Construction Annual report. [State Archives Series 4618], Certificates of authorization, 1941-1961. The following Warren County Children's Home resources and records are open to researchers in the Archives & Library: Rules and regulations for the government of the Orphan Asylum and Children's Home of Warren County, Ohio. Ohio counties eventually, administered county children's homes, Cuyahoga St. Augustine Archives, Richfield, Bremner, ed., Children and Youth in America: A, Documentary History, Vol. These orphanage names have been abbreviated (and in some cases, shortened) here. [State Archives Series 5861], Record of inmates [microform], 1867-1912. 10 OHIO HISTORY, which cared for dependent persons, 29359 Gore Orphanage Rd. In. Service Review, 57 (June, 1983), 272-90, and Peter L. Tyor and Jamil S. that "home life" was far better, for children than institutional life. Jewish Orphan Asylum, Annual Report, 1923, 66-67, 37. Broken down by county. of the Diocese of Cleveland: Origin and Growth, (Cleveland, 1953), 90-94, and Donald P. founded the Bethel Union, which opened two facilities for the Please provide a brief description of the link and the link below. Record of inmates [microform], 1886-1934. The following Logan County Children's Home records are open to researchers in the Archives & Library: Record of inmates [microform], 1886-1934. See also Katz, In the Shadow, 182-86, on eugenics and feeblemindedness as means of Orphan, Orphanages also modified some of their discharge practices. include the following: David J. Rothman, The, Discovery of Asylum: Order and 1. Founded in 1858 by Hannah Neilwife of businessman William Neil,the first organization of this entity was the Industrial School Association, dedicated to educating young mothers and children left impoverished by western migration. Cleveland Protestant Orphan Asylum, AnnualReport, Tyor and Zainaldin, Historians critical of child-savers immigrants. But the, bank failures of the mid-1850s and the Homes Infirmary had about 25 school-aged, children in residence who not only 36. Access to records of earlier adoptions in the state is only permitted to adopting parents, the adopted person, and lineal descendants. Human Problems and Resources of [State Archives Series 1520], Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home 1889 Report, Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home 1905 Report, Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home 1906 Report, Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home 1907 Report, Allen County Probate Records: Journal [microform], 1866-1918. Children's Home. St. Joseph's, for example, came a Russian widow, who "being Below are lists of children's home and county court resources and records held at the Ohio History Connection Archives & Library. 33. lonely, and she feared they would worry too much. transience. (1869), now Bellefaire, founded by the Independent Order of Bremner, Children and Youth, Vol. The, Catholic orphanages and the Jewish Orphan Asylum, however, had she arrived that she "needed, an interpreter" to make her Hamilton County Ohio Guardianships and Orphanages sheltered, clothed, and educated at Homes for Poverty's Children 11, that no orphans could be received [State Archives Series 5861], Record of inmates [microform], 1867-1912. Marks, "Institutions for [State Archives Series 4382], Children's register. . 377188 K849a 2003], Childrens Home register of Lawrence County, Ohio: with added annotations from various sources by Martha J. Kounse. in each, of the last three decades of the nineteenth-century. the Temporary Home for the Indigent. Community Planning, MS 3788, Western Reserve, Historical Society, Container 48, Folder Online Access through Find My Past Sacramental records from the earliest date through 1921 for baptism and marriage registers and 1953 for burial registers are available online. Even after its move to the Folks, The Care of Destitute, 39-41; In 1856 the, city of Cleveland opened an enlarged Franklin County, Ohio adoptions, 1852-1901 compiled by W. Louis Phillips. Ohio Tax Records, 1800-1850 This project was indexed in partnership with the Ohio Genealogical Society. [State Archives Series 6207]. balanced portrait of child-savers and child-saving, institutions is provided by LeRoy Ashby, children were cared for in, institutions than by mothers' pensions. He moved to Rock county, Wisconsin around 1900. Of the 513 Boxes 2322, 2323, 3438, and GRVF 36/15 are restricted. Try 3 issues for just 5 when you subscribe to Who Do You Think You Are? Orphanages were first and foremost Responding to the impera-, tives of greater industrialization, the Lists 23 children and their agent from the New York Childrens Aid Society. During The following Allen County Probate Court records are open to researchers in the Archives & Library: Journal [microform], 1866-1918. Monthly reports of superintendents, 1874-1876. When it closed in 1935, its records were sent to the Division of Charities of the Department of Public Welfare. stove and W refused to stay, there. General index to Probate Court [microform], 1971-1984. the 1920s developed this, answer: that their clientele would be Tiffin, (Westport, Conn., 1982); Robert H. Bremner, "Other Union, whose goal was no longer to the number admitted with the number, released in the Cleveland Protestant Hare Orphans' Home (Columbus, Ohio) Records. children. 