Hi Listers, I have joined the list temporarily again to tell you all that I just finished transcribing the public hospital records for New Orleans for March and April 1851.  Each time I finish two months and post them, I will write again to remind you of this great resource for tracing your Irish ancestors to the US.  I am writing to all the Irish county lists, so if you get multiple copies of this message, forgive me - just skip down below where I have copied all the names in the records from the particular county. In the past, I wrote to suggest that anyone researching their Irish roots should check these records of Charity Hospital in New Orleans.  About 85% of the admissions were Irish, sometimes right off the boat thanks to a shipboard epidemic.  During the late 1840s and early 1850s, the Irish poured into New Orleans by the tens of thousands - some to settle there permanently and many to travel to points further north up the river.  I suggest you check our records, especially if your Irish ancestors settled in St. Louis, Louisville, Cincinnati, or Iowa. As I have said before, the public hospital records are better than the census because of the information they give - the person's place of birth, how long he had been in New Orleans, where he had been before arriving in NO, etc.  They are more hit and miss than the census records, but I have been contacted by several people who have successfully located their ancestors in these records. Here is the list of the patients from Co. Derry admitted to Charity Hospital for March and April 1851.  If you see anyone you'd like to check out further, please visit our web site at: <A HREF="ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/orleans/charityhos/chamar51.txt">ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/orleans/charityhos/chamar51.txt</A> <A HREF="ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/orleans/charityhos/chaapr51.txt">ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/orleans/charityhos/chaapr51.txt</A>  Our home page can be found at: <A HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/la/orleans.htm">Orleans Parish Archives</A> Date of Admission, Date of Death, Date of Discharge, Ward, Name, Place of Birth, Occupation (if any), Age 4-Mar -- 11-Mar 13 Thomas Hagans or Higgins 35 5-Mar -- 15-Mar 31 Patrick Carland Laborer 40 18-Mar -- 21-Mar 31 James Maguire Laborer 20 31-Mar -- 7-Apr 25 Felix Read Drayman 24 11-Apr -- 22-Apr 6 James Buchanan Laborer 26 13-Apr -- 17-Apr 34 Margaret Keaneen 30 19-Apr -- 29-May 7 John Brownlow Laborer 40 21-Apr -- 25-Apr 30 Neil Carning Laborer 26 22-Mar --     8 Apr 15 William Burke Carpenter 25 2-Apr -- -----        31 William Morgan Laborer 24 28-Apr -- 21-May 14 John Macready Laborer 26 11-Mar -- 18-Mar 30 James McFeely Cooper 17 15-Mar -- 15-Mar 18 Samuel Galbreith Clerk 25 24-Mar -- 3-Apr 30 James McFeely Cooper 17 4-Apr -- 15-Apr 21 William Rowley 16 Good luck in your research, Colleen Fitzpatrick Co Coordinator Orleans Parish (New Orleans) Rootsweb Site