Hello MaryAnn: My e-mail address is [email protected] Thanks for collecting the information from Sts. Peter and Paul and the obituary info. Send it along and I will put it up on a server so that everyone can get it from a link. I wondered what happened to you! Diane To the list: I have a copy of the book "Search for Missing Friends" volume one which covers the years 1831 to 1850. This book is a compilation of advertisements that were placed under the title "Search for Missing Friends" in the Boston Pilot during the years 1831 to 1850. The Boston Pilot became a clearinghouse for the Irish when they got separated during their voyage to the US from Ireland. In many cases, people who were in the US would lose touch with their Irish family and would advertise looking for them. I found the location of my GGGrandfather John Heeney who came to the US and settled in Louisville until 1860 at which time the Know Nothing riots in Louisville forced him and his family to move to St. Louis. He advertised to find his family in 1880. I found his ad in a volume that is in the entire set which is available in book form in the St. Louis Public Library and in CD form at the St. Louis County Library. His ad read thusly: "Of Mathew and Mary Heeney, natives of Navan (Co. Meath); when last heard from, about 4 years ago, Mathew was in or about the coal mines, near Rock Island, Illinois and Mary in Albany, NY in 1848. Any information will be thankfully received by their brother, John, care of Mathew Cadden, St. Louis Mo" The ad was placed in 1880. I can't do a lookup for every Irish name in St. Louis during those years, but I strongly encourage anyone who is researching Irish to research this resource. Probably this winter I will transcribe the St. Louis surnames mentioned in this one volume. Diane Shaw Hillsboro, MO