Hi list members, I hope everyone is researching hard and having some success. I am about to go through all of my past E-Mail messages and delete those that I no longer need. They take up valuable hard disk space. As I go through my tidy up I shall post items in the messages that may be of interest to the rest of you. I would suggest that where an item has a particular interest that you cut and paste it to your wordprocessing program for future reference. The first item describes the creation of Scots/Irish. >From a book entitled "A History of American Democracy." "The Scotch-Irish: ...These newcomers were from the north of Ireland, but most of their ancestors had been lowland Scots, some of whom had settled on lands taken from the Irish during the reigns of Queen Elizabeth I and King James I, and others on Irish lands confiscated by Oliver Cromwell. As Presbyterians they could not get along well with the Catholic Irish, to whom they seemed to be mere trespasssers. As dissenters, they resented the requirement that they pay tithes to the Anglican Church. The tenant system was pecurliarly harsh upon them, since most of their landlords were absentees, who were not only unconcerned about the oppressive rentals, but were also often unaware of the still more oppressive methods of collecting them. The English government passed laws against the importation of vital Irish products, such as dairy cattle and woolen goods, and placed discouraging regulations upon the production of linen. Bad harvests and frequent famines added to Scotch-Irish discontent. "Like the Pennsylvania Germans, some Scotch-Irish colonists reached America before 1700, but the great majoriaty did not arrive until toward the middle of the next century. Some of the Scotch-Irish setttled in New England, New York and New Jersey, but most of them penetrated into the back country of Pennsylvania by way of the Susquehanna and its tributaries. Coming a little later than the Germans, the Scotch-Iriish went a little farther into the interior to find lands. They spoke English, and hence were not bothered in their relations with the native Americans by the language barrier that so often perplexed the Germans, but they were harder to deal with than the Germans. When some of them were accused of holding lands without legal title, they replied that it was "against the laws of God and Nature that so much land should be idle while so many Christians wanted it to labor on...By the time the American Revolution broke out, Pennsylvania was no less than one-third Scotch Irish." Researchers you might be interested in contacting: GLASS, 1840+ Dundee, Scotland: Madeline Morton 6 Rosevale Place Richmond Nelson 7002 NZ GLASS, pre 1871, South Leith (Edinburgh) Oscar Muir 94 Marlborough Street East Bentleigh, Victoria 3165, AUS GLASS (All - worldwide) Michael J.B. Dathan 11 North Road, Wells, Sommerset BA5 2TJ ENG TIP OF THE WEEK : PRINTING BOOKMARKS Want to print your bookmarks list? Netscape stores bookmarks in a text file called "bookmark.htm". This file is in one of the Netscape\Communicator directories. To find the file (if you are using Win95 or WinNT), you can use Windows Explorer. The "Tools", "Find", "Files or Folders..." utility should help you locate the file. Once you have the full directory path to the file, you can print it. For example, you can edit the file with a Notepad window, and print it from there. The printout will contain all of the URLs you have saved - the perfect gift! When viewing this file in Notepad, be careful not to change the file or to save it. Changing it may cause you to lose your bookmarks. That will about do it for this message. As I have gone through my messages I see that there is a lot of information originally sent through the old Group Mailing List (prior to the set-up of this list). A lot of this data has not appeared on the Glass Mailing List, therefore as I come accross it I shall send it off to this list. Have a hapy day, Haere Ra, Bruce.