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Including information about Charles Loring Brace and The Children’s Aid Society
Reformers thought children would be better served by leaving the city streets and orphanages and being relocated to the country.
Orphan Trains A Brief History and How to
Orphan Trains (search results at FamilySearch.org)
Ties that bind : the Orphan Train story in Minnesota
The National Orphan Train Complex Museum and Research Center, Concordia, Kansas. Records, resources, and research guides.
Guide to the Records of the New York Foundling Hospital 1869-2009.
Brooklyn Home for Children, Forestdale Inc., 67-35 112th St., Forest Hills, NY 11375 – Home for Destitute Children (1884)
Brooklyn Nursery and Infants Hospital – Salvation Army Social Services for Children, 132 W. 14th St., New York, NY 10011 (212) 352-5550
Children’s Aid Society – Office of Closed Records, 150 E. 45th St., New York, NY 10017. Records at the New York Historical Society Museum & Library. (historical material and correspondence – record restrictions apply on individual case files) Some records include birth family names for children leaving New York.
Children’s Village (formerly the New York Juvenile Asylum), Office of Alumni Affairs, Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522 (914) 693-0600, Ext. 1410 (Founded 1851)
National Orphan Train Complex
300 Washington St., Box 322, Concordia, KS 66901 (785) 243-4471
Five Points House of Industry — Greer-Woodycrest and Hope Farm, Crystal Run Village, RD 2, Box 98, Middletown, NY 10940. Established by New York Ladies’ Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church (1850) Images, Book,
New England Home for Little Wanderers
The Home for Little Wanderers, 271 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA 02115
(888) HOME-321 – Home founded in 1865 and merged with Boston Children’s Services in 1999.
New York Child’s Foster Home Services – Records for Sheltering Arms – Episcopal Social Services and Speedwell, 122 E. 29th St.. New York, NY 10016
New York Foundling Hospital, Record Information Department, 590 Ave. of the Americas, New York, NY 10011 (212) 633-9300, Ext. 6830 New York Foundling Asylum (1869) Records Information
New York Infant Asylum, 1865-1910, New York Nursery and Child’s Hospital, 1910-1947 Records: New York Weill Cornell, Medical Center Archives, 525 E. 68th St, 25th Floor, New York, NY 10021 (212) 746-6072
New York Juvenile Asylum, Searchable Database – 40,000 names
Orphan Asylum Society of Brooklyn (Founded in 1832) Records request back to 1855: Brookwood Child Care (1960-present), 25 Washington St.. Brooklyn, NY 11201 (718) 596-5555 – Asylum records kept at the University of Minnesota, Social Welfare History Archives, 320 Elmer L. Andersen Library, 222 21st Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN 55455 (612) 625-9825
Where Have the Children Gone? A Family Account of an Orphan Train Experience