Hello, AOl by mistake [??] deleted all of my saved emails. I now have the files back without the folders. So, I am slowly reading all and putting them back in folders. I came across this interesting email written by Boyd Gray. I thought I would bring it back into everyone's memory. Joan ------------------------------------------------- >>Hi Listers, >>Never give up. Having spent four years researching the Lowrys of the Laggan Valley along with Barbara Braswell and thinking we had seen most of the resources available online and found nearly every significant piece of information we thought we would ever find, we were delighted last week to find the following resource after a death notice was sent to us by a fellow researcher, Simon Elliott in England:<< _http://www.actofunion.ac.uk/news.php_ (http://www.actofunion.ac.uk/news.php) >>It contains many editions of the Derry Journal from 1796 through 1801. This is uncharted waters for us folks researching family history in Ireland. Simon had already found the death notice of Barbara's great great great great great grandmother in 1799. Unfortunately it merely referred to her as "Mrs Lowry". Not very helpful, but interesting nontheless. Barbara began to browse through the hundreds of newspapers and, to her delight, found her quintuple great grandfather's death notice in 1796. A real little gem, the date of this death confirmed an important assumption we had made about the lineage over two years ago. Every brick wall has a little breach in it!<< >>Even if you don't find an ancestor, both the local and national news at this turning point in history - the 1798 Rebellion and the Act of Union - make fascinating and essential background reading.<< >>Have a look for yourselves.<< <<Boyd<<