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From: Carol C-H <>
Subject: Chicago - St. Ann's School
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 11:47:35 -0500


Any assistance or advice would be appreciated! I am attempting to assist a
friend who is trying to find ancestors with no success. Her mother, b.
1920, was orphaned in Tennessee - she and her siblings were placed in a
"county poor house" there, and in 1927 they were turned over to the state
Children's Home Society. The siblings were apparently all adopted in TN -
my friend's mother died recently and was only aware of two siblings, though
there may have been others - more are mentioned on some of the paperwork my
friend has obtained.

My friend's mother somehow wound up in the Chicago House of the Good
Shepherd. We have no idea why, but she was placed there by "Miss Georgina
Tann".

Correspondence with a Research Archivist at the Archdiocese of Chicago
states that House of the Good Shepherd students' transcripts no longer
exist, but info from St. Ann's School, part of the House of the Good
Shepherd (index cards and admittance records) was sent, and indicates that
my friend's mother was admitted in 1930. Two birthdates (in 1915 and 1917)
were on the index card and register, though the register stated she was 15
(having been born in 1915, and this was 1930), and was "returned to those
who placed her" in 1941 - if she'd been born in 1915, she'd have been age
26 when she was returned? Anyhow, it is all very confusing, with so many
conflicting reports, and records out of TN are no more helpful.

Any ideas, so far as House of the Good Shepherd records are concerned??

Carol C-H <> http://www2.netdoor.com/~cch/
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