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<br> Orphan train research helps find foster children between 1853 and 1930 who rode trains from [[New York City, New York|New York City]], [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]], or [[Chicago, Illinois|Chicago]] to new homes in other states or Canada. The genealogy of many of these 200,000 orphaned, abandoned, or homeless children can often be traced back to the [[Children's Aid Society]], or the [[New York Foundling Hospital]], among others.[[Image:{{NOTCopen}}]]  

'''E-mail:'''<ref name="General">[http://www.orphantraindepot.com/generalinformation.html General Information] at ''National Orphan Train Complex, Inc.'' (accessed 25 September 2012).</ref>[mailto:orphantraindepot@gmail.com orphantraindepot@gmail.com] <br>  

'''Directions:''' &nbsp;[https://maps.google.com/maps?q=National+Orphan+Train+Complex,+Washington+Street,+Concordia,+KS&hl=en&sll=39.499761,-111.547028&sspn=7.517668,14.27124&oq=National+Orphan+Train+&hq=National+Orphan+Train+Complex,&hnear=Washington+St,+Concordia,+Cloud,+Kansas+66901&t=m&z=15 Google Map] <br>  

The National Orphan Train Museum and Research Center (a.k.a. Complex) collect, preserve, interpret, and disseminate knowledge about the orphan trains, the children and the agents who rode them.<ref name="Home">[http://www.orphantraindepot.com/index.html NOTC Home] at ''National Orphan Train Complex, Inc.'' (accessed 26 September 2012).</ref> This includes the history of the orphan train movement, and the stories of the children, photos, artifacts, and an archival collection. Also, they maintain a rider registry, a speakers' bureau, and the organization's online news.  

*[[Children's Aid Society]], NYC, archives searches ($) for adoptions, and orphan train riders.<br>  

*[[Family History Library]], Salt Lake City, 450 computers, 3,400 databases, 3.1 million microforms, 4,500 periodicals, 310,000 books of worldwide family and local histories, censuses, civil, church, immigration, ethnic, military, and Mormon records.<br><br>

*[http://www.cloudgenealogy.com/ Cloud County Genealogical Society] newspapers, church records, censuses, plat maps, vital records, family histories, local histories at the Frank Carlson Library. <br>  

*[http://www.fcarlsonlib.org/ Frank Carlson Library], Concordia, houses the Cloud County Genealogical Society collection. <br>  

*[[Kansas Historical Society]], Topeka, has indexes, photos, letters, diaries, newspapers, maps, censuses, vital records, family histories, land records, railroads, and county place information. <br>  

*[[Kansas Department of Health and Environment|Kansas Dept. of Health and Environment]], Topeka, births/deaths since 1911; marriages since 1913.<br>  

*[[Kansas Genealogical Society]], Dodge City, 15,000 books, vital records, cemeteries, censuses, and computer databases focused mostly on Kansas.<br>  

*[[Topeka Genealogical Society]], 10,000 books, 700 periodicals, strongest for NE Kansas and Shawnee County.<br>  

*[[American Historical Society of Germans from Russia]], Lincoln, NE, has Russian geography info, church records, civil records, maps, family histories, photos, and surname charts, newspapers, U.S. arrival lists.<br>  

*[[Wichita State University Library]], Wichita, biography, history, law, and JSTOR.<br>  

*[[Iola Public Library]], Iola, Kansas, 4000 genealogy books, 12,500 microfilms, help from genealogist volunteers, and access to HeritageQuest Online.<br><br>

*Patricia J Young, and Frances E Marks, ''Tears on paper&nbsp;: the history and life stories of the orphan train riders'' ([Bella Vista, Ark.]&nbsp;: P.J. Young&nbsp;; [Idaho]&nbsp;: F.E. Marks, 1990). {{WorldCat|22393656|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}; {{FHL|472006|item|disp=FHL Book 973 J3y}}. Rider stories.<br><br>

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