FRIDAY FOSSICKING June 30th, 2016

FRIDAY FOSSICKING

Walter Withers

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* GENERAL INTEREST

INSIDE HISTORY MAGAZINE... HELP FUND TROVE sign the petition for a start

A Little Thing Called TIM

NATIONAL ARCHIVES AUSTRALIA PODCASTS

Digital Collections Convict Portraits

STATE ARCHIVES NSW now uses a single search of their records

The most beautiful libraries in the world...agree?

6,000 Irish beneath a car park

Irish Counties and their nicknames

Cradle to the Grave Irish Examiner

When the Big House becomes a guest house

Ireland's County Names and their translations

Ireland and Global Genealogy John Grenham

WEST CLARE HOLY WELLS Michael Houlihan (podcast)

Historical Land Records online NSW Gov.

> Explore our reading old documents resources

Ohio's digitised newspapers

Maori language newspapers online

From Czech Genealogy.. a love story

Judy Webster Queensland Genealogy podcast

Forthcoming events Commissariat Brisbane:

The Question of Allegiances - Irish in the Queensland Police, 1911-1919 Wed Jul 13

Nurses in World War One Sept 14

RHSQ AGM & Clem Lack Oration: Kristen Alexander - 'Taking Flight - Lores Bonney's Extraordinary Flying Career' Sept 29

ANZAC Centenary QLD

Art Deco Tour : The Valley To New Farm, QLD

Lance's Journal: Genealogical Society explores family history (Lincoln Lancaster County)

Miniature Maps of Carolina

Will Indiana Graveyard reveal secrets?

Walking through history in New Orleans

Dusty Docs - English Parish Registers online

Unlock The Past 2016  Australian History Genealogy Expo

Children in Iron Lungs pre polio vaccine, 1937

Rabbit Proof Fence Movie Set Saved from dump

HOAX SLAYER Top 10 articles

about.com

Tips for Salvaging Flood & Water Damaged Photos and Documents  
How to Safely Remove Photos from Old Magnetic "Sticky" Albums  
How to Label Your Digital Photos  
Preserve and Protect Family Heirlooms and Treasures  

* IRISH CENTRAL

POLL: Should Ireland unite now that the UK has voted to leave the EU? 

Happy anniversary you star-crossed lovers - Charles Stewart Parnell and Kitty O’Shea 

Spanish documents suggest Irish arrived in America before Columbus 

Magical photos capture “Ireland - in a new light”

An untold story of six Irish-American brothers who fought in WWII 

The Cornish Celts often overlooked among Celtic nations 

 Climb Sea Stacks in along the Donegal coast in this amazing 360° video 

Amazing Pathé travelogue of Ireland in 1965 (VIDEO) 

From archaeological gems to stunning strolls - exploring Ireland's beauty (PHOTOS)  

Celtic chieftains graveyard discovered in France 

Movies you never knew were filmed in Ireland (VIDEOS) 

Myth bustin popular 'castle island' in Ireland as a fake 

 Feel what it’s like to surf at the Cliffs of Moher with this 360° video

Did the Irish Famine trigger mental illness in future generations of Irish?

Top ten worst times to have lived in Ireland 

A photographer’s guide to the ancient beauty of Waterford’s Passage East (PHOTOS)  

Incredible Pathé videos of 1916 Easter Rising 

The surprising American stars with Irish roots 

5,000-year-old axe found on Galway beach after storms 

25 ways you know you were brought up in the Irish countryside 

A guide to speaking with an Irish accent (VIDEO)  

Irish hard shoe dancing like you’ve never seen it (VIDEO)  

The Irish in the Crimea and the Charge of the Light Brigade  

These photos show the oldest surviving veterans of the American Civil War 

In 1916, England feared the Irish would take over Australia 
32 sculptors create 15-foot stone map of Ireland in Donegal 
Titanic shipyard built more than just ships
The myths and legends of the Giant’s Causeway (PHOTOS)
This short film will make your heart swell with love for Ireland (VIDEO)

Medieval Irish merchants traded in slaves in Tunisia and Iceland

* FIND MY PAST

> Search and download these prisoner of war records now* UK 

> Visit our dedicated First World War portal UK 

> Find out about Operation War Diary and start tagging diaries now  UK

> My Tommy's War blog series

Women in engineering in the First World War

Transforming Archives: Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

SEARCH THESE RECORDS » Prisoners of War 1715-1945 IE plus

Additional Irish Newspapers incl. Belfast

Northumberland & Durham Baptisms

PERiodical Source Index

New York Researcher

The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record

FREE webinars     Register
* Our Ancestor's Naturalisation

* One of WW1's most brutal battles

The soldiers who left graffiti

Did your ancestor travel abroad?

* PLEASE READ

* Call for Speakers for Congress 2018

We’ve now issued our Call for Speakers for the 15th Australasian Congress on Genealogy & Heraldry, which we are hosting in Sydney from 9-12 March 2018. You’ll find the details at www.congress2018.org.au and you’ve got until 31 October to put in your proposal to present a lecture or workshop at Congress, and to encourage others to do so. If you’ve heard a wonderful speaker and would like to see them on the program let us know (info@congress2018.org.au) and we’ll make sure we alert them to the Call for Speakers. Congress is a great vehicle to not only have presentations from ‘old favourites’, but it’s also the chance to showcase some new talent too.

Society of Australian Genealogists

* Fed up with all the election leaflets, etc? Don't toss them, send them... to the National Library Australia... details

* INTERESTING BLOGS

There so many interesting blogs this week, that I couldn't resist doubling up with some bloggers.

