Dear List, You've GOTTA see this! "Missing Friends" -- an Irish database -- is now available online. Boston College has posted a database of newspaper advertisements for Irish immigrants that were published in the Boston "Pilot" from October 1831 through October 1921. The advertisements were paid for by persons looking for family and friends who had lost contact. Many of them contain important genealogical details. The website, Information Wanted: A Database of Advertisements for Irish Immigrants Published in the Boston Pilot, can be found at http://infowanted.bc.edu./ Whatever Galway surnames you're researching in whatever country, put them into the search. You get locations that are often right down to the Townland, which may get you a lot closer to an ancestor's hometown than even Griffiths! May you all find someone, Peter.