At 09:09 PM 10/11/2000 -0400, you wrote: >Hi Ann, >I also have a home children situation. Have you tried the Canadian >archives home children site >http://www.archives.ca/exec/naweb.dll?fs&02020204&e&home&0 . . . >Good luck don't give up, I understand it's a long voyage to gather >information about this children. You could actually contact the society >that sent the children and possibly get a photo (some of them did take a >photo before the children left the country) and other information about >the situation prior to leaving. > >Cathy Miller >Tecumseh, Michigan >USA Definitely don't give up. The British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa is working with the National Archives to create the database of Home Children you find on Archivianet. It is definitely a work in progress. Volunteers are assigned a year and then go through the microfilm passengers lists to extract the names of the Home Children and then record the data in a specific format in a text file. Once that it done, the data is turned over to the Archives who put it into a database. They, unfortunately, have all the normal restraints and constraints of budget restrictions and conflicting priorities. Your year may not have been recorded yet. It may be recorded, but has not yet been added to the online database. Keep checking back from time to time for new data. Marg Burwell Webmaster, BIFHSGO http://www.cyberus.ca/~bifhsgo