Albany, New York October 11, 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 If you know of any unpublished records related to these schools please contact John Diefenderfer, the project Director, to participate in the project at 518/462-5593 or emailjdiefenderfer@dc-northeast.org
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.
