ID# 429:
 Charles Davenport note on information sources for ERO
Date:
1910
Pages: 1 of 1
Source:
 American Philosophical Society, Dav, B:D27.,Harriman, Mrs. E.H.
Charles Davenport note on information sources for ERO

Records to be studied 1. Insitutions 2. Private practitioners' records 3. Life Insurance Companies 4. Gymnasiums [illegible]college 5. Town or state records of births marriages deaths [strikeout]causes[end strikeout] of deaths 6. Rogues galleries & police records, Court records 7. Manuscript of tax poll lists. 8. College records. Special Records;- -- Family Records. Skin and hair color [illegible] Records for special traits U.S. maps showing migrations of families over the country In Library;- City and county [illegible] directions Genealogies Town reports Census returns Reports of Institutions [strikeout - illegible] Anthropological reports and periodicals Biographies of Americans [strikeout - illegible] Racial charities Books on Heredity, Breeding, etc. Tax and poll lists. [strikeout - illegible] Local Newspapers [strikeout - illegible] Special Collections: Photography Hair samples Finger prints Co-operation 1. U. S. Census 2. Life Insurance Companies 3. Institutions (public and private) [strikeout - illegible] 4. [strikeout - illegible] Bureaus of Charities 5. " " of Immigrants 6. Police Departments 7. Settlement workers and settlements 8. Alumni associations and patriotic societies 9. Benefit societies Office in Washington to work in connection with U. S. Census

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