My girlfriend lost her grandfather from a Nantucket Whaler, I believe the name was Silva or somthinglike that. Harriet --- On Wed, 8/5/09, syrnick@mts.net <syrnick@mts.net> wrote: From: syrnick@mts.net <syrnick@mts.net> Subject: [CAN-USA-MIG] Whaling Industry To: can-usa-migration@rootsweb.com Date: Wednesday, August 5, 2009, 5:48 PM Recently read a novel about the New Bedford Whaling Industry.  Finally got around to researching some sites and a couple may be interest to some on the list.  Did anyone on our list have ancestors who were whalers? http://history1800s.about.com/od/whaling/a/histwhaling.htm http://www.whalingmuseum.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_whaling Lauraine When you want to respond to a query or comment posted on this List,  I find it MUCH easier to post a new message -- remembering to include the SUBJECT from the post you are responding to !!    Please make sure there is a SURNAME or place-name in the Subject. To search the archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=CAN-USA-MIGRATION The information page is: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Immigration/CAN-USA-MIGRATION.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CAN-USA-MIGRATION-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message