1. The Last Orphan Trains - Suite101.com united with historians and writers, the survivors of the orphan trains work to preserve the memory of one of the most remarkable episodes in american history. http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/history_for_children/18539

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3. The American Experience/The Orphan Trains/Teacher's Guide Subjects social history. The orphan trains follows the story of the New York Children s Aid children with homes in rural communities in the american midwest. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/orphan/teachers.html

Teacher's Guide Subjects: social history Thinking skills: chronological thinking, historical analysis and interpretation, historical research Time period: The Orphan Trains follows the story of the New York Children's Aid Society, created in 1853 to provide thousands of street children with homes in rural communities in the American midwest. This forerunner of modern foster care forever changed the lives of poor urban childrensometimes providing them with great opportunity, sometimes bringing heartbreak and disappointment. Before Watching 1. Ask students how children are generally viewed in our culture. How has this view changed over time? 2. As students watch the program, ask them to write down Charles Loring Brace's reasons for developing the Children's Aid Society. Have them also note the strengths and weaknesses of his organization. After Watching 1. Discuss whether or not the Children's Aid Society child placement program would be appropriate today. What must people consider when designing a foster care program? Brainstorm a list of goals for such programs. 2. Ask students if the first-hand accounts in the program affected how they viewed the whole story. Who didn't they hear from directly? If they had heard from these other people, how do they think it might have affected their view?

4. Orphan Trains In every american community, especially in a western one, there The orphan trains represented one of the most tragic and at the same time heartwarming stories in Missouri's history http://www.rootsweb.com/~mogrundy/orphans.html

They rode the Orphan Trains New York's homeless children sought better lives in the Midwest. Many found the home they never had with families in Missouri and other states. by Jim McCarty Children from New York's orphanages came to the Midwest by the trainload in a huge migration that lasted 75 years. Estimates put the number of children relocated at 150,000 to 400,000, with some 100,000 coming to Missouri. Picture the plight of the poor immigrant coming to America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In most cases they left poverty and oppression. Unfortunately they often discovered conditions were little better in the new world The immigrants found few jobs. There was no labor union, no sick leave, no insurance. A steady supply of willing replacements meant low wages and appalling conditions. Worse, dangerous jobs meant numerous accidents and no safety net for those who suffered disabilities. Small wonder the children of these families suffered terribly. Many found their parents unable to care for them, and in desperation turned to the streets to sell newspapers, beg for food or steal to get by. In 1854 estimates put the number of homeless children in New York City at 34,000. Clearly, something had to be done for this class of people called "street Arabs" or "the dangerous classes".

5. Orphan Train Riders books have chosen to ignore this part of american history. their voice heard, to have history record their For many, the orphan trains, not only saved their http://www.orphantrainriders.com/riders11.html

Riders Menu The stories of the Orphan Train Riders by D. Bruce Ayler (Descendant) Orphan Train Heritage Society of America. These biographic volumes were written by the riders, themselves, or by a descendant of the riders. As the various riders tell their stories, several things become clear about their common experience: 1. They all thought that they rode the only orphan train. Very few realized that they were part of a major migration into the western parts of the United States. Nor were they aware that other countries were also moving their children. 2. Most of these riders thought that there was something wrong with them—their parents had given them away. In truth, there were many reasons that the children rode the Orphan Trains—parental deaths, inability to feed them, children born out of wedlock, neglect, abuse, etc. There was no one reason which applied to all of these children. 3. The children were instructed not to try to contact their birth parents. They were to break all ties to their past. To be an orphan carried a heavy stigma among their peers. An Orphan was different. They were not as good as anyone else. Many of the orphans, described in these stories, carried heavy emotional scars through out their lives. Many refused to tell their own families about their past.

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7. Orphan Trains newstribune.com/stories/060699/com_0606990024.asp 10) orphan trains Tale An american Tragedy (Book Tucson Author Alison Moore Explores The history Of The http://www.42explore.com/orphan.htm

The Topic: Orphan Trains Easier - Beginning in 1854, for seventy-six years thousands of homeless, neglected poor children from New York City were moved west to rural towns and farm communities. They traveled by rail. Families took them into their homes. Some became foster children or were adopted into a family. Others lived as boarders, apprentices, or live-in laborers. Some found good homes; others found a new life of indentured service or even abuse. Some loved and were loved in their new homes. Others ran away or moved on to another family. Harder - From 1854 to 1929, orphan trains from New York "placed out" 150,000 to 200,000 destitute children, mainly to homes in the farming communities of the Midwest. Some of these children, young infants to age 15, were orphans. Many were homeless street kids, and others were given-up by parents unable to provide for their well-being. Some had been abandoned by their families, were runaways, or had been removed from abusive homes. Children on the orphan trains came from the street gangs and orphan asylums of the city. During the orphan train trip, children were accompanied by a placing agent. The trains stopped in scheduled locations. Children usually lined up in front of prospective takers on a platform or at a meeting hall. They were encouraged to look and act their best. Inspection sometimes involved poking and prodding; an attempt to ascertain their value as workers on farms or in local shops and businesses. Children that were not selected returned to the train to travel on to the another stop.

