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