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Find Your Family History On-line

It would be interesting to know of our ancestors.

We know more of world History than our own Family history.

India, Hindus are expected to remember at least the names of people of Even generations and do a Ritual (Tharpana,offering Water and sesame seeds at least once a month to three generations, both paternal and maternal)

Those among Brahmins, who do the 'Abhivaadanam'( of offering respects to elders) would know the progenitor of their Clan, normally three in number.

They are Rishis, seers, who are the foremost of their Clan.

But now people can not even remember or know their Great-grand father's Name.In

In the West Data Bank is available, to know one's family History.

Church Enslaved 30.000 Women! Videos

Originally termed Magdalene Asylums the first in Ireland was opened in Dublin in 1765, for Protestant girls

• First Catholic home was founded in Cork in 1809

• Envisaged as short-term refuges for 'fallen women' they became long-term institutions and penitents were required to work, mostly in laundries on the premises

• They extended to take in unmarried mothers, women with learning difficulties and girls who had been abused

• The facilities were self-supporting and the money generated by the laundries paid for them

• Between 1922 and 1996 there were 10 such laundries in the Republic of Ireland