I'm more inclined to think that it was a matter of dollar and cents and not any prejudices by the newspaper. While prejudices existed, money is money. Those first generation Irish immigrants, particularly famine era ones, didn't have the money to put an obit in, as word of mouth, the church, etc, would have been good enough to reach anyone who might be interested in the funeral and burial. In the 18th Century Benjamin Franklin ran advertisments in his newspaper that offered monies for Indian scalps. While Franklin probably thought this horrible, it was simply a matter of money, you didn't pick and chose what advertisers you wanted to carry... Ken Milano -- www.kennethwmilano.com -------------- Original message -------------- From: "Susan Regan" <susanregan@comcast.net> > This is just an observation....but MOST of my Irish Catholic relatives can't be > found in the Philadelphia Inquirer in the 1800s although some where. I have > found those that were not in the Inquirer in the Philadelphia Ledger. But just > recently the Philadelphia Catholic Standard and Times has been running articles > on the Catholic Church in the 1800s since it is its 200th anniversary as a > diocese. Some articles focus on the Irish Catholics and the Inquirer seems to > have had a prejudice view of those immigrants during that time especially the > burning of the churches etc. That is probably why they didn't patronize that > paper. Just a thought. > > Susan > > > ********* > Visit the threaded archives of this list: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PHILLY-ROOTS > ********* > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PHILLY-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message