I had wonderful luck with Girard College a few years ago. Cost me $50 to get the complete file on my grandfather, Zadok Sturgis, but well worth every cent. Included were copies of birth, marriage, death certificates on his family plus information they obtained after he left the school. Good luck, Kay in California > Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 15:00:29 -0700> From: nance3852@sbcglobal.net> To: philly-roots@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [Phly-Rts] Girard College Mystery> > I'm very interested in your info on Girard College. I have two family members who were sent there after their father's death. Would you please tell me if you wrote directly to the college and if there was a charge for records.> Thank you,> Nance Jones> > cdbeech@comcast.net wrote:> hello all, > It has been quite some time since I have written onlist, i recently started research again after a legnthy illness and have a sticky situation that I just cant seem to figure out.> My grandfather Albert S Poulterer was sent to Girard college in 1904 after the death of his father in 1901. He had a younger brother who I found in the 1900 census named Charles Poulterer. The 1910 census has Charles listed in the enumeration district 1209 ward 47, if I'm not mistaken this is Griard college (please correct me if I'm wrong) However, there is no trace whatesoever of Charles after 1910 and repeated requests to girard college for information have been unsuccessful, they claim he never went there, I have received my grandfathers records from girard as well as those of a William R Poulterer who i'm not sure of any relation.> So my question is this...Did girard college have any regulations as far as adoption, is it possible that Charles was adopted and his name changed (his mother was still living but very likely would have approved an adoption) my only other thought is that he died while at Girard but if that is the case there should still be some record of it.> Any help, thoughts or ideas would be appreciated!> ~dolly> > > *********> 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> > > > *********> 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 _________________________________________________________________ Change is good. See what’s different about Windows Live Hotmail. www.windowslive-hotmail.com/learnmore/default.html?locale=en-us&ocid=TXT_TAGLM_HMWL_reten_changegood_0507