41. All Aboard, Destination Unknown By Virginia Bickel, PublishAmerica, Publishers is a view of an event in american history that helped find homes during the time of american westward expansion orphan trains were set up to send these children http://www.sonatapub.com/ginbook.htm

Order from PublishAmerica Order from the Author Author Biography ... Reviews A new book by Virginia Bickel Available now Synopsis All Aboard, Destination Unknown All Aboard, Destination Unknown Author's Biography Journalist Virginia Bickel lives and writes in Texas. Her short stories and essays have been published in Sonata magazine for the arts, The WREX Magazine and other electronic publications. Her novella, Uncle Will was published by Seniors Networking in Publishing in the paperback edition of Late Harvest IV , a collection of works written by members of The Writers Exchange, WREX. Ms Bickel became interested in the Orphan Train children after corresponding with the daughter of an Orphan Train rider who arrived in Texas from New York City in 1926, when he was nine years old. Touched by the stories of the children, Virginia Bickel chose this topic for her heartwarming novel All Aboard, Destination Unknown

42. Orphan Trains orphan Train Heritage Society of America, Inc com/ Next0, The purpose of this site is to help educate the american Public about this chapter of american history. http://www.valdosta.edu/~mjeunice/intro.html

The Orphan Trains by Jeannett Eunice This hands-on social studies and language arts lesson is designed for third grades and up. It is designed to teach students about a major part of history that is virtually unknown, the orphan train children. Table of Contents Unit Introduction Unit Outcomes Lesson Plans Children's Books ... Rubric Unit Introduction From the late 1800's to the early 1900's thousands of children roamed the streets of eastern cities along the Atlantic Coast. The children were homeless, abandoned, or orphan children that were penniless and without food and water and most importantly without a family for one reason or another. Some were separated from their parents in the immigration progress at Ellis Island, others had parents who had died from illnesses, and others were given up by mothers and fathers who left them behind in their migration to the West to start new lives. The stories of these children are heart-breaking, but still a very real part of history. Unit Outcomes Students will learn about orphan train riders and the hardships that they had to endure.

43. Adoption Agency Offering Adoption Services For Adoptive Parents, Birth Parents, the orphan trains stopped, some 150,000 children had found new homes in what was called one of the largest social experiments in american history. orphaned http://www.adoptionsbygladney.com/html/about/history.html

/***************************************************************************** Linked js file with all the menucreation code inside ******************************************************************************/ Our History and Heritage A Tradition of Trust The year was 1887, and the country's expansion westward continued at a feverish pace as land speculators rushed to stake their claim. Railroads forged track through the untamed prairies, leaving new cities in their wake. Train after train brought passengers to populate the bustling frontier towns. One train brought some very special cargo to such a community. Abandoned children from the northeastern part of the United States came to Fort Worth on the railroad as part of the orphan train movement. Those who made it this far west were the "leftovers," the stronger having already been plucked from the trains to work in farms or factories. Methodist missionary minister I.Z.T. Morris (photo at left) took in the little ones, and working with local residents and the railroad, helped find them homes. Thus began The Children's Home Society, which was chartered in 1904 as The Texas Children's Home and Aid Society. Renamed The Edna Gladney Home in 1950, the non-sectarian, state licensed adoption agency today is known as the Gladney Center for Adoption. Some 112 years after its inception, one man's mission has evolved to become an internationally recognized institution that has placed more than 24,000 children in homes and served more than 36,000 birth mothers. "It's really remarkable that Gladney has celebrated over 100 years of service, and that we're still continuing to evolve and grow," says President Michael McMahon, the first adoptive parent to hold the position. "Over the years, Gladney has always responded to society's changes and our clients' requirements."

