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Orphan Train Ancestors

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Orphan train flyer, 1910 (Wikimedia Commons)

Clark Kidder, author of Orphan Trains and Their Precious Cargo: The Life’s Work of Rev. H.D. Clarke (Heritage Books, $24.95), knows a thing or two about researching children who were adopted via 19th- and 20th-century orphan trains: His grandmother was one of those adoptees. The following PDF contains the resources and repositories Kidder recommends for finding those orphans’ records.

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Learn 11 tips for tracing orphaned and adopted ancestors in the February 2007 Family Tree Magazine.

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