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AnotherCanuck

AnotherCanuck Report 15 Jun 2013 05:10

Nudge

Cynthia

Cynthia Report 14 Jun 2013 14:48

nudge

George

George Report 13 Jun 2013 21:03

nudging up, the BHCD website is currently offline but we do still have a thriving Facebook group where descendants of child migrants are very welcome to join and seek help with research

AnotherCanuck

AnotherCanuck Report 3 Feb 2013 18:32

Nudge....

George

George Report 2 Feb 2013 11:02

For anyone with an interest in home children and is on Facebook, there is a very active Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/60555734110/

George

George Report 25 Feb 2012 17:35

nudge

val1963

val1963 Report 16 Dec 2011 21:06

Thank You George,Nudging Just in case

Val

George

George Report 16 Dec 2011 18:26

If anyone has problems logging into www.britishhomechildren.org or getting an error message on the site then can you email [email protected] as the support team on the site can then assist you with the problem

George

George

George Report 25 Nov 2011 21:48

nudge

Kathleen

Kathleen Report 31 Oct 2011 19:46

n for Yvonne

Kathleen

Kathleen Report 30 Oct 2011 10:44

Dear George,

Thank you so much for bringing this thread up again. Just this week I have found a family member who enlisted with COEF in 1915.

All my attempts to find him as a British serving soldier had failed, and now I have found him as a Homes child ,sent to Canada in 1906, which explains why he enlisted in Toronto in 1915.

And I have claimed him on the website above

Best wishes

George

George Report 28 Oct 2011 21:01

links to some of the organisations who sent children to Canada and other parts-

http://www.barnardos.org.uk/

http://www.quarriers.org.uk/

http://www.actionforchildren.org.uk/

http://www.nugentcare.org/

http://www.coram.org.uk/

http://www.fegans.org.uk/

http://www.cathchild.org.uk/index.php

http://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/uki/www_uki.nsf



George

George Report 28 Oct 2011 20:53

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/home-children/001015-100.01-e.php

has recently been updated to include children sent in the late 1920s-1930 to Canada

George

Gwyn in Kent

Gwyn in Kent Report 7 May 2011 10:40

George
I posted a thread about Oranges and Sunshine and went to see it this week.

Just posting here so that I can find this useful thread again.

Gwyn

George

George Report 16 Mar 2011 08:12

nudging for the benefit of any newer members

If you have a child migrant who was sent overseas, please consider claiming or adding them in to the database on the British Home Child database as it increases the chance of a connection being made between you and someone else who may be connected to that child who may view the site. There are currently 11213 entries in the database, is your relative one of the unclaimed??

Thanks

JaneyCanuck

JaneyCanuck Report 13 Jan 2011 04:19

I don't know whether this has been mentioned -- haven't read the entire thread -- but another place to search for male child migrants who were of an age to be in WWI is in CEF attestations. My Uncle Charlie (my grandmother's sister's husband), sent to Canada in the early 1900s, who appears as a farm labourer in the 1911 census at the age of 17, stated he was a farmer on his attestation paper, and I knew him as a child, in the 1950s/60s, as a successful farmer who lived long and prospered. ;)

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/cef/001042-100.01-e.php


George

George Report 12 Jan 2011 18:42

to any Genesmembers who have registered on -www.britishhomechildren.org please visit the site as there is an article that all members of that site need to read,

Thanks

George

Barry_

Barry_ Report 3 Oct 2010 13:43

A gentle reminder about the sites George posted in 2004 on Page 1.

At that time GR did not allow a complete web site address. Notice each address has (.)

Be sure to remove () or change (.) to .

If you forget to do so, you will see (on IE)

"Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage"

BTW, the sites on Page 1 are active.

Good luck in your searches..

Barry

George

George Report 3 Oct 2010 11:01

if any site member has an ancestor sent to Canada as a child by a Workhouse
you may find their placement inspection report on this site. Even if you don't they make fascinating reading anyway.

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/orders/001022-100.01-e.php

you have to search by keywords like 'pauper' 'workhouse children' or 'inspection reports' etc

Hope someone has success in finding their relative

George

George

George Report 8 Aug 2010 11:34

nudging up as we have now hit 10, 000 in our BHC database on

www.britishhomechildren.org

If you have not yet added your child migrant then please consider doing it today, as the more children that get added/claimed by researchers the more the chance of connections being made between people who may have an interest in that child but are not aware of each other.

George