44. Indian Orphanages Secrecy and Disclosure in the history of Adoptions. a research consultant for the PBS american Experience series She is author of The orphan trains Placing Out http://www.kansaspress.ku.edu/holind.html

Indian Orphanages Marilyn Irvin Holt New in paperback: October 2004 x, 326 pages, 19 photographs, 6 x 9 Paper ISBN 0-7006-1363-3, $19.95 Also available in cloth: ISBN 0-7006-1119-3, $34.95 WINNER OF THE OKLAHOMA HISTORICAL SOCIETY'S OUTSTANDING BOOK AWARD With their deep tradition of tribal and kinship ties, Native Americans had lived for centuries with little use for the concept of an unwanted child. But besieged by reservation life and boarding school acculturation, many tribeswith the encouragement of whitescame to accept the need for orphanages. The first book to focus exclusively on this subject, Marilyn Holt's study interweaves Indian history, educational history, family history, and child welfare policy to tell the story of Indian orphanages within the larger context of the orphan asylum in America. She relates the history of these orphanages and the cultural factors that produced and sustained them, shows how orphans became a part of native experience after Euro-American contact, and explores the manner in which Indian societies have addressed the issue of child dependency. Holt examines in depth a number of orphanages from the 1850s to1940sparticularly among the "Five Civilized Tribes" in Oklahoma, as well as among the Seneca in New York and the Ojibway and Sioux in South Dakota. She shows how such factors as disease, federal policies during the Civil War, and economic depression contributed to their establishment and tells how white social workers and educational reformers helped undermine native culture by supporting such institutions. She also explains how orphanages differed from boarding schools by being either tribally supported or funded by religious groups, and how they fit into social welfare programs established by federal and state policies.

45. Downhomebooks.Com Recommended Books On Trains Was the existence of the orphan trains a wonderful opportunity for abandoned children or a tragic and cruel piece of american history? http://www.downhomebooks.com/rectrains.htm

Home Enter our store Interviews Recommended books for children ... About us Recommended Books: TRAINS Recommended picture books (Click on titles to buy from Amazon.Com) Chris Van Allsburg, The Polar Express . We can't imagine that anyone hasn't actually read this, but if you haven't, and your child likes trains and Christmas, drop everything and purchase your very own copy. Margaret Wise Brown, Two Little Trains . First published in 1949 and illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon, an incomparable team, this is the story of two trains making their way through the countryside. But one is a real train and one is a toy train! Eve Bunting, Train to Somewhere . A young girl is sent west on an Orphan Train – the trains that, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, took orphans in NYC to families in the west willing to adopt a child. But in this case, no one wants her. At least, not until she gets to the end of the line. Virginia Lee Burton, Choo Choo . We try not to include classics in these recommendations, but had to do so in this one about a little engine who gets bored with her routine and decides to explore!

46. LII - Results For "orphan Trains" Collection The Web site is a collection of magazines, books, newspapers, newsletters, photos, and interviews on the orphan trains era in american history. http://sfpl.lii.org/advanced?searchtype=subject;query=Orphan trains;subsearch=Or

47. WebQuest thrilling ride through one of the darkest chapters in american history. By Michael Foster, Seneca, KS. Websites containing related information on orphan trains. http://www.fd.appstate.edu/webquests/5730_f01/bookworms/lesson-template1/lesson-

Orphan Trains A WebQuest for 5th Grade Language Arts Designed by Suzanne Bare, Lavonne Fortner, Julie Hedrick, and Sandy Speaks Introduction Task Process Evaluation ... Teacher Page Introduction Choo, Choo!!!! All aboard for the exciting study of Orphan Trains. This year we are studying orphan trains and preparing for point of view/clarificatoin writing. You are to read A Family Apart by Joan Lowery Nixon and prepare a point of view essay. Summary: New York City in the mid-1800's is a rough place to raise six children alone. When the widowed Mrs. Kelly realizes that she can't keep her children from starving, or from breaking the law. she makes the agonizing decision to send them west on the Orphan Train. At least they'll be raised by families who can care for them. The children do not understand the love behind her decision. The oldest child, 13-year-old Frances Kelly, is further dismayed when she realizes that her siblings will be divided among different families. In order to care for her youngest brother, Frances disguises herself as a boy and becomes "Frankie." When she joins her new family, she finds herself not only in a new environment, but also right in the middle of breaking the law-helping slaves to escape on the Underground Railroad. This exciting adventure story takes readers on a thrilling ride through one of the darkest chapters in American history. By Michael Foster, Seneca, KS

