If you have an internet conection, let your 'puter do the work. Try
this URL;
http://www.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=aq&what=web
Type in the search field, just like this;
(wards island) near (new york)
This gave me 12 pages that mentioned Ward's Island. It's in Manhatten,
has a sludge treatment facility, a Psychiatric Center, an Alchohol
Treatment Center.... and I didn't open any more.
then I tried just
(ward's island)
Got 63 hits that time. It appears that as a general term, Ward's
Island, today refers to the State Psychiatric Hospital. It was a
municipal Hospital in the last century. There's also a Ward's Island in
Toronto, CA., if your folks were from the other end of the state.
Another handy site is the GNIS map page. It is much slower, but gives
you a map of the area. That URL is;
http://www-nmd.usgs.gov/www/gnis/gnisform.html
If you don't have any way to get to the WWW, let me know, and I'll do
some copying for you.
jim
> I have found a possible relative, male Burns, b. 4/6/1864
> on Ward's Island, son of an Irish immigrant.-snip-
> Ken
> Ken Keller
> krk@kappa.ultranet.com
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