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Genealogy and family history in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Michigan, and neighbor and feeder states

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Showing posts with label orphanages. Show all posts

Showing posts with label orphanages. Show all posts

Thursday, February 12, 2015

Why was the first public orphanage built in 1790 in Charleston, South Carolina?

In the Winter 2015 issue of the Utah Genealogical Association's quarterly Crossroads , I review John F. Murray's book, The Charlesto...

Friday, December 18, 2009

Bookends Friday: Second Home

What institutions affected poor children the most in the 1800s and early 1900s? Churches? Check. Public schools? Check. And number three? Ac...

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

A county you wish your ancestors had been orphaned in -- well, sort of

From 1891 to 1899, La Porte, Indiana, was the location of Julia E. Work's Northern Indiana Orphans' Home. A group of 16 prominen...

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