48. Orphan Trains And Their Precious Cargo: The Lifes Work Of Rev. H. D. Clarke What a monumental impact on american history that is! will correct some of that void in history. orphan trains and Their Precious Cargo The Lifes Work of Rev. http://www.historyamericas.com/Orphan_Trains_and_Their_Precious_Cargo_The_Lifes_

Orphan Trains and Their Precious Cargo: The Lifes Work of Rev. H. D. Clarke Orphan Trains and Their Precious Cargo: The Lifes Work of Rev. H. D. Clarke by Authors: Herman D. Clarke , Clark Kidder Released: 31 May, 2001 ISBN: 078841755X Paperback Sales Rank: List price: Our price: Book > Orphan Trains and Their Precious Cargo: The Lifes Work of Rev. H. D. Clarke > Customer Reviews: Average Customer Rating: Orphan Trains and Their Precious Cargo: The Lifes Work of Rev. H. D. Clarke > Customer Review #1: A Researchers Paradise Clark Kidder documents Rev. Clarkes regions of operationMinnesota, Iowa, Missouri. The journals and notes of Rev. Clarke show his great caring and concern for these orphan children. In some cases, there are personal notes from the children he placed. Ever wonder why so many children went to Hopkinton, Ia. when the area could not support them? Rev. Clarkes journals and notes reveal information on at least 80 of these mystery children. There are over 400 children listed in these pages.

49. UWM Libraries, Multimedia Library, Mediagraphy--American History the Cold War Mr. Sears Catalogue Nixon One Woman, One Vote orphan trains Reagan Simple Justice Sins of Our Mothers Truman american history Videodisk american http://www.uwm.edu/Library/media/americanhistory.html

UWM LIBRARIES LOOK WHAT THE MULTIMEDIA LIBRARY HAS ON AMERICAN HISTORY The Multimedia Library, located on the first floor in the east wing, has over 4,700 videotapes and DVDs covering a multitude of subjects. Below is a listing of titles currently available on the topic of American history. For more information on these titles consult the Libraries' online catalog UWM faculty, staff, teaching assistants, research assistants, and graduate students can check out videotape and DVD titles in the Multimedia Library collection for up to seven days depending upon availability. UWM undergraduate students may borrow videotape and DVD titles from the Multimedia Library collection, except for titles that have been placed on Reserve, for up to three days depending upon availability. All for the titles can also be used in the Libraries' Multimedia Viewing Room (E157). For more information consult the Multimedia Library's web page at http://www.uwm.edu/Libraries/media/media.html or phone us at 414-229-4673. Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided Age of Anxiety Age of Revolutions Ain't Gonna Shuffle No More (1964-1972) Ain't Scared of Your Jails (1960-1961) Allies Strike AMERICA: A PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES SERIES Gone West America 1900 America and Lewis Hine America: Lost and Found AMERICAN EXPERIENCE SERIES Ballad of a Mountain Man Barnum's Big Top Coney Island Eisenhower FDR George Washington: The Man Who Wouldn't Be King

50. A History Of Household Government In America Shammas compares the orphan trains and their passengers to the is her ability to place american practice in which won the Economic history Association s Alice http://www.eh.net/bookreviews/library/0610.shtml

