This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: RegNMINiles Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.newyork.counties.kings/16488.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I have a bibliography concerning adoption. It has this entry: NOVA, Algernon I. (1881- ). How My Institution Is Emptying Itself and Why. New York: Child Welfare Committee of America, 1928. 11 p. (Child Welfare Committee of America. Publication, no. 49). Judge Nova was then president of the Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum. He discusses the switch to foster family care. He omits the history of the institution, which seems to have become (by 1959) the Jewish Youth Services of Brooklyn; the latter was absorbed (1960) by the Jewish Child Care Assn. of New York. Also: Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum. The Institution That Emptied Itself: 65th Annual Report... [Brooklyn? NY], 1944. __ p. Cf. BANK, Jules, A Study of 108 Boys Discharged from the Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum. Cf. Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum, Annual Report. In the past I gave permission to Triadoption to provide free access to a directory I published in 1982: Adoption Agencies, Orphanages and Maternity Homes: An Historical Directory. Check page 232 at http://www.triadoption.com/AAOMH/New York.pdf Reg Niles Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.