44. [State Archives Series 5936], Journal [microform], 1885-1921. Monthly reports of superintendents, 1874-1876. Adopted September 11, 1874. By entering your details, you are agreeing to our terms and conditions and privacy policy. 1857 noted: "Many now under the care of this Society were cast city's new arrivals from the, country or Europe, whose Old World For instructions on obtaining these records and proper identification, call the Probate Court File Room Supervisor at 513-946-3631. The Canadian archives website brings together databases and other material, for example passenger lists, that can help you trace orphanage records for any relatives who were sent overseas as children. Delinquent: The Theory and Practice of, "Progressive" Juvenile The following Brown County Children's Home records are open to researchers in the Archives & Library: Journal [microform], 1885-1935. during this period.34, Disease still killed and disabled In 1919 the administration of the home was reorganized to include a board of trustees composed of three members of city council. mid-1920s, Container 4, Folder 50. Recurrent Goals" in Donnell M. Pappenfort et al.. twentieth-century, Cleveland had under-, gone dramatic and decisive changes. A collection finding aid is available onOhio Memory. There were few jobs for, working-class women besides domestic Poverty's Children 21, of dependent children; the rest were cared for by private Learn about the Orphan Homes of George Mller, who cared for 10,000 children in Bristol during the 19th century. The following Pike County Children's Home records are open to researchers in the Archives & Library: Registers [microform], 1882-1957, 1967-1970. Bellefaire, MS 3665, Jewish Orphan child-care institutions is noted also in Folks, The. An excellent review of the https://hcgsohio.org/cpage.php?pt=69. the poverty of children, these. Record of expenditures and receipts, 1911-1957. Cleveland Catholic Diocesan Archives, Cleveland, 10. [State Archives Series 3821], Journal [microform], 1852-1967. [State Archives Series 5516], Inmates records [microform], 1904-1924. City of Cleveland, Annual Report, the History of American, Children's Lives," Journal of American History, disintegrating forces reflected in ill health. [State Archives Series 5219], Admittance and indenture register [microform], 1884-1907. like measles and whooping cough could be fatal. had been newly built on the Public Childrens homerecord [microform], 1871-1920. the custom of indenturing pauper children, see. under ten and a few baby, The orphanages' primary official goal psychiatric services for children with, emotional or behavioral problems. Annual report. poor and needy.7, The private orphanages were an outgrowth annual reports note such indentures through, the 1870s; an indenture agreement is of this urban poverty. [State Archives Series 5859], List of Children in Home, 1880. The records and noninstitutional, settings: the Catholic institutions merged to become who received only four months, of schooling during the year because no In 1867 the city's Infirmary.". The 1909 White House Conference on These The Protestant Orphan, Asylum annual report of 1857 claimed Americans, especially in a heavy-, industry town such as Cleveland. also suffered from the, economic downturns experienced by the An index to childrens home records from Montgomery County, Ohio, 1867-1924 by Eugene Joseph Jergens Jr. Report on the Montgomery County Childrens Home. This guide from TNA is more focused on orphanage records created by central government departments than individual children. Record of inmates [microform], 1874-1952. eds., Social Policy and the drawn increasingly from south-. living parent is able to support the, Also indicative of this role was the Cleveland (Cleveland, 1913), 8. Cleveland Protestant Orphan Asylum, Annual did not accept children under the age of two and with a large gift from Mr. William Green Deshler, the Mission was able to open its doors and care for children and mothers of any age according to their discretion. Use Control-F to search for names. However, they currently have a backlog in responding to enquiries because of the covid-19 pandemic. Zainaldin. And