What You Might Discover about the Nun in Your Life
What if you got to thinking about the nun who taught you 11th-grade biology and pointed you in your career direction thirty years ago. Or you were in a serious car accident while attending law school and never properly thanked the gentle sister who nursed you back to health. You never knew your great-great-aunt Silvia, or course, but you need to find out what became of her after she entered the convent, if you’re going to finish your family history.
No matter the scenario, our new book, Searching for Sisters, by Sunny Jane Morton, is your best bet for finding the nun in your life or heritage. Among other things, Ms. Morton shows you how to identify Catholic women religious orders and locate their archives. She also explains how to look for sisters and nuns in other kinds of records, as well as how to find other people in records kept by women religious.
But what exactly might you find out about a women religious that could inspire you to undertake the search? The range of possible finds is extensive, and Sunny Morton spells them out on pp. 31-32 of her book. We’ve reproduced that list below.
