This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/VFB.2ACI/4210.1 Message Board Post: There is a convent in holyoke that goes way back to the 1870's http://www.sisofprov.org/html/history.html You can order vital records from the ma archives http://www.sec.state.ma.us/arc/arcres/residx.htm