in the late 1880s, and then in 1918(? - for the one from Galicia, right after WWI).
Anyway, that’s an interesting idea... I’m just hoping that when I write to IL that my Mother/Father/Aunt/Uncle/sibling etc... might have already registered and want to meet me. That would make things a LOT easier. The only thing that bothers me is that IL requires you to fill out a medical record in order to register for free - otherwise you need to pay $40.00. Don’t know which I want to do... I suppose the Gov’t will have my records soon enough, so perhaps it doesn’t matter all that much if IL has a record of my health... Plus, it’s only AFTER I register with IL that my adoption agency will even release my Non-ID info. now (don’t quite get that). THEN after that is the decision to search if possible... but only through an intermediary... (and the Non-ID costs >$300.00, and then the search costs even more...). Very frustrating!
Sorry to pull this thread off-topic a bit. Thanks so much for the ideas! :)