Friday, June 30, 2017

THANK YOU... 6TH BLOGIVERSARY!















6TH BLOGIVERSARY!



Who would have thought that a sleepless night would have led me to this?







My very first post was SLOW COOKING ... 30 Jun 2011




Some of my most viewed posts on this blog have been

HAPPY AUSTRALIA DAY! 26 Jan 2012

FAMILIES OF KILMALEY PARISH, CO CLARE 20 Nov 2011

HAPPY 80TH BIRTHDAY, SYDNEY HARBOUR BRIDGE !
18 Mar 2012

NEWS FLASH... UPCOMING NEWSPAPER TITLES IN TROVE
7 Apr 2017

Christmas stories and verses also attracted a lot of views...

THE KOALA THAT SAVED CHRISTMAS

AS I REMEMBER...........Christmas Eve


Most popular page, other than Home, is CONVERSE IN VERSE   

 From this one blog, I have expanded a little... I now have seven blogs. I know, I can't believe it either. So many ideas, so few hours in a day! Alona, you'll be relieved to know there are no more to come...just now.



That Moment in Time   

http://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com.au

As They Were   

Irish Graves - they who sleep in foreign lands   



The Back Fence of Genealogy 



Confessions of a Bibliophile 



urungamaiden 

https://urungamaiden.wordpress.com 
Headlines of Old 

http://headlinesofold.blogspot.com.au 

THANK YOU 



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FRIDAY FOSSICKING 30th June, 2017




FRIDAY FOSSICKING







Walter Withers

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

* GENERAL INTEREST


Anglo-Celtic Connections






 Teacher, family historian and Dales character Faith dies at age of 100 (From Craven Herald)

 GENEALOGY: Philadelphia port proved a little harder to get to | Community | tribstar.com

 GENEALOGY: Baltimore, Boston key points of entry for immigrants | Community | tribstar.com


 Passengers in History | An initiative of the South Australian Maritime Museum

 The Prosecution Project | Investigating the criminal trial in Australian history

 Inside History magazine | Preserving a historic Australian cemetery: St John’s, Parramatta ( an older story, well worth reading)

 After 50 years, legal access planned for lost Waterfall cemetery | Daily Liberal

 Lost cemetery found thanks to Google maps and a box of keys | Devon Live
Archiving JPG Scans and Photos from Your Flip-Pal Mobile Scanner, Digital Camera, and Mobile Phone  The Family Curator

John Grenham... 

 https://www.johngrenham.com/blog/2017/06/19/mad-cows-and-dubedats/


Isaac Nathan - ‘Australia’s first composer’ [Dictionary of Sydney]

Today in Irish History, 28 June 1922, the first day of the Irish Civil War             The Irish Story

Census 2016: This is Australia as 100 people - ABC News 

Breaker Morant's possessions may have been found at Tenterfield tip - ABC News 



* IRISH CENTRAL


 All that's new in the historic old town of Dublin  Great article, read it in READER.. click on the bars in the address bar



I would love to know if any of you make any of the treats
* FIND MY PAST

Norfolk Marriage Bonds 1557-1915 Browse

Norfolk Poor Law Union Records 1796-1900 Image Browse

Norfolk Non-Conformist Records 1613-1901 Image Browse

 Virginia, Winchester, Evening Star Obituaries 1899-1909

Scotland Post Office Directories

Scotland Monumental Inscriptions Index 

10 Things You Need to Know Before Starting Irish Genealogy

6 Common Genealogy Mistakes (and How to Avoid Them)

30 Tips for Using Family Photos for Genealogy



* INTERESTING BLOGS

Trove Tuesday: Kathleen's birthday  Anne's family history

 The Great Monkey Escape | The Dusty Box

 Edward LAND'S Letter to the Wangaratta Chronicle June 1915 AncestorChasing

Cardiff Castle             historicalratbag

A Shell The Irish Aesthete

Trove Tuesday – John Hooton              Lois Willis - Genealogy and Family History
From my blogs...

As They Were..

