Daughters of Charity Receive Grant to Document Catholic Education

Albany, New York October 4, 2005 - The Daughters of Charity Archives of
the Northeast Province was awarded a Documentary Heritage Program grant
by the New York State Archives to study the Daughters' role in the
history of Catholic education in New York State.  The grant funds will
be used to locate records pertaining to the thirty-two educational
institutions in New York State operated and staffed by the Daughters of
Charity from the mid-nineteenth-century to the present.  A complete list
of the schools, orphanages and other educational organizations is
available from the Daughters of Charity Archives of the Northeast
Province.

The immediate goal of the project is to inventory diocesan records, the
project also aims to identify any relevant Parish, community or private
collections held by local parishes, schools, alumni associations, former
students, and historical societies.  If you know of any unpublished
records related to these schools please contact John Diefenderfer, the
project Director, to participate in the project at 518/462-5593 or
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In addition to traditional elementary and secondary schools, the
Daughters of Charity also provided educational services to mentally
retarded and developmentally disabled children through innovative case
management and residential programs.  The survey will also locate
records relating to these non-traditional educational settings.  

The Archives of the Northeast Province of the Daughters of Charity of St
Vincent De Paul collects records pertaining to the activities of the
Daughters of Charity of St Vincent De Paul in the northeastern United
States and Canada.  The approximately one thousand linear feet of
records in the collection spans the history of the Daughters in the
northeastern United States and Canada from the Nineteenth-Century
through the present.  In addition the archives contains collections of
materials relating to the history of the Daughters of Charity worldwide,
including the foundation of the community in seventeenth-century France.


John Diefenderfer 
Archivist
Daughters of Charity Northeast Province
96 Menand Rd.
Albany, NY 12204
518/462-5593
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