Are you related to a Home Child?

[KarenM]

Where are the proceeds of the sales from the book going?

Karen

[Soltown]

we are also building a comprehensive database on www.britishhomechildren.org of all child migrants sent to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, etc, anybody is welcome to add a child to the database or claim a child currently in there, at the moment there are 9385 children listed, some have a descendant listed in their 'record' on there but the majority do not,

We are inputting names every day so please check the site regularly.

The sad thing is that some of these kids died in the war, died single, or did not have children so even if you are only distantly linked to a child migrant please think about claiming them

Thanks

George

[Finley 1]

I am feeling totally dumb  here... cos I dont know what a 'home child' is...  forgive my ignorance ... and tell me what its all about.. thank you 
xin

[Soltown]

from 1860s through to 1970s, children were sent by orphanages and workhouses in the UK to be placed as servants or be adopted in Canada (and to Australia & New Zealand from 1920s-1970s)

these children became known as home children or child migrants,

more than 100,000 went to Canada, the exact number that were sent to Australia & New Zealand is not really known,

so if you have a child in your tree who you cannot find a death for but seems to have vanished then you could consider it a possibility

[Soltown]

the Canada scheme ended in the 1940s

[Finley 1]

Oh OK  so it was just the classification I didnt know.. I did know about the children sent to Australia. 
Uhhm...

xin