Apologies if this has been posted before, I don't recall seeing the following website mentioned on this mailing list: http://infowanted.bc.edu It gives free access to a searchable database of adverts that were placed in the Boston Pilot newspaper between 1831 and 1921 by people looking for friends and relatives who had emigrated from Ireland to the United States. Michael Thompson condran@one-name.org http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~condran