 KDHS AGM & LECTURE: The Fisherfolk Of Kilrush By Caroline Wilson,Kilrush-and-District-Historical-Society, 27 June 2017,

GUESS WHO'S COMING TO BRISBANE and a lot of other places...? August 8-26th, 2017
Genealogy Roadshow, Chris Paton British Genes, Dirk Weissleder Germany, Unlock the Past, Seminars, prizes, My Heritage, Rosemary Kopittke, Living DNA, Australia & New Zealand,


That Moment in Time..
JUST BECAUSE...   (page)    That Moment in Time..scroll through


 Confessions of a Bibliophile..



Headlines of Old..
Allan C.Green, photographer, State Library South Australia, State Library Western Australia, Green Collection, ships, sailing ships, Kalgoorlie, Coolgardie, artist,


urungamaiden
IF I SAY IT QUICKLY…  (tribute to my mother)


Irish Graves..they who sleep in foreign lands
Broken Hill   new additions  New South Wales 

Ravenswood, Qld. 

BIOGRAPHIES              for Ravenswood



St. Mary’s Cemetery El Paso, Illinois


St. Anne's Catholic Cemetery, Mackinac Island, Michigan







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Friday, June 23, 2017

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 23rd June, 2017



FRIDAY FOSSICKING







Walter Withers

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











* GENERAL INTEREST


 Blogs.. 


 Podcasts...




 Genealogy on Facebook List – Katherine R. Willson.. brilliant list

 Naming Erin Hills: 19th Century Irish Emigrants & the 2017 U.S. Open Damian Shiels

 Malvern author Carol Lefevre digs deep into history of Adelaide’s historic West Tce Cemetery

The Schools’ Collection is the first collection being made available on this site.
It is a collection of folklore compiled by schoolchildren in Ireland in the 1930s.

[Dictionary of Sydney] A Humorous Rollerskater


Anglo-Celtic Connections...
Welsh Research
The National Library of Wales launched a new website with online research, Welsh Journals Online.  It contains over 1.2 million digitized pages from over 450 Welsh journals between 1735-2007. The journals are Welsh and English language journals and are available free to search or browse with remote access. You can check the box to limit your search to either Welsh language or English language only publications. You can browse by year, decades, title and editions. The titles range from academic and scientific publications to literary and popular magazines. To access the Welsh Journals Online, go to: https://journals.library.wales/.

* FIND MY PAST

NEWS FLASH..

 http://www.findmypast.com  






WEBINAR: Secrets To Successful Irish Family Research

6 wonderfully unique collections Best of British and Irish



Canine Companions »
* IRISH CENTRAL





and your treats...





* INTERESTING BLOGS




 250 posts later      Anne's family history

 Remembering Cemetery Day        Pieces of me

 The ram’s head and the rock playground In Days Gone by...........

 George Griffith's Goldrush Adventure: Dear George, I am coming to get you.

Yalgoo Images – Outback Family History

 Wilson’s Patch – ghost towns Outback Family History 

 David Adams breakthrough - I hope  Kerryn Taylor

 How Axedale was named | Axedale – Then and Now Jennifer Jones


and from my blogs...
Choctaw nation, Potato Orphans, rabbit holes & Irish valuation books, pensioner convict ships, French Musters, Duffy's Cut, Essex burial index, Chinese head tax, Archaeology New Zealand,

http://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2017/06/friday-fossicking-16th-june-2017.html
UPDATE : LIST OF NEWSPAPERS ON TROVE
http://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com.au/p/trove-news.html



IRISH GRAVES… 

USA ILLINOIS thanks to John Mayer
http://irishgraves.blogspot.com.au/p/miscellaneous-gravesites-and-headstones.html
#CemeteryDay 
Irish Graves, Brisbane  Albany Creek Pioneer Cash's Crossing


Eastern Suburbs, Botany, Sydney   
Mary Rose O'Connell Fordham
thanks to Chris Wright, Margaret Moran


Biography


Innisfail, Qld Bridget O’Connell Wright born Limerick
Thanks to Chris Wright


Biography











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