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Olive Tree Genealogy has added a list of orphans in the Loyal True Blue Orphanage in Picton Ontario in 1901, plus two postcard photos. Also you will find four  lists of Home Children from England to Canada Miss Rye’s Peckham Homes in 1881  Miss Rye’s Party 1881 on SS Sarmation to Quebec Father Nugent’s Orphans [...]

Atlantic County New Jersey Library has an online Immigration & Naturalization Records searchable database. They have a few thousand records indexed and digitized. They are mainly declarations and letters of intent from 1890-1930 See   http://www.atlanticlibrary.org/Immigrations/search.asp For more naturalization records online see http://naturalizationrecords.com/ For more immigration records online see http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/ and http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/ships/

Olive Tree Genealogy has uploaded the complete list of Interments in St. Mary’s Burial Grounds, Philadelphia,Pennsylvania from 1788-1800. St. Mary’s, built in 1763, was the second Roman Catholic institution in Philadelphia. It was the site of the firstpublic religious commemoration of the Declaration of Independence. Members of the Continental Congress attendedservices four times from 1777 [...]

Olive Tree Genealogy has just uploaded more surnames for Ships Passenger Lists Arriving at the Port of Galveston,Texas 1846 - 1871. This is an ongoing project and will be added to as volunteers finish the lists of names. The Texas Seaport Museum has a database ofnames of passengers and members of their traveling parties, age, gender, [...]

A new database has just been put online for Child Apprentices in America from Christ’s Hospital, London 1617- 1778. This is an index only (full name plus page number) but a link is provided for lookup requests on Books We Own. Christ’s Hospital was established in 1553 for the benefit of orphaned children or those [...]