Yes you are correct about that I have that site and this one but keep in mind only head of households http://bcd.lib.tufts.edu/search_advanced.jsp http://infowanted.bc.edu/ On Mar 2, 2009, at 12:39 PM, Geralyn Barry wrote: > Lillian, the person who posted that article from the Kentucky Irish > American newspaper to the list is Rosemary <[email protected]>. > I don't know where she got that particular information, but I have > an interest in Irish American newspapers and publishers in general, > so I thought I would offer some comments about the Kentucky Irish > American in particular and about Irish Amrican newspapers in general. > > > Quite a few Irish American newspapers were published in the US, > especially in the latter half of the 1800s and early 1900s. Some of > them had wide circulation among the Irish in the US - beyond the > locations where they were published, so don't think an Irish > American newspaper published in Boston has nothing in it about your > ancestors who lived in Chicago. > > > Many people on the list are probably familiar with the "Search for > Missing Friends" series of books (now online) that index the > "Information Wanted" ads that appeared in the Boston Pilot (another > Irish American newspaper). Similar ads from the New York based > newspaper "The Irish-American" are indexed in the book "Irish > Relatives and Friends" (comp. Laura Murphy DeGrazia & Diane > Fitzpatirk Haberstroh). > > > The ads indexed in these books were placed mostly by Irish who were > looking for contact with relatives who had previously or recently > arrived in the US. They often include descriptions of the "missing > people" (where they were from in Ireland, when they arrived, where > they had lived or intended to live, etc.), and the names and > addresses (an sometimes the relationships) of persons to contact > with information about them. The Boston Pilot and The Irish-American > had very wide circulation in the US, so the ads in them were not > confined to people who lived in the Boston or NYC areas. > > > Irish American newspapers had other things of interest to the Irish > community besides these ads, including news from Ireland and local > news of interest to the Irish community (often Catholic, but not > necessarily). Obits of local Irish Americans in Irish American > newspapers sometimes went into much more detail than the regular > local newspaper. [See http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyirish/Index%20of%20American%20Irish%20Newspaper.html > .] > > > You can read about Louisville's version - the Kentucky Irish > American - at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky_Irish_American. > The article there begins: > > The Kentucky Irish American was an ethnic weekly newspaper in > Louisville, Kentucky, which catered to Louisville's Irish community. > It was first published on July 4, 1898, founded by William M. > Higgins. It was a four-page weekly. Higgins would run the paper > until his death on June 9, 1925. He based it in the heavy-Irish > neighborhood of Limerick at 319 Green Street, even after the Irish > residents began moving away from Limerick to other parts of > Louisville. > > > The Wiki article ends with this sentence: "The University of > Louisville has copies of almost all issues of the Kentucky Irish > American, held on sixteen pieces of microfilm due to the paper's > fragility." The article also has a link to the University of > Louisville Archives and Records Center: http://library.louisville.edu/uarc/microfilm.html#irishamer > . That page describes microfilmed material they have for sale, > including all 16 reels of the Kentucky Irish American newspaper. > There is also a link there to a book about the Louisville newspaper http://books.google.com/books?id=OfpRzTVX9N0C > , where you can view selected pages. > > > Copies of Irish American newspapers are sometimes on microfilm. > Check local public library catalogs online. Local colleges and > universities in an area sometimes will have copies also (especially > local Catholic universities if the publication had a Catholic > viewpoint or if the ethnic group was predominately Catholic, like > the Irish). The Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies (now part of the > Historical Society of Pennsylvania) in Philadelphia has a collection > of ethnic newspapers, as does the New York Public Library. Notre > Dame University also has a collection of Catholic newspapers on > microfilm. I don't know about the interlibrary loan possibilities > from these places. > > > Try Googling "Irish American newspapers" and the city of interest to > you, or the name of the newspaper if you know it. > > > I hope these suggestions have helped. I have solved several problems > of origins in Ireland using information from Irish American > newspapers. They can be hard to find and use, and rather hit-or-miss > in their contents, but they can produce some absolute gems of > genealogical information if you are lucky. > > > Geralyn Wood Barry in Oregon > > > [email protected] wrote: >> Would you please tell me where you find this article? Was there an >> Irish >> newspaper in Louisville? >> My French ancestors were from Galway and some lived in Louisville. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message