Did Your Ancestor End Up in the Poorhouse? The Records You May Be Missing

You find your ancestor living with the family in one census. Ten years later, that person is gone.

There's no obvious death record. You can't find another marriage. You don't see evidence of a move. The person simply seems to disappear.

Or maybe you do find your ancestor, but instead of living with family, they are listed among dozens of unrelated people in a county institution.

One place you may not think to check is the poorhouse.

Depending on the place and time period, it might have been called an almshouse, poor farm, county infirmary, county home, town farm, or something similar. These institutions cared for people who, for one reason or another, couldn't support themselves.

The records they left behind can sometimes explain what happened to an ancestor when the usual genealogical records fall short...

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