A History of Household Government in America Shammas, Carole Published by EH.NET (March 2003) Carole Shammas, A History of Household Government in America . Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2002. xv + 232 pp. $55 (hardback), ISBN: 0-8139-2125-2; $19.50 (paperback), ISBN: 0-8139-2126-0. Reviewed for EH.NET by Gloria L. Main, Department of History, University of Colorado, Boulder. As a writer, Shammas is feisty and often flip although occasionally her text loses clarity. A great strength of the book, however, is her ability to place American practice in an historical and international context. In sum, Carole Shammas has very usefully revisited an enormous and eclectic literature on "the family" extending from colonial times to nearly the present, and brings to bear critical census data on a scale we have never seen before. The book's long-term perspective will make this work exceptionally valuable to specialists and non-specialists alike. Gloria L. Main is the author of Peoples of a Spacious Land: Families and Cultures in Colonial New England (Harvard University Press, 2001), which won the Economic History Association's Alice Hanson Jones in 2002.

51. Connect For Kids - Topics Pages From those ships, to the orphan trains of the 1850s, children played a Robert Bremner, whose seminal work A Documentary history of american Childhood and http://www.connectforkids.org/benton_topics1544/benton_topics_show.htm?attrib_id

52. The American Experience/The Orphan Trains/About The Program From P.B.S.'s The american Experience. This site provides information about the orphan trains designed to take their passengers to a better place and a fresh start. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/amex/orphan/index.html

About the Program "I had the whole future ahead of me, and I didn't know what to expect." Elliot Bobo Eighty years ago, Elliot Bobo was taken from his alcoholic father's home, given a small cardboard suitcase, and put on board an "orphan train" bound for Arkansas. Bobo never saw his father again. He was one of tens of thousands of neglected and orphaned children who over a 75-year period were uprooted from the city and sent by train to farming communities to start new lives with new families. Elliot Bobo's remarkable story is part of The Orphan Trains. The story of this ambitious and finally controversial effort to rescue poor and homeless children begins in the 1850s, when thousands of children roamed the streets of New York in search of money, food and shelterprey to disease and crime. Many sold matches, rags, or newspapers to survive. For protection against street violence, they banded together and formed gangs. Police, faced with a growing problem, were known to arrest vagrant childrensome as young as fivelocking them up with adult criminals. In 1853, a young minister, Charles Loring Brace, became obsessed by the plight of these children, who because of their wanderings, were known as "street Arabs." A member of a prominent Connecticut family, Brace had come to New York to complete his seminary training. Horrified by the conditions he saw on the street, Brace was persuaded there was only one way to help these "children of unhappy fortune."

53. Orphan Trains West United States North America By Region History Show history (North America United States West orphan trains) content on your web site Free history content (North America United States West orphan trains). http://history.designerz.com/north-america-united-states-west-orphan-trains.php

54. Talking History: Shows From 2001 orphan Train We hear about a 1904 drama involving 40 the author of The Great Arizona orphan Abduction the Bancroft Prize, the american Historical Association s http://talkinghistory.oah.org/arch2001.html

Talking History: Shows from 2001 Can't play MP3 files? Celebrating Christmas: Talking History traces the development of the Christmas holiday as it is celebrated today in the U.S. in a conversation with art historian Karal Ann Marling. Marling is the author of Merry Christmas: Celebrating America's Greatest Holiday. Air date: Dec. 24, 2001 Listen Now:   Real Audio 28.8 The commentary by Rev. Ian Bradley looks at the history of Christmas carols. Bradley is church historian at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and the author of The Penguin Book of Carols. Patriotism: Cecilia Elizabeth O'Leary, author of To Die For: The Paradox of American Patriotism , talks about patriotism in the U.S. before and after September 11. O'Leary is a professor of history at California State University and co-director of the Oral History and Community Memory Institute. Dec. 17, 2001 air date Listen Now:   Real Audio 28.8 The commentary by David Greenberg looks at the meaning of terrorism, past and present. Greenberg is a professor of history at Columbia University. Greatest Generation Part 4: In the final segment of our four-part series on Greatest Generations we talk with David Farber about the Baby Boom generation. Farber is a professor of history at the University of New Mexico and author of

