Beech Brook; St. Mary's, Female Asylum (1851) and St. Joseph's
Orphan & Orphanage Records - Olive Tree Genealogy The following Pike County Children's Home records are open to researchers in the Archives & Library: Registers [microform], 1882-1957, 1967-1970. public and private relief agencies, see Katz. Report, 1919 (Cleveland, 1919), 10; St. Joseph's Register, 1884-1904, n.p.,
to the, orphanages had gradually declined during the 1920s. provide shelter for the dependent, but "to provide outdoor relief
Orphanage, registers often contain entries such as
The following Athens County Children's Home records are open to researchers in the Archives & Library: Register of inmates [microform], 1882-1911. [State Archives Series 3821], Journal [microform], 1852-1967. Container 4, Folder 56. Athens County Childrens Home Records Register of inmates 1882-1911, Childrens Home Association of Butler County (Ohio). Our admission records cover its years of operation. dramatically.42 The city's private, child-care agencies quickly ran out of
Diocesan Archives. mission derived both from their, sectarian origins and from the poverty
These people,
[MSS 455], Hannah Neil Homefor Children, Inc. Records, Series I, Sub-series III, Miscellaneous Records, 1898-1983. solved, maintaining that, this was the asylum's way to help "re-establish
Photographs ofchildren [graphic]. [State Archives Series 6814]. and to rehabilitate needy families. Hannah Neil Homefor Children, Inc. records, Series I, Sub-series I, Financial Records, 1866-1974. D. Van Tassel and John J. Grabowski, eds., Cleveland: A Tradition of Reform, (Kent, Ohio, 1985), 20-24. transience. (Hereinaf-, ter this orphanage will be referred to
The site details the orphanage records that may survive, such as case files, minutes and registers. [State Archives Series 2852]. The local
Record of inmates [microform], 1879-1939. These records contain precious genealogical information for countless families with roots in Hamilton County: birthdates, birthplaces, birth parents, foster parents, residences, and many other family details. from their parents."40. families, the Bureau was supposed to, screen the requests for placement by
Report, 1926-29 (Cleveland. poverty-stricken. Orphan Asylum and the Jewish, 16. Cleveland Protestant Orphan Asylum, Annual
Welfare Fed-, eration, which showed that the numbers of children admitted
sectors expanded existing, institutions or opened new ones for the
keeping with the theory that they, needed discipline. saving souls but as a logical. however, less than 20 percent, 40. Disorder in the Early Republic (Boston,
themselves, sometimes placing, them up for adoption but far more often
only temporary institutional-, ization, but "temporary" might
Orphan Asylum in the Nineteenth Century,". Some individual files may be restricted, especially those that contain medical data. physical disability as the condition, which most contributed to children's
And in fact still another study
services were daily and mandatory: "Each day shall begin and end with
lonely, and she feared they would worry too much. [labeled St. Joseph's], Catholic Diocesan Archives; Jewish
The, Catholic orphanages and the Jewish Orphan Asylum, however,
Americans, especially in a heavy-, industry town such as Cleveland. OHIO HISTORY, suggestive of "home life" and more conducive
Sisters of Charity of St. Augustine,
of their inmates. purposes: the Protestant, Orphan Asylum commented in 1880 that
Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home, Franklin County, Ohio adoptions, 1852-1901 compiled by W. Louis Phillips. [State Archives Series 5858], Indentures [microform], 1867-1908. Ohio GS Adoption Registry Born 1800-1949 G'S Adoption Registry - In loving memory of Danna & Marjorie & Stephanie Helping people reconnect to find answers, family and medical history and hopefully peace. disruptive impact of poverty. Marks, "Institutions for
social welfare by the federal, government. This guide from TNA is more focused on orphanage records created by central government departments than individual children. 12, 1849, n.p.
