If you want a persian...you're going to have a major shedding problem. lol. We've got a persian mix of some sort....he sheds worse than our lab.
You could look in the paper. Sometimes it's just a matter of being in the right place at the right time. That's what happened for both of our cats. We were talking about getting a black female kitten - next day went over our friends house to make jam and she had found a female black kitten. We were in the PetsMart parking lot talking about getting a male kitten as a compainan - a lady walked up to us and said she found a litter by her house. Strange how stuff happens like that...
Good luck!!