Hello Eliz & Tootsie.... Thank you both for your response and offer to look in the 1910 Census for my orphans. I have already done so and the children of my focus are not indexed by their biological surname, WHITTERN, using the correct spelling or any corruption /mis-spelling of the name that I have been able to think of. The problem, as I see it, with using this approach is that the sisters (Julia & Lillian, ages 6 & 5 years) were given to the Asylum in 1902 and by 1910 were more than likely adopted by someone and using the new surname of their adopting parents. The children's surnames were likely changed not once (adoption) but twice if you consider the fact that they probably both married at some point... perhaps as early as 1915-1920. I have looked in the Cuyahoga County Historical Marriage Index for both the sisters and their mother's marriage with no success. This is a toughie and although I am not giving up I am discouraged. Of course, locating the records for the Cleveland Protestant Orphan Asylum would be the key to unlocking the mystery all these many years later. Can anyone help with the census page for the 'CPOA' in the 1910 Cuyahoga County Census? Bette > If you give me the name you are hunting maybe I can find it in the 1910 > Miracode and that will give the ED. Okay so it is the hard way <G> but might work > <G> > eliz