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9. Orphan Train Resources Wheeler, Leslie. The orphan trains. american history Illustrated, December 1983, pages 1023. Videos. Doing Local history with Video . http://www.maquoketa.k12.ia.us/OT_Resource.html

Orphan Train Resources Nonfiction Books Fry, Annette R. T he Orphan Trains New York: New Discovery Books, 1994. (This was our main print source for information. It's very well-written and has many photographs.) Holt Marilyn Irvin. The Orphan Trains: Placing Out in America. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1992. Marks, Frances E., and Patricia J. Young. Tears on Paper: The History and Life Stories of the Orphan Train Riders. 1990. Currently out of print. LCCN: 90-61695. (This source includes photo/information about Clara Comstock, an agent for the Children's Aid Society who accompanied many orphans to Iowa over the years.) Fiction Books Holland, Isabelle. Journey Home. New York: Scholastic Inc., 1990. Nixon, Joan Lowery: A Family Apart. New York: Bantam, 1988. Caught in the Act. New York: Bantam, 1989. In the Face of Danger. New York: Bantam, 1989. A Place to Belong. New York: Bantam, 1990. Dangerous Promise New York: Delacorte, 1994. Keeping Secrets. New York: Delacorte, 1995. Magazine Articles Fry, Annette Riley. "The Children's Migration."

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11. Orphan Trains To Missouri orphan trains to Missouri documents the history of the children as well as stories of the orphans themselves make this a rich record of american and midwestern http://www.umsystem.edu/upress/spring1997/patrick.htm

Orphan Trains to Missouri Michael D. Patrick and Evelyn Goodrich Trickel As an "orphan train" crossed the country, it left part of its cargo at each stop, a few children in one small town and a few in another. Even though farmers needed many hands for labor, most of the small farm communities could not or would not take all of the children on the train. As the train moved to its next stop, those children not taken feared no one would ever want them. Early immigration laws encouraged the poor of Europe to find new hope with new lives in the United States. But sometimes the immigrants exchanged a bad situation in their native country for an even worse one on the streets of New York and other industrial cities. As a result, the streets were filled with crowds of abandoned children that the police called "street arabs." Many New York citizens blamed the street arabs for crime and violence in the city and wanted them placed in orphan homes or prisons. In 1853 a man by the name of Charles Loring Brace, along with other well-to-do men in New York City, founded the Children's Aid Society. The society planned to give food, lodging, and clothing to homeless children and provide educational and trade opportunities for them. But the number of children needing help was so large that the Children's Aid Society was unable to care for them, and Brace developed a plan to send many of the children to the rural Midwest by train. He was convinced that the children of the streets would find many benefits in rural America. In 1854 he persuaded the board of the society to send the first trainload of orphans west. With this, the orphan trains were born.

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Search for Ancestors Cheap Internet Service Search US Census Orphan Trains Genealogy links to information about the orphan trains 1850-1930, including lists of names of children who rode the trains and stories about some of the individual children. Surnames Our Visitors are Researching Add Yours Marriage Records Marriage Records Database Georgia Marriages Kentucky Marriages Missouri Marriages ... Submit Marriages New records are automatically posted in the Marriage Records Database. As we accumulate enough to fill a page for a specific area, and as time permits, they will be moved to that page To correct errors use Submit Marriages add a record which will be posted with the old one. To add your email address to a record, use Submit Marriages, it will be added to the old record. GenForum Message Boards Family Finder Search Orphan Train Collection 1880 U.S. Federal Census New York Juvenile Asylum, New York, NY Many children from the institution were sent to Illinois and other states on Orphan Trains between about 1853 and 1929 1890 NYC Police Census List of Names* (726) NEW YORK FOUNDLING HOSPITAL Index of Children Who Rode the Orphan Trains to Kansas Iowa Orphan Train Project Orphan Trains of Kansas Orphan Trains to Missouri ... Wisconsin Orphan Train Project GenWeb Orphan Train Riders Individual Rider Stories on the Orphan Train Collection Elliot Bobo Edward Hoyt Train Rider with Two Families 1911 Orphan Train Rider

13. The Orphan Trains: Placing Out In America institutional records, and newspaper accounts to bring the orphan train era to or readers who are simply interested in this lost chapter of american history. http://www.history-us.com/The_Orphan_Trains_Placing_Out_in_America_0803272650.ht

