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July 2007 FREE Databases from Lorine

*Added thumbnail images of photos from the Civil War Era Missouri Family Photo Album Surnames: Orr, Blake, Felterner, Van Court Locations: St Louis, Missouri. 15 loose CDV photos most in St. Louis Missouri, 1860-1864 & 1869-1875. 7 identified

* added History of Various Orphan Homes in Board of State Commissioners of Public Charities of the State of New York, 1870; Argus Company, Printers, Albany. transcribed & submitted by Linda Conpenelis Schmidt, July 2007
Added * Albany Orphan Asylum
* Davenport Female Orphan Asylum, Bath
* Society for the Relief of Half-Orphan and Destitute Children, New York
* St. Mary's German Orphan Asylum, Buffalo New York
* Asylum of Our Lady of Refuge, Buffalo
* Howard Colored Orphan Asylum, Brooklyn
* Home for Homeless Girls, New York
* Colored Orphan Asylum, New York
* Southern Tier Orphans' Home, Elmira
* Thomas Asylum for Orphan and Destitute Indian Children, Erie county
* Five Points Mission, New York
* Five Points House of Industry, New York
* St Luke's Home, for Indigent Christian Females, New York
* Society for Destitute Children of Seamen, Snug Harbor

* Added a new section (with graphic examples) to help researchers Identify Ancestor Photos: Types of Early Photographs | Hints for Dating Old Photographs | Dating Old Photographs through Clothing & Hairstyle | How Revenue Stamps Can Date Ancestor Photos

* Added thumbnail images of photos from the Civil War Era CLARK NOURSE Family Album Surnames: Nourse, Tarbell, Clark, Clarke, Chandler, Huntington, Thomas, Miller, Fisk, Fiske, Mermod, Rathbun, Rathburn, Davis, Gallup, Mahon, Wahl, Wate, WOod, Holly, Sposk, McNeal, Martin, Burwell, Milton, Ladd. Locations: St Louis Missouri, Washington DC, Providence Rhode Island, Switzerland, Ohio, Boston Massachusetts, Connecticut. 53 CDVs (Cartes de Visites), circa 1860s. 52 identified by name

* Added thumbnail images of photos from the Civil War Era COLE - CHANDLER in Massachusetts Family Photo Album Surnames: Prince, Cole, Swift, Jones, Taylor, Morton, Chandler, Chase, Griffith, Bradford, Rogers, Berry, Cobb, Rickard, Fuller, Cowell, Sherman, Shaw, Waterman, Barrows, Vaughan, Leach, Randall, Colby. Locations: Taunton Massachusetts, Boston, Bridgewater, Plymouth, New York, Middleboro, Fall River, Providence Rhode Island, Brockton,

* Added thumbnail images of photos from the Oxner Family Photo Album Surnames: Oxner, Dykeman, Jonkman. Locations: Holland Michigan. This Album belonged to Adrian John Oxner, includes 2 pages of Family Register 1863 from Dykema Family Bible, 1 page register for Oxner family, 8 identified cabinet cards & tintypes, 2 business cards with photos ca 1910

* Added thumbnail images of photos from the Civil War Era Missouri Photo Album Surnames: Wilmont, Joyce, Tennant, Downey, Wood, Fowler, Fairchild, Larsen, McGuire, Durkett, Pluckett, Faby, Katy, Watson, Steeler. Locations: St Louis Missouri. 6 loose photos (CDVs) & 44 CDVs most in St. Louis Missouri. circa 1860-1880. 15 identified by name


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