Here is a link, passed on to me, for a website that has an article that ran in 1880 in the St Louis Post Dispatch, that Irish genealogists and history buffs will find interesting. http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?action=detail&id=70157 You can search for Irish emigrants at the Castle Garden website. It is a pre-Ellis Island immigration center covering 1855 to 1890 but the site also has passenger lists going back to 1820. http://www.castlegarden.org/ Here's how I use the site. First I put in the name and with the results, I chose a few that fit my ancestor. I write down the initial info. I then do another search and this time I write in just the ship and year the ship docked. Then I get the full passenger list and can check who else came over with my person of interest. -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com