In my experience some censuses listed the woman by the name she took as a nun; in a couple of other instances I have found her surname listed prior to her religious name. I did not search the censuses by the name of the convent or religious institution, but rather by the individuals name. It can be tricky so you need to pull out all the stops. Good luck! ----- Original Message ----- From: <m.mullikin@att.net> To: <paadams@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 11:44 PM Subject: [PAADAMS] St. Joseph Academy >I have just learned that an ancestor of mine was a nun belonging to the >order of Sisters of St. Joseph of Chestnut hill in Philadelphia, >Pennsylvania. She taught at St. Joseph Academy in McSherrystown, PA, and on >March 28, 1904 died there. Does anyone know how I can go about finding the >convent there in the census files? How do you go about finding nuns in the >census? Her name was Julia Farrell, but as a nun she was known as Sister >Mary Peter. Any help will be appreciated. > -- > Monica Mullikin > Goose Creek, South Carolina > > > ********* > Visit the threaded archives of this list: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PAADAMS > ********* > Messages posted to the RootsWeb/Ancestry PAADAMS Message Board are > gatewayed to this Mailing List. Remember that the author of gatewayed > messages may not be a list subscriber so please reply to gatewayed > messages by clicking on the link and replying on the board. > ************ > Visit the ADAMS County, Pennsylvania USGENWEB Project at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~paadams/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PAADAMS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >