Sue This link might give you where to write and what orphans records are available. Some think that this link is just for Brooklyn but it has NYC and a great resource. _http://www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com/Orphan/index.html_ (http://www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com/Orphan/index.html) Shirley in Tx In a message dated 3/3/2008 6:07:26 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, suemaxwell@comcast.net writes: 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 Jim Garrity, List Administrator jimgarrity@earthlink.net ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NYNEWYOR-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message **************It's Tax Time! Get tips, forms, and advice on AOL Money & Finance. (http://money.aol.com/tax?NCID=aolprf00030000000001)