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A Census Guide to Oklahoma's Poor Farms, Orphanages, Sanitariums and Institutions
[The original link is broken. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]
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Allen County, Indiana Poor Asylum Records, (now Byron Health Care Center), Registers for 1853-1939
Database from The Genealogy Center, Fort Wayne & Allen County, Indiana Resources.
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Almshouse Admission Foreigners & Nativity Records with Ships Names 1855-1858 (New York City, NY)
Searchable database of Almshouse records of New York City 1855-1858. These records provide immigration details, ages, places of birth and more. They list immigrants to Quebec, Montreal, New York, Philadelphia, New Orleans and Boston.
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Ancestry.com - New York, Census of Inmates in Almshouses and Poorhouses, 1830-1920 $
Original source: New York. State Board of Charities. Census of Inmates in Almshouses and Poorhouses, 1835
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Historical information of this city government agency and a description and location of its records from the Philadelphia Information Locator System.
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Charles Booth's survey of Life and Labour in London 1886 - 1903. The survey interviewed workers and families to discover the level of poverty of Londoners at the turn of the century.
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Return of destitute poor removed from England to Ireland, from 1 December 1860 to 1 December 1862; the port of departure in England and the port of arrival in Ireland; also the number of years each person had resided in England; and the cause for and date of each removal.
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Jeff Knaggs - Genealogy - 1901 Institutions
Index to Institutions in the 1901 census of England & Wales.
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JoDaviess County Almshouse Registers Index (1846
Compiled by the Illinois Regional Archives Depository System, Northern Illinois University.
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Admissions, deaths, discharges 1856-1888.
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Ogle County Almshouse Register Index, 1878
Ogle County, Illinois. Compiled by the Illinois Regional Archives Depository System,
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New York. Includes inmate, deaths, and bound-out children transcriptions.
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From the NEGenWeb Project.
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State Records of South Australia - Destitute Asylum
The first Ordinance relating to the maintenance of the destitute was passed in 1843. The Destitute Board was appointed in 1849 and was responsible for overseeing and relieving those who had no means, or relatives, to support themselves.
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Surrey County Council - Richmond Poor Law Union application and report books
Free downloadable PDF files. The application and report books are a record of those applying for poor relief for the Richmond Union workhouse.
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