here is another one found on same list -- if you are a "newbie" to either genealogy or computers and don't flame people for their mistakes this list or the gen-newbie ones are for you. (more experienced can also subscribe -- they are the ones guiding the newer ones). A list is what you are on for this Sandidge exchange -- and you can choose -d for digest form if you don't like the individual messages. Enjoy/Judy M. >Subject: Serious: Epidemic Time Frames >-----Original Message----- >From: DBaker3381 >Sent: Friday, March 27, 1998 8:20 PM >To: NEWGEN >Subject: Serious: Epidemic Time Frames > > > >"In case you ever wondered why a large number of your ancestors >disappeared during a certain period in history, this might help. > >Epidemics have always had a great influence on people - and thus >influencing, as well, the genealogists trying to trace them. Many >cases of people disappearing from records can be traced to dying >during an epidemic or moving away from the affected area. Some >of the major epidemics in the United States are listed below: > > 1657 Boston Measles > 1687 Boston Measles > 1690 New York Yellow Fever > 1713 Boston Measles > 1729 Boston Measles > 1732-3 Worldwide Influenza > 1738 South Carolina Smallpox > 1739-40 Boston Measles > 1747 CT,NY,PA,SC Measles > 1759 N. Amer [areas inhabited by white people] Measles > 1761 N. Amer and West Indies Influenza > 1772 N. America Measles > 1775 N. Amer [especially hard in NE] epidemic Unknown > 1775-6 Worldwide [one of the worst epidemics] Influenza > 1783 Dover, DE ["extremely fatal"] Bilious> Disorder > 1788 Philadelphia and New York Measles > 1793 Vermont [a "putrid" fever] and Influenza > 1793 VA [killed 500 in 5 counties in 4 weeks] Influenza > 1793 Philadelphia [one of the worst epidemics] Yellow Fever > 1793 Harrisburg, PA [many unexplained deaths] Unknown > 1793 Middletown, PA [many mysterious deaths] Unknown > 1794 Philadelphia, PA Yellow Fever > 1796-7 Philadelphia, PA Yellow Fever > 1798 Philadelphia, PA [one of the worst] Yellow Fever > 1803 New York Yellow Fever > 1820-3 Nationwide [starts-Schuylkill River and spreads] "Fever" > 1831-2 Nationwide [brought by English emigrants] Asiatic Cholera > 1832 NY City and other major cities Cholera > 1837 Philadelphia Typhus > 1841 Nationwide [especially severe in the south] Yellow Fever > 1847 New Orleans Yellow Fever > 1847-8 Worldwide Influenza > 1848-9 North America Cholera > 1850 Nationwide Yellow Fever > 1850-1 North America Influenza > 1852 Nationwide [New Orleans-8,000 die in summer] Yellow Fever > 1855 Nationwide [many parts] Yellow Fever > 1857-9 Worldwide [one of the greated epidemics] Influenza > 1860-1 Pennsylvania Smallpox > 1865-73 Philadelphia, NY, Boston, New Orleans} {Smallpox Baltimore, Memphis, Washington DC} {Cholera [A series of recurring epidemics of:} {Typhus {Typhoid {Scarlet Fever {Yellow Fever > 1873-5 N. America and Europe Influenza > 1878 New Orleans [last great epidemic] Yellow Fever > 1885 Plymouth, PA Typhoid > 1886 Jacksonville, FL Yellow Fever > 1918 Worldwide[high point yr] more people were {Influenza hospitalized in WWI from this epidemic than wounds. US Army training camps became death camps, with 80% death rate in some camps > > Finally, these specific instances of cholera were mentioned: > > 1833 Columbus, OH > 1834 New York City > 1849 New York > 1851 Coles Co., IL , The Great Plains, and Missouri > > >