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The Orphans' Website Updates
May, 2001

	First day on-line: February 10, 2001
	First Announcements: February 16, 2001

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May 4	New Lists Added: Pennsylvania, 1900, Butler County Pennsylvania, 1900, Greene County
May 9	Three New Lists Added: Pennsylvania, 1910, 1st 250 names of St. Paul's RC Orphan Asylum, Allegheny County; this list will be put on-line in stages. Pennsylvania, 1910, Allegheny County Pennsylvania, 1910, Allegheny County
May 14-21	First Orphanage Roster Began uploading statewide, 1902, Pennsylvania Soldiers' Orphan Schools Roster. This will go up in stages, by PA county. Adams, Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Berks, Blair Counties are now on-line with 50+ counties yet to add. New Lists: Pennsylvania, 1910 Pennsylvania, 1910, next 100 names added to the St. Paul's R.C. Orphan Asylum, Allegheny County (Chartiers Twp); total is now 350 names. [St. Paul's is being uploaded in stages] Census Citations added to Notepad for Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Kansas, Iowa, and Indiana (more states to add)
May 22	Belmont County Children's Home group pictures from 1929 and 1930, and article re reunion in 1990's. The pictures and article, donated by Sandy Saboley, can be accessed from either "Orphan Genealogy on the Web" (a section in the Computer Room), or "Orphanage Factsheets" (link on homepage). Click on Belmont County Children's Home, then scroll to the footnote and click on the link.
May 23	Census Citations added to Notepad for Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, and Kentucky. (all for year 1900)
May 26	Ancestry.com has recently and graciously granted permission to the Orphans' Home Website to use their on-line census images as an additional source of lists for our transcriptions. Thank you very much, Ancestry.com! A search engine for this website has been added to the homepage. The search engine is powered by FreeFind and includes a built-in site map.
May 27-28	New Lists: Pennsylvania, 1910, next 50 names added to the St. Paul's R.C. Orphan Asylum, Allegheny County (Chartiers Twp); total is now 400 names. [St. Paul's is being uploaded in stages] Six PA counties added to Pennsylvania Soldiers' Orphan Schools 1902 Roster: Bradford, Butler, Cambria, Cameron, Carbon, and Centre counties. Additional Census Citations added to the Notepad for Illinois New additions to Graphics Credits: Background Paradise, and more art from Boogie Jack's, and EveryIcon Linkware.
May 30	Seven PA counties added to Pennsylvania Soldiers' Orphan Schools 1902 Roster: Chester, Clarion, Clearfield, Clinton, Columbia, Crawford, and Cumberland counties.

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