FRIDAY FOSSICKING 27TH MAY, 2016

FRIDAY FOSSICKING

Walter Withers

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* IRISH CENTRAL

Curator of Ireland 100 on the three-week celebration of culture (PHOTOS & VIDEOS)

News Did mythical, vanishing island off the western coast of Ireland really exist? 

 Roots “The bravest man I ever met” Father Brown in World War I 

The passionate love poems and love affairs of Michael Collins 

Five Irish love stories that changed history

Irish singer’s hauntingly beautiful version of WB Yeats' "16 Dead Men" (VIDEO)

Ireland’s Travel Secrets: Sherkin Island, Cork 

Favorite songs from national treasure Mary Black on her birthday (VIDEOS)

Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ based on an ancient Irish story

Cloudless sky offers perfect view of Ireland from space (PHOTOS) 

Ireland’s Travel Secrets: Doagh Famine Village (PHOTOS)

Why the Irish passport is among most powerful in the world 

Two Irishmen entombed in Civil War ship off the coast of Texas

The changing face of Ireland throughout the decades (PHOTOS)

Neglect and death of 800 kids in Galway happened in plain sight 

* GENERAL INTEREST

Queensland

Secrets of Brisbane

What’s in a name – Teutoberg or Teutoburg? NO … it’s Witta!

Queensland State Archives Bulletin Online

ArchivesSearch

Image Queensland

INDEXES Qld State Archives

State Library Services

Queensland Police Museum - Queensland Police Service

The Workshops Rail Museum - Queensland Museum

QUEENSLAND HISTORICAL INDEXES

QLD GOVERNMENT GAZETTES 1859-1890

tony-robinsons-time-walks  On BRISBANE Friday 27th ABC

Varied

10 Free Sites for Researching US Veterans Who Died in Service    about.com

How Other Countries Remember Their Military Dead   about.com

Top Sources for Researching British Military Ancestors   about.com

Top Sources for Researching Canadian Military Ancestors    about.com

Family Search Now 17 Years  article dated earlier, still valid

Western Australia

Hotels of the Goldfields

Tasmania

Tasmania's Convict Archives
Tasmania University Free Online Genealogy Courses

Victoria

Victorian Places
  shared by Shelly Crawford of Twigs of Yore

Ireland

The Irish Manuscripts Commission

Iris (6 yrs old) compared to Monet

Trove

Kew Historical Society Joins Trove

Orbost & District Historical Society

UK

The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913

New Zealand

 Simple Cemetery Search
Papers Past - National Library of New Zealand
NZ Newspapers - Freepages - Ancestry.com


* FIND MY PAST

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How to make a Findmypast family tree
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British Newspapers
Westminster Baptisms
Westminster Marriages
Westminster Burials
Ireland, Electoral Registers 1885-1886 Browse

* INTERESTING BLOGS

Ireland, 2016!  Janet Maher

Poor little chap Anne Young

Perth History Centre  City of Perth

A Little Bush Grave  Kaypilk

 A Home Affair : how grandparents meet Jinny Fawcett

17-websites-to-find-photos-for-your-blog Alona Tester

Edith Peard, the making of a new woman  Lenore Frost