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A Colorado man is giving away free tomato seeds. Why? Because Dan Busch’s great grandparents once handed out free tomatoes during the Great Depression as a way to provide unemployed families with a way to supplement their own food. Now, as owner of 2BSeeds, Busch is looking to do something similar for this century’s Great Recession, this time with vegetable seeds. (PRWeb Mar 10, 2010)

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Trying to Save a Home From Foreclosure Can be Scary and Costly; New Loan Modification Software Eases the Pain
A loan modification arrangement can be the best approaches for saving a home from foreclosure. By adopting an early hands-on strategy and working with the bank or mortgage company, homeowners can often have their monthly payment adjusted. Our new loan modification software enables the homeowner to create bank ready loan documents for a fraction of the cost. (PRWeb Mar 10, 2010)

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Newly Formed Indiana Glass Trail Announces the Launch of its Web Site, IndianaGlassTrail.com
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American Psychiatric Association to Spotlight Symposium on 'Hot Topics in Afro-American Mental Health'
This year the American Psychiatric Association will spotlight several sensitive issues facing the African American community, at its annual meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, May 22-26. Leading the team is David W. Smith, M.D., Addiction Psychiatrist with the Center for AIDS Research, Education and Services in Sacramento, California. (PRWeb Mar 10, 2010)

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you were born with if you were born in Ireland.  Unless you were from a rich or powerful family or clan, you discovered fast that your name was not worth a whole lot.  And you discovered that one of the best ways to cover up a none-too-shiny past was to change your name where ever you went.

Mass Immigration

Ireland, until recently, has always been a poor nation.  When most of Ireland converted to Catholicism, they also eschewed birth control (which was available in herbs that brought on menstruation well before the pill).  But Ireland never had enough food to feed all of her millions.  When the Great Potato Famine hit in 1845, it was the last straw for most Irish families.  There was no work, no food, and no safe place to live.  2.2 million Irish died of starvation alone in five years.  Those who lived had no choice but to immigrate.

In one sense, this makes Irish easier in that there are still records of many of the boat registers and records of places like Ellis Island in New York, where the boats landed.  Many Irish, however, in order to become more “American” or to escape a blackened past, changed their names on the boat.  No proof of ID was needed then – all you had to prove who you were was what came out of your mouth.

Records Meeting

Many studying their Irish genealogies find all information about their ancestors may come to an abrupt halt once the boat left Ireland.  When researching in Ireland, they have a hard to nearly impossible time finding any kind of record that their immigrated ancestors were ever born, let alone lived in Ireland.

Then, you need to get creative with your Irish genealogy.  The immigrants tended to have lively stories of their home towns.  Check the towns and then check first names (and often the middle baptized) to find the ancestors’ previous generations.  Many name alterations were also very small, even to just spelling Sean in Ireland to Shawn in America. 

There are many free Irish websites you can use for research, which includes lists of cemetery headstones, birth records, execution records and even orphan record listings.

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