I recently read a book titled Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline. It taught me about an era in
our American history that I was not previously aware of. Apparently orphan
trains operated from around 1850 to 1929 by taking orphans from New York City
to the Midwest in the hopes of being adopted or at least providing the child
with a stable family unit and education. Some children received great families,
where some children were merely seen as an indentured servant or a slave for
their own benefit.
I am not sure if any of our ancestors are part of this
historical event, but I did find a website with Family Search that will help us
in our family history searches, just in case. You can view it here.
Good luck in finding our family stories.
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