Are you interested in learning about the h istory of the Orphan Train Movement? Do you have a relative who may have b een a child adopted from one of the many orphan trains that ran through th e Midwest between 1854 and 1929? Join us to learn more with CCGS h ost Heather Bigwood\, curator\, at the National Orphan Train Complex< /a> in Concordia\, Kansas. Heather will guide the audience throug h the ideals and pitfalls of the Orphan Train Movement\, sharing vignettes of real orphan train riders&rsquo\; lives. She will address common miscon ceptions about orphan trains and how those assumptions were formed. A Q&am p\;A session will be held at the end of the presentation.
\nCo-s ponsored by the Champaign County Genealogical Society \;and The Urbana Free Lib rary. \;
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