Genealogy

The LW Genealogy Club will meet Wednesday, March 22, in Clubhouse 3, Room 1. Social hour starts at 9:30 a.m. and the meeting starts at 10 a.m.

Featured speaker Len Enlow will present “The Orphan Train Movement”—a supervised welfare program that transported approximately 200,000 children from crowded Eastern cities of the United States between 1854 and 1929. The co-founder of the Orphan Train Movement claimed that these children were orphaned, abandoned, abused or homeless, but this was not always true. Len Enlow is one of the founding members of the Corona Genealogical Society, where he has been president for five years. He also prepares and publishes the Society’s bimonthly newsletter.

Len retired from Boeing (formerly Rockwell International) in January 1999, after 33 years of service, received his bachelor’s in electrical engineering from Pennsylvania State University and his master’s in electrical engineering from California State University, 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 on 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.

Len Enlow