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Epidemics

Health and Hygiene in the 19th Century (The Victorian Web): http://65.107.211.206/health/health10.html The Huddled Masses: Migration and Disease, 1880-1920 : http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=422 The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 : http://virus.stanford.edu/uda/ Map Stops Cholera : http://geography.about.com/library/weekly/aa070797.htm Major U.S. Epidemics : http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001460.html Epidemics : http://www.usgenweb.org/researchers/epidemics.html GenDisasters.com , train wrecks, fires, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, storms, mining explosions, ship wrecks, drownings, and accidents: http://www.gendisasters.com/ What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mental Health Family Tree Program

Bipolar disorder (manic depression) is a treatable medical condition that affects approximately 5.7 million American adults. But the condition can be hard to recognize because it may come across as depression, euphoria, trouble at work, out-of-control spending, substance abuse or even suicide attempts. Now, a new program that addresses the family connection of bipolar disorder is available to help families get their doctors to more accurately and quickly diagnose this complex condition. The Mental Health Family Tree program : http://www.mentalhealthfamilytree.org/ , launched by the national non-profit organization Families for Depression Awareness (FFDA), draws attention to the important role a person's family mental health history can play in diagnosing bipolar disorder, while helping individuals identify some of the common - but sometimes unknown - behaviors associated with the condition. People concerned about the existence of bipolar disorder in themselves or in family members

Ireland

Irish Counties are like US states, while the Baronies are more like our counties. Baronies are comprised of Parishes, which are somewhat like townships in the US. Parishes are divided into Townlands of varying size. They may be farms or platted sub-divisions, and can range from a few acres to over a thousand acres. So one needs to know County, Barony, Parish and Township. Book: The General Alphabetical Index to Townlands and Towns, Parishes, and Baronies of Ireland published in Dublin in 1861 as an adjunct to the Census of Ireland. It has been reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1984, 1986, 1992, 1995, and 1997. John Giacoletti says "It is one of the essential must have and use tools for genealogical research in Ireland." Brian Mitchell's A New Genealogical Atlas of Ireland shows outline maps of all the parishes and baronies. There are also townland maps that will show the placement of the townlands within the parishes. The townland outline maps are av