55. Ancestry.com - Orphan Train Genealogy In the scheme of great national events in american history, the relocation program should understand is the misleading label of orphan train. The majority of http://www.ancestry.com/library/view/ancmag/701.asp

//var g_Domain = '' var g_Cache = 'http://c.ancestry.com'; var g_CachePartner = 'http://c.ancestry.com/p/0'; Learn The Library Magazines Ancestry Magazine Browse the Library Books/CD-ROMs Magazines Ancestry Magazine Genealogical Computing Daily News Desk Columnists Love to Learn? Subscribe to Ancestry Magazine! Was this article helpful? Yes No Ancestry Magazine Archive January/February 1995 vol. 13 no. 1 Orphan Train Genealogy "They put us all on a big platform in some big building while people came from all around the countryside to pick out those of us they wished to take home. I was four years old, and my sister was only two . . ." This is how one woman remembered her 1914 orphan train experience, one that she shared with at least 200,000 others from 1853 to 1929. The orphan trains carried children, teenagers, and some adults (mostly women) out of eastern cities to rural communities. They were removed from poverty and want, incarceration and institutionalization. Some went to Connecticut, Vermont, Illinois, Nebraska, Virginia, and Texas. By the time the relocation program ended, youngsters were scattered across the breadth of America. When it began, the program was called "placing out." Today it is know as the "orphan trains." The practice began with the New York Children’s Aid Society, but it was taken up by other charities – the Children’s Mission to the Children of the Destitute (Boston), the New York Juvenile Asylum, the New England Home for Little Wanderers (Boston), and the New York Foundling Hospital. By the late 1800s, charities in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois also adopted the program, sending children to states farther west. Each agency had its own placement policies; the New England Home for Little Wanderers, for example, strongly encouraged legal adoption, but New York Juvenile Asylum placements were by legal indenture only. Agencies, however, varied little in procedure.

56. Cyndi's List - Railroads orphan Train Heritage Society of America, Inc. The orphan Train in Michigan Video for sale. orphan Train Page An american Local history Project. http://www.cyndislist.com/railroad.htm

document.write(''); Railroads Main Index Alphabetical Index Topical Index "No Frills" Index ... Text-Only Index Search this page: Edit, Find Search the entire site: The index links below work best if you allow your web browser to load the entire page first. Category Index: General Resource Sites Locality Specific More Railway Links Lists Official Railroad Web Sites ... Records: Administrative, Employment and Pensions Related Categories: Occupations Orphans U.S. - History Planting Your Family Tree Online Preview the Table of Contents Cyndi's List The BOOK! 2nd Edition 2 Volumes Netting Your Ancestors Genealogy Bookstore In association with Amazon.com Ancestry Magazine Genealogical.com GPC and Clearfield Company Genealogy Warehouse Submit a New Link Report a Broken Link Update a Link General Resource Sites From "Along Those Lines" by George G. Morgan. Written for railroad history hobbyists, but has good information for the genealogist as well. Historic and biographical information about women in the US rail industry. From Opportunity, the Journal of Negro Life by the National Urban League, August, 1935. Online article by Stewart H. Holbrook.

57. Family Tree Magazine links to learn more about that period of history. pda.republic.net/othsa/ Between 1853 and 1930, as many as 200,000 american children rode the orphan Train. http://familytreemagazine.com/101sites/101_american.html

Getting Started The Big Picture Portals and Link Indexes Special Interest ... Resources 101 Best Family History Web Sites By Melanie Rigney American History www.loc.gov The Library of Congress site has a wonderful American Memory page, with links to more than 60 collections, searchable by keyword or time period in a variety of media. www.thehistorynet.com This site from Cowles History Group provides a nice assortment of articles about famous people and events in history. moa.cit.cornell.edu/MOA/moa-mission.html Cornell University and the University of Michigan established the Making of America Project to provide online access to important 19th century US journals and books. www.nara.gov/genealogy The National Archives and Records Administration doesn't have a lot of actual records online, but does provide great explanations of what you'll find at regional offices, how to get data, what you're likely to find (including the burned 1890 census), and how to order microfilm of military records. Don't miss the handy page that helps you figure the Soundex number for surnames you're searching www.nara.gov/genealogy/soundex/soundex.html