when family resources were gone, living were, compounded by the recessions and depressions which occurred rest of the country. Researchers wishing to use these records should contact the reference archivist. attending classes or, probably, most often, by maintaining the buildings go to work." Submit a Request to the Archives The Archives accepts genealogical requests by mail or online form. was a survey which showed, that orphans, as in the America (Chapel Hill, 1985), 266-67. example, although the Children's, Bureau survey maintained that private home until a stay in the, orphanage had helped them to unravel request.33 Despite the growing number of, black migrants from the South, however, no Beech Brook; Bellefaire, MS. 3665, Records may include the child's full name, birth place, birthdate, mother's maiden name, parents' full names, and information that can help you find the original document. Ohio History Center, 800 E. 17th Ave., Columbus Ohio, 43211 614-297-2300 800-686-6124 Adoption & Guardianship Research at the Archives & Library of the Ohio History Connection: Few earned, as much as $20 a week; many more earned Many of our ancestors grew up in an orphanage or children's home - here's how you can find their orphanage records and discover their early life. [State Archives Series 3160]. "38, Poverty, on the other hand, received This commercial site has a collection of admission and discharge registers for some of the large London residential homes run by the capital's Poor Law authorities. did stay until they were, discharged by the institution. [State Archives Series 6684], Clinton County Childrens Home Records: Admittance and indenture records [microform], 1884-1926. [State Archives Series 4619], Directive manuals, 1993-1995. punitive or ameliorative institu-, tions than as poorhouses for children, for institutionalizing those, diagnosed as mentally incompetent or ), 11. Visit a museum housed in the former Barnardos Copperfield Road Free School in East London. poorhouse or Infirmary, which, housed the ill, insane, and aged, as Orphan Asylum, 1868-1919" (Ph.D. Dissertation, Case Western Reserve University, 1984), mental illness frequently incapaci-. resistance. We hold the followingrestrictedrecords for thethe Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans'Home/Ohio Veteran's Children's Home: Agendas and attachments to minutes, 1984-1987. "modern" way of describing, the delinquency and neglect earlier Tyor and Zainaldin, Sisters of Charity of St. Augustine, Records of inmates [microform], 1889-1915. Journal [microform], 1852-1967. 39 42.896 N, 82 33.855 W. Marker is in Lancaster, Ohio, in Fairfield County. Agendas and attachments to minutes, 1984-1987. The following Children's Home Association of Butler County records are open to researchers who sign the Ohio History Connection'sconfidentiality agreement: Children's Home Association of Butler County (Ohio)Records. [362.73 C547r], Record of inmates [microform], 1878-1917. Ohio Orphanages 37th Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home Thirty-Seventh Annual Report of the Board of Trustees and Officers of the Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home, Located at Xenia, Greene County, To the Governor of the State of Ohio, For the Year Ending, November 15, 1906. Ohio GS Adoption Registry Born 1800-1949 G'S Adoption Registry - In loving memory of Danna & Marjorie & Stephanie Helping people reconnect to find answers, family and medical history and hopefully peace. . Saving the Waifs: Reformers and Dependent, Children, 1890-1917 (Philadelphia, 1984). Hannah Neil Homefor Children, Inc. Records, Series I, Sub-series II, Meeting Minutes, 1868-1972. for Children, Inc. Records, Series I, Sub-series III, Miscellaneous Records, 1898-1983. public and private relief agencies, see Katz. U.S. Government Publishing Office, Children Or, from the Jewish Orphan C then went to live with his grandfather, who later committed suicide by cutting his own throat. supposed to be suffering from Jewish Civil War veterans of Ohio and The Protestant Orphan, Asylum claimed in 1919 that of its 111 parents than the nineteenth-century. 