Search for Missing Friends: Irish Immigrant Advertisements Placed in The Boston Pilot, Volume 4: 1857-1860
- Author: Edited by Ruth-Ann M. Harris and B. Emer O'Keeffe
- SKU: 7036
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With a circulation that spanned the continent, the Boston 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 BostonĘs 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!
Publication date: 1995, published by NEHGS, 800 pp. Hardcover.
