I have posted this question before along with another related one. However, the pressing one is ALICE LOUISA DAVIS.
She arrived in USA in 1894, married in 1896, had 2 children. i child died in 1904 and her
husband was killed in 1908. Alice is covered on all census and Passenger Lists. However, on the 1930 Fed.Census the only entry I found matching all Alice's details was as a Patient in Islip Psychiatric Hospital, Suffolk, NY. The trail then goes cold because you cannot access Islip Records for all sorts of reasons. There was a slight chink under the "Freedom of Information Act" so I wrote a letter to Pilgrim Hospital who have the records but to date heard nothing!!.
Therefore, I have no way of knowing whether she died in Islip or was discharged and returned home. Because I do not know the date of her death I cannot apply for a search, although it has occured to me that a search by the Department of Health would probably be cheaper than engaging the services of a professional on the spot. I am assuming that a death in Islip would still have to be notified to NY Vital Records?
So, there is my predicament which I thought I would run by you good people in case there is another avenue of search I have overlooked.
dreeny22
She arrived in USA in 1894, married in 1896, had 2 children. i child died in 1904 and her
husband was killed in 1908. Alice is covered on all census and Passenger Lists. However, on the 1930 Fed.Census the only entry I found matching all Alice's details was as a Patient in Islip Psychiatric Hospital, Suffolk, NY. The trail then goes cold because you cannot access Islip Records for all sorts of reasons. There was a slight chink under the "Freedom of Information Act" so I wrote a letter to Pilgrim Hospital who have the records but to date heard nothing!!.
Therefore, I have no way of knowing whether she died in Islip or was discharged and returned home. Because I do not know the date of her death I cannot apply for a search, although it has occured to me that a search by the Department of Health would probably be cheaper than engaging the services of a professional on the spot. I am assuming that a death in Islip would still have to be notified to NY Vital Records?
So, there is my predicament which I thought I would run by you good people in case there is another avenue of search I have overlooked.
dreeny22
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