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

That's awesome news.  Thanks for the info.  I happen to get free access recently at a library and discovered Irish Petty Sessions Court Registers 1828-1912 which showed my great grandmother (Georgina Sheehan) and her siblings being brought up on charges for begging - which is sad because by that time they were orphans and as it said destitute - ages ranged from 16-6.  Lots of other interesting court records in the Irish Petty Sessions. 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