Hi Listers, I am joining the list temporarily to tell everyone about the Orleans Parish (New Orleans) rootsweb site.  New Orleans is one of the largest ports in the country - it also connects with points further up the Mississippi, Missouri, and Ohio Rivers such as Louisville, Cincinnati, and Iowa.  For this reason, it is a great place to look for your ancestors who immigrated to the US or who might have left Boston. We have complete city directories on our site - 1805, 1811, 1822, 1832, 1842, and 1851, by name and also separately by address (1851 by name only).  We have also been posting all the BMD indexes for New Orleans held at the State Archives in Baton Rouge.  We are finished with the births (1796 - 1901), marriages (1870 - 1905) and deaths (1804 - 1906, with many more 1907 - 1915). We have tens of thousands of obits, too. I have been transcribing the Charity Hospital records from 1851, and just ran across some names form Boston.  That is what prompted me to write. Here are the names of patients admitted to Charity Hospital in March and April 1851:  Date of Admission, Date of Death, Date of Discharge, Ward, Name, Occupation, Age, Place of Birth, When from before New Orleans, How Long in N.O., Martial Stat, How Long Sick, Disease, Hour of Admission, Remarks 7-Mar 11-Apr -- 3 William Ditson Merchant 50 Boston, Massachusetts California 1/2 dy M 2 wks Dystentery 6 1/4 A trunk and a bundle 8-Mar -- 14-Mar 25 James H. Shermann 22 Boston, Massachusetts Mobile 8 wks S 3 dys Typhus Fever 1 1/2 18-Mar -- 29-Mar 31 Edward Bodie Laborer 22 Boston, Massachusetts See Page 84.* -- -- -- Diarrhoea 10 1/4 3d Ward 2d Mty 29-Mar 3-Apr -- 12 Chas Townsend Painter 37 Boston, Massachusetts Boston 25 yrs S 2 mos Phthisis Pulmonalis 4 1/2 17-Apr -- 27-Apr 31 Edward Bodie Seaman 22 Boston, Massachusetts West Indies 4 mos S 3 dys Typhus Fever 10 Here is the hotlink to the April records: <A HREF="ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/orleans/charityhos/chaapr51.txt">ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/orleans/charityhos/chaapr51.txt</A>  Our home page can be found at: <A HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/la/orleans.htm">Orleans Parish Archives</A> Good luck in your research, Colleen Fitzpatrick Co Coordinator Orleans Parish (New Orleans) Rootsweb Site