Hi, Marsha, I decided to send this info along to the whole list after replying privately to the initial posting. I also have a relative - my gg grandfather's sister - who belonged to this Order, and have done quite a bit of research regarding them. The Order was founded in Montreal - Sr. Marguerite D'Youville - and spread from there across the US and Canada. They have very extensive records - from the very beginning. The Archives for the American Province (as they refer to it) is in Lexington, MA. I do not have the address or phone number right at hand, but have spoken with Sisters there and in Montreal, as well as Calgary, and Winnipeg (my Grey Nun served early on, and for about 50 years, in the western parts of Canada when it still took 28 days to get from Montreal to Winnipeg. These were brave women. I recently got a book from Winnipeg on Interlibrary Loan that was written by one of the Sisters and gave a lot of insight into the early years in the "west" and just what they had to endure. The Sisters sent reports back to the Mother House in Montreal weekly, and these records have been maintained. I also have a lovely necrology for my Sr. Mary O'Brien that tells of all the places she served and a lot of insight into her life. Since she was born and raised in NY (very near the Canadian border), her primary duty was teaching English - most of the Sisters were French-speaking - and she was bi-lingual. She also served as Mother Superior at one point in one her stations "in the west" - all this before 1914. I have also found that most religious orders - both nuns and priests - maintain quite good records. Sometimes the hardest part is finding out which order you need :) I have found info on 2 priests and 3 nuns so far - just found I have 1 more too research in an order I am already familiar with - and they have all been great to work with. I hope this encourages those with "religious" relatives to pursue them. Info on one of my priests led me to the burial location for his parents - alongside him! -- Candy_B cbservices@monmouth.com Researching Bennett, Cooper, Vanderveer, Woolley & related families in NJ Researching O'Brien, Brown, Boyle, Cavanaugh, Noonan, Fitzgerald, Spellman, Messier (Macey), LaCroix (Cross), Blais (Blair), Durand, Simonneau, Chabbot (Jabbot, Jabaut), Boucher, Sharron and related families in NY, New England and Quebec