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=== Collection Description === | === Collection Description === | ||
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. | 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. | ||
NOTC has 66 volumes of orphan train rider records of the American Female Guarding Society (AFGS), photos, about 20,000 rider records, 9,700 names in computer databases, and Internet access to Ancestry.com.<ref>Amanda Wahlmeier, Orphan Train Research Center curator, orphantraindepot@gmail.com, 28 September 2012, e-mail to David Dilts, DiltsGD@familysearch.org.</ref> | NOTC has 66 volumes of orphan train rider records of the American Female Guarding Society (AFGS), photos, about 20,000 rider records, 9,700 names in computer databases, and Internet access to Ancestry.com.<ref>Amanda Wahlmeier, Orphan Train Research Center curator, orphantraindepot@gmail.com, 28 September 2012, e-mail to David Dilts, DiltsGD@familysearch.org.</ref> | ||
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*Andrea Warren, ''We rode the orphan trains'' (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001). {{WorldCat|45172785|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}. Rider stories for Elementary and Junior High audiences. | *Andrea Warren, ''We rode the orphan trains'' (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001). {{WorldCat|45172785|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}. Rider stories for Elementary and Junior High audiences. | ||
*Patricia J Young, and Frances E Marks, ''Tears on paper : the history and life stories of the orphan train riders'' ([Bella Vista, Ark.] : P.J. Young ; [Idaho] : F.E. Marks, 1990). {{WorldCat|22393656|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}; {{FHL|472006|item|disp=FHL Book 973 J3y}}. Rider stories.<br><br> | *Patricia J Young, and Frances E Marks, ''Tears on paper : the history and life stories of the orphan train riders'' ([Bella Vista, Ark.] : P.J. Young ; [Idaho] : F.E. Marks, 1990). {{WorldCat|22393656|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}; {{FHL|472006|item|disp=FHL Book 973 J3y}}. Rider stories.<br><br> | ||
=== See Also === | |||
*[[United States Adoption Research]] Research Wiki article. | |||
*[http://www.cyndislist.com/railroads/orphan-trains/ Orphan Trains] Cyndi's List. | |||
=== Sources === | === Sources === | ||