I have a very complicated problem I am trying to figure out. The parents James and Anna Bloomfield are listed on the 1900 census with three of their four children: Marion Colton, Helen Leffert and James Myers. Apparently another girl named Dorothy Colton was born about 1903. Dorothy was apparently put into an orphanage at age 1. No one knows what happened to the parents, as each child was adopted, and i have the names of the persons who adopted them. The only one I can track is James, who was in the New York Orphan Asylum in 1910. So I suspect that Dorothy was there, also, but was adopted inbetween census records. Dorothy married an ancestor named Phillip Vollmer. Her adopted father is Archibald Haynes. I am having the worst trouble trying to find any of these children on early census records, even with the names of the people who adopted them. I have been working all day for several days, on ancestry, trying diff. ways to figure this all out. I can't figure out what happened to the parents, either. Does anyone have any suggestions? Would the records of this former asylum be available? Sue