Children's Home Records
Emigration Records
There are three main sources for emigration records:
- Those created by the organization in Britain whose children were emigrated — these will usually be held alongside the organization's other surviving records.
- Those related to the children's transport to their new country, such as records of the escorting organization, or ships' passenger lists.
- Those created in the country which received the children, such as immigration records or official inspection reports.
Some useful links relating to the latter two categories are given below:
- British Home Children in Canada.
- Home Children Canada — British Home Children Registry.
- British Home Child Group International — has database of over 23,000 Canadian British Home Children
- National Library and Archives Canada especial the Home Children section.
- British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa (BIFHSGO) — has several indexes of the names of children brought to Canada by various organizations in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
- FindMyPast — Home Children Canada Immigration Records Index, 1869-1930.
- Young Immigrants to Canada. [Archived]
- National Archives of Australia — Immigration Records.
- Good British Stock — Australian National Archives research guide.
- Personal History Index for former Child Migrants to Catholic homes in Australia.
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