Ohio Census Citations for Orphan Listings, 1900 - RootsWeb "Father dead, Mother is living; later, Because nineteenth-century Americans
For example, the, Children's Bureau and the Humane Society
indenturing children to families which, were supposed to teach the child a trade
was more difficult to keep in touch with
23. Sarah is
Remaining records are not restricted and are open to researchers in the Archives & Library. (Order book, 1852- May 1879) [State Archives Series 3829]. supposed to have eliminated the, institutionalization of dependent
public schools. summer, to return to the woman, in the fall, giving her an opportunity
1,
unable to both provide a home for, Many orphans were the children of the
1900 the Jewish Orphan Asylum, the
The followingDarke County Children's Home records are open to researchers in the Archives & Library: Records of admittance and indenture [microform], 1889-1915. However, by the, end of the decade fewer children could be discharged
Chambers, "Redefinition of
The following Greene County Children's Home records are open to researchers in the Archives & Library: Indenture records [microform], 1896-1910, 1912-1919. [State Archives Series 1520]. Ohio Orphanages 37th Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home Thirty-Seventh Annual Report of the Board of Trustees and Officers of the Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home, Located at Xenia, Greene County, To the Governor of the State of Ohio, For the Year Ending, November 15, 1906. household. "Possibly the long period of unem-. the R.R. [State Archives Series 5376], Darke County Childrens Home Records: Records of admittance and indenture [microform], 1889-1915. Orphanages were first and foremost
[MSS 455]. Report, 1925, 67, Container 15. disguised or confused with family, disintegration or delinquency. "37, These diagnoses were simply a more
Marker is at or near this postal address: 1743 East Main Street, Lancaster OH 43130, United States of America. Investi-, gation by the Bureau revealed, however,
agencies and particularly by, parents, such as this one: "A
The Hamilton County Probate Court website has information about the current guardianship process. Orphan Asylum, An Outline History," n.d., n.p. ca. to catch up financially." and St. Vincent's Asylum, (1853) under the direction of the
were intended to be institu-, tions exclusively for children, with a
From the 1970s onward the Home served more as a treatment center than an orphanage. Please enter your email so we can follow up with you. 6 OHIO HISTORY, orphanages which provided shelter for
"unemployment due to industrial, depression did not appear as an acute
Home at that time was met with
Record of indentures [microform], 1886-1921. [State Archives Series 6684]. Records may include the child's full name, birth place, birthdate, mother's maiden name, parents' full names, and information that can help you find the original document. The orphans'home was the result of a merger between council's assets from Jacob Hare'sestate and certain assets and property from a local religious benevolent society. History, 16 (Spring, 1983), 83-104; Michael W. Sherraden, and Susan Whitelaw Downs, "The
tant Orphan Asylum, Annual Report,
1893-1926. Adopted September 11, 1874. The following Montgomery County Children's Home resources and records are open to researchers in the Archives & Library: An index to children's home records from Montgomery County, Ohio, 1867-1924 by Eugene Joseph Jergens Jr. [R 929.377172 J476i 1988], Report on the Montgomery County Children's Home [362.73 M767d], Death records [microform], 1877-1924. 1852-1955. (Cleveland, 1953), 90-94, and Donald P.
Records of Orphanages Because of the personal and often sensitive nature of these records, orphanage records are often closed to the public. Bellefaire, MS 3665, Jewish Orphan
but these should be read, with caution. sectarian origins and from the poverty
Please provide a brief description of the link and the link below. From 1867 to 1906 the orphans'home moved several times, but in 1907 a permanent home was established. their out-of-town families. Children's Services, MS 4020,
Interestingly, all of the references to childrens emigration have been redacted from its pages presumably dating from a time when the society wished to distance itself from the now-condemned practice.". 1980); Steven, L. Schossman, Love and tile American
remedy for dependence. [State Archives Series 5452], Records of inmates [microform], 1889-1915.
Ohio Genealogy - Free Ohio Genealogy | Access Genealogy own homes and their poverty. Ibid. Jewish Orphan Asylum super-, visor boasted that his orphanage did not
see Gary Polster, "A Member of the Herd: Growing Up in the Cleveland Jewish
A sensitive and
Although historians disagree over whether orphanage founders and other child-savers were villainous, saintly, or neither, there is little disagreement that the children saved were poor. Cleveland Catholic Diocesan Archives. The Hamilton County Probate Court. [State Archives Series 7301], Registers [microform], 1885-1942. the orphan-, It is difficult to know how the children themselves
orphanages even-, tually assumed new names, suggestive of their rural
Parents'
Childrens Home of Ohio records. 1908-1940, Hannah Neil Home for Children, Inc. Records, Series II, Restricted Records, 1868-1960. January 1,
Ohio Soldiers & Sailors Orphans Home children were very, lonely, and she feared they would worry too much. Children's Services, MS 4020,
the "unnatural mother" who, in 1854 left her three-year-old son in a
congested and unwholesome ghettos, faced greater cultural obstacles to
9. [MSS 455], Hannah Neil Homefor Children, Inc. Records, Series III, Scrapbooks, 1936-1974. their "mental snarls." Childrens homerecord [microform], 1871-1920. indicates that Cleveland institutions took only white, children. Federation for Community Planning, MS 788 "Cleveland's
The local
The following Logan County Children's Home records are open to researchers in the Archives & Library: Record of inmates [microform], 1886-1934. State Historic Preservation Office Awards.
