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1880 Census House of the Guardian Angel St. Louis MO

1880 Census information for the orphanage, House of the Guardian Angel in St. Louis, Missouri.

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.

A Directory of Orphanages for Allegheny County, Pennsylvania And Some Adjacent Counties

A Friend of The Fairview Home for Friendless Children of Watervliet, NY

This Presbyterian Home was open from 1888 till 1956. Founded by philanthropist James Barclay Jermain in 1888 and which remained open until 1956 when it was merged into Troy Orphan Asylum (now Vanderheyden Hall).

Black Mountain Home For Children - History

Black Mountain, North Carolina. Originally called the Presbyterian Home for Children.

Children from Howard County at the Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home

Indiana.

Children's Home - The Lawrence Register

The Lawrence County Children’s Home was also called the Orphans Home. It opened in 1874 in a large brick house on Front Street, near Railroad Street, and remained there from 1874-1878. In 1878, the Children’s Home was moved to Vernon Street, just east of Ninth Street in Ironton, Ohio where the Juvenile Home is now located.

FamilySearch Wiki - United States Orphan Research

Fold3 - Bayland Orphan Home Records $

Bayland Orphan Home, Board of Trustees Records, 1867-1948. Originally, the Bayland Orphan Home was sited near Morgan's Point on Goose Creek in what is now Baytown, Texas. Fold3 is an online repository for original historical documents, combined with the ability for users to make comments, annotations, and upload their own documents. Some areas of Fold3 are free to use, while others can be freely searched and then viewed with a paid subscription.

Guide to the Records of the Hebrew National Orphan Home Alumni Association, undated, 1925-2010, 2014 (bulk 1957-1997)

Held at the American Jewish Historical Society in New York.

Indiana Soldier's and Sailor's Children's Home

Indiana. Online searchable database from the Indiana State Archives.

Jewish Women's Archive - Orphanages in the United States

Junior Home Alumni Association Genealogies

Childrens homes in Tiffin, Ohio & Lexington, North Carolina.

Methodist Home for Children

North Carolina.

Miami County Ohio Children's Home Index 1879-1939

Miami County, Ohio.

Miami County Ohio Children's Home Index 1930-1970

New York Foundling Hospital

OrphanFinder.com (Wayback Machine) Updated

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.

Orphans in the Sisters of Charity Orphan Asylum, New York City, New York in the 1860 Census

Records of the New York Juvenile Asylum

Historian Clark Kidder provides a searchable list of over 40,000 children gleaned from the original records of the New York Juvenile Asylum and New York House of Refuge from circa 1825-1923. The Asylum was designed to house, educate, reform, and indenture children who were homeless, truant, and criminal (convicted of petty crimes) in New York City. Kidder will also provide images of the original records for a fee.