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From: scott humphrey <>
Subject: review of CD for Irish research
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 18:54:30 -0800

Hi List,
Does anyone have any specific experiences for the following research CD?





CD: The Search for Missing Friends: Irish Immigrant Advertisements placed
in The Boston Pilot 1831-1920
Author:Published:Notes:
Ruth-Ann M. Harris and B. Emer O'Keefe, editorsAugust 2002CD-ROM for
Windows or MAC

With a circulation that spanned the continent, the Pilot newspaper
essentially acted as a missing persons bureau for those seeking to be
reunited with friends and relations.

These messages tell poignant stories of the nineteenth-century immigrant
experience, whether in Boston's crowded streets or the wide open spaces
of Wisconsin, working in textile mills or on the railroad.

Many advertisements contain references to townlands and parishes of
origin in Ireland, dates and places of arrival in North America, physical
descriptions, and confirmation of family relationships.

No Irish family historian can be without this impressive research tool!




Thank you,
Scott

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