Genealogy Chat

Hi, There is a possibility that my twin aunt and uncle may have been placed in an orphanage and sent overseas as home kids. Does anyone have any knowledge in this area

The Childrens Society UK used to run a lot of childrens homes, they have a webb site (hiddenlives.org.uk) could be worth a look. Clive

Bruce, Try putting 'orphans programme' into google or whatever internet search engine you use, it should bring up some information. Also, the Canadian National Archives has info online about children shipped to Canada - it's searchable by surname. I can't recall off the top of my head, but I think in the UK it's the National Childrens Homes (NCH) who now have records of that era. Happy hunting. Regs Jane

I have reason to believe that the Fairbridge Society used to take children to Australia.

www.childmigrants(.)com is good, and if they were sent via Barnados, their website has a section on tracing home children.

I managed to trace an ancestor that was sent out to Canana from Dr. Barnardos in East London. I got photographs and information from Barnardos and then information from Canada and copies of the medals awarded to him in first world war. Also copies of his signing up papers in Canada. Good Luck Irene

There were several ways a child could be relocated, via large organisations such as Barnardo's or the Corus Trust or smaller ones. If was a smaller one that can be far more difficult to trace as records can be placed in archives where one would not think of looking. Margaret Humphries set up the Child Migrants' Trust and wrote a book called 'Empty Cradles', it's worth a read (with a box of tissues handy)

Hi Bruce, another good site you could try is http://www.ist.uwaterloo.ca/~marj/genealogy/homeadd.html Christine