FRIDAY FOSSICKING Feb 3, 2017

FRIDAY FOSSICKING

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* GENERAL INTEREST

Applying for your Irish passport? It just got easier

Registry of Deeds Index Project

Voices in the Graveyard St Peters Cooks River District  - audio stories of those buried there

The forgotten story of Irish-Australians after the 1916 Rising 

Genealogy's Star: Thinking about the implications of what we enter in our family trees  Great advice from James Tanner

Anglo-Celtic Connections

Early Canadian Online through OPL

RootsTech Streaming Schedule    

British Newspaper Archives additions for January  

Ancestry updates Beddington, Surrey, England, Royal Female Orphanage List of Children, 1890-1913



Why do you love genealogy?  John Grenham

From Inside History Magazine... FREE family history books online...

Internet Archive          FamilySearch's collection of digitised books

Digital Public Library of America    Google Books

Never Mind the Bullocks: There’s Something About St. Brigit vox hiberionacum

The Woolloongabba Antique Centre is leaving Woolloongabba Brisbane ... great place for memorabilia

An Appeal for Civil War Descendants Damian Shiels

Ireland Newsletter

A Penny Icecream and the Smell of Creosote

Jack Farrell by Mattie Lennon

Fergus O'Mara and the Air-Demons by P. W. Joyce

Jamie Freel and the Young Lady by Letitia MacLintock

Jackie Kennedy sketches at the center of court battle






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Victoria Petty Sessions Registers

Queensland Custom House Shipping 1852-1885 Passengers and Crew

PERSI Quarterly Index Update

Irish Newspapers extras added

Australia

Search Australian Records 

Expert Advice  Shauna Hicks

The best resources 

Track Their Journeys

21 Collections you probably missed

USA

Explore immigration and travel records

Find their place of birth

Go Back Further

* IRISH CENTRAL

Mind the women! WW2 US soldiers warned of local rules in Northern Ireland 

Top greatest Irish singer-songwriters

Irish donkey is absolutely delighted to be rescued from flood waters (PHOTOS)

Finest Irish pub in Co. Clare could be yours for just $300,000 

Lord Haw Haw: Hitler's infamous Irishman hanged for treason 

The best vacation in Dublin city? Do it like a local 

The real reason why there aren’t any snakes in Ireland (Sorry, St. Patrick)

Top 50 Irish contemporary books - make sure you’ve always something great to read 

Heroic Irish 9/11 firefighter dies after battle with cancer 

Wrong number! Irish town gets calls for British “adult” TV station

Listen to 13-year-old singer Owen Mac taking country music by storm (VIDEO) 

The genius of William Butler Yeats - gone 78 years today - and his inspiring muses 

Australian makes stunning video about surfing in Ireland 

Is this the most beautiful walk in Ireland? (PHOTOS)

Survivor of the Titanic Ellen Shine died aged 98 

How to travel to Ireland by boat 

Walking through 1,000 years of Dublin's history

Eight sacred Celtic holidays of the year including St. Brigid’s Day

Roots of St. Brigid and how to make her iconic cross 

What the Green Card meant to my Irish immigrant family

What you should know about St. Brigid’s Day, Feb 1, the start of Celtic spring 

The Irish woman who shot Mussolini in the face 

Frightening Irish demons and monsters from Celtic myth

Remembering The Dubliners' Luke Kelly with his most loved songs 

and for your treats..

Roasted lemon and rosemary leg of lamb recipe 

Irish blackberry jam and custard donuts recipe 

Irish recipe for success - potato and turnip gratin 

* INTERESTING BLOGS

* ROOTS TECH ADVICE

Ready for RootsTech?  Cassmob  most applies to all overseas travel

Just Seven More Sleeps Geniaus

RootsTech 2017 – Counting Down   Lonetester

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Fort Denison   historicalratbag

Sanitary Carter’s Tragic End  Outback Family History

Sepia Saturday 352 – Two Hats and a Funeral Jenny Coates

Janet Mackay, Is It You?  Genealogically Speaking

Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Edgar Artis  Claudia   (unusual and lovely)

It’s Time to Stop Fighting  Humouring the Goddess

Tasmania to the Transvaal  Shelley

Erosion Liv Hambrett  ... of self, interesting take on emmigration

Checkmarks on the List  Textile Ranger... feed your soul...

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