Riders featured may change.
- George Alexander Aberle, AKA eden ahbez – Kansas, 1917.
- Alice Bullis Ayler – Kansas, 1930.
- Mary Jane Baade – Nebraska,1912.
- Anna Miller Bassett – Texas, 1918.
- Charles Bintliff – South Dakota, between 1889-1900.
- Hazelle Boxberg – Texas, 1918.
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- Ellen Broderick – North Dakota,1908.
People also ask
How do I find out if someone is on an orphan train?
Ellis Island Passenger Database – Many orphan train riders passed through Ellis Island with their families before they were orphaned. This database allows you to search passenger records and ship manifests. You must register to search, but it is free.
Are there records for the orphan trains?
NOTC has 66 volumes of orphan train rider records of the American Female Guarding Society (AFGS), photos, about 20,000 rider records, 9,700 names in computer databases, and Internet access to Ancestry.com.
Feb 13, 2024
Who were the people on the orphan train?
Between 1854 and 1929, so-called “orphan trains” transported more than 200,000 orphaned, abandoned, and homeless children – many of them first-generation Irish Catholic immigrants – from the coastal cities of the eastern United States to the Midwest for “adoption” (often, in fact, indentured servitude).
Are any orphan train riders alive today?
On Sunday April 25, 2021 Beatrice Flanagan Polak Fojtik will celebrate a century of life at the Arbor Hills Healthcare Center in Eagle Lake, Texas with her children at her side. Beatrice' life is of national significance, as she is the last known living Orphan Train Rider in the US.
While there is no comprehensive list of orphan train riders, we do have a database of approximately 7,000 orphan train riders.
Kahnis, Florence, 2) Princeton, Missouri ; Kalbert, Paul, Belzer, Sioux City ; Kalnick, Edna, Squirer, Spencer ; Kane, Edna L. · Mullholland, John, Malone/DeWitt.
Oct 1, 2012 · About one in twenty-five Americans has an orphan train rider connection. Two organizations were responsible for more than half the orphan trains ...
Filburn, Jr. John Bernard, Dailey ; Fox, Anna, Mueting ; Foyert, Olga Ann ; Fuchs, Charley, Reams ...
[PDF] Texas Orphan Train Riders - Austin Genealogical Society
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Names of train riders have been identified from multiple sources: locally compiled lists from Burleson, Fannin, Grayson, Grimes and Red River Counties; ...
Kansas Collection Articles: Stories, articles, bibliographies, timeline and other information on orphans shipped west at the turn of the century in hopes of ...
Orphan Train researcher. Wisconsin orphan train rider biographies, research queries, and lists and dates of orphan trains stopping in Wisconsin.
Feb 13, 2024 · Orphan train research helps find foster children between 1853 and 1930 who rode trains from New York City, Boston, or Chicago to new homes ...
Information shows that orphans were brought to Mishawaka/South Bend by Catholic charities such as the New York Foundling Asylum and New York Home Bureau for ...