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

There may be no records, other than those at the institution originating the cargo of orphans. Adoption is a rather modern notion, and many children in the period before 1940 or so were never legally adopted. Just raised by families who had some type of interest in them. My mother-in-law considered herself to be adopted, but in fact the birth mother signed an affidavit giving her up to the people who raised her. That family went to the trouble of having her birth certificate modified to show her as their child, but there was never a court adoption proceeding.