Mo chara's D.V. means God willing. May everyone have a great season full of Gods love. Who still lights a red candle inside a holly wreath? Or a candle or light in the window? Do you still celebrate Jan 6th? Traditions taken with us to other parts of the world fades with time. What other Christmas tradition's did our Beara ancestors take with them? Seamus --- On Sat, 12/13/08, Riobard O'Dwyer <beararesearchodwyer@eircom.net> wrote: From: Riobard O'Dwyer <beararesearchodwyer@eircom.net> Subject: [BEARA] Seasonal greetings. To: beara@rootsweb.com Date: Saturday, December 13, 2008, 3:28 AM A very, very happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year to all those on the Beara List and to all their friends.Times may be a bit tough at the moment, but they won't always be like that. Keep the spirit up and battle on. This is the first time that Joan & myself will be all on our own for Christmas. Two of the lads will be on duty; one will be gone abroad for a few weeks; and the other and his family will be celebrating at home. But they will be back to us again shortly after Christmas D.V. At present I'm working on Glengarriff records. No rest for the wicked !! Have a lovely holiday. Best wishes, Riobard & Joan -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 5.7 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 1966 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message ------------------------------- 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