Well, here is another St. Pat's Day gift! The "Missing Friends" data base is now on line compliments of Boston College: http://infowanted.bc.edu/ "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." Diane Shaw St. Louis, MO