Irish Genelogy Sources

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/civil-search.jsp

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/search


https://www.ireland.anglican.org/about/genealogy

http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/

https://www.townlands.ie/

https://www.rootsireland.ie/

Tips from https://www.ancestry.com/academy/course/irish-ancestors

(1) From 1880s many Catholic Church Records improved to included Mother of Brides on Church records.
(2) Practice Latin names for Catholic Church Records
(3) Census 1901/1911: Some people did not want to the local RIC offier, who ususally was the census taker the full turth. bare with this in mind.
(4) Census 1901/1911: check out the House and Building Return (Form  it gives the out http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Waterford/Tallow/Tallowbridge_Street/1759144/
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai001229458/ 

Southern pine beetle in NJ

Reposting Ken's observsation of northward March of the southern pine beetle, a destructive pest into Southern New Jersey in the last few years. This is due to warmer winters allowing the extended range, one of the many effects of climate change, which needs to be seriously at all levels, everywhere in this planet of ours.

State of New Jersey agrees about the southern pine beetle...
http://www.state.nj.us/dep/parksandforests/forest/njfs_spb.html

University of Florida's detailed description on southern pine better. Note Delaware is furthest north state mentioned on the range...
http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/trees/southern_pine_beetle.htm

"Trump is a science illiterate moron, with zero understanding of climate change, the environment, and earth science, just like the imbecile he appointed to head the EPA,  who is now gutting most of the regulations President Obama put into place to deal with harmful emissions that are causing global warming. This makes our nation look really ignorant and stupid to the rest of the world - most nations are in support of climate change legislation.

We've already crossed the tipping point with climate change, we should be doing all we can, along with the majority of the other nations of the world, to slow and try to reverse the rapid changes that are taking place with our planet's climate. We are only a few major climate change/global warming events away from catastrophic natural disaster that could have dire implications for humanity. It will happen in our lifetime.

As someone who is out in nature, every day, and who is an educated and keen observer of weather and environmental changes, I can't stress enough that our planet is in trouble. I see first-hand what global warming is doing to the Pine Barrens here in South Jersey. Many groves of pine trees are being destroyed yearly by Southern pine bark beetles that are not indigenous to New Jersey's temperate climate zone, but conditions have changed over the last decade or two, and the pine bark beetles have invaded and established colonies in the Pine Barrens where they previously could not survive. Our winters are warmer than they use to be, that has allowed the beetles to migrate this far north.

And what do we do? We allow an incompetent moron who happens to occupy the Oval Office, make bad decisions that are going to negatively effect the lives of generations to come, worldwide."

Antibiotics overuse

Has the US forgotten Alexander Fleming warned against antibiotics overuse in 1945 in his nobel prize lecture see last page of https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1945/fleming-lecture.pdf

"The time may come when penicillin can be bought by anyone in the
shops. Then there is the danger that the ignorant man may easily underdose
himself and by exposing his microbes to non-lethal quantities of the drug
make them resistant. Here is a hypothetical illustration. Mr. X. has a sore
throat. He buys some penicillin and gives himself, not enough to kill the
streptococci but enough to educate them to resist penicillin. He then infects
his wife. Mrs. X gets pneumonia and is treated with penicillin. As the strep-
tococci are now resistant to penicillin the treatment fails. Mrs. X dies. Who
is primarily responsible for Mrs. X’s death? Why Mr. X whose negligent
use of penicillin changed the nature of the microbe. Moral: If you use peni-
cillin, use enough."

In the USA doctors over prescribe antibiotics, compared the norm in the northern Europe. Food and over the counter cleaners and creams also have antibiotics, none of which I know is the norm in Europe. (Particularly northern Europe).
I find it disturbing that NPR had this misleading story...
http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/12/10/504691357/million-year-old-hero-bug-emerges-from-cave

Around the same time as still more scientifically serious article https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23231044-000-antibiotic-resistance-will-hit-a-terrible-tipping-point-in-2017/
By Debora Mackenzie
"A major menace looms over us. In 2017, many more people could begin dying from common bacterial infections. As resistance to antibiotics booms, diseases from gonorrhoea to urinary tract infections are becoming untreatable – a situation that looks set to get worse as the world reaches a new tipping point next year.

“We are about to reach the point where more antibiotics will be consumed by farm animals worldwide than by humans,” says Mark Woolhouse, at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

This will mean more resistant bacteria, which could be a big threat. The livestock industry has long played down any risk to human health caused by using antibiotics in farming, but the danger is now accepted, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

Colistin, a drug that is used more often in animals than people, is one example. It is now the only antibiotic left that works against some human infections, yet colistin resistance has developed, and spread worldwide in 2015. The European Medicines Agency says bacteria resistant to colistin probably arose in livestock, and that some EU countries could easily cut their use of this antibiotic 25-fold.

The UN General Assembly has called for countries to encourage the best use of antibiotics. But it hasn’t yet called for specific measures, such as banning their use to assist livestock growth – rather than fight infections – which can promote resistance.

