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Have you been looking through census records only to find the children seemed to have disappeared? You wonder what could have happened to them or where did they go. I had that happen to me. I saw my Great Grandparents on the census alone and their young children were not with them. I couldn't imagine what could have happened. I began an intense search for them and just by luck, not sure how I found them, but they showed up in an orphanage! I asked a living relative about it and I was told that when the family arrived in California from Nebraska the jobs were much harder to get then they thought and they had a difficult time caring for their children. The children were put in the orphanage where, I was told, my great grandparents visited them weekly but had to place them there temporarily so they could both work. Ten years later the next census showed the family back together again.
So my Tuesday Tip for you today is to be sure and check orphanage records! Here's orphanage records for . . .
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I hope this Tip urges you to search places you may not have thought of. We have to think of the times and what parents had to do for the family to survive.
Warm Regards,
Interesting and important tip.
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A great resource! Thanks. As I mentioned in another comment, I have these photos of orphanage bands and sometimes there are names notated. I'm glad you were able to solve that mystery. Many families would not want to preserve such a memory of hardship.
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