The Orphan Trains: Placing Out in America The Orphan Trains: Placing Out in America by Authors: Marilyn Irvin Holt Released: 01 February, 1994 ISBN: 0803272650 Paperback Sales Rank: List price: Our price: You save: Book > The Orphan Trains: Placing Out in America > Customer Reviews: Average Customer Rating: The Orphan Trains: Placing Out in America > Customer Review #1: An Excellent Resource! The Orphan Trains: Placing Out in America > Related Products Orphan Trains: The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed We Rode the Orphan Trains Orphan Train Rider: One Boys True Story Train to Somewhere ... history of us

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15. Science NetLinks: Orphan Trains social tradeoffs by examining the history of the in rural communities in the american Midwest. of the Internet resources about the orphan trains have resulted http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.cfm?DocID=72

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17. Orphan Train History Together these books record a littleknown chapter in american history The placing out of 200,000 homeless The orphan trains started in 1854 and ended in 1930 http://andreawarren.com/historyorphantrain.htm

Home About the Author Interview with Andrea Warren Author Visits ... How to Purchase Books History of the Orphan Train Books Together these books record a little-known chapter in American history: The "placing out"of 200,000 homeless children, transporting them from mostly New York City by train to areas all across the country where they were taken by new families. The orphan trains started in 1854 and ended in 1930. They were the forerunner to modern day foster homes. Some say they were a good thing, others are horrified at the thought of lining children up to be looked over by prospective parents. Yet the same thing happens at today's "adoption fairs," where children needing families have the opportunity to meet and mingle with individuals and couples interested in adopting a child. It's estimated that perhaps 50 percent of the children found good homes. The other 50 percent were taken as workers or were shuffled from home to home or abused in various ways. Yet even these children frequently express their gratitude to the orphan trains for giving them at chance at lifea chance often denied them in the brutal environs of a vast city that offered no shelter. The children became homeless for a variety of reasons. Many were the offspring of newly arrived immigrants who fell on hard times and could not support their families. Some were removed from their homes for abuse. Others ran away. Sometimes children were orphaned when their parents died of illness or from accidents.

18. Orphan Trains: The Author's Perspective We Rode the orphan trains. Together these books record a littleknown chapter in american history The placing out of 200,000 homeless children, transporting http://andreawarren.com/Books/TrainsOverview.html

Home About the Author Books Interview with Andrea Warren ... Purchase Books Orphan Train Rider: One Boy's True Story and We Rode the Orphan Train s Print this page Together these books record a little-known chapter in American history: The "placing out"of 200,000 homeless children, transporting them from mostly New York City by train to areas all across the country where they were taken by new families. The orphan trains started in 1854 and ended in 1930. They were the forerunner to modern day foster homes. Some say they were a good thing, others are horrified at the thought of lining children up to be looked over by prospective parents. Yet the same thing happens at today's "adoption fairs," where children needing families have the opportunity to meet and mingle with individuals and couples interested in adopting a child. It's estimated that perhaps 50 percent of the children found good homes. The other 50 percent were taken as workers or were shuffled from home to home or abused in various ways. Yet even these children frequently express their gratitude to the orphan trains for giving them at chance at lifea chance often denied them in the brutal environs of a vast city that offered no shelter. The children became homeless for a variety of reasons. Many were the offspring of newly arrived immigrants who fell on hard times and could not support their families. Some were removed from their homes for abuse. Others ran away. Sometimes children were orphaned when their parents died of illness or from accidents.

19. Orphan Trains Of Kansas: Bibliographies american history Illustrated, Dec. 1983, pg. 10, The orphan trains (by Leslie Wheeler). Catholic World, Vol. 17, 1983, Public Charities . CGA World, Nov. http://www.kancoll.org/articles/orphans/or_bibli.htm

KANSAS COLLECTION ARTICLES "Orphan Trains of Kansas" is contributed by CONNIE DIPASQUALE ORPHAN TRAIN BIBLIOGRAPHIES Please click on the type of bibliography you are interested in to go directly to that one: Books Magazines Videotapes Newspapers BOOKS Abbott, Edith, Immigration; Select Documents and Case Records , New York: Ayers Company, 1969. Beard, Lois Roper, The History of Laclede County, Tulsa, OK. : The Heritage Publishing Co., 1979. Brace, Charles Loring, Home Life In Germany Brace, Emma, ed., The Life of Charles Loring Brace , New York: Ayers Company, 1976. Brace, Charles Loring, The Dangerous Classes of New York and Twenty Years Work Among Them , Montclair, NJ.: reprint, Patterson Smith, 1967. Brophy, A. Blake, Foundlings On The Frontier , University of Arizona, 1972. Carlisle, Robert, ed., Account of Bellevue Hospital , New York: reprint, Society of Alumni of Bellevue Hospital, 1986. Fifty Years of Charity , Golden Jubilee Booklet. Fry, Orphan Trains , (96 pages). Hansen, Marcas Lee, The Atlantic Migration 1607-1860: A History of the Continuing Settlement of the United States Hodge, Robert A.

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