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Incorporated Charities

This is an ongoing project and each of the orphan homes below will have a history and interesting information from 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

Be sure to check the index to Orphan Home Records for New York for names of children transcribed from various census years.

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    • St Joseph's Male Orphan Asylum, Syracuse
    • St John's Female Orphan Asylum, Utica
    • St Luke's Home, for Indigent Christian Females, New York
    • St Mary's Boys' Orphan Asylum,Rochester
    • St. Mary's German Orphan Asylum, Buffalo New York
    • St Mary's Orphan Asylum, Canandaigua
    • St Mary's Orphan Asylum, Clifton
    • St Mary's Orphan Asylum, Dunkirk
    • St Patrick's Orphan Asylum, Newburgh
    • St Peter's German Roman Catholic Association, Rondout
    • St Stephen's Orphan Asylum, New York
    • St Thomas' Orphan Asylum, Batavia
    • St Vincent De Paul Orphan Asylum,Syracuse
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    • Susquehanna Valley Home andIndustrial School for Indigent Children, Binghamton
    • Syracuse Home Association
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    * source: Board of State Commissioners of Public Charities of the State of New York, 1870; Argus Company, Printers, Albany Table XVI., p. 198-201, *transcribed & submitted by Linda Conpenelis Schmidt, 7 July 2007. . Published on Olive Tree Genealogy with permission

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