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• 1880 U.S. Federal Census New York Juvenile Asylum, New York, NY

  Many children from the institution were sent to Illinois and other states on Orphan Trains between about 1853 and 1929.

• Ancestry.com - Orphan Train Genealogy

  Article by Marilyn Irvin Holt.

• Indiana Orphan Trains Project

  A contact point for those interested in the Orphan Trains riders who were given out in Indiana.

• Iowa Orphan Train Project

• Louisiana Orphan Train

• National Orphan Train Complex

  The Orphan Train Heritage Society of America, Inc., formerly headquartered in Springdale, Arkansas, merged with the National Orphan Train Complex.

• Orphan Train Page

  An American Local History Project.

• Orphan Train Resources

• Orphan Train Riders History

• Orphan Trains

• Orphan Trains

  A brief article with numerous links on the topic.

• Orphan Trains - Nebraska State Historical Society

• Orphan Trains of Kansas

  • A History of the Orphan Trains

  • A Partial List of Institutions That Orphan Train Children Came From

  • A Partial List of Kansas Orphan Train Arrivals

  • Index of Children Who Rode the Orphan Trains to Kansas

  • Kansas Orphan Train Time-Line

  • Orphan Train Bibliographies

  • Riders on an Orphan Train to Kansas - 1911

• Orphan Trains of Nebraska

• Orphan Trains to Missouri

  Information about a book from the University of Missouri Press.

• Orphan Trains: The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed

  A book by Stephen O'Connor.

• Orphans to Iowa

• The Children's Aid Society of New York: an index to the federal, state, and local census records of its lodging houses, 1855-1925

  A book by Carolee R. Inskeep.

• The New York Foundling Hospital: An Index to the Federal, State, and Local Census Records [1870-1925]

  A book by Carolee R. Inskeep.

• The Orphan Train in Michigan

  Video for sale.