Search for Missing Friends: Irish Immigrant Advertisements placed in The Boston Pilot 1831-1920, CD
- Author: Ruth-Ann M. Harris and B. Emer O'Keeffe
- SKU: 7011
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- Our Price: $59.50
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Description:
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! CD-Rom.PC: Pentium I or higher processor; Windows 98, NT, 4.0, 2000, or XP operating system. 28 mb hard disk space minimum (32 mb recommended); VGA or higher resolution video adapter for monitor (SVGA Monitor 256-color or higher recommended).
MAC: PowerPC or higher processor; System 7.5 or higher (emulation / classic mode only for System OS X) 30 mb hard drive space (minimum) 20 MB RAM minimum (32 MB recommended)
Please note that not all Macintosh computers support emulation / classic mode.