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From: "Kemis Massey" <>
Subject: Fw: POORHOUSE Information
Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2002 09:35:36 -0400


Researching: Duke, Evans, Hickey, Mays, Rosamond, Songer, and Camp for me
Researching: Brooks, Chambers, Massey, Fountain, and Smith for my hubbie

Hi,
I received this from another email list. I looked at it for GA, it's not a lot. But it's a start. Maybe you can find something for you.
kemis


From: Poor House Lady
Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2002 7:51 AM
Subject: POORHOUSE Information

The POORHOUSE STORY (a clearinghouse for information about 19th century American
poorhouses) at http://www.poorhousestory.com

We just posted a lot of new material and have almost totally reorganized
your page. That's because so many of you responded to our questions with a
great deal of more specific information. When we used your photos or quotes
we cited you as the source. But we want to thank the many of you who simply
offered suggestions or clarifications. And that's the best way for a
clearinghouse to work! Among other things, there is a new photo album and a
timeline based on quoted excerpts from many of your local histories, etc.

Here is a tip to help you follow all of this: FIRST there was a city
almshouse in Poughkeepsie, then that almshouse became a county poorhouse,
then the city & county divided up their poor relief system, and the county
built a new county poorhouse in 1863 in Oak Summit near Millbrook in the
town of Washington, and then the city of Poughkeepsie built a new City
almshouse on the old site in 1868-69. Whew!

IMPORTANT NOTE! If you want to see the latest information posted ... you
will probably need to click REFRESH or RELOAD on every page to which you go
that you may have visited recently.

DIRECTIONS:

At the homepage (link above) click on POORHOUSES BY STATE, then on
on your state on the table of states, and then if the county is there, click on it. If you have been to the
website recently you may have to click REFRESH or RELOAD on the browser to
see the new information.

There are other pages on the site which may give you some interesting
perspective on poorhouses. They are off the homepage and include: the
HISTORY page and the LETTER TO GENEALOGISTS as well as FEATURED ARTICLES.
There are great tips for researching poorhouse records for yourself on the
RECORDS page; and you might want to subscribe to our (almost) monthly
newletter (which you can do in the lower right corner of the homepage).

The information on our site will only grow through the submissions of
generous readers. If you would like to e-mail me ... please do so off-list
because I cannot maintain subscriptions to as many lists as we post messages
on. (You can use an e-mail link off one of our web pages.)

We hope you enjoy the site!

Thanks,
Linda Crannell
(aka=The Poorhouse Lady)


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