... orphan train children were formally adopted though they may have taken the surname of their foster parents. While some were babies, others were in their teens when sent "out West." The foster home experiences varied greatly. Some orphan ...
... orphan train stop in Troy, Missouri. Courtesy State Historical Society of Missouri. How the Trains Began ln 1853, Charles Loring Brace and. those of the people who took them, but some did. Consider the Eureka (Kansas) Herald report for ...
... Orphan Train Heritage Society of America, Inc.) Bottom: In newspapers and on cards handed out to prospective new families, the New York Children's Aid Society stated expectations for placements. (Courtesy Orphan Train Heritage Society ...
OLD. £Xll@J^. The. Orphan. Trains. BY MYRA VANDERPOOL GORMLEY, CG Your genealogical research may lead you to an ancestor who was adopted or reared by a foster family in the Midwest, especially in ... orphan train. 42 WWW.ANCESTRYMAGAZINE.COM.
... Orphanage. Records. The orphan train connection was another lead. I contacted the Orphan Train Heritage Society of America and received the addresses of orphanages that had participated in the orphan train experiment. A letter to the ...
A Children's Aid Society engraving depicting the orphan train rider's journey. Illustration courtesy of Corbis-Bettmann. Technology by Jake Gehring Digital Data Management Computers have supposed. IT TOOK THREE YEARS TO FIND THE FINAL ...
rphan Train Genealogy Marilyn Irvin Holt The Orphan Train Circa 1900. Courtesy of the Kansas State Historical ... orphan trains carried children, teenagers, and some adults (mostly women) out of eastern cities to rural communities. They ...
... Orphan. Trains. Concordia, KS 14-15 September From 1854 to 1929, approximately 200,000 abandoned and homeless children ... Train Celebration to remember these children and their stories. Celebrate the opening of the Orphan Train Museum and ...
... Orphan trains, as they were called, carried homeless, abandoned, or otherwise destitute children to new families out ... train. Destination: Dowa- giac, Michigan. Not all the orphan train passengers were parentless — if parents were ...
... Orphan Train, a musical work-in-progress by Mary Murfitt about orphans from New York who were relocated to the Midwest before the Great Depression. Murfitt is there, too, to hear and see what works and what doesn't. Although she's an ...