OUT WITH THE OLD...

OUT WITH THE OLD

 ’tis out with the old and in with the new

or so they say it is how it should be…

We clean all the house and make all the plans

to work on what we see as wrong

but take just a moment and think yet once more

is that really what does make you strong?

For haven’t we made the best of our lives

dealt with whatever has come as we may ..

We struggled and coasted, laughed and have cried 

and greeted each morning, each day. 

This is our plan, where we’re meant to be

we do just the best that we can..

so long as we’re honest, helpful and kind

and care for each woman and man..

If we open our mind as well as our heart

this New Year will be all we could need

take time to give thanks for all that you have

and you can’t help but be happy indeed.

(c) Crissouli Dec 31, 2015

HAPPY NEW YEAR

MAY 2016 BRING YOU ALL YOU NEED AND A LITTLE OF WHAT YOU WISH FOR!

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BLOGGER BUZZ.. all please read...

This may affect you… I do hope you will still follow my blogs.. you can still subscribe by email and you get the blog sent to you as it is published. Or if you use RSS or Feedly or similar, nothing changes.

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FRIDAY FOSSICKING 11th DECEMBER, 2015

FRIDAY FOSSICKING

Walter Withers

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Explore Irish newspapers now This list of the 16 newest titles is very impressive

London, Watermen in Royal Navy, 1803-1809          London, List of Free Watermen, 1827

London, Watermen, Birth Register of Contracted Men, 1865-1921

The Irish in Victoria's mental health institutions

The real story behind Silent Night

A workhouse Christmas                     When Boston Banned Christmas...from Charles Dickens

Top picks: gifts for genealogists

Cockenthrice to Umble Pie: The Tudors at Christmas

Irish convicts Down Under         Irish convicts in Britain

The Petty Session order books

Break down brick walls with anomalies

Pearl Harbor headlines from around the globe

Traditional Irish naming patterns

*****Win a free DNA test kit

* FAMILIES IN BRITISH INDIA SOCIETY   FIBIS

Training sessions in using India Office Records for family history sources

Further Adventures of the Intrepid East India Company Women - Untold lives blog

The Marriage of East and West: Conservation of a Photographic Album from Burma - Collection Care...

* IRISH CENTRAL

How many of these Irish words do you know?

Things you didn't know about Ireland

Remember the Celtic Tiger? Now it’s the ‘Celtic Phoenix’

Kaleidoscope of scenery - photographs of the Wild Atlantic Way

Blarney Woollen Mills Irish gift guide for 2015 

Plans for US teens free birthright program in Ireland revealed 

Scientists discover how Irish potato blight first traveled from South America 

Autumn in Ireland: The beautiful changing leaves at Blarney Castle (VIDEO) 

See the house where Maureen O’Hara spent her last years in Ireland (PHOTOS) 

Irish ancestor of Prince William revealed in 170-year-old scroll 

ALWAYS A GOOD READ

* 9 December 1843 - The Day the First Christmas Card was Created | Lonetester HQ

* The day Queensland became a new colony

* FamilyTreeMaker Reminder: What’s Your Backup Plan?

* ‘Our Pickets Were Gobbled’: Assessing the Mass Capture of the 69th New York, Petersburg, 1864

* http://clareherald.com/2015/12/on-this-day-in-clare-history-december-2-07890/

* Putting your family stories online

*  More 17th century Irish sources online: muster rolls

*  CHANGES at ROOKWOOD CEMETERY

* Historic graves restored at Wilberforce

*  Ireland’s unmissable castles: Part 1

*  Blogger In Residence @ Irish Executives Network Turtle Bunbury On Easter @ Christmas

*  Ogham - The Ancient Irish Art of Writing

*   Research Your British Family History Using the General Register Office (GRO)

*   How to Get Safely Remove Photos from Old Magnetic "Sticky" Photo Albums

*   Celts' red hair could be attributed to the cloudy weather

 SOMETHING WORTH LISTENING TO

* The Loop Show 23 06 2015

* Song featuring the memories of a 90-year-old Irish granny goes viral

 SOMETHING WORTH WATCHING

* TheJournal ie: OConnell Street 1897

* Could this be the oldest known video of Ireland?

*  The Empress of Ireland – Canada’s 'Titanic' tragedy (PHOTOS)

* Ireland’s Ancient East – 5,000 years of history, heritage is celebrated (PHOTOS)

*  97-year-old Kerry World War II hero awarded France’s highest honor 

IF THIS DOESN'T KEEP YOU BUSY OVER THE HOLIDAYS, THEN YOU'RE JUST NOT TRYING!

THANKING YOU ALL FOR YOUR SUPPORT.

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 

will be taking a break over the next few weeks.

May I take this time to wish you all a very 

MERRY CHRISTMAS

and a 

HAPPY, HEALTHY AND SUCCESSFUL NEW YEAR

for 2016.

A little Christmas story for you...

GREAT EXPECTATIONS

TROVE UPDATES...

SOME OF THE RECENT UPDATES YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE CAUGHT UP WITH...