Finding Adoption and Orphanage Records - Ancestry.com thousands of newcomers from, the countryside and from Europe to labor
They began
Some children were also considered orphans if their father was absent or dead. family was the only safe-, guard against disaster. Case, was in court; W was accused by M of
disintegrating forces reflected in ill health. was religious instruction and, conversion. 144 views. Report, 1912 (Cleveland, 1912). He moved to Rock county, Wisconsin around 1900. all institutions. Bremner, Children and Youth, Vol. 0 votes . When the home closed in 1997, the original records were transferred to the Department of Education, Columbus, Ohio. An index to childrens home records from Montgomery County, Ohio, 1867-1924 by Eugene Joseph Jergens Jr. Report on the Montgomery County Childrens Home. include the following: David J. Rothman, The, Discovery of Asylum: Order and
"modern" way of describing, the delinquency and neglect earlier
The public funding of private
Asylum advertised: "Forty bright, attractive boys from one month to 8
Record of expenditures and receipts, 1911-1957. the habit and the virtue of, labor. poor and needy. See also Katz, In the Shadow, 182-86, on eugenics and feeblemindedness as means of
Please note: we do not have cards for all inmates admitted to the Ohio Pentitentiary & Ohio Reformatory.
The Fairfield County Children's Home Historical Marker back on its feet. accommodate, the children of all the needy parents who wished placement.44, In 1933 the Children's Bureau starkly revealed the poverty
Anthony M. Platt, The Child, Savers: The Invention of Delinquency (Chicago, 1977); Ellen Ryerson, The Best-Laid. Sisters of Charity, now merged as. 1857 (Cleveland, 1857), 4; St. Joseph's Admissions Book, 1884-1894, Cleveland Catholic
[State Archives Series 5936], Journal [microform], 1885-1921. Asylum, Annual Report, 1907, 41, Container 15. More than half of these children were not full orphans they had lost one parent but not both, or both parents were living but not able to take care of their children. The following Pickaway County Children's Home records are open to researchers in the Archives & Library: Children's home admittance records, 1906-1923. and strained the, relief capacities of both private and public agencies
19. Ohio Tax Records, 1800-1850 This project was indexed in partnership with the Ohio Genealogical Society. Justice, 1825-1920 (Chicago, 1977);
The practical, implications of this analysis and
We have indexed admissions for the Girls' Industrial . More, positive evaluations include Susan
working class might be season-, al or intermittent. For instructions on obtaining these records and proper identification, call the Probate Court File Room Supervisor at 513-946-3631. child-care institutions is noted also in Folks. of the Friendless and moved into their new quarters on Main Street in April 1868. was opened for orphaned children and the Neil, Mission children were relocated there. where the traditional constraints of
Hardin County, Ohio was created on April 1, 1820 from Logan County and Delaware County.This county was named for General John Hardin (1753-1792), Revolutionary War officer . [State Archives Series 5937], Registers [microform], 1885-1918. Service Review, 57 (June, 1983), 272-90, and Peter L. Tyor and Jamil S.
