All of your suggestions and ideas have been good. Will put them to use when I visit Hancock Co. in October. Again, the time frame that I'm looking for is 1886-1897. Don't know the name of the school, but, as far as I know, (Mary) Josephine BURNS lived in Findlay. She may have lived at times with the Godfrey NUSSER family, or the John A. ALTMAN family, or the T. C. WERTS family, or the Philip A. BOLANDER family, or the Norman McCAHAN, or the James LATHAM, or William WOLFE, or Harry L. THOMAS families. These were the husbands of her aunts. I rather doubt that she spent time in an orphan's home, with all these aunts to take care of her, but that is a possibility. Thanks again to everyone that sent ideas. Linda Sayre