Effective September 30, 2014 we would like to introduce our new Project Administrator Paula Perkins. I have researched my own family, assisted others, genealogical lecturer and teacher on many educational aspects of researching your family. I have over 30 years experience and have conducted research in repositories across the United States and International resources. I have been a project administrator with FamilyTreeDNA for about 10 years. I attend our annual Project Administrators conference to keep abreast of all the latest tools to help you. I also have a deep interest in the Orphan Train Riders from helping others discovery their Orphan Train rider connections and even got a big surprise learning that I have a personal family dna connection.

I want to extend a big thanks to Anna Yoho for creating this project and taking such care to grow it and passing the reins to me.

Check out the new Face Book page called Orphan Trains! It's a place to exchange information regarding your particular connection to an orphan train rider and learn a bit more about that whole time in history via informative videos, book notices, personal memories and of course, the new connections made using genetics!