To all interested in the Home Child pages:- There are several well-known international sites -- and for David Lorente of Renfrew, Ontario -- the web has a total of 6580 sites. Here are a few interesting sites or do a search for Home Child -- there is a guarantee you will find others. Pier 21 in Halifax is putting together all possible data and it should be finished by 2003 -- well underway when I was in Halifax, Nova Scotia last year. Here are a FEW of the many sites -- with FREE data space -- only the webmaster may read the supplied data -- no charges. http://www.orphantrainriders.com/HomeChild/HomeIndex.html http://dcs1.uwaterloo.ca/~marj/genealogy/homeadd.html The Orphan Train Collection:- http://www.orphantrainriders.com/index.html Period is from 1853 - 1929/30 http://www.orphantrainriders.com/international.html As one can see -- the Home Children subject is a big issue! Mail list is [email protected] Here searchers exchange information -- often with results, names of ships, ages, place and name at origin, destinations. The above is only a very small bit of available information. Also, Senator Lorna Milne will speak on this topic in the Senate -- gather as many petitions (Senate English, French, Non-Resident ) and mark these with BHC -- will be kept separate for Senator Milne -- questions will be answered. Muriel M. Davidson [email protected] Co-Chair, Canada Census Committee 25 Crestview Avenue, Brampton, ON L6W 2R8 http://www.globalgenealogy.com/Census/Petition.htm --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.381 / Virus Database: 214 - Release Date: 8/2/02