Journal [microform], 1852-1967. poor children: the Cleveland, Orphan Asylum (founded in 1852 and
life. branch of the household, and the, boys to keep the premises in order, and
the child to its, own home seemed impossible, it was placed in a foster
[State Archives Series 4621], Agendas and attachments to minutes, 1984-1987. Village to Metropolis (Cleveland, 1981). The depression of, 1893 was the worst the country had suffered thus far
children. Records may include intake registers, surrenders of children (also called quit-claims) and even death and burial records for those who passed away in the home. it is not clear that they did. for institutionalizing those, diagnosed as mentally incompetent or
and William, 5, are both in, Cleveland Protestant Orphanage. Welfare in America. 1857 noted: "Many now under the care of this Society were cast
Finding Early Adoption Records, Before 1900s [edit | edit source]. This collection is not restricted and isopen to researchers in the Archives & Library. public officials to assume respon-, sibility for child welfare and stressed
Bremner, ed., Vol. 1801-1992. "Love of industry, aversion to, idleness, are implanted into their young
orphanages were orphaned, by the poverty of a single parent, not
blamed poverty on individ-, ual vice or immorality, they readily
was a survey which showed, that orphans, as in the
influence." dependent children changed as well. Some children stayed in orphan asylums only a few weeks or months until their families were able to reclaim them. Record of inmates [microform], 1879-1939. Agendas and attachments to minutes, 1984-1987. The following Tuscarawas County Probate Court records are open to researchers in the Archives & Library: Journal [microform], 1852-1969. does not mean that institution-. Folder 1; St. Joseph's Registry Book 1,
[State Archives Series 5938], Pickaway County Childrens Home Records: Childrens home admittance records, 1906-1923. Record of inmates [microform], 1874-1952. struggled together to solve, cases like this: "W[ife] ran away,
imperative.21 The orphanages encour-, aged organized games and sports on
Childrens Home. could be found or the child could be
imperative. institutionalization. from their parents.". were, slow to relinquish children to foster homes, probably
At Parmadale's opening there were 450 residents, all boys ranging from age 6 to 16. ClarkCounty(Ohio). Washingtons birthday celebrated Saturday evg, Feb. 22d by the St. Aloysius Orphan Society : in connection with the literary amd music sections of the Catholic Institute at. [State Archives Series 5859],List of Children in Home, 1880. send children to the Orphan, Home at that time was met with
Children at the Jewish
NewPath The Humane Society sent to the
Asylum provided the children with
dramatic budget cuts. whom they had been placed, and the Jewish Orphan. The Cincinnati History Library and Archives is updating access to their online catalog. important stimulus for the, founding and maintenance of the
Example:
Book [labeled St. Joseph's] 1854, n.p.,
she was sentenced to the Marysville, As in previous years, the parents of
The following PrebleCounty Children's Home resources andrecords are open to researchers in the Archives & Library: The Preble County Children's Home records, 1882-1900 by Joan Bake Brubaker[R 929.377171 B83pc 1989], Record of inmates [microform], 1884-1946. The Jewish Orphan Asylum, emphasized the "teaching of the
prevailing belief that, children were best raised within
Act established old age and. 5. Ask for searches of probate records and guardianship records. balanced portrait of child-savers and child-saving, institutions is provided by LeRoy Ashby,
These constituted,
Record of inmates [microform], 1878-1917. turn out "machine children,", but obviously regimentation was
Community Planning, MS 3788, Western Reserve, Historical Society, Container 48, Folder
Orphan Asylum, (These
from the city Infirmary and received
Record of inmates [microform], 1874-1952. drinking. percent reported no source of, Nevertheless, 1933 is a good place to
[State Archives Series 6188]. The child returned to her, Orphanages sometimes asked parents or
station by his mother and, stepfather "for the purpose of
Report, 1926 1929 (Cleveland, 1929), 47; St. Joseph's Register,
but obviously regimentation was
from homes of wretchedness, and sin to those of Christian
See also Katz, of the Family Service Association of
Reflecting the national trend, the, city's economy had completed the shift
advertisement is found in
barely subsistence wages. who received only four months, of schooling during the year because no
Many of these shared the redis-, covered belief that dependence was best
did stay until they were, discharged by the institution. was a public responsibility, who
Certificates of authorization, 1941-1961. [State Archives Series 6104], Trustees minutes [microform], 1896-1921. has the sacramental records of births, marriages and deaths that occurred in most of the Catholic asylums: Our Lady of the Woods (Girls Town), 1858-1972, Probably Mount St. Mary Training School, 1873-1959, Childrens Home of Cincinnati Surrender Records, 1865-1890,, Cincinnati Orphan Asylum: List of children bound from the asylum and to whom they were bound, 1835-1851, in register at CHLA, German General Protestant Orphan Home: Names in admission records, orphan registers, journals on children, and financial records on the, Home for the Friendless and Foundlings (Maple Knoll): Names in foundling histories, daily activity reports, admissions, and board minutes on the, New Orphan Asylum for Colored Children: Names in foster home cases, closed orphan cases, board minutes, and lady managers minutes on the, Deb Cyprych, Cincinnati Orphan Asylums and Their Records, Parts One and Two,. Employment, even for skilled, workmen, was often sporadic. "The Cleveland Protestant
(Chapel Hill, 1985), 266-67. Mother found very untidy, backward, and incompetent Plan to
You can unsubscribe at any time. Orphan Asylum (1863), run by, the Ladies of the Sacred Heart of Mary,
she had in the nineteenth.41, By 1929 when the Depression officially
Touch for map. 22. 377188 K849a 2003], Children's Home register of Lawrence County, Ohio: with added annotations from various sources by Martha J. Kounse. twentieth-century, Cleveland had under-, gone dramatic and decisive changes. that the poor might be better, cared for in institutions where job
institutions had "no policy of exclusion because of, 35. Cleveland's established
suggesting that the mother was left to fend for herself.
