I wait to be corrected but it was my fuzzy understanding that the orphan trains originated in New York and was a way of reducing the large number of homeless orphans that were running around the streets getting in the "good people's" hair. Celia "Buffys97" <buffys97@one.net> wrote in message news:u2urq4kvu8105b@corp.supernews.com...> Hi. If I thought my great-grandmother was an Orphan Train Rider, in > which court might such records be? Or maybe I should ask, what would > the legal process be before she was put on the train. > > In 1850, she was 3 years old and living with her single-parent father > in Newport, KY (Campbell County). I am not sure, but I *think* I found > Catherine once again in the 1860 census in the Brown County Ohio > census for Arnheim Village as a 13 year old. > Would such records be in Campbell Co Probate or Brown County probate > or somewhere else? > > I did not find the info on Orphan Train Riders site. > > Thanks. Trixie in Dixie > >

Actually I think you're right. I guess other states could have had 'copy cat' organizations. Maybe there was a large orphanage there. On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 15:11:04 -0600, "Celia Mitschelen" <cmitsch@ix.netcom.com> wrote: >I wait to be corrected but it was my fuzzy understanding that the orphan >trains originated in New York and was a way of reducing the large number of >homeless orphans that were running around the streets getting in the "good >people's" hair. > >Celia >> >> Thanks. Trixie in Dixie >> >> > >

I thought so, too. At the VERY least, the trains came out of Big Cities in the East; seems to me last time this topic came 'round someone reported that some of the trains picked up additional children in Big Cities they passed through. RandMcNally puts Newport as a sort of 'burb to Cincinnati, so maybe it qualified? Then again, a child with one parent isn't an "orphan" (except in estate proceedings) and I sort of have a vague recollection that these orphan-train orphans were out of city-run orphanages? Let's all hope someone familiar with 'em will answer her! (g) Cheryl Celia Mitschelen wrote: > > I wait to be corrected but it was my fuzzy understanding that the orphan > trains originated in New York and was a way of reducing the large number of > homeless orphans that were running around the streets getting in the "good > people's" hair. > > Celia > > "Buffys97" <buffys97@one.net> wrote in message > news:u2urq4kvu8105b@corp.supernews.com...> Hi. If I thought my > great-grandmother was an Orphan Train Rider, in > > which court might such records be? Or maybe I should ask, what would > > the legal process be before she was put on the train. > > > > In 1850, she was 3 years old and living with her single-parent father > > in Newport, KY (Campbell County). I am not sure, but I *think* I found > > Catherine once again in the 1860 census in the Brown County Ohio > > census for Arnheim Village as a 13 year old. > > Would such records be in Campbell Co Probate or Brown County probate > > or somewhere else? > > > > I did not find the info on Orphan Train Riders site. > > > > Thanks. Trixie in Dixie > > > >