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Adds for missing Irish

  • 31-12-2012 8:24pm
    #1
    christmas2010
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 148 ✭✭


    I just came across this database. I've done quite a lot of family research and hadn't come across this until now. It's a listing of adds that were placed in a Boston newspaper between 1831 and 1921 by families trying to trace people they had lost contact with. The adds contain townlands and some have parents names.
    Someone might find it useful.
    http://infowanted.bc.edu/


    Also if you use the advanced search function you can search by townland


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  • #2
    Coolnabacky1873
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 556 ✭✭✭Coolnabacky1873


    The 'Info Wanted' Ads are some of the best resources here in the US for finding the place of origin, all depends if the ancestors are in there of course!

    But they can also be useful when doing collateral research as you might find someone in the ads who was listed as a baptismal sponsor or marriage witness, and they might also be from the same area of Ireland as your ancestor.

    Even though it was a Boston paper people from all over the Eastern seaboard sent in ads, so don't just think it's Boston/Mass only. A few thousand of the ads relate to people who came through New York City.

    There are also two publications for New York City papers, Irish Relatives and Friends (1850-1871) and Voices of the Irish Immigrant (1825-1844).

    Also, I think these books were turned into Ancestry.com databases.


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