Searching Find My Past with the Irish Petty Sessions records - and there is an entry from May 1882 that says "the defendant was one of a disorderly mob who shouted down with landlordism and to hell with Buckshot Foster" Another entry someone was brought up in the Petty Session records because their pigs got out on a public street. Some of these entries are funny - some are sad.   From: Bill Gawne via <beara@rootsweb.com> To: beara@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2015 10:05 AM Subject: [BEARA] Free weekend of access to FindMyPast starts Friday Dear friends of Beara, >From today's Irish Genealogy News: http://www.irishgenealogynews.com/2015/09/free-weekend-of-access-to-findmypa st.html FindMyPast has announced that its entire collection of records from Ireland, UK, USA and Australia/NZ will be opened up to all comers this weekend. Yep, a free weekend! Among the highlights of the collection is a huge database of British military records, millions of immigration records and passenger manifests for ships sailing to and from Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and the USA, and a vast archive of historical newspapers from around the world including 88 Irish newspapers. The World collection of some 4billion records will be free to access from Friday 18 September (Noon Dublin/London time; 7am EDT; 9pm AEST) until Monday 21 September (Noon Dublin/London time; 7am EDT; 9am AEST). (More at the link, including links to FMP in various countries.) Bill Gawne ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BEARA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message