Dawn: @ [email protected] We didn't know anything about my grandfather, except that he was sent to Canada from England. I started with Barnardo's just because they were the best known. They checked and he wasn't there, but they sent me addresses of many such homes in the UK. I either e-mailed or snail mailed all of them, and hit the jackpot with the National Children's Homes. They sent me all they had on him, no charge even. There were the admittance forms his father filled out for my grandfather and his two sisters. After my grandfather came to Canada, to their Hamilton, Ontario home, he was sent out to a farmer. He wrote letters back to the Hamilton home, which they kept, and when that home closed in the 1930, (I think) everything they had was sent back to England, including all his letters and an update written by the Hamilton supervisor after he was out on his own with his family. It was far beyond what I expected. Jim