The non-fiction follow-up to the real story of the infamous Tennessee Children's Home Society that played a major role in the book, BEFORE WE WERE YOURS by Lisa Wingate. The Director, Georgia Tann sold hundreds of children, mostly newborns, and toddlers over the years. That these children were sold was bad enough but the home was responsible for stealing newborns away from their mothers and those mothers were told that the child died or in the case of twins, that one of the babies died at birth. Many of the children stayed within the area but many were shipped off to California and the East Coast. These are a handful of those children or the families of those children that thanks to the records now open and Ancestry.com have been able to reconnect with those families they were ripped away from. The majority of the children were treated very well by their new parents but there were scores of other children that were abused and neglected in the Children's Home Society. Heart rendering stories of now older adults who have wondered their whole lives about their real family. The author and Lisa Wingate planned a reunion and this is how the stories were collected reuniting families and giving them answers and peace.
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