FRIDAY FOSSICKING 1ST SEPTEMBER, 2017

FRIDAY FOSSICKING

Walter Withers

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* GENERAL INTEREST

Looking for Rose Paterson | National Library of Australia

Create Your Life Story Podcast Archives – Listen to Past Episodes 

Women landed vital wartime role | National Library of Australia

The End of FamilySearch Microfilm Lending Program: What You Need to Know

* Ethical guidance | The Legal Genealogist

Queen Victoria Market redevelopment changes revealed | Herald Sun - Victoria, Aust.

"If My Ancestry Subscription Expires, What Happens to My Tree?"

The tombstone tourists: Stories of the dead given new life at Robe's historic cemetery - ABC News

'Finding Your Irish Roots' presented at the library        Stowe Today, Vermont..

"The Talty Millions": Lawyers, Liars, Inheritance, Disinheritance and the Great Crash of 1929  Paddy Waldon

About Homes & Orphanages

Keep Your Family and Family History Safe      The Family Curator

FREE Checklist

RTÉ Radio Player - Marian Finucane  Listen to Angela Gallagher and two others re mandatory retirement

Australian Woman's Mirror now online | Magazine.. State Library of NSW

The Empire Called and I Answered: Lieutenant Meara, MC, of Ascot Vale

Tourism Ireland A taste of Cork      The Best of Dublin

Blood, Bookworms, Bosoms and Buddies.. Librarians   The Guardian

The National Archives Australia

National Archives to relocate to Old Parliament House, East Block to be sold

History of Toowoomba’s families uncovered in new book – Australia News

Rebel Prisoners, Fenian Guards: Correspondence from the Phoenix Brigade, Elmira Confederate Prison  Damian Shiels

Bye bye, Bang Bang: a great Dublin eccentric gets his due  The Irish Times

Burnie Regional Museum gifted over a million frames of photographic history - ABC News 

Anglo-Celtic Connection

War Cake          Ontario East British Home Child Family Events

FreeBMD August Update  Findmypast adds Canadian and British records

Back to Genealogy School

Save 20% on AncestryDNA this Father’s Day      Alona Tester

What's available online for British Military Genealogy?

Family Search

Digitising photos

Occupations: A Piece of Family History

Outback Family History

Darlot Update – the cemetery

Leonora Snapshot – death from despair

Leonora Snapshot – all the little children

Hugh McKittrick – a family’s story

Traces – A New Australian Historical Magazine Coming Soon 

Alona Tester

Inside History - What's new online: the latest history and genealogy records, handy hints, burial records + more

Photos and the digital dark age: We're just not getting the picture

Port Macquarie and Districts Family History Society information session in Laurieton

Be a detective to unlock your family history | video

John Steinbeck's Family Tree Dominates Day One of Heirs' Trial

Exploring your origins  SunLive    New Zealand

28 unique baby names with Irish roots

* IRISH CENTRAL

Desperate plea to Irish abroad from Donegal families hit by flooding 

Kenny’s Bookstore in Galway go toe to toe with Amazon 

Getting Creative in Fingal! 

Five worst storms in Irish history - anniversary of Hurricane Charley 

USS Indianapolis wreckage discovery raises memory of both a tragedy and an injustice 

Northern Ireland offers a coastal touring route that entices and exhilarates 

Uplifting #IAmWaterford project shows people’s immense pride in their county  

Canada's ambassador to Ireland believes his Irish residence is haunted by Patrick Pearse 

It's official: Liam Neeson is America's favorite Irishman 

Travel through the land of Game of Thrones® in Northern Ireland  

George R.R. Martin reveals “Game of Thrones” Westeros is an upside down Ireland 

Carlow embraces its rich culture and history for Heritage Week  

Thousands lined the streets for Michael Collins’ funeral 

Who are Ireland's most influential people? 

Getting Creative in County Laois! 

The top Irish artists you need to know about  

Buzzing Belfast is learning to leave its troubles behind (PHOTOS) 

Deserted Blasket Island comes to life for this unique summer school 

Remembering Eamon de Valera - a voice in Ireland's politics for over 50 years 

A 2,600-year-old Celtic Princess discovered in Germany 

Frightening Irish demons and monsters from Celtic myth 

Four years on Seamus Heaney’s poetry still speaks uniquely to us 

Getting Creative in County Limerick! 

7 scary Irish horror movies 

Cloudy weather could have caused Celts' red hair 

The top Irish mobster movies (VIDEOS) 

What is the most common last name in Ireland? 

Let there be treats...

Chef Gaffney's soda bread - an Irish recipe for success 

An Irish recipe repertoire essential - simple delicious colcannon 

* FIND MY PAST

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Canada Census 1851

Middlesex Protestation Returns 1641-42

London, Bunhill Fields Non-Conformist Burials 1713-1826 Browse

National Burial Index for England & Wales

Wiltshire Baptisms Index 1530-1917

Irish Newspaper Update Leitrim Advertiser   1886, 1890-1899, 1901-1916

Scotland Registers & Records   Publications about Scottish parishes & families

Local History Research

Local history and genealogy

Using Newspapers for Local History research     Webinar

UK censuses           1939 Register           directories

* INTERESTING BLOGS

My Own Ancestral Places Geneameme   Alona

Genealogy Roadshow: Researching Abroad, Day 2       Genealogically Speaking

The Three Rs of Genealogy   cassmob

Sarah Morris - from mother to convict to publican  Janelle Collins

Barwon Blog:  Seidel's Farm  Jo Mitchell

Gerald of Wales   historicalratbag

Amazing Art in Arkansas  Textile Ranger in Texas

Postcards from Ballybeg Priory, Buttevant, Co Cork   The Silver Voice

The Ancestral Places Geneameme  Geniaus

National Family History Month 2017 cassmob

and from my blogs....

That Moment in Time

NZ blog, Family Finders 50 years, ghostwriter wanted, Scotch-Irish, WWII internment Singapore, Indian research, suffrage ancestors, knit a chicken, Buckingham BDMS, Irish passport, Kokoda /Milne Bay, WWII galleries, muster rolls of marine corps, grave robbers, Barnaby Joyce-family history, Edwardian themed cabinet of curiosities, the right to be forgotten, Mayo’s history filled convent, and a whole lot more, included some truly great blogs mentioned in INTERESTING BLOGS..

Don’t make a cuppa… make a thermos…

https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2017/08/friday-fossicking-25th-august-2017.html

The Back Fence of Genealogy

TEMPTATION,  5th Blogiversary

https://thebackfenceofgenealogy-crissouli.blogspot.com/2017/08/temptation.html

Headlines of Old

Trove Tuesday  29th August, 2017   -    Famine And Pestilence 1847 Ireland, South Australian Register Wed. 21 July 1847, National Library Australia, Cork, Mayo, Queens Co, Bridget O'Donnell, witness accounts,

https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2017/08/trove-tuesday-29th-august-2017-famine.html

As They Were

Additions to Biographies   BIOGRAPHIES... GENERAL Plus CLARE ROOTS SOCIETY

Now is a great time to tidy up your files, your contacts and label and file all those photos...now you can sit back and enjoy all that is great about Spring...

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