United States Orphan Research

United States Orphan Research

See also United States, How to Find Genealogy Records

Internet sites and databases:


 * History of Orphanages
 * List of Early Orphanages
 * Genealogy Today, Orphanage Records
 * Children's Aid Society, NYC, archives searches ($) for adoptions, and orphan train riders.
 * New York Foundling Hospital, can do records research for close relatives only of placed-out children.
 * Family History Library, Salt Lake City, 450 computers, 3,400 databases, 3.1 million microforms, 4,500 periodicals, 310,000 books of worldwide family and local histories, censuses, civil, church, immigration, ethnic, military, and Mormon records.
 * United States Adoption Research Research Wiki article.
 * Bobbie's Genealogy Classroom

For Further Reading:


 * The Rise and Demise of the American Orphanage