http://infowanted.bc.edu/ I am sure many of you know about this data base. It is a searchable data base created by Boston College of missing persons (mostly Irish). "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 31,711 records is available here as a searchable online database, which contains a text record for each ad that appeared in the Pilot." Betsy