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    Child Migrants from Birmingham

    we do have a Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/60555734110/ (Families of British Home Children/British Child Migrants). If you need assistance with research or just have a general question about the BHC scheme, feel free to join George
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    Child Migrants from Birmingham

    If any of you are interested there is now several Facebook groups dedicated to British Home Children so if you search up British Home Children it will bring up the 3 main ones George
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    Child Migrants from Birmingham

    I assume from your last comment you have managed to do it, if you ever get an error message drop a line to [email protected] and then the IT support person on the site will help you George
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    Child Migrants from Birmingham

    if you have not already done so, please consider adding your grandmother's brothers to our ever growing database on www.britishhomechildren.org Thanks George
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    Child Migrants from Birmingham

    If anyone has problems logging into www.britishhomechildren.org or gets an error message on the site then can you email [email protected] as the support team on the site can then assist you with the problem We have now reached 13,000 entries in the database so if you have a relative...
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    Child Migrants from Birmingham

    If anyone has tried to use the britishhomechildren.org site and experienced problems or error messages, can you let me know Thanks George
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    Child Migrants from Birmingham

    nudging up as we have now hit 10, 000 in our BHC database on www.britishhomechildren.org If you have not yet added your child migrant then please consider doing it today, as the more children that get added/claimed by researchers the more the chance of connections being made between people...
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    Child Migrants from Birmingham

    we are also building a comprehensive database on www.britishhomechildren.org of all child migrants sent to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, etc, anybody is welcome to add a child to the database or claim a child currently in there, at the moment there are 9385 children listed, some have a...
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    Child Migrants from Birmingham

    If you have a Canada Child Migrant in your family you are able to submit your child's story for an anthology to be published later this year, A Special Edition Anthology IV Book, to be published later this summer by Canadian Stories magazine, is a great opportunity for us to tell our...
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    Child Migrants from Birmingham

    Forwarding on behalf of someone who is not registered on this list Thanks - George Are there Descendants of Home Children on this website that aren't subscribed to the British Home Children mailing list? As 2010 has been proclaimed the Year of the British Home Child in Canada, it is a...
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    Child Migrants from Birmingham

    According to the House of Commons Child Migrants Trust Report 1999, it is estimated that approximately 150,000 children were dispatched to the colonies over a period of 350 years with the earliest recorded child migrants leaving Britain in 1618 for Virginia USA. Over 100,000 of these youngsters...
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