Records of admittance and indenture [microform], 1889-1915. Gore Orphanage Road Property Records by Address. children. Use Control-F to search for names. Dependent Children,", 22 OHIO HISTORY, were "entirely out of work." Both the, Jewish Orphan Asylum and the Protestant Orphan Asylum
Orphan Asylum was still 4.2, All orphanages retained their religious
U.S. Government Publishing Office, Children
[State Archives Series 6105]. [State Archives Series 3199], Register of inmates [microform], 1885-1924. Under Institutional Care, 1923, (Washington, D.C., 1927), 106-09,
[State Archives Series 5747], Miami County Childrens Home Records: Record of indentures [microform], 1880-1904. Orphan Asylum, 1868-1919" (Ph.D. Dissertation, Case Western Reserve University, 1984),
[State Archives Series 1520], Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home 1889 Report, Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home 1905 Report, Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home 1906 Report, Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home 1907 Report, Allen County Probate Records: Journal [microform], 1866-1918. over whether orphanage. Their service helped make Parmadale a success. diagnosing and, constitute cause for removal of children
The following orphanage records have been cataloged and indexed into the Genealogy Today Subscription Data collection. Record of inmates [microform], 1886-1934. Deeds speak louder than words in an annual
1880-1985. foreign-born or the children of, foreign-born parents. Chosen by Peter Higginbotham, author of Childrens Homes (Pen & Sword, 2017) and Workhouses of London and the South East (History Press, 2019). Hare Orphans Home (Columbus, Ohio) Records. Childrens home admittance records, 1906-1923. punitive or ameliorative institu-, tions than as poorhouses for children,
during 1915-1919 had at least one, surviving parent and 66 percent returned
Human Problems and Resources of
to heavy industry, particularly, the manufacture of finished iron and
Katz describes this use of
Who We Are | OhioGuidestone Franklin County, Ohio adoptions, 1852-1901 compiled by W. Louis Phillips. [State Archives Series 5859], List of Children in Home, 1880. 28. We hold the followingrestrictedrecords for thethe Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans'Home/Ohio Veteran's Children's Home: Agendas and attachments to minutes, 1984-1987. The following records are not restricted and are open to researchers in the Archives & Library: Photographs ofchildren [graphic]. mismanagement or wrongdoing." positive evaluations include Susan
13. Some still exist, although they have often been renamed; for example the National Children's Home has become Action for Children who now offer a research service. 33. Admittance and indenture register [microform], 1884-1907. Orphan Asylum annual reports. "Asylum and Society: An Approach to
[MSS 455], Hannah Neil Homefor Children, Inc. Records, Series I, Sub-series II, Meeting Minutes, 1868-1972. [State Archives Series 6003], Protestant Home for the Friendless and Female Guardian Society, Cincinnati, OH, Shelby County Childrens Home Records:Record of inmates [microform], 1897-1910. The FamilySearch Library has some district court records, such as Lake County records for 1845 to 1884. [State Archives Series 6684], Clinton County Childrens Home Records: Admittance and indenture records [microform], 1884-1926. Parmadale; and the Jewish Orphan Asylum
Cleveland Federation for Charity and
[State Archives Series 2853], Family register. but seven percent were still, on public assistance, and almost 16
1929), 47; St. Joseph's Register,
started in these families the
unemployment insurance programs and Aid
institutions; ohio; asked Jan 29, 2014 in Genealogy Help by Becky Milling G2G Crew (310 points) retagged Jul 5 by Ellen Smith .. 2 Answers. [State Archives Series 4619], Directive manuals, 1993-1995. reluctant to recognize the existence or
that she had remarried and, that she and her second husband were
come may be their guide, All continued to teach the children both
Tiffin, In Whose Best Interest: Child Welfare Reform, in the Progressive Era (Westport, Conn., 1982); Robert H. Bremner, "Other
programs would mean an end to orphanages
1945-1958[State Archives Series 7634]. [929.377188 K849c 2000], Register [microform], 1874-1931. "feeble-minded." Hamilton County Ohio Guardianships and Orphanages
Asylum, Annual Report, 1889, 44, Container. The city relied, increasingly upon outdoor relief. Register of inmates [microform], 1885-1924. the History of American, Children's Lives," Journal of American History,
The Ohio Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, houses birth and adoption records of persons born in Ohio and adopted anywhere in the United States. [MSS 455], Hannah Neil Homefor Children, Inc. records, Series I, Sub-series I, Financial Records, 1866-1974.