When we search historical newspapers, we've all been frustrated by the dearth of hits resulting from searching our common Irish names. One way around this, is to search by a street address. The best tip I can give you is to format the street address the same way that other addresses appear in that specific newspaper. Then enter "exact search." The words street, avenue, etc were not capitalized,in historical newspapers as proper proper nouns are today. So, a search would look something like this > "395 East 42nd street" Some newspapers did not spell out words like East and West, but used abbreviations WITH a period, OR without a period, like this> "395 E. 42nd street" and "395 E 42nd street" Further, some older newspapers dropped the "n" in the "-nd" following "42nd" so this same address may appear as> "395 E. 42d street" My suggestion is to try each of these address styles when searching historical newspapers, you are bound to get less hits than when tracking John Burke. Guaranteed! Barb