Orphans » General Resources

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• Ancestry.com - Message Boards - Orphans and Orphanages

• Family Tree Connection - Home Records

  Search the listings for free, view full details with a fee-based subscription.

• Family Tree Connection - Orphanage Records

  Search the listings for free, view full details with a fee-based subscription.

• Hebrew National Orphan Home

  Alumni including Jewish Orphanages in the United States.

• His Father's Eyes - Citizen Writer Michael Woloschuk Discovers the Lost Father Who Haunts Eric Clapton's Music

  Online article from the Ottawa Citizen.

• How to Research Your Orphan Ancestors - Heritage Discovered

• Orphan's Home Website

  Transcriptions of orphan, adoptee, and foster children listings in orphanages, homes, and poorhouses from U.S. and Canadian censuses.

• Orphanages Page ALHN

  An American Local History Project.

  • History of Orphanages

  • List of Early Orphanages (mid 1800s-early 1900s)

  • Orphan Train Page

  • Photographs of Old Orphanages

• OrphanFinder.com

  OrphanFinder.com is a directory of children’s homes, shelters, foundling homes, orphanages, orphans homes, institutions, asylums, infant schools, nurseries, and other homes for orphans, abandoned, neglected, and disadvantaged children.

• The Rise and Demise of the American Orphanage

  Online article from Johns Hopkins Magazine - April 1996 issue.

• Your Guide to Finding Orphaned & Adopted Ancestors

  Information and resources to help you track down ancestors who were brought up outside the home of the birth parents.