That was really interesting. Thanks for the pointer. I agree, reading in the old style language is fun and inspiring. Shirlety > From: nir-down-request@rootsweb.com > Subject: NIR-DOWN Digest, Vol 6, Issue 28 > To: nir-down@rootsweb.com > Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 01:00:31 -0700 > > > > Don't hit Reply to respond to a digest message, but cut & paste the specific message into a new email AND change the subject line. -------- > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Gardening in the early 18th C. (Sharon Oddie Brown) > 2. 1926 Irish census (Nan Brennan) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 12:19:44 -0800 > From: Sharon Oddie Brown <s.brown@dccnet.com> > Subject: [NIR-DOWN] Gardening in the early 18th C. > To: MONAGHAN LISTSERVE <IRL-MONAGHAN-L@rootsweb.com>, CARLOW > <IRL-CARLOW-L@rootsweb.com>, DOWN LISTSERVE <NIR-DOWN-L@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <4D6025E0.7000301@dccnet.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > A blog that I did recently is not directly about genealogy, but may > interest some. My brother Struan, a part-time, organic gardener, > introduced me to a couple of old books on gardening practices, one > published in 1802 and one in 1885. Both books give us remarkable > insights into how crops were raised, and in reading them, what can we > can apply to today. The blog has links to where the books can be found > on the internet. > You can find this blog at: > http://sharonoddiebrown.blogspot.com/2011/02/organic-gardening-advice-from-1802.html > Enjoy, > Sharon Oddie Brown > -- > Sharon Oddie Brown, Roberts Creek, BC, Canada. History Project: > http://www.thesilverbowl.com/ Blog: > http://sharonoddiebrown.blogspot.com/ Some Become Flowers: > http://www.harbourpublishing.com/title/SomeBecomeFlowers Family Tree: > http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=silverbowl > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 21:50:45 -0600 > From: Nan Brennan <nan.brennan@mindspring.com> > Subject: [NIR-DOWN] 1926 Irish census > To: CountyDownGenealogy@yahoogroups.com, nir-down@rootsweb.com, Kerry > List <irl-kerry@rootsweb.com>, mcevoy@rootsweb.com, McCartan List > <McCartan@rootsweb.com>, MinersofMourne Fiona > <mourneminers@optonline.net>, Jim Sloan <sloanlawyer@hotmail.com>, > Brian Donovan <BDONOV1@luc.edu>, brennan@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <72FB5ACC-551B-462C-A7ED-AB5A31142549@mindspring.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > Exciting news.....Irish government is considering early release of the > 1926 census. > > > http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2011/0103/1224286666643.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the NIR-DOWN list administrator, send an email to > NIR-DOWN-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the NIR-DOWN mailing list, send an email to NIR-DOWN@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NIR-DOWN-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of NIR-DOWN Digest, Vol 6, Issue 28 > ***************************************