Introducing State Library of Qld  The In-depth Genealogist 

"I want to see you before I die" Damian Shiels

Last Cave on the Left Claudia

A Journey Called Life architar

Postcards from Glenbower Wood, Killeagh, Co Cork A Silver Voice (read the whole series)

Happy 100th Birthday to my Grandma  Lonetester

Trewartha’s Candy Store, Dover, New Jersey Lonetester

Ireland Images.8 – Dublin, Galway Janet Maher (read the whole series)

Ballyvaughan.5 – Wrapping Up Janet Maher 

Tura Lura Lura – hush little bubba Cassmob

Letter to New Zealand Ancestor Chasing

Mary Ellen   genielyn

The Stranding of the 'Strathgryfe' Pastlinks

 From my blogs...

A LETTER TO MY MOTHER

IRELAND GENEALOGY PROJECTS ...JUNE ADDITIONS 2016

Irish Graves.. Victoria, Australia

Who would have guessed, five already!

WHO WOULD HAVE GUESSED, FIVE ALREADY!

FIVE YEARS OF BLOGGING!

THANK YOU TO 

ALL WHO HAVE TAKEN THE 

TIME TO READ MY POSTS..

JUST A SELECTION OF SOME OF MY MOST POPULAR BLOGS..

GRANDMA DON'T MAKE MARMALADE

FAMILIES OF KILMALEY PARISH, CO CLARE

OLD MELBOURNE PICTURES!

 HAPPY AUSTRALIA DAY!

   

NEWS FLASH..UPCOMING TITLES FOR TROVE

I look forward to your company for many more blogs to come!

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 24th June, 2016

FRIDAY FOSSICKING

Walter Withers

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

* IRISH CENTRAL

Discover your ancestor’s arrival into America

149 years later, Civil War letters in attic reveal famine Irish immigrant’s life (PHOTOS)  

Bloomsday is James Joyce's St. Patrick's Day for summer 

Notre Dame's biggest fan creates a secret Irish pub (VIDEO)

Have any Guinness memorabilia lying around? It could be worth a pretty penny 

Move over Gene Kelly, here’s Irish dancing in the rain (VIDEOS) 

Aran sweaters, Claddagh rings, tin whistles: the story behind Ireland’s beloved artifacts 

 Incredible house and estate of Ireland's first female president for sale (PHOTOS) 

Oscar winning Maureen O’Hara speaks about her life as a Hollywood legend 

Did the Celts build America’s Stonehenge 4,000 years ago? 

Irish pilot hero was the first to fly transatlantic from east-to-west

A Father’s Day fireman hero of 9/11 is finally laid to rest 

The gorgeous Wild Atlantic Way from a bird’s eye perspective (VIDEO) 

Historic Irish American moments told through Pathé newsreels (VIDEOS) 

50 tragic portraits Irish Famine victims in the poorhouses of New York  

Top things to do in The Kingdom of County Kerry (VIDEO) 

Northern Lights shining bright at Ireland’s most northerly point (PHOTOS) 

8 facts about the ancient Irish alphabet Ogham explained 

Go mountain biking through the Burren in this amazing 360° video 
Viva Irlanda! Exploring the Irish in Argentina 
 The most mispronounced Irish names in America 
 Ireland goes berserk as Italy conquered by Boys in Green
Photographer explores haunting 1700s abandoned Irish farmhouse (PHOTOS) 
Hauntingly beautiful images of disused school houses in Ireland (PHOTOS)

* FIND MY PAST

Have you read the news?

Unlocking the Westminster Collection

Haberdashers and Ironmongers, Historic London

New Zealand Employment records/electoral rolls

Census address search returns

Ireland Poor Law Reports

The Trail Went Cold

 Focus on London

An Amazing Irish Immigrant Story

Dastardly Origins »

*  GENERAL INTEREST

Top 10 FREE things to do in the UK

Irish stand proud in the crowd

Stunning move theatre turned Bookstore

'Do Not Disturb' signs international collection   Thanks to Christina Hunt

Top 10 Secret libraries of all Time

The Telephonoscope (Victorian Skype)

Convict Records

Australia Under Attack

Volunteer Air Observer Corps(VAOC) - Australian WW2 Badge

Volunteer Aircraft Observers

All in - Emergency

Women in the War - (Queensland WWII Historic Places)

Restoring Jane Austen's Legacy  Thanks to Pauleen Cass

War Heroes you didn't learn about

Relax at a Library Hotel  

The World's Oldest Functional Photo Studio..closes after 176 years..where?

First Fleeters Memorial Park Video

about.com

 Ancestral Occupations in City Directories   

You Can Find Ancestral Occupations in Old Newspapers Too!  

Dictionary of Old Occupations & Trades  

Researching Records of Old Railroads & Railroad Workers  

My Ancestor Was a Farmer - Researching Farming Ancestors  

National Archives
Prisoner of war interview reports, 1914-18
Royal Navy First World War Lives at Sea

* ANCESTRY

Look for your ancestor's U.S. passports

Passenger Lists US

Ancestry App.. how to use...

Reports of deaths of American Citizens Abroad 1835-1974  Lots of details

Border Crossings and passports

*  INTERESTING BLOGS

The Fallen Anzac..         The Family Stump

The Goldfields Woodlines  Outback Family History

His ‘n Hers Social Bridge  (couldn't bypass this one for it's poignant simplicity)

What’s in a name? An Archivist’s personal perspective Qld State Archives

Sepia Saturday: Aussie royalty – the koala Cassmob

Writing Tip: Separate the Forest from the Trees BryonySeries

Updated! Almshouse (Poorhouse) Admission Records New York Lorine McGinnis Schulze

Thanks to the Society of Australian Genealogists Chris Paton

From my blogs...  

FROM GIRL TO LADY...

THE O'GORMAN MAHON REMEMBERED

Revisiting

A FABULOUS IRISH WILL

A LINK WITH THE PAST