Friday, July 28, 2017

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 28th JULY, 2017








FRIDAY FOSSICKING







Walter Withers

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* GENERAL INTEREST


National Archives UK



Blogs


Podcasts


John Grenham
  • July 23 2017: Added more than 500 new surnames (starting A,B,C and W) found in 1901 and 1911 censuses, with more than 10,000 new surname variants. Only 22 more letters to go.
  • July 21 2017: Added direct links from church records to the Representative Church Body Library full parish references, including vestry, preachers and confirmation records. See Offerlane, Laois, for example.
Anglo-Celtic Connections

Cemetery database in development | The Advocate      Thanks to Inside History Online
* FIND MY PAST





Search World War 2 Records »



Searching the 1939 Register




* IRISH CENTRAL

here they are...
Earl Grey’s Irish Famine Orphans (47) | trevo's Irish famine orphans

 When Pink Was For Boys Textile Ranger             

New and updated online newspapers for Quebec, Saskatchewan plus 265 new free links for Canada  Gail Dever


Back to School      The Irish Aesthete









from my blogs....

That Moment in Time


Friday Fossicking

Titanic Hotel, Game of Thrones, Ireland's railway network destroyed, Victoria Cross, FREE genie videos, 75 yrs after Papua invasion, whiskey fuel?, Kilkea Castle, no more coffins, England..RC baptisms-marriages-burials, Australia : naturalisation records - travel collections,
Guinness conquered Africa, famine dead in Staten Island, Hornsby Shire Family History Group, Menin Gate Memorial,





Ever Wanted to Unlock the Past?
Researching Abroad, Unlock the Past News, Australia & New Zealand, Chris Paton British Genes, Dirk Weissleder Germany, Genealogy Roadshow, Living DNA, My Heritage, prizes, Rosemary Kopittke, Seminars, Unlock the Past, Family History Month,




Headlines of Old

Trove Tuesday July 25th  2017, Assignments/Indentures, Helpful Links -  Convicts - Issue 4, Female-male-boy convicts, lists of names, Pass, indent lists, Hougoumont 1868, pass for?, extensive list of female convicts, age, position, and to whom they were assigned..



As They Were


Ireland National Heritage Week 19-27 August 2017, something for everyone,  competitions, children's workshops, food, archaeology to architecture, folklore, place names, family fun, 





Irish Graves..


Queensland    Helidon Catholic Cemetery



Western Australia Kalgoorlie



New South Wales  Camden Catholic Cemetery

Be patient and listen, they will not come this way again...



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Thursday, July 27, 2017

UPCOMING NEWSPAPER TITLES IN TROVE.. AS OF 27 JULY, 2017


Please Note... those in italics are now online...



NSW
  • Auburn & District News (Nov. 1929); [Cumberland Council]
  • Auburn and Lidcome Advance (1925-1939); [Cumberland Council]
  • Auburn News and Granville Electoral Gazeteer (1903-1905); [Cumberland Council]
  • The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW: 1879-1906); [State Library of New South Wales Digital Excellence Program]
  • Express (Granville, N.S.W.:June 1933, May 1935); [Cumberland Council]
  • Granville Independent and Parramatta Advertiser (1900-1901); [Cumberland Council]
  • The Weekly Advance (Granville, N.S.W.: 1892-1893); [Cumberland Council]
  • The Mosman Mail (1898-1906); [Mosman Historical Society]



SA
  • Nasza Droga (Adelaide: 1952-1954) [Porta Polonica]
VIC
  • The Evening Echo (Ballarat, VIC: 1914-1918); [State Library Victoria]
  • The Star (Ballarat, VIC: 1856) [Ballarat Library]
WA

  • Dowerin Guardian & Amery Line Advocate (1927-1954); [ State Library of Western Australia]
  • Mt. Barker & Denmark Record (1929-1949); [State Library of Western Australia]
  • Mullewa Mail (1921-1947); [State Library of Western Australia]
  • Red Star (1932-1936); [State Library of Western Australia]
  • Weekly Gazette (Goomalling, W.A.: 1924-1946); [State Library of Western Australia]
  • Workers Star (1936-1950); [State Library of Western Australia)
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Friday, July 21, 2017

EVER WANTED TO UNLOCK THE PAST?





Well you certainly can, 
with the help of some of the best in the business...

 Chris Paton 
and 
Dirk Weissleder
along with many others ..

The timing is perfect.. 
August is National Family History Month.




You can read the full information via the link below. Do book soon and then you can go into the draw for a great range of prizes...
GUESS WHO'S COMING TO BRISBANE and a lot of other places...? August 8-26th, 2017 

 See you at Kedron-Wavell Services Club on the 8th and 9th of August... do come and say Hello. I am just one of the many proud AMBASSADORS and you can find us by looking for our badges...

Disclosure: 
As an AMBASSADOR,  Unlock the Past have provided me with a seminar pass as compensation for my time.
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FRIDAY FOSSICKING 21st July, 2017










FRIDAY FOSSICKING







Walter Withers

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











 * GENERAL INTEREST


DNA testing results one year on  Anne's Family History

Anglo-Celtic Connections




Australian War Memorial




Hornsby Shire Family History Group News from Familysearch
 Library to host Irish genealogy programs  Billings Public Library, USA

 'I Love Bello Shire'  newsletter  Always busy in Bellingen and surrounds..

State Library Victoria – New database about the East India Company 

 40 of my favourite genealogy indexes / sources - Judy Webster

 Passenger Lists | State Records of South Australia

Family Tree Maker 2017 is Finally Released Gould Genealogy

* IRISH CENTRAL





and here they are...








Tracing emigrant ancestors 10 TIPS »

Lesser-known collections  OFF THE RECORD »

Naturalisation Records

Australian travel collections


* INTERESTING BLOGS

The Pen is Mightier !!!  Outback Family History



Simply Mavis – by Margaret Hamilton    Outback Family History

Pet Cemetery at Kilkea Castle   Pilgrimage In Medieval Ireland

Gardening + Growing Liv Hambrett




 from my blogs...


That Moment in Time

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 14th July, 2017

Biddy McLaughlin evicted, Women’s Volunteer Service Diaries, handwritten text recognition, Irish pub $50,000, 108 and only 1 visit to Dr, using UK Gazettes, 2nd 'genie' mag. goes, Indian records, Railway refreshment rooms, Tragedy at Wickham Tce, Clare census substitutes, Tipperary local histories, long term Workhouse Inmates,  Central Alberta genealogy volunteer, welfare in history, FREE cemetery records, 
early Manawatu settlers, Centenary of the Great War (mention of a cousin Cpl. John James Swadling)




St. Matthew's Anglican Church Windsor NSW - 200 Years, St. Matthew's Windsor : an Anglican Landmark celebrating 200 years, 



As They Were


Journey through Clare

roads of Co Clare 2004


Co Laois Well Travelled 

heritage of Laois 2001


BIOGRAPHIES... GENERAL Plus CLARE ROOTS SOCIETY



Headlines Of Old


conditional pardons, conditional release, execution, Trove Tuesday 18th July, 2017, Lachlan Macquarie, Coyle, Fenwick, Tills, McLaughlane, Gorman and many more, so many Irish names…



Irish Graves  

New South Wales  


Enfield


The 'Back Fence' of Genealogy

The Donkey's Tale




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