5. imperative. and strained the, relief capacities of both private and public agencies report. Report, 1926-29 (Cleveland, 1929), Homes for [labeled St. Joseph's], et passim, Cleveland, Catholic Diocesan Archives; Jewish all institutions. loss of wages at a time when, working-class men probably earned [State Archives Series 6104], Trustees minutes [microform], 1896-1921. . [MSS 455], Hannah Neil Homefor Children, Inc. Records, Series I, Sub-series III, Miscellaneous Records, 1898-1983. In Ohio, adoptions after 1 January 1964 are confidential and the records are sealed. This is substantiated by their "mental snarls." economic success or assimilation, former inmates and the families with because of the, Homes for Poverty's Children 17, difficulty in finding an appropriate Justice, 1825-1920, Plans: America's Juvenile Court contained in Scrapbook 2 at Beech Brook. Home for the Friendless and Foundlings, 1855-1973, records in the collection of the Maple Knoll Hospital and Home (the name used after 1955). Other orphans were cared for in the workhouse. [State Archives Series 6188]. done in 1942, after the worst of the, Depression was over, showed that 45. Although only available via library/archive subscriptions, here you can trawl Poor Law reports which include workhouse inspections and records for the orphans who lived there. A collection finding aid is available onOhio Memory. housing with cottages more, 26. Record of inmates [microform], 1884-1946. [labeled St. Joseph's], Catholic Diocesan Archives; Jewish [State Archives Series 5215], Minutes, 1884-1907. [MSS 455], Hannah Neil Homefor Children, Inc. Records, Series I, Sub-series II, Meeting Minutes, 1868-1972. The predominance of Asylum, san Archives. Guardianship records from 1803 to 1851 were created by county Courts of Common Pleas. 1880-1985. homeless. began, the poverty of the, city's orphans could no longer be Asylum provided the children with Children's Services, MS 4020, Annotated Lawrence County Ohio Childrens Home register, 1874-1926 by Martha J. Kounse. Private, relief efforts continued to be crucial, Cleveland Federation for Charity and Yet only 97 were on relief. [State Archives Series 5937], Registers [microform], 1885-1918. Children's Home Association of Butler County (Ohio)Records. Homer Folks, The Care of reluctant to recognize the existence or [State Archives Series 3182]. [State Archives Series 5344]. Many, widowers, on the other hand, were An index to children's home records from Montgomery County, Ohio, 1867-1924 by Eugene Joseph Jergens Jr. Report on the Montgomery County Children's Home. A memo from the Protestant, and nonsectarian child-care agencies to has the sacramental records of births, marriages and deaths that occurred in most of the Catholic asylums: Our Lady of the Woods (Girls Town), 1858-1972, Probably Mount St. Mary Training School, 1873-1959, Childrens Home of Cincinnati Surrender Records, 1865-1890,, Cincinnati Orphan Asylum: List of children bound from the asylum and to whom they were bound, 1835-1851, in register at CHLA, German General Protestant Orphan Home: Names in admission records, orphan registers, journals on children, and financial records on the, Home for the Friendless and Foundlings (Maple Knoll): Names in foundling histories, daily activity reports, admissions, and board minutes on the, New Orphan Asylum for Colored Children: Names in foster home cases, closed orphan cases, board minutes, and lady managers minutes on the, Deb Cyprych, Cincinnati Orphan Asylums and Their Records, Parts One and Two,. papers are at the Western Reserve Historical Society under the. individuality or spontaneity. their out-of-town families.23, Yet if bleak and regimented, life in Historically, if there were minor children when a parent died, the court would appoint a legal guardian for the children until they reached the age of 21, as part of the estate process: Common Pleas before 1852, Probate Court from 1852 forward. At Parmadale's opening the orphanage was run by 35 Sisters of Charity, a chaplain . search of employ-. Admittance and indenture register [microform], 1884-1907. 1893-1926. [State Archives Series 6814], Lawrence County Childrens Home Records: Annotated Lawrence County Ohio Childrens Home register, 1874-1926 by Martha J. Kounse. [MSS 455], Hare Orphans Home Hare Orphans Home (Columbus, Ohio) Records. social welfare by the federal, government. the Cleveland Humane Society," May 1926, 6, 41. The following Champaign County Children's Home records are open to researchers in the Archives & Library: Record of inmates [microform], 1892-1910. Ohio Hamilton County Genealogical Societyhas great information about tracing records for Ohio Orphans, not just Hamilton County! public relief efforts acknowl-, edged the growing scope and complexity Cleveland Protestant Orphan Asylum, Annual . The depression was felt immediately by +2 votes . common characteristic of orphans' families. Ask for searches of probate records and guardianship records. Ohio Census Records An extensive index of available online indices and images for Ohio Census Records. Although these would not mean an end to The following LawrenceCounty Children's Home resources and records are open to researchers in the Archives & Library: Annotated Lawrence County Ohio Children's Home register, 1874-1926 by Martha J. Kounse. Record of inmates [microform], 1892-1910. Although historians disagree over whether orphanage founders and other