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From: "David Vernon" <>
Subject: RE: [CASANFRA] Help With St. Vincent's Orphanage in San Rafael
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 09:01:41 -0400
In-Reply-To: <44A37024.3080606@yahoo.com>


Hi Ken,

You may want to try this website for the Marin County Genealogy Society.
They have a publication with a surname index, Kin Tracer, with some of the
inmates of St. Vincent's.
http://www.maringensoc.org/Resources/kintracer.htm

Also, on the webpage is a link to contact a Cathy Gowdy. At one time in the
past I did contact Ms. Gowdy and she was very helpful in checking records
for St. Vincent's that she has access to. I believe she is compiling
records for future publication so she may have access to more records than
are available from Kin Tracer.

David


-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Waters [mailto:]
Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 2:16 AM
To:
Subject: [CASANFRA] Help With St. Vincent's Orphanage in San Rafael

Hi,

It appears I have several SF ancestors who were put in the St. Vincent's
orphanage across the bay in San Rafael during the 1880-1900 period. I
discovered this when I found some familiar names in a CGS document
listing orphans in the bay area in the 1880's.

Has anyone had any experience with locating and searching records for
this location? I drove out there this past Saturday just to see where
it is. It seems to be a home now for extremely disturbed youth so I'm
sure some sort of permission has to be obtained before visiting there.

Thanks,

Ken



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