I wanted to share this message with all of you and particularly say thanks to both Judith and Karen for their suggestions. Elizabeth was a daughter of Austin Mattingly (8-1-1798) and Mary Ellen Clements, from the line of Thomas Mattingly, II. ******************* William, Your Catholic cousins' tips on how to locate nuns led to success. Please thank them for me. I had come across Sister Regina Mattingly of the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati, Ohio, in a Google search, but in the absence of more specific information, I hesitated to make anything of it. The 1870 census entry for "Mother Regina, 44, female, . . . born in Kentucky" gave me more reason to believe that this Sister Regina and Elizabeth Araminta could be the same person, and the advice to contact the archivist at the Mother House for information quickly yielded results. Sister Judith Metz, the archivist at the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati, Ohio, has been extremely helpful. Sister Regina Mattingly entered the Sisters of Charity at Emmitsburg August 15, 1843, and was sent to Cincinnati in August 1845. She was one of seven sisters who severed their ties to the Sisters of Charity at Emmitsburg, Maryland, and formed a new community in Cincinnati in 1852. Records in Cincinnati show that she was born Elizabeth Mattingly, December 10, 1826, near Morganfield, Kentucky. I had already located the record of Elizabeth's baptism from the University of Notre Dame Archives: Elizabeth Araminta Mattingly was baptized December 31, 1826, at Sacred Heart Church, St. Vincent, Kentucky. St. Vincent, Kentucky, is about 6 miles from Morganfield. This information, together with when Elizabeth Araminta disappears from records in Illinois (between the 1840 and the 1850 censuses) and the references on deeds in Kansas to Regina Mattingly as one of the heirs (children) of Mary Ellen Mattingly, support the identification of Elizabeth Araminta with Sister Regina Mattingly. If only I could get my hands on the records of land transactions from Knox County, Illinois, that I requested in December, I could wrap up my work on the three of George's children who eventually settled in Illinois (Austin, Henry, and Catherine Tippett) and their immediate Mattingly descendants.