Good morning, I'd like to take this opportunity to ask the people on these Lists to learn more about the "British Home Children" aka "Home Children, Canada," who were the "orphans and unwanted children" which "England" shipped out of their country.. and sent to Canada .. from ~1860 to ~1930. There were 100,000 of them .. and counting.. And, many more were shipped to Australia and New Zealand .. and some to South Africa ... "England" sent them to all "British Colonies" including some to "the 13 Colonies" .. starting in the 1600's. If you would like to learn more about these children .. and what happened to them, you may join the BHC List .. at www.rootsweb.com Go to the home page and scroll down to the Mailing List INDEX .. You will find the BHC List under "Canada." Reading the Archives of this List will be quite an education for you; but be forewarned it is a 3-tissue read. You may also put the terms, "British Home Children" or "Home Children, Canada" or "Child Migrants" into a search-engine and find web sites about them, including the following: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~britishhomechildren/ http://www.orphantrainriders.com/HomeChild/HomeIndex.html Several databases are being constructed of the names of the "Home Children," and one database can be found at the National Archives of Canada web site: http://www.archives.ca/02/020110_e.html Thank you for your time. Happy Holidays! Betty (near Lowell, MA, USA) o Researching "Home Children" LEWIS and CORKILL o Researching the KIDDER name, in general, going back to the patriarch, James KIDDER (1626-1676) of Cambridge and Billerica, MA "There are two lasting bequests we can give our children; one is roots, the other is wings." Hodding Carter, Jr.