Anyone known where in Cuyahoga Co can be found the records or any information about an orphanage that was in Painesville, Lake Co, OH in the 1870s? When it closed supposedly the records were taken to the Cleveland area. It supposedly only took in girls, and somewhere I heard that my grandfather's sisters were placed there after their mother died leaving seven children.

Bill and Peg, I too am searching of an orphanage in Ohio.... Mine used to be called St Anne's Foundling home on the Eastside of Cleveland. Came to find out it had a fire. Having difficulty getting information. My mother was adopted out of there, born 3/27/24.... named Mary Elizabeth Smith at birth.... Any connection or ring a bell? The only thing I have been able to learn (don't know if its right or not, supposedly my grandmother came from Port Rowan,Ontario before having my mother) Sharon