You have to be really careful in IN who you pay to search for you.
Did you go to Amy's blog she has some good info and she will point you in the right direction as to a searcher,she has a little history on most of them.She has a blog on Yahoo too you might try it to.
I am helping a girl now trying to find her birth mother and hers was a private adoption. The clerks office in the county she was born in has nothing on her birth and she has written Indianapolis for what they call her non id and it has been over a year and nothing.We called there today and the ONE woman that runs the office is out on vacation until next week.
And as far as the 1940 census they haven't released it yet, all we can use is the 1930.Or I mean that is the latest census.
It is really hard to get ahold of adoption records in IN, and I don't understand why someone over 21 can't have access to their records.
But now that I have hung all the crepe,I wish you all kinds of good luck.