Re: Home Children to Canada

[topcol]

Hi to all you descendants and/or friends of British Home Children. I'm the webmaster of the Unofficial Dr Barnardo's website at:     http://www.topleybarnardo.cwc.net   
which I have recently re-started updating after a 3 year hiatus, for which I apologise.
I noticed my website's URL in some messages posted in this section and I would love to hear from anyone who can spare the time to visit it and perhaps sign the guestbook or better still, email me your thoughts on the whole story of Dr Barnardo's Homes especially of course the BHC chapter.
Thanks for your time
All the best, Colin Topley

[J.J.]

Welcome to Rootschat, Colin ...
  Websites are a lot of trouble to keep up... I appreciate all the trouble it can be to do so...

Here's our resource page as well....locked to new additions, but I will always open it if someone has several valid entries to add...There are also lists of children we have searched for and or found on rootschat...
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,355348.0.html
We have a special place in our hearts for these children.

Have you noticed that some automated genealogy census transcribers have also taken up the cause & are starting to list any marked BHC children?

all the best, J.J.

[topcol]

Hi JJ, thanks very much for your very prompt response. I've added to my website some of the BHC website links you kindly provided.
 As a side note, I also checked out a link on one of the Rootschat pages asking about the parents of a Sarah Page born in Chilham, Kent in 1836. My family lived in Chilham for almost 200 years and one of them married into the local Page family so you can imagine how much I want to contact the person, Rootschat ID Eillo, to discuss this but I can't seem to find the actual post which refers to this enquiry.
Hope you can help, in fact, I'm confident you can.
Thanks in advance, Colin

[Soltown]

I am posting this on behalf of a lady who is not a member

Are there Descendants of Home Children on this website that aren't subscribed to the British Home Children mailing list?

As 2010 has been proclaimed the Year of the British Home Child in Canada, it is a year to plan special programs and events to further the public's awareness.

Some Societies already have programs organized to bring in speakers for meetings and Workshop Days planned.

Through the British Home Child mailing list we are trying to organize a Photo Memory Quilt.

We are also submitting 'Our Stories of Home Children' for an Anthology book to be published later this year.

Please contact me personally if you would like to take part in one of these projects, know of other events that are being planned or have other ideas/suggestions of your own.

To help further the public's awareness, please feel free to post my message to other mailing lists or organizations that would be interested.

If anyone is interested in getting involved or submitting their relatives story please respond here or private message me and I will send you the contact details for the lady organising some of it.

Thanks for reading this

George