Hi Everyone, I've been trying to find my great grandfather's children in census records for 1910 and 1920. All of the children appear in the 1900 census, but something happened between 1900 and 1910. My great grandmother shows up in 1910 married to someone else (and it says they'd been married for 6 yrs.) with one child (apparently from this new marriage). Her other two children, who would only be 10 and 12, are not with her, and I've tried searching under their names in the census and I find nothing. My great grandfather had an additional five children from his first marriage and they are nowhere to be found in the 1910 and 1920 census. I've also tried looking up each of their names and nothing...Could they have been sent to an orphanage? If this is the case, are there lists of orphans for Suffolk, Nassau and NYC (possibly the Bronx) that I could search?What other explanation could there be for this disappearance? Does anyone have any ideas of what else I might be able to do to find these children? Thanks for your help, Liz _________________________________________________________________ Get ideas on sharing photos from people like you. Find new ways to share. http://www.windowslive.com/explore/photogallery/posts?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Photo_Gallery_082008

Hi Liz, We were just discussing on the "British Home Children" List about all the people who died during the "1918 Flu Epidemic." If you look at this "Epidemic Timeline," you will see that the so-called "Spanish Flu" was going on at that time, as well as "Polio" (also a killer). http://hawkshome.net/misc_items/events/epidemic_timeline.htm (And World War I was going on between 1914 and 1918, and that affected many families, in many ways.) And, the "Great Depression" started in 1929, but perhaps others could discuss what was going on in Brooklyn during the 1910 to 1920 timeframe. Were there more "poor" families than there were "rich" families? * Just "food for thought." Betty (near Lowell, MA, USA) PLEASE REMEMBER THE "BRITISH HOME CHILDREN." (check out the BHC List archives) Notes: My EX's parents were born in the 1914 to 1918 timeframe, reportedly in Brooklyn. I just noticed that they were born during the WW I years. My ancestor, Jacob HUTCHINSON from near Boston, MA, had a brother and 2 married sisters move to Brooklyn during 1850's. I think they did OK as merchants, but I am curious if they continued to do OK during Civil War years and during the 1870's. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Elizabeth Martinez-Gibson" <cosette.58@hotmail.com> To: <nybronx@rootsweb.com>; <nybrooklyn@rootsweb.com>; <nyc-roots@rootsweb.com>; <nykings@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 12:35 PM Subject: [BKLYN] (no subject) Hi Everyone, I've been trying to find my great grandfather's children in census records for 1910 and 1920. All of the children appear in the 1900 census, but something happened between 1900 and 1910. My great grandmother shows up in 1910 married to someone else (and it says they'd been married for 6 yrs.) with one child (apparently from this new marriage). Her other two children, who would only be 10 and 12, are not with her, and I've tried searching under their names in the census and I find nothing. My great grandfather had an additional five children from his first marriage and they are nowhere to be found in the 1910 and 1920 census. I've also tried looking up each of their names and nothing...Could they have been sent to an orphanage? If this is the case, are there lists of orphans for Suffolk, Nassau and NYC (possibly the Bronx) that I could search?What other explanation could there be for this disappearance? Does anyone have any ideas of what else I might be able to do to find these children? Thanks for your help, Liz