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From: "David Peters" <>
Subject: Re: [PA-HISTORY-L] Re: PADAUPHI-HISTORY-D Digest V01 #1
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:52:03 -0500


Linda- I don't have an answer to your query,but your friend might try
records of the the Carlisle Indian School,the school was about 20 miles from
Harrisburg,some students stayed in the area, Good Luck David Peters

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>From: Linda Marker <>
>To:
>Subject: [PA-HISTORY-L] Re: PADAUPHI-HISTORY-D Digest V01 #1
>Date: Mon, Jan 15, 2001, 6:25 AM
>

> Hi Group,
> I'm new to the list, but need a little help here: My best
> friend was adopted, and wants to begin the search for his roots. Thinks
> he is Native American (and looks it) Says his adoptive father took him
> to the county home when he was a child and told him that this man (at
> the county home) was responsible for the adoption. Does anyone know if
> possibly Children's Services could have had an office location in the
> Dauphin County home in the 1940's? Or would it be more likely that
> the mother could have been a patient there? Where would the county home
> have been located then?
> In my county (Somerset) the county home later became the State
> Hospital. Is that true for Harrisburg too?
> Thanks in advance for any help with this
> start. Linda Marker
>
>

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