what are there names renee -----Original Message----- From: ConPutnam@aol.com <ConPutnam@aol.com> To: HODGES-L@rootsweb.com <HODGES-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Sunday, May 02, 1999 5:03 PM Subject: [HODGES-L] What happens to the kids when the parents die? >I'm trying to locate information on where my grandfather and his brother >lived after their mother died. My grandfather was 5 and his brother was 6 in >1892 when she died...they show up in 1910 census, but so far I haven't >located them in 1900? > >My general question is about what some of you have found in tracking similar >situations. How far away from the homesite might they have gone? And my >feeling is that the more you know about the collateral families, the easier >this situation would be to discover. I've had one youngest daughter go to >live with the family of her older married sister, a couple of families where >the children were in orphanages after their father died or deserted the >family. I found the two brothers mentioned above living with a brother of >their father in 1910. Any other types of experiences you've found in your >research would be of great help to me.. Thanks. Connie > > >==== HODGES Mailing List ==== >Have you considered joining the Rootsweb Genealogical Data > Cooperative? http://www.rootsweb.com/ >