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From: "Quest" <>
Subject: [ILROOTS] Forwarded from Message Board: Home for Feeble Minded Children, Lincoln, ca 1912
Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 00:26:06 -0500


This was posted on the Message Board. Since I have closed the gateway to
avoid Spam, etc., I will forward appropriate messages to the list.

However, if you wish to respond, please click on the following URL which
will take you to the message where it is posted on the board:

http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Fh.2ADI/4776.1.1.2


Thank you,

Karima
ILROOTS-L List Administrator


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Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2003 12:16 AM
Subject: Re: Home for Feeble Minded Children, Lincoln, ca 1912


> This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list.
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> Classification: Query
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> Message Board URL:
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> http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Fh.2ADI/4776.1.1.2
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> Message Board Post:
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> In recent times at the Illinois School for the Deaf, the student records
were held at the school for a specific period of time. Then, the files were
sent to Springfield. So, there is very little information at the school
itself on students...except for what has been gathered by our wonderful
museum. I would think that those very old files would have been sent to
Springfield from Lincoln, too. Your contact was right about
confidentiality. It is very difficult to get any kind of information about
students/residents of any of the state institutions, especially those in the
mental health area. I think that there is a finding aid on the internet
that is a descriptive inventory of the Archives holdings. If you haven't
checked it, it would be worth reading. (There is an old descriptive
inventory in printed form from the 1980s.) Kathleen (STANFIELD) COOK,

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