March 18, 2005

Online Irish immigrant database. I was listening to NPR today when I heard this piece about a "missing persons" column that ran for many years in an old Boston Catholic newspaper; maybe you can find your relatives in the database of mainly Irish immigrants to the U.S. who were listed in the missing persons column. Also, check out this database including some 70 percent of immigrants who entered the U.S. through the Port of New York between 1892 and 1924.

(It's still St. Patrick's Day where I'm located.)

posted by HawthorneWingo 19 years ago
  • Erm. Check your second link. /curious because she wants to look up relatives
  • I'm going to guess that the third link was intended to be the Ellis Island Passenger Arrival Records Search, mostly because it matches up with the time span HawthorneWingo mentioned. I just tried it out with Ezra Pound (there was one who passed through at age 24 in 1910, but not that one - he was born in Idaho) and search options look interesting.
  • PY is correct. Sorry.