Website of an Irish Database
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 1:08 pm
Hi All I was searching around this AM and found this website
from Boston College.
It is a database of ads placed in the Boston Pilot Newspaper.
description from the website
"From October 1831 through October 1921, the Boston Pilot newspaper printed a “Missing Friends” column with advertisements from people looking for “lost” friends and relatives who had emigrated from Ireland to the United States. This extraordinary collection of more than 31,438 records is available here as a searchable online database, which contains a text record for each ad that appeared in the Pilot. "
http://infowanted.bc.edu/
very interesting and it may help someone out there.
Carole
also to update some of the info I have found, I am also
interested in the name of FLYNN from Leitrim to Lynn, Ma
from Boston College.
It is a database of ads placed in the Boston Pilot Newspaper.
description from the website
"From October 1831 through October 1921, the Boston Pilot newspaper printed a “Missing Friends” column with advertisements from people looking for “lost” friends and relatives who had emigrated from Ireland to the United States. This extraordinary collection of more than 31,438 records is available here as a searchable online database, which contains a text record for each ad that appeared in the Pilot. "
http://infowanted.bc.edu/
very interesting and it may help someone out there.
Carole
also to update some of the info I have found, I am also
interested in the name of FLYNN from Leitrim to Lynn, Ma