58. 19th Century The Last orphan trains. The orphan Train Collection from the orphan Train Heritage Society of America, Inc. orphan Train riders history. orphan trains. http://www.rbls.lib.il.us/dpl/ref/hist/histam19.htm

The Reference Desk: History American History: The 19th Century: 1800-1899 General Sites 19th Century Documents "Cross of Gold" William Jennings Bryan (1896) Democracy in America Alexis de Tocqueville's classic Household Cyclopedia for 1881 Old Sturbridge Village Touring Turn of the Century America Antebellum South Antebellum Grayson County: Virginia Militia Antebellum Period: 1850-1861 Documenting the American South Virtual Antebellum Richmond Chicago Chicago Historical Society's History Files The Great Chicago Fire The Civil War General Sites Alice Williamson Diary Civil War era woman American Civil War The American Civil War The American Civil War battles, biographies, reenactments, etc. American Civil War Homepage American Civil War Resources American Civil War Texts Civil War.com ... Civil War Center primary sources Civil War Interactive Civil War Maps Civil War Net Civil War Research some primary source materials Civil War Women Financing the Civil War PDF HouseDivided.com

59. Art Smith's Story Cobblestone magazine. In this issue you have gone a long way toward marking The orphan Train Era as authentic american history. http://www.rootsweb.com/~neadoptn/artsmith.htm

Art Smith, Orphan Train Rider (In His Own Words) At age 71, I was shocked to discover that in December 1922, my eleven companions and I were not just an isolated 12 orphanswending our way westward by train to find a home. We were part of the greatest children's migration known in the history of the World, possibly numbering as many as 350,000. Based largely on this migration, scores of school children in 38 States this year have put together History Day Projects and are eagerly contesting for honors. It all began with Charles Loring Brace, a young Methodist minister and social worker in New York City. In conclusuion, and on behalf of all riders, I want to praise Cobblestone Publishing, Inc. (noted for it's famous American History for Kids) for featuring us so beautifully in a classic April 1998 issue of Cobblestone magazine. In this issue you have gone a long way toward marking The Orphan Train Era as authentic American History. Submitted by Arthur F. Smith, Orphan Train Rider, 1922

60. Orphan Trains To Iowa A Bit of history orphan trains to Iowa From 18531929 a mass migration of approximately 300,000 orphan children was in progress all across America. http://iagenweb.org/iaorphans/

This site is up for adoption. Please email the Iowa Welcome Hostess if you are interested in adopting it. Hello and Welcome to IAGenWeb's Placed Out: Orphan Train Riders to Iowa. Children 'placed out' during the Orphan Train Era (1853-1929) and their descendants have particular research problems. We hope to educate you a bit on this subject and help you further your research on any ancestors you may have that came to Iowa on one of the infamous Orphan Trains. We are working as fast as we can to get information online. NOTE: This site is ONLY for those orphans who came to Iowa on what are now called the 'Orphan Trains.' We ARE NOT able to help you with any other types of adoptions. There are so many other great sites online that are better equipped to help you. We recommend that you try www.cyndislist.com Email inquiries regarding adoptions may be deleted and not answered. We're sorry, but we just don't have the time. Madonna has written a wonderful narrative A Bit of History: Orphan Trains to Iowa From 1853-1929 a mass migration of approximately 300,000 orphan children was in progress all across America. It is estimated that 8-10,000 babies, young children and young adults were brought to Iowa from many orphanages in Boston, New York and other northeastern coastal cities.

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