There actually were about five state psychiatric asylums in California. I copied and pasted to a file and saved it - I pretty much identified town and county where these hospitals are located. Had a little trouble with when some of them were founded. Atleast three were around in 1911. One of them has an e-mail address where one can write to them. Yours, Dora __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/