SOUTH ORANGE COUNTY CALIFORNIA GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
August 20, 2022
“The Orphan Trains”
Presented by: Len Enlow
The Orphan Trains were part of a welfare program that transported children from crowded Eastern cities of the United States to foster homes located largely in rural areas of the Midwest. The trains operated between 1850 and 1920, relocating about 250,000 children. These children were said to be orphaned, abandoned, abused, or homeless, but this was not always true. They were mostly the children of new immigrants and the children of the poor and destitute families living in these cities, and many of them ended up being used as farm labor, rather than raised as foster children. Join us as Len Enlow tells us more about this controversial program that brought many children to the Midwest.
About the speaker: Len Enlow, one of the founding members, and former president of the Corona Genealogical Society, prepares and publishes the society’s monthly newsletter. He is also responsible for teaching many of the Tuesday afternoon classes sponsored by the Corona Genealogical Society and the Corona Public Library.
Len retired from Boeing (formally Rockwell International) in January 1999, after 33 years of service; he received his BSEE from Pennsylvania State University and his MSEE from California State University at Long Beach. He is the author of a technical book and holder of two patents.
Len is an experienced and accomplished speaker in various electronic and genealogical fields; he became interested in family history about 50 years ago when he received memorabilia for his family from a first cousin once removed. From that point on, he was hooked on genealogy and sought every fact, photo, letter, and family history he could get from his family.
This month we will be offering our speaker’s presentation by webinar!
Meeting Place: Online
Time: 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
