On 10-Jul-10, at 11:44 AM, Carolyn Perkes wrote: > > Hello Bob, > > If you are exploring the possibility that your Alexander Reid was a > "home child" you might want visit the British Home Child site and join > the BHC mailing list. People are quite helpful there. > > http://www.britishhomechildren.org/ > > This website is constantly being updated with people adding more > children, more "sending agencies," and more links to other groups and > sources of information. > > Hope this is of some help and interest to you and any other Lanark > list members who may be looking for a relation who was sent away in > the UK child emigration scheme. > > Note however that BHC only refers to children sent to Canada. There > are other groups and websites about child migrants sent to other > former colonies. > > Sincerely, > > Carolyn > (with a BHC ancestor who was sent out from a reformatory, and not one > of the larger agencies). > > ------------------------------- > One more site with a great deal more information: http://jubilation.uwaterloo.ca/~marj/genealogy/homeadd.html Carolyn