FRIDAY FOSSICKING 9th September, 2016

FRIDAY FOSSICKING

Walter Withers

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* GENERAL INTEREST

New South Wales Premier's History Awards recognise record of colonial poverty - ABC News

5 Online Resources to Help You Find Your Immigrant Ancestors

Australian War Memorial :

"I knew by the screams that someone had caught it"

Spirit of Anzac Centenary Experience 

For Country, for Nation special exhibition tour

Women in war museum theatre performances

Black tie with small poppies

Poppy scarf

Text Queensland | Queensland's Past Online:

Irish books

Colonial voices : letters, diaries, journalism and other accounts of nineteenth-century Australia

State Library Qld:

ASHGROVE EAST, SECTION 1, BRISBANE, 1889 (MAP OF THE WEEK)

Retro Fashion – Colvins fashion catalogue, 1938

Ben-Hur and the MGM trackless train

Toowoomba and Darling Downs Family History News

Google...  9 Ways to Search Smarter

Nobody went from Ireland to America – John Grenham – Irish Roots

Irish census names translated into gibberish by Canadian institute

Cleopatra's Family Tree Has Few Branches

8 Rules to Properly Record Names in Genealogy

US Vital Records: Where to Get Birth, Death and Marriage Certificate Copies

Service announcement for the ScotlandsPeople website

Last month we contacted you to let you know that our website would be unavailable from Wednesday 7 September 2016 until Monday 12 September 2016. We are writing to let you know that this site downtime has now been postponed to a future date. We will confirm the new dates as soon as possible.

We would like to thank you for your continued patience as we work towards launching a new ScotlandsPeople website. You will be pleased to note that once the new site is launched, all of your credits and saved images from our existing site will be available and accessible.

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# IrishGenealogyNews: Ireland's historical registers of births, marriages and deaths go online

* IRISH CENTRAL

Irish Protestant mother and baby homes also saw neglect and high mortalities 

Could your ancestor have been an orphan workhouse girl who emigrated in 1853? 

Playing 'Yankee Doodle' on the church bells in Cobh, County Cork 

Great similarities between experiences of the Irish and Native Americans 

10,000-year-old settlement found in Cork 

 Surreal rainbow-colored clouds photographed in Ireland ahead of storm 

50 Irish railroad workers lie buried in a mass grave in Illinois 

Dublin’s beauty explored - four months edited into four gorgeous minutes (VIDEO)

Top ten magical caves to explore in Ireland 

Why do Guinness bubbles go down instead of up?

Mother Teresa, who held Ireland close to her heart, becomes a saint

A beautiful poem for the departed adapted by Irish monks 

The legends surrounding the beautiful Cliffs of Moher (PHOTOS)

The real story about Irish coffee and how it was invented

Lough Derg 80 mile trail is a jewel of Ireland’s natural heritage (PHOTOS)

The surprising American stars with Irish roots 

The amazing life of Mary Dooley, an orphan girl from a Galway workhouse

Where the Celts come from and have lived for 3,000 years 

The ancient Irish alphabet Ogham explained 

Irish American family passes on ancestral pub they saved in Ireland (PHOTOS) 

Letters of a family to their son in America after the Famine 

Movies you never knew were filmed in Ireland (VIDEOS) 

plus your treats...

Irish smoked salmon over potato boxty pancakes recipe

Country potato and cabbage soup recipe

* FIND MY PAST

British Army Casualty Lists 1939-1945

British Army Casualty Lists 1939-1945 Image Browse

United States, Transatlantic Migration

United States, Early American Families

United States, Early American Vital Records

United States, Connecticut Town Vitals, The Barbour Collection

New Zealand Birth Index Nationwide Births 1840-1916

New Zealand Marriage Index Nationwide Marriages 1840-1936

New Zealand Death Index Nationwide Deaths 1848-2016

Finding Professional Ancestors

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Explore business directories

Irish Workhouses

Jobs that no longer exist

Dublin Workhouses

* INTERESTING BLOGS

Catching criminals in Queensland State Archives’ collection 

Neigbourliness Jean Tubridy  a heart wrenching story

Updates: Sean Ross, The Quakers and Irish Famine Relief Janet Maher

Queensland’s first steam locomotive Qld State Archives

Nan & Pop’s House Jessica Barrett

The Family Curator | What Happened in Springfield Shouldn’t Stay in Springfield  Denise Levenick

Celebrate 100 years of Roald Dahl Clare County Library

Evesham, Hamilton Brisbane, Foto Fanatic

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