At least agencies like the FAO are calling for change, says Woolhouse, as is China, where growing demand for meat has lead to soaring livestock production and resistance. But progress will require finding other ways to keep animals healthy, especially in poor countries where production is growing fastest and there are few alternatives."

Vegetarian month

October is Vegetarian Awareness Month, which starts with worldvegetarianday.org on October 1st.
The coupon site RetailMeNot.com published in honor of that occasion. I found it elsewhere, but I reposting it here.

The horrible conditions of factory breed meat in the USA should really make people consider going Vegetarian at least a few days a week.

Remember there was a point where Sunday dinner was special in days gone-by because good meat is expensive, it still is. Grass fed, open pasture cattle are so better for the animal, society and the consumer than the grain fed, factory farmed cattle that provides so much of the beef in the USA. Chicken should always be full-range, cage free as the chicken.

Olympics after effects...

Although the Athens Olympic Park build for 2000 Olympics is now a shambles as shown on this
architizer.com article, even there other side benefits like a new subway, airport came with the Olympic. While many ex-Olympic cities are still using the Olympic facilities, ones I have seen include...

    Helsinki, Finland XV     1952

    Stockholm, Sweden        1912 & 1956

    Munich, West Germany XX  1972

Have you seen Atlanta's MARTA system? It's great. So, leave off the Olympics.

Federal Assault Weapons Ban

It is daft and dumb that the US Federal Assault Weapons Ban was so weak and it was let expire after 10years in 2004, without a law replacing it.

Abagond's recent article on James Holmes is a great read.

I think most people in the USA, know potential mass murders, most of white male between teens and forties. Why does white America continue to allow it's most unstable get automatic weapons?
The list of unsavory characters is too long already and do not need more attention, particularly this sad phenomenon being exported to peaceful countries like Norway. Remember that nutball.

See more Micheal Moore's Bowling for columbine or at least this short youtube from the movie "A brief history of United States of America".

It is crazy that people seem proud that the USA is the world's largest weapons exporter, even to Mexican drug gangs, while it's USA increasingly difficult to purchase any customer electronics  manufactured in the USA. The Mexico was closest location I could find a recent LCD TV purchase.

For alternative ideas to Gun Control, there is Chris Rock's $5,000 for a bullet method

People really need to get the guts to stand up on the paranoia and fear that allows automatic, go on sign this pettion...http://signon.org/sign/ban-assault-weapons

Offical and Unoffical National Anthems

During the Isles of Wonder: 2012 Olympics opening ceremony four songs were sung to represent the 4 "home" countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland those being..

* England:  Jerusalem, the BBC lists this 3rd English rugby song after God Save the Queen (official national anthem) and Swing low, sweet chariot. But any of these songs make most Irish people cringe, We hear enough of this songs at matches against the "Old enemy".


* Scotland: Flower of Scotland, although Scotland has no official national anthem, this song is very popular and a potential anthem. It gives me goosebumps every time I hear it, as it's a tale of the Scottish victories against English Army of Edward II, as loosely depicted in the movie Braveheart.

* Northern Ireland:  Danny Boy, to the tune of "A Derry air" is popular and maybe less controversial the other songs such as The Sash and The Town I Loved So Well.

* Wales:  Bread Of Heaven, personally I thought the official welsh anthem: Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau (sometimes called in English: Land of My Fathers) is great song and would have shown the importance of the welsh language to the Welsh people) Of course, they could have one of the many other great welsh tunes, like the Stereo-phonics "As long as we beat the English" :-)

So Danny Boyle managed a fair representation of people of the U.K. without using a single official national anthem, so continue of theme of unofficial versus official national anthems...

Ireland 

There was complains from fans other nations at Euro2012 football finals, that the Irish fans only were one song The Fields of Athenry, but it really one of the few songs everyone can agree on. Amhrán na bhFiann, the Irish National anthem is problematic never heard A cappella, as gaeilge (in the Irish language) and the lyrics of this Soldier's Song is quite bloodthirsty.  

Other options like "Wild Rover", "Whiskey in the jar" are alcohol themed and probably heard outside Ireland. Maybe we should try The Fairytale of New York

Rugby when Ireland plays an Island of Ireland team, rather the Republic of Ireland (26counties of the south and west) and Northern Ireland (6counties of the north-east), the recently composed "Ireland's call" is used alongside or instead of Amhrán na bhFiann as the anthem. Because of this comprise solution are prize for most rousing 6nations rugby anthem has go Flower of Scotland, followed by France's La Marseillaise and the Wales' Wlad Fy Nhadau.

Australia: The story of how Advance Australia Fair beat Waltzing Matilda in a 1984 vote to become the Australia's national anthem is at www.dfat.gov.au/facts/nat_anthem.html


United States of America: The Star Spangled Banner based a 1814 poem written by a battle of the War of 1812 in Baltimore harbor, it was only made the official anthem in 1931. The tune "God Bless America" seems to places where it should not be replace the official anthem, because there separation of Church and State, no mention of "god" should be made at publicly funded events, like a recent 4th of July festival I attended.