New Legacy QuickGuide™: Researching Child Migrants and British Home Children

Library and Archives Canada: British immigrant children from Dr. Barnardo's Homes at landing stage, Saint John, N.B.

My newest Legacy QuickGuide™has been released: Researching Child Migrants and British Home Children.

Do you have an ancestor or relative who didn't speak much about their childhood? Didn't know who their parents were? Or, where they came from? It's possible your ancestor or relative was a Child Migrant or British Home Child.

British Home Children were children sent mainly to Canada by organizations in England, Ireland and Scotland. Many of these children were orphaned, however there were quite a few who had been placed in homes by parents or grandparents facing bleak economic conditions. Once in the care of these homes, many parents and families never saw these children again.
Child Migrants were children sent to Australia and New Zealand to work in farm or industrial schools. Just like the British Home Children, most Child Migrants never saw their families in the UK again.

The Legacy QuickGuide™ Researching Child Migrants and British Home Children offers the researcher a timeline of important dates, practical research strategies, and links to databases and websites to help with finding more about your British Home Child or Child Migrant.


Copyright by Kathryn Lake Hogan, 2014.

Helping You With Your Canadian Research

 


















I'm taking the risk that some readers may be offended in my posting about the Legacy QuickGuides I have written for Legacy Family Tree. Not interested? No problem. Close this post and I'll see you next time.

I love helping people with their Canadian family history. When I was approached this past fall to write some Canadian guides for Legacy Family Tree's new
Legacy QuickGuides™, I was able to put that love into practice. What has resulted are twelve LQGs covering Canadian genealogy including every province and territory, as well as Loyalist research.


Through the writing of these Legacy QuickGuides™ I have learned more about each of my country's provinces and territories. In each LQG, I have put together a timeline of events, factoids, tips and tricks, and links to websites to help you research your ancestors in that particular province or territory. Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings has offered his opinion in his post Review: Legacy QuickGuide on Ontario Genealogy.

The digital version of the Legacy QuickGuides™ sell at a very affordable price. In addition to the Canadian LQGs, there are nearly 40 other Legacy QuickGuides™ on a variety of topics to help you with your family history research.

Currrently, I am working on two more Legacy QuickGuides™ due to be released in the next few months. Is there a Canadian topic that you would like to see written for a Legacy QuickGuides™? Leave me your suggestions in a comment.

Disclosure: I receive a royalty payment from Millenia Corporation, owner of Legacy Family Tree, for each purchase of the Legacy QuickGuides™ I have written.


Copyright by Kathryn Lake Hogan, 2012.