New South Wales
The Australian Workman (Sydney, NSW : 1890 - 1897)
The Bird O' Freedom (Sydney, NSW : 1891 - 1896)
The Dead Bird (Sydney, NSW : 1889 - 1891)
The Workers' Weekly (Sydney, NSW : 1923 - 1939)

Queensland
Brisbane Telegraph (Qld. : 1948 - 1954) 
The Daily Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1903 - 1926)
The Evening Advocate (Innisfail, Qld. : 1941 - 1954)
The Evening Telegraph (Charters Towers, Qld. : 1901 - 1921)
Johnstone River Advocate and Innisfail News (Qld. : 1928 - 1941)
The Toowoomba Chronicle and Queensland Advertiser (Qld. : 1861 - 1875)

South Australia
Border Chronicle (Bordertown, SA : 1908 - 1950)
Critic (Adelaide, SA : 1897-1924)
The Express (Adelaide, SA : 1922 - 1923)
The Pennant (Penola, SA : 1946 - 1954)
The Terowie Enterprise (SA : 1884 - 1891)

Tasmania
The Derwent Star and Van Diemen's Land Intelligencer (Hobart, Tas. : 1810 - 1812)
King Island News (Currie, King Island : 1912 - 1954)
The North Coast Standard (Latrobe, Tas. : 1890 - 1894)

Victoria
The Colonial Mining Journal, Railway and Share Gazette (Vic. : 1858 - 1859)
The Colonial Mining Journal, Railway and Share Gazette and Illustrated Record (Melbourne, Vic. : 1859 - 1861)

Western Australia
The Avon Gazette and Kellerberrin News (WA : 1914 - 1916)
The Australian (Perth, WA : 1917 - 1923)
The Avon Gazette and York Times (WA : 1916 - 1930)
The Blackwood Times (Bunbury, WA : 1905 - 1920; 1945 - 1954)
The Leonora Miner (WA : 1910 - 1928)
Narrogin Observer (WA : 1952 - 1954)
The Northam Advertiser (WA : 1895 - 1918; 1948 - 1954)
The Pingelly Leader (WA : 1906 - 1925)
Pingelly-Brookton Leader (WA : 1925 - 1926)
The Southern Districts Advocate (Katanning, WA : 1913 - 1936)
The Sun (Kalgoorlie, WA : 1898 - 1919)
The W.A. Record (Perth, WA : 1888 - 1922)
Yilgarn Merredin Times (Southern Cross, WA : 1921 - 1923)

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 4th DECEMBER, 2015

FRIDAY FOSSICKING

Walter Withers

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Quagmire of administrative districts 1 and 2

Our 2015 Christmas Countdown has begun!

Irishmen in the Waterman records

 PERSI Quarterly Index Update 

 British Newspaper Update

Click here to search our Kilmainham Pension Records now

Follow Ulysses' footsteps 

What was life like in Ireland during World War 2?

4 years of historic newspapers

The early relationship between the CIA and MI6

Oral history for the family historian part III

The story behind Stille Nacht

The Genealogy of Santa Claus

The frozen Christmas postman

* The Irish who signed the Declaration of Independence (PHOTOS)

 *  Many Irish actually emigrated in order to fight in US civil war 

*  Van Diemen's Women

* Warrior: Uncovering Brisbane histories « Arts for all Queenslanders

*  Unseen Orphanage photos Australia

* WHY GREEKS ARE EXHUMING THEIR PARENTS

* Ghost Town - TUCKANARRA - Outback Family History

* Jeff Maynard presents: the lost records of Australia's First World War photographer

* Algernon Darge's 19,000 soldiers: Photographs of the First World War – a curatorial insight 

* The merchant and the butcher: a Western Front story

* Spirit of Anzac Centenary Experience

* Remember me: the lost diggers of Vignacourt

* Ireland's war: Life during the Emergency

 * Ten Irish books that will change you

* Sixteen more historical Irish newspapers go online

* " THE PARISH AND ITS PEOPLE" by Mary Hester, with Clare Roots Society

* HOW TO LABEL YOUR DIGITAL PHOTOS

* How to Care For and Protect Your Precious Family Photos

* 5 tips for digitizing photos

* Convict game allows kids to learn as they play

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 27TH NOVEMBER, 2015

FRIDAY FOSSICKING

Walter Withers

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Public_domain

* LIMERICK UNION BOARD OF GUARDIANS MINUTE BOOKS, 1842-1922
find them here

* GEELONG HERITAGE CENTRE NOW OPENED... READ HERE

* IRISH STORIES OF INTEREST
How the Irish saved Thanksgiving   
 A Bronx Irish Thanksgiving in days gone by  
  Ireland battered by 80mph winds of Storm Abigail (PHOTOS & VIDEOS)
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 


* FIND MY PAST
Traditional Irish Naming Patterns
Administrative Districts
Servants and Masters in Ireland
Records to help you find your US military Irish ancestors
6 life lessons from… The home front
The original John! Meet the man who invented the toilet (for an ungrateful Elizabeth I...)
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

* ACCESS US NATURALISATION AND CITIZENSHIP RECORDS online here

* 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 
http://thesearchforanneandmichael.blogspot.com.au/2015/11/tuesday-tips-nomina-defunctorum-irish.html
 A very helpful and informative post, well researched as always, by “irisheyes jennifer”… If you find something of interest, please leave a comment on her blog in appreciation of all it takes to bring this to you...

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