Daily Genealogist

 From the 1850s to 1929, about 200,000 orphaned or abandoned children from New York and other East Coast cities were sent west to be resettled. A growing number of descendants of the orphan train riders want to know more.

 “Most adoptees are hungry for information that will lead to their birth parents, but some are also expanding their conception of family as they embrace a far-flung constellation of second, third and fourth cousins.”

This article discusses the portion of a new book, Speaking American: A History of English in the United States, that examines Bostonian ways of speaking from 1650 to 1700. (A New York Times article treats the book more generally.)