29 July 2009

Jewish orphanages site updated

A website offering information on U.S. Jewish orphanages has been updated.

HNOH-Jewish Orphanages additions include:

The Welcome Page: A link to "Adoption Agencies, Orphanages and Maternity Homes: An Historical Directory." Volumes 1 and 2 are searchable, listing all U.S. and Canadian orphanages of all religious, ethnic, fraternal and governmental auspices.

Photo Album Page: Correction to the 1939-1940 Bar Mitzvah photo.

Memorial Page: Dates and names added.

Pride of Judea Page: Link to a Pride of Judea Video, circa 1955

Jewish Orphanage Page: Bellfaire URL correction, HOA Finding Aids for Orphanages,new URL for Home for Destitute Jewish Children

Alumni Search Page: New search requests for Shield of David, Bronx, NY; Bellfaire Children's Home, Chicago, IL; Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum, Brooklyn, NY

Orphans & Foundling Burials Page: Four new foundling burials listed in the Deborah Nursery Plot, Bayside Cemetery

Federal & State Census Page: (four new Federal Censuses added) 1900 Helping Hand Temporary Home for Destitute Jewish Children,Roxbury, MA (63 names); 1910 Helping Hand Temporary Home for Destitute Jewish Children, Roxbury, MA (76 names); 1920 Home for Destitute Jewish Children Dorchester, MA (176 names);
1930 Home for Destitute Jewish Children Dorchester, MA (106 names).

Jewish Resources Page: New URLs corrected/added.

Other Resources Page: New URLs corrected/added.

For more information, send an email.

1 comment:

  1. Anonymous1:53 PM

    For lots of historical and geneaological information about Bayside Cemetery in Ozone Park Queens, goto http://www.baysidecemeterylitigation.com and click on the History & Genealogy tab.

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