Exhibit Opening - Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection: Tracing Families in Social Services Records

Name: Exhibit Opening - Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection: Tracing Families in Social Services Records
Start: 2024-10-17T16:30:00-04:00
Location: 1300 Locust St, Philadelphia, PA, United States, Pennsylvania 19107

Schedule

Thu Oct 17 2024 at 04:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

1300 Locust St, Philadelphia, PA, United States, Pennsylvania 19107 | Philadelphia, PA

Join us for the opening reception of the archive exhibit "Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection: Tracing Families in Social Services Records," organized in partnership with the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania. This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.
Curated by professional genealogists Katy Bodenhorn Barnes and Valerie-Anne Lutz, this exhibit tells the stories of the everyday people who received assistance from local charities and social services in the 1800s. From foster care to the housing of elderly widows, nineteenth-century Pennsylvania was home to dozens of organizations focused on issues of poverty, crime, and moral uplift. The records they left, found in the archives of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, can answer important social questions and fill in blanks in descendants’ family trees.
This event is a continuation of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's 200th Anniversary programming.