Hi again, I am interested in the history of the "Boston Lying-In Hospital," as it "might" have been a place where my grandmother was taken as a "foundling." That is, IF she was a foundling. (I don't believe the family story that this happened on Feb. 1, 1889.) This page mentions that "old records" of this hospital are at the "Harvard Medical Library." http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~med00056 This site mentions the merging of several hospitals in Boston: https://www.countway.harvard.edu/lenya/countway/live/menuNavigation/historicalResources/collectionsChm/bwhArchives.html There are many sites which mention this hospital. Betty (near Lowell, MA) FYI: I think it's Simmons College which has a large "archives center," and it holds old records I am interested in. But, I'm told that the records are "in storage" and are not available to the general public. FYI: Many people know that the "NY Times" has now put the articles from their newspaper going back MANY years on-line. I just found one from 1895 which mentions the "Chardon Street Home." http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9906E1DC103AE533A25757C1A9659C94649ED7CF The "Chardon Street Home" was the alternate name for "The Temporary Home for Women and Children" which was located on (then) Chardon Street. It still exists but it is now New Chardon Street. I think I read that it started out on Tremont St. (IF "family stories" are to be believed, my grandmother would have spent from Age 10 to ~20 in Downtown Boston, first on Washington St., and then on Chardon St.)