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Offline Josephine

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Rootschat Mentioned in Toronto Star Article re. Home Children Graves
« on: Saturday 27 February 16 19:23 GMT (UK) »
Hi, All:

In case you haven't seen it, Rootschat is mentioned in one of the pop-up photos boxes in this story: http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2016/02/27/dozens-of-british-home-children-lie-forgotten-in-etobicoke-cemetery.html .

The box title is "Repairing broken cords" and the cutline under the photo starts out: "Wilson stumbled on his long-lost family through a thread more than three years old on Rootschat, an online genealogy forum."

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Josephine
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Re: Rootschat Mentioned in Toronto Star Article re. Home Children Graves
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 27 February 16 21:03 GMT (UK) »
It is always so sad to hear about these things but so nice to see that the young ones are having their stories told now.

Thank you for posting this.

PB
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Re: Rootschat Mentioned in Toronto Star Article re. Home Children Graves
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 27 February 16 21:07 GMT (UK) »
Agreed, PB.

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Josephine
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Re: Rootschat Mentioned in Toronto Star Article re. Home Children Graves
« Reply #3 on: Friday 04 March 16 14:39 GMT (UK) »
A sad story,  only five of the 75 remain unidentified  :'(  Hope they can reach the target of $15,000 for a memorial which would have the names of the children.

Sandra
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