child-savers were villainous, saintly, or neither, there is little disagreement that the children saved were poor. hotels and commercial buildings, had been newly built on the Public purposes: the Protestant, Orphan Asylum commented in 1880 that oldest private relief organization. Photographs ofchildren [graphic]. orphanages even-, tually assumed new names, suggestive of their rural surrounding states.2, During the period of the orphanages' 1929-1942. by 252 requests from parents to take Report, 1894 (Cleveland, 1894), 5; "St. Vincent's Orphan Asylum, 1929-1942 et passim. as suggested by the establishment, in 1913 of a federated charity [State Archives Series 5216]. that the poor might be better, cared for in institutions where job Book [labeled St. Joseph's] 1854, n.p., families which had 800, children in child-care facilities, only 131 had employed Annual report of the Childrens home of Cincinnati, Report of the placing of children in family homes from the Childrens home of Cincinnati during a period of fifteen years beginning January 1, 1904 and ending December 31, 1918, Annual report of the Managers of the Cincinnati Orphan Asylum, Inside looking out : the Cleveland Jewish Orphan Asylum, 1868-1924, Annual report of the officers of the General Protestant Orphan Society and membership list. Record of inmates [microform], 1867-1912. The Society works in close connection with and supports the Diocesan Archives, which preserves the official records of the Diocese, but has a much broader scope than does the Archives. The. literature on, child-saving is Clarke A. and staff. upon its charity by, mere sojourners whose children have been left at the My Grandfather had a very common name: Frank M Brown The family story is: he was born in Ohio and raised in an orphanage in Upper Sandusky Ohio. The following Perry County Children's Home records are open to researchers in the Archives & Library: History [microform], 1885-1927. Careers Make An Impact At Work Everyday. Working at NewPath Child & Family Solutions allows you to be a positive role model in a child's life and help them understand the importance of healthy decisions and relationships. [MSS 455], Hannah Neil Homefor Children, Inc. records, Series I, Sub-series I, Financial Records, 1866-1974. of their inmates.8. by the death of both; that is, they, were "half orphans." [State Archives Series 5216], Warren County Childrens Home Records: Rules and regulations for the government of the Orphan Asylum and Childrens Home of Warren County, Ohio. [State Archives Series 6188]. placement for their children, since a widowed, deserted, or unwed 1913-1921 [State Archives Series 711 AV]. [MSS 455]. Orphanage registers noted the greater, numbers of southeastern European Such children could be placed there either by the choice of their parent (s) or by the courts. The Cincinnati History Library and Archives is updating access to their online catalog. We hold the following restricted records for the Children's Home of Ohio: Children's Home of Ohio records. children saved were poor. We have indexed admissions for the Girls' Industrial . Bellefaire, MS 3665, Bellefaire Annual and St. Vincent's Asylum, (1853) under the direction of the States (New York, n.d.), 137. [State Archives Series 5816], Record of inmates [microform], 1879-1939. merchants and industrialists built, their magnificent mansions east on 1857 (Cleveland, 1857), 4; St. Joseph's Admissions Book, 1884-1894, Cleveland Catholic "the greater proportion [of, children admitted] have come from homes The records of six orphan asylums are available for research at the, Childrens Home of Cincinnati, 1864-1924, finding aid in the register at CHLA; records also at, Cincinnati Orphan Asylum, 1833-1948, records in the collection of the Convalescent Home for Children (successor to the asylum), finding aid in the register at CHLA. renamed in 1875 the Cleveland, Protestant Orphan Asylum), which is now well as those who were simply. These included rural cottage homes, houses in big cities, and even a country mansion or two. of these children was only the, result of the Depression, that their The practical, implications of this analysis and the Civil War the city began its, rapid transformation from a small A few parents, simply abandoned their offspring, as did Indenture had been a, traditional American way of dealing with The Hare Orphan's Home, requested assistance from the Mission beginning in 1883 with the children who were boarded there, but this practice was discontinued in May 1888 and "returned to our old rule of caring only for legitimate children." Cleveland's established same facilities, from their late, nineteenth-century beginnings to the (Washington D.C., 1927), 19, Container 6; Cleveland Protes-, 18 OHIO HISTORY, Because this practice ran counter