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FamilySearch Wiki Newspapers also provide immigration
information. Search both the local newspapers where the
immigrant settled and the ethnic newspapers in the immigrant's
language or for his or her cultural group. In addition to
obituaries (described next), newspapers from the immigrant's
lifetime may list— - Passengers or new arrivals. - Immigrants
treated in a local hospital. - Immigrants who came as indentured
servants or apprentices. - Missing relative or friend queries. -
Marriage announcements. - Notices of estate probates. An example
of an index of immigrants in early newspapers is— - Harris, Ruth
Ann M., and Donald M. Jacobs, eds. The Search for Missing
Friends: Irish Immigrant Advertisements Placed in the Boston
Pilot 1831- 1850. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical
Society, 1989. (FHL book 974.461 H29s.) Current newspapers from
the area where the immigrant settled may have genealogical
columns or print queries. You can generally get new