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Hampshire & Isle of Wight / Hampshire and Isle of Wight Home Children to Canada/Australia
« on: Wednesday 16 March 16 22:30 GMT (UK) »
Since RootsChat took the former Canadian British Home Child database under its wing in April 2015, members have added over 2000 new entries. The total now stands at 23,640. Only around 140 have been "claimed" and a Relative Link put on them.
Of the total, 142 have been clearly identified as being born in Hampshire and 21 in the Isle of Wight. There may be many more left unlabelled. Have you found your emigre orphaned relatives yet? You can search from the white button-bar at:
http://surname.rootschat.com/lexicon/dbsig/index.php?dbsig_name=British+Home+Children
If you find them and corrections or omissions are noted, these can be made good via the Readers Comment box (followed by Save Record) or if extensive (>500 chars) to me by PM please.
[ Edit: the number of records not given County label of HAM amounts to over 70 for Hampshire and the Isle of Wight]
alanmack
data co-ordinator
RootsChat BHC database
Of the total, 142 have been clearly identified as being born in Hampshire and 21 in the Isle of Wight. There may be many more left unlabelled. Have you found your emigre orphaned relatives yet? You can search from the white button-bar at:
http://surname.rootschat.com/lexicon/dbsig/index.php?dbsig_name=British+Home+Children
If you find them and corrections or omissions are noted, these can be made good via the Readers Comment box (followed by Save Record) or if extensive (>500 chars) to me by PM please.
[ Edit: the number of records not given County label of HAM amounts to over 70 for Hampshire and the Isle of Wight]
alanmack
data co-ordinator
RootsChat BHC database