Home Children records<\/a>, launched in partnership with organisations including The National Archives, the British Library, Library and Archives Canada and Home Children Canada.<\/p>So far it consists of four collections \u2013 \u2018Home Children Inspection Reports\u2019, recording inspections of children\u2019s foster homes in Canada between 1913 and 1932 (25,534 records); \u2018Home Children Board of Guardian Records\u2019, which record children in the workhouse system in England who were then sent to Canada (10,649 records); \u2018Lancashire, Liverpool, Children Sent To Canada 1883-1925\u2019, which consists of registers of children sent from Liverpool to Canada (466 records); and \u2018Children\u2019s Legislation Correspondence\u2019, which consists of government correspondence around the passing of the 1908 Children\u2019s Act (2062 records).<\/p>
The first three collections have been indexed by name. All collections include digitised images of the original records. They are free to search although users will need to register for a Findmypast account. More collections will be added in the future.<\/p>
Sarah Bush, Findmypast\u2019s Managing Director, said: \u201cWe\u2019re extremely proud to launch this groundbreaking new collection, which will allow millions more people to uncover the stories of their forced migrant ancestors. It\u2019s an incredibly poignant and complex part of our Commonwealth history, and these records will shed light on the lives and experiences of the British Home children, which have so often been overlooked or concealed.\u201d<\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n
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