FRIDAY FOSSICKING JUNE 2ND, 2017

FRIDAY FOSSICKING

Walter Withers

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

* FIND MY PAST

Surrey institutional records 1788-1939 

Vermont, Enrolled Militia Records 1861-1867

Essex Baptisms 

Australian Capital Territory Deaths

Sussex, Eastbourne Gazette Newspaper Notices

Derbyshire Hospital Admissions and deaths 1855-1913

Irish Newspapers

Monitor, and Missionary Chronicle, Of The Reformed Presbyterian Church In Ireland

Tracing WWI Ancestors

Explore Military Records »

8 essential resources
Hidden Gems »

Finding photos in records

Revealing secrets in old military photos Video

Learn more about photo colorization




* IRISH CENTRAL

The top gods and goddesses from Celtic mythology 

More things that were forbidden in an Irish house  🤔

Timelapse video of Northern Lights in Donegal is the stuff of dreams  

Some tales of the "Celts" exposed by the science of DNA 

Ernie O’Malley - remembering the renaissance man of the Irish revolution on his 120th birthday 

Where Irish history was made - Top towns and places 

Burial tomb of Princess Diana’s ancestors found in Cork 

US students living their dream in ancient Irish village   

What was the news on the day JFK was born? 

Remarkable film of Magdalene laundry women and nuns surfaces  

The symbolic meaning of the Celtic cross 

Would you try ‘Bog butter’ from 3,000 BC? 

The tragic NYPD Irish cop who wrote one of Ireland’s best-known ballads 

Malachy McCourt in life's Departure Lounge at 85 and filled with fire 

Celebrating the Irish who fought in the Civil War this Memorial Day 

Babies' teeth from Ireland’s Great Hunger unlock medical history 

Top tourist attractions to see in Dublin 

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

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

Happy 100th Birthday JFK, you changed this Irish New York kid’s life forever 

The Irish cadets who performed the final salute for JFK 

Poverty-stricken Irish emigrant reveals how she came to work for Jackie Kennedy 

Remember our “fighting” Irish American warriors on this Memorial Day 

Montreal Irish march and demand investment in crumbling Great Hunger memorial 
The true history of “Long Way to Tipperary” finally revealed 

How an ancient Irish title died with the last Knight of Glin 

Anne Biggs was banished by Catholic Church to US at the age of four 

Things that Irish women could not do in 1970s 

Puerto Rican bomber, killed Irishman, now grand marshal of parade 

A magical hidden gem I discovered in Donegal (PHOTOS) 

Kerry Irish dancer wows on Britain’s Got Talent (VIDEO) Old hand-colored photos of Ireland’s heritage sites give glimpse into past 

The surprising American stars with Irish roots 

Irish emigration songs that will stir your heart (VIDEOS) 

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




and your treats...

Indulge in this chocolate Guinness cake recipe 

Root vegetable and squash soup with cheese soda bread recipes 

Mother’s sweet white scones recipe 

A new twist on an Irish breakfast: eggy-bread BLT recipe 

A grown-up s'more pie recipe using Guinness 

* GENERAL INTEREST

AUSTRALIA

Database Irish Famine Memorial, Sydney, NSW

Matthias transported at age 13 | Northern Star       Samantha Elley

Yes Folks, Genealogy DOES Cost Money!  Lonetester HQ

Queensland State Archives

Referendum, Records and Rights: in conversation with Lesley Williams - on 6 June 2017 from 10 am to 11am.  

Light refreshments will be provided.
Please book your ticket through Eventbrite to reserve your spot.
Need more information about this event? Please email us.

Family heirlooms antiques roadshow The Advocate

Files go to WA Aboriginal family history unit

Photos of Australian 'old colonists' online   Joan Griffis/Illinois Ancestors


IRELAND 

Islands of Ireland on the Wild Atlantic Way thanks to Pauleen Cass

DustyDocs - English Parish Registers Online and other countries, including Ireland  thanks to Donna Bridgeman

VIDEO: Why hundreds of babies were buried in a West Clare ring fort | Irish Examiner

Meet the man behind The Brendan Voyage | Irish Examiner

The Nenagh Guardian - New family history book tells stories from Arra of old

Irish Catholic parishes: John Grenham



Bloggers

Blog or Facebook? Which works best for your content? - Treasure Chest of Memories  Laura Hedgecock

Source Citation Trick for WordPress.com – HTML Code – Opening Doors in Brick Walls Cathy Meder-Dempsey

Lauren Wayne: How to create footnotes in Blogger

Cartoons, Catholicism and Distributism in the Irish Press 1930-1939  The Irish Story

National Archives UK

 Search Merchant Navy medal records*

Podcasts

From the Somme to Arras              Somme Tales

Prosthetics and the First World War
         
Big ideas: The women's war in the Middle East

Latest Blogs

Protecting health: Venereal Disease Act 1917

The Battle of Vimy Ridge: war art

The Battle of Vimy Ridge: memorialisation

Anglo-Celtic Connections

WW2 British Child Evacuees to Canada

WWI service etched into family's history

* ANCESTRY

Census records

City Directories

Uncover the heroines in your history

Three decades wondering, one incredible day

* INTERESTING BLOGS

A Most Determined Suicide – grave tales Outback Family History

The nineteen radicals      Hawkesbury heritage & happenings

5 books I have found helpful in my research - GSQ Blog  Meg Carney

Gold Coast Conference review, Coffs Harbour talks & Other News - Genealogy Notes 16-29 May 2017

Diary of an Australian Genealogist     Shauna Hicks

Society of Australian Genealogists …. the Beginnings  Lonetester HQ

A deadly term            The Legal Genealogist

C. Y. O’Connor, a tragic genius The Silver Voice


from my blogs...

Confessions of a Bibliophile  'footprints in the sand'

Back Fence of Genealogy   Logical Attraction

That Moment in Time  Upcoming Trove Titles

As They Were   'Are You Being Served?' Kilrush District Historical Society

As They Were  Additions to Ireland Genealogy Projects Archive  IGP

Headlines of Old Trove Tuesday Earliest Australian Newspaper

AS THEY WERE  Contributions… additions