Finding Women Religious
Are you wondering, “Whatever happened to Great-Aunt Caroline after she became a Maryknoll Sister?” Maybe you want to track down the beloved Sister Josephine who taught you algebra in the 8th grade. Or you’d like to know where the inhabitants of a local nunnery went after they sold their property in your neighborhood.
No matter the reason, Sunny Jane Morton’s new book, Searching for Sisters: Researching Catholic Nuns in the United States is your best bet for tracking down a missing Sister. The good news is that there is a lot of surviving information about women religious. By one estimate more than 80% of Catholic women’s orders possess some archives. Ms. Morton shows you how to find the one you’re looking for, how to contact them, what records to request, and much more.
