Typed "cards" - Several hundred.

These are forms made by Msgr. Durst from 1/4th sections of 8.5x11 paper. The first card names the available sources as "1", "2", "A", "B" and "C", which are exactly the same materials that were available to us - and described below.

On some of the cards themselves, in the field named "Information Sources" we see "Orphan's File Card". We're not yet sure what this means: "File Cards" are not one of the sources named on the first card nor is another set of "cards" available as of now.

"A Record": Approximately 720 entries.

In this beautiful oversized old book we find handwritten records in German, author unknown. The book of blank but stamp numbered pages was produced by Siebert & Lilley, Blank Book Manufacturers and General Stationers, Opera House Building (Upstairs), Columbus, Ohio.

It is clear that when this book was started, the entries were made from some other unknown, and assumed to be lost, source, as the first many pages are numbered and for the most part alphabetized. On most pages there are 5 entries per page. All entries begin with a name. Some are only a name, while others contain 4-5 lines of writing. A distinction of 4 "groups" of entries can be seen:

1. The first entry is on page 4 (pages 1-3 are blank): #1, Benedict Bentz. Following Bentz are entries not exactly in alphabetical order but at least by C's then D's then E's etc. #45, Willie Williams is the last entry on page 12.

2. Page 13 begins with #45, John Adolf Bierlinger and, like the preceeding pages, continues with names grouped by letter through #78, Alexander Wood, on page 19.

3. The next entry, #79, immediately following #78 on page 19, is Jos. Specht. After this the entries continue in the same numbered fashion but are not in any sort of alphabetical order. The entries continue through #353, John Miller, on page 74.

For each of these preceeding sections, it seems certain that the numbers were written at the same time as the names and information.

Pages 75-80 were left blank.

4. The entries resume on page 81. These were not originally numbered, however someone (probably Msgr. Durst) penciled numbers for each one in the margin, 1-6, 7 or 8 per page. These entries are not in alphabetical order and end on page 108.

The rest of the book is blank.

** In with xerox copies of the pages of this book (in file folder "2", below) is the following note:

"Copy of the Orphans' Record labelled "RECORDS" kept in the office of the Rector. The original copy of them designated as "A Record" in our Archives files, is quite apparently a transcribed incomplete version copied from a more original, similar, earlier record, also kept in the office of the Rector labelled "B Record" in our Archives files"

"B Record":

The condition of this book of columns drawn in a blank hardbound book lead us to believe that the note with the copies of the "A Record" is correct in stating that this "B Record" is the older of the two. It is written in English.

The entries in this book use both pages of the open book, with column titles across the top. In two separate sets of xerox copies (in the file folder "2", below) there are a variety of penciled in notes, check marks, etc., apparently jotted as the compiler of the "A Record" and/or the typed cards went along.

Dismissed Children - Called "C" on the typed cards: 104 Records

These are pre-printed forms, on 3-hole punched paper, onto which apparently one person entered various information. The dismissal dates range from 1916-1925.

"1": File folder Sacred Heart Church, Pomeroy Ohio -

There are no orphan records in this file. It is various pictures and articles relating to Sacred Heart that Msgr. Durst collected over the years, even up to the 1970s.

"2": File folder St. Joseph Orphanage -

These are xerox copies of A, B and C Records.

In summary, it appears that each of the records from A, B and C have been included in the typed cards. Once we've transcribed the typed cards to a searchable file, we'll be able to check the entries in sources A, B and C to confirm that they're all included.