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From: "Donna Dixon" <>
Subject: [OKGREER] epidemic's
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 06:48:45 -0600

> In case you ever wondered why a large number of your ancestors
> disappeared during a certain period in history, this might help.
> Epidemics have always had a great influence on people - and thus
> influencing as well, the genealogists trying to trace them. Many cases
> of people disappearing from records can be traced to their dying during
> an epidemic or moving away from the affected area.
>
> U.S. Epidemics
> http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001460.html
> Plagues &Epidemics (from Plumber.com)
> http://www.theplumber.com/plague.html
> The American Experience: Influenza 1918
> http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/influenza/
> Plague and Epidemic in Renaissance Europe
> http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/osheim/
> If you have other epidemic links you like, please share here with us.
>
> Periods of Disease
>
> Year(s) / Region, Area, City or State / Disease
> 1657 / Boston / Measles
> 1687 / Boston / Measles
> 1690 / New York / Yellow Fever
> 1713 / Boston / Measles
> 1729 / Boston / Measles
> 1732-1733 / Worldwide / Influenza
> 1738 / South Carolina / Smallpox
> 1739-1740 / Boston / Measles
> 1747 / Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina / Smallpox
> 1759 / North America / Measles
> 1761 / North America and West Indies / Influenza
> 1772 / North America / Measles
> 1775 / North America (especially in North East) / Unknown
> 1775-1776 / Worldwide / Influenza
> 1783 / Dover, Delaware (was extremely fatal) / Bilious Disorder
> 1788 / Philadelphia and New York / Measles
> 1793 / Vermont / (a "putrid" fever) and Influenza
> 1793 / Virginia (killed 500 in 5 counties in 4 weeks) / Influenza
> 1793 / Philadelphia / Yellow Fever
> 1793 / Harrisburg, PA (many unexplained deaths) / Unknown
> 1793 / Middletown, Pennsylvania (many mysterious deaths) / Unknown
> 1794 / Philadelphia, Pennsylvania / Yellow Fever
> 1796-1797 / Philadelphia, Pennsylvania / Yellow Fever
> 1798 / Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (one of the worst) / Yellow Fever
> 1803 / New York / Yellow Fever
> 1820-1823 / Nationwide (started at Schuylkill River &spread) / "Fever"
> 1831-1832 / Nationwide (brought in by English Immigrants) / Asiatic
> Cholera
> 1832 / New York and other major cities / Cholera
> 1833 / Columbus, Ohio / Cholera
> 1833-34 / Kentucky / Cholera
> 1834 / New York City, New York / Cholera
> 1837 / Philadelphia / Typhus
> 1841 / Nationwide (especially severe in the South) / Yellow Fever
> 1847 / New Orleans / Yellow Fever
> 1847-1848 / Worldwide / Influenza
> 1848-1849 / North America / Cholera
> 1849 / New York / Chole
>

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