FRIDAY FOSSICKING 27TH NOVEMBER, 2015

FRIDAY FOSSICKING

Walter Withers

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* IRISH STORIES OF INTEREST
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Charles Lindbergh, a Brooklyn Irish lawyer, and a 16-year-old sentenced to the electric chair
Ireland’s forgotten famine of 1925 – newly independent government covered up calamity
  Irish family from Galway the longest living group of siblings in the world 


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I found my murdered cousin in the historic Irish newspapers
The Bronte sisters in Ireland
The mystery of Eric Arthur Blair
Journey of the Mayflower

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* BURMA REGISTER OF EUROPEAN DEATHS AND BURIALS

* HOW TO PRESERVE YOUR FAMILY HEIRLOOMS  

 * IDENTIFY THE PEOPLE IN YOUR OLD FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHS  

* A BLOG YOU SHOULDN'T MISS 
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TO ALL OUR AMERICAN FRIENDS

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 20th NOVEMBER, 2015

FRIDAY FOSSICKING

Walter Withers

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* FIND MY PAST

England & Wales, Electoral Registers 1832-1932, Image Browse

British Newspapers

British In Argentina, 1914-1919

Additional Social & Institutional Records from Devon, England

Surrey, military tribunals 1915-1918

Lloyds of London Memorial Roll 1914-1918 

Stock Exchange Memorial Roll 1914-1918

Victoria, World War One Soldier Settlers 

New Records: US Veterans Administration Pension Payment Cards, 1907-1933 

A note from the front line in 1915  written just a few days before this soldier died

* Your questions on Irish genealogy are answered

*   A walk through history - the horrific tale of a Mayo villages death during the Great Famine 

* SELECTION OF CEMETERIES IN NORTHERN SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES

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* SCOTLANDS PEOPLE

MILITARY SERVICE APPEALS TRIBUNAL RECORDS

* Within the Walls of Brisbane Gaol (1883): 'Sunday'

* JUST FOR FUN...

* 3 Thanksgiving menus from early American history

* TIME AND DATE... create your own calendar for the year you wish 

e.g. is for 1829

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*  RECOLLECTIONS

  a few moments to ponder

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* WATCH OUT FOR THIS ONE   ... not what it seems

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 13th NOV. 2015

FRIDAY FOSSICKING

Walter Withers

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footballing ANZACs

forgotten graffiti from the boys on the Western Front

tracing your own military heroes

Irish Memorial Rolls      wills        National Roll of Honour

* How to cure the blackout boredom! A night in, in 1939

* Anderson and Morrison: Air raid shelters and the British public

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* QUEEN VICTORIA'S JOURNALS

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IRELAND      

* Ireland’s greatest baseball family - The O’Neills from Galway

* The truth about Irish bog bodies (PHOTOS)

*  A Belfast soldier secretly photographed World War I (PHOTOS) 

* A SITE NEW TO ME... DUSTY DOCS  very helpful link site English and Irish parish records

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* A GHOST TOWN FROZEN IN TIME

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* WELCOME RETURN OF WORLDWIDE GENEALOGY BLOGSPOT

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* IRISH CLIPS AND SNIPS

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FRIDAY FOSSICKING 6th NOVEMBER, 2015

FRIDAY FOSSICKING

Walter Withers

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* SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIAN GENEALOGISTS

House Histories

Aboriginal History

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* UNCLAIMED ESTATES... of Irish people who have died in England or Wales since 1997

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* ANCESTRY

* FREE ACCESS TO MILITARY COLLECTIONS FROM 6TH-11TH NOVEMBER*

more personal details, where they were deployed, etc.

 Mexico Civil Registrations Of Death

 Illinois, Marriage Index, 1860-1920

 England, Suffragettes Arrested, 1906-1914

* THREE BRAVE SISTERS DEFENDED FAMILY HOME, IRISH LAND WAR

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* BRITISH TEAM TO VISIT KOLKATA IN SEARCH OF ROOTS
 The Times of India

* IRISH ROOTS: JOHN GRENHAM
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1939 register
Cambridgeshire, Ely Diocese Marriage Licences 1684-1811
Yorkshire Burials 1538-1989
Lloyd's Register of Merchant Ships index 1843

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