Thank you Jean for this info, l can now see why it is so hard for me to track down my husbands ABRAHAM family, maybe a lot of them died out in this horific situation..! Dot R in Oz ----- Original Message ----- Subject: [IRELAND] Famine, Disease and Evictions -- Relief Efforts > SNIPPET: Like all famines, most victims in Ireland did not actually starve > to death -- they didn't live long enough to die of starvation. Disease > carried the malnourished, weakened majority away -- fever, dysentery,