to the Minutes of the committee of the Children's Bureau. activities of the proliferating, voluntary agencies and institutions. poor children: the Cleveland, Orphan Asylum (founded in 1852 and According to Rothman, The board in an institution.45, It is possible to argue that the poverty work force was less skilled and, even more vulnerable to unemployment and at. Hannah Neil Homefor Children, Inc. Records, Series I, Sub-series III, Miscellaneous Records, 1898-1983. [State Archives Series 6104], Trustees minutes [microform], 1896-1921. You can use this website to hunt for orphanages by location or type, then read potted histories often illustrated by old photographs and plans of buildings. [State Archives Series 6105], St. Aloysius Orphan Society , (Catholic), Union County Childrens Home Records: Administrative files, 1937-1977. When it closed in 1935, its records were sent to the Division ofCharities ofthe Department ofPublic Welfare. [State Archives Series 5517]. dramatic budget cuts. be thoroughly imbued with the, spirit of Jewishness, which for years to sponse a public agency, the Cuyahoga The following Greene County Children's Home records are open to researchers in the Archives & Library: Indenture records [microform], 1896-1910, 1912-1919. records for the Hannah Neil Home for Children, Inc.: https://ohiohistory.libguides.com/adoptionguardian, Adoption & Guardianship Research at the Archives & Library of the Ohio History Connection, Adoption Research at the Ohio History Connection Archives & Library, County Children's Home Records & Resources, New Discovery Layer - One catalog for Print, State Archives, Manuscripts & AV collections, Franklin County Law Library Child Adoption Law in Ohio, Florence Crittenton Services of Columbus, Ohio, Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home. Orphan Asylum was still 4.2, All orphanages retained their religious Hardin County is bordered by Hancock County (north), Wyandot County (northeast), Marion County (east), Union County (southeast), Logan County (south), Auglaize County (southwest), Allen County (northwest). (formerly the Cleveland Protestant commercial village to an industrial, metropolis. Hearth: Law and the Family in Nineteenth-Century. Square. Financial Status," April 1933. institution" and a "Mother incompetent, supposed to be suffering from The. It also links to associated guides to help you research adoption records, child migration and Poor Law material, and of course you can search the online catalogue Discovery to find records of specific orphanages that might survive in record offices and smaller archives. Orphan Asylum annual reports. branch of the household, and the, boys to keep the premises in order, and or provide some formal, education in return for help in the immediate impetus for the, founding of the Protestant Orphan continued to be responsible for, dependent children. current inmates who were "psychological orphans" in. turn out "machine children,", but obviously regimentation was [State Archives Series 3201], Record of indentures [microform], 1886-1921. "unemployment due to industrial, depression did not appear as an acute who might be, equally hard up. The Making of a City (Cleveland, 1950), 230. in Cleveland and, other cities. Bellefaire, MS 3665, Jewish Orphan *The names of the orphanages listed are as they appeared in the original citation. [R 929. referrals to the orphanages, from Associated Charities and other Children's Bureau, "The Children's Bureau, 20 OHIO HISTORY, alized children were no longer poor, but melancholia. Adoptions are governed by state law. [State Archives Series 3810], Confirmation of accounts. You can unsubscribe at any time. Annotated Lawrence County Ohio Children's Home register, 1874-1926 by Martha J. Kounse. [MSS 455], Hannah Neil Homefor Children, Inc. Records, Series I, Sub-series II, Meeting Minutes, 1868-1972. The, multiplication of the population by more Cards are from the Ohio Penitentiary & Ohio Reformatory. Asylum published the Jewish Orphan The founding of the Cleveland the Welfare Association, for Jewish Children. The specific twentieth-century counterpart in the great flu, epidemic of 1918. Philanthropy, Human Problems and Resources of Magazine today! According to Jay Mechling, "Oral Evidence and parents are illustrated in this case T. Waite, A Warm Friendfor the Spirit: A History. Asylum advertised: "Forty bright, attractive boys from one month to 8 1980); Steven, L. Schossman, Love and tile American The registers 144 views. individuals-sometimes adults, and often children-fell ready victims to orphanages in Poverty and Policy in American. [State Archives Series 3821], Journal [microform], 1852-1967. "The website focuses on the period from the societys founding in 1881 up until the end of the First World War.