Lots of success! On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Cheryl Tait <[email protected]>wrote: > Once again, Shirley, Thank you! You are a treasure! I had no idea where to > start, (and I don't mind begging at all.) > Cheryl > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "S. Olfert" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, October 18, 2009 11:49 AM > Subject: Re: [ NB ] Adoprion Records > > > > Hi Cheryl, > > > > Here's a brief writeup on the orphanage by Ruby Cusack. > > > > http://www.rubycusack.com/issue422.html > > > > I managed to get a copy of of the booklet mentioned but there isn't much > > concerning the children - most > > of it is on the who the administrators were. > > > > The records are held by the Post-Adoption Dept. of the New Brunswick > Govt. > > I would contact them and "beg" > > especially if you're needing records for someone before the 1900s. They > > did > > keep fairly good records. > > > > I found that many people used the Orphanage as a place for their children > > following a death of a spouse. The > > parent would make a nominal payment each month for their upkeep. They > > were > > not all necessarily placed with > > the Orphanage permanently. > > > > The reason the records can't be opened as yet is because it wasn't that > > long > > ago that the Orphanage closed > > and it's a privacy law. > > > > Shirley > > > > > > > > On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 7:06 AM, Cheryl Tait <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > >> Hi List > >> Does anyone know how to access information concerning earliest records > >> from > >> the Protestant Orphanage in Saint John? > >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >> List Announcements can be found at > >> http://www.rootsweb.com/~nbcharlo/nblistann.htm > >> ------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the > >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > List Announcements can be found at > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nbcharlo/nblistann.htm > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > List Announcements can be found at > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nbcharlo/nblistann.htm > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >