I've taken this from another list. Unfortunately I know nothing about the book mentioned just passing it on FYI. There are a lot of other names. If anyone wants the full list, let me know and I'll send them off the list. Glenda (listmanager) Taken from the PEI-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com mailing list > > I recently came across a series of volumes entitled "The Search for Missing > Friends: Irish Immigrant Advertisements Place in the 'Boston Pilot'", > edited variously by Ruth-Ann M. Harris, Donald M. Jacobs, and B. Emer > O'Keeffe, and published in Boston by the New England Historic Genealogical > Society from 1989 to 1999. No doubt some of you may have seen these too. > The eight volumes quote thousands of ads placed in the 'Boston Pilot' > newspaper between 1831 and 1920 by individuals seeking to locate lost > friends and relatives, usually relatives and usually Irish, but not always. > The ads typically gave the familial relationships of the person or persons > being sought and the person placing the ad. Importantly, the last known > locations in North America of the persons being sought are commonly given > and, not infrequently, the exact place in Ireland from which the person > came was mentioned in the ads. The location of the person placing the ad is > also typically given and sometimes an exact address. Dates of emigration > and/or immigration are noted in some cases. Each volume covers a different > time span and is separately indexed by surname (with given names) and place > names mentioned in the ads. > > These records can be a potentially important source of genealogical > information if you happen to find someone of interest to you in these > volumes. For my own purposes I have gone through the indexes of volumes 1 > through 8 and noted the given names and surnames in all those ads > mentioning Prince Edward Island itself, or place names on PEI. There are > about 100 such ads. (Many more ads mention other Canadian locations). With > the permission of the publisher, the New England Historic Genealogical > Society (Boston), these names are noted below in the following format: > names of the individual(s) sought and other names mentioned in connection > with him/her or them - a colon (:) - name(s) of person(s) who placed the ad > and any other names mentioned in connection with him/her or them. Surnames > in square brackets are my assumption of the person's surname based on the > stated relationships in the ad. For example, if John JONES was being sought > by his "brother Robert", I assumed Robert's surname was JONES also and put > it in square brackets. Usually the person placing the ad is a relative of > the person being sought. But in some cases it may have been a lawyer or > agent seeking an heir. Or, others may have been a person to whom any > response should be addressed, presumably a friend or employer of the person > placing the ad. > > I am sorry, but I do not own these volumes will not be able to do lookups > in these volumes for anyone. If you see names below of interest to you, I > would suggest you look for these volumes in nearby genealogical libraries > or public libraries with larger genealogical collections. It is possible > they might be found in university and college libraries as well, although > the contents are primarily of value to genealogists rather than historians. > It may also be possible to obtain these volumes through interlibrary loans > at your local public library. The ISBN given below for each volume should > allow a librarian to search for it in other libraries. Or, you may be able > to write to a library holding the volumes and ask for a copy of the ad. > Most ads are only a few lines long, none more than a page. > > Alternatively, the NEHGS informs me that they are in the process of putting > these volumes on a CD-ROM and volumes 2 through 6 and 8 are still available > in print. For more information you can visit their web site at > http://www.newenglandancestors.org/ or contact their sale department at > sales@neghs.org or telephone 1-888-296-3447. > > The prefix numbers in parentheses below are arbitrary and simply reflect > the order in which I extracted the information. They are left in here just > for purposes of separating the entries from one another. They are not in > numerical order but rather are under the volume (and date span of ads) in > which I found them. Good luck. >From Volume VIII, 1877-1920, (ISBN 0-88082-104-3): 42) Mr. GAVAN: wife, c/o Rev. W. PHELAN, PEI or Rev. I. IRISH. >From Volume V, 1861-1865, (ISBN 0-88082-055-1): 79) Edward CAWDEN: Patrick CAWDEN, Edward WHELAN.