My third Great Grandfather entered and was discharged from the Blockley Alms House ( later known as Philadelphia General Hospital) several times. He finally died and was buried there. The "Poorhouse Story" is a very good website. This Alms house was where the University of Pennsylvania is now located. Family History Centers can access the Alms House records that were microfilmed from the Philadelphia Archives. Bob Marlton, NJ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Susan McIntyre" <sbmc2@chartermi.net> To: <philly-roots@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2012 6:48 PM Subject: Re: [Phly-Rts] Almshouse > Your posting reminded me of a site I bookmarked a number of years ago > titled "The Poorhouse Story". > http://www.poorhousestory.com/ > If you click on the "Poorhouses by State". Choose Pennsylvania - then > Philadelphia you will find some very interesting history on some > Philadelphia poorhouses. Clicking on "Collections of the Philadelphia > City Archives" in the Records section will give you some idea of what > records are available to help your research. > > Good Luck, > Susan McIntyre > > > > On 2/19/2012 5:39 PM, mom mchale wrote: >> Bridget Owens died September 1886, one death certificate lists 7th ward >> 2307 Franklin Street the other lists Almshouse. >> Anyone have an ideas where Almshouse would be and if they would have any >> information on Bridget. >> Thanks, looking for any way to go from here. >> Marian in Virginia Beach >> >> > > > > ********* > Visit the threaded archives of this list: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PHILLY-ROOTS > ********* > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PHILLY-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >