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Friday, August 31, 2018

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 31st AUGUST, 2018









FRIDAY FOSSICKING


                                                                  









J. Miller MARSHALL (22 November 1858 - 12-Jun-1935)                          
died in Minehead, England.  PUBLIC DOMAIN.








* GENERAL INTEREST

Family Search Blog Your Italian Heritage  

September Meeting - Cork in Barbados - Jim Murphy

Paddington Cemetery | Brisbane City Council

Principal drives tiny outback school's success in more ways than one - ABC News 

Inspiring Genealogy Blogs – July & August 2018  Lonetester

The irksome headlong Brexit rush for Irish passports 

#OTD in 1913 – Also known as “The Great Dublin Lockout”, the Dublin Transport Strike, led by Jim Larkin and James Connolly, begins.       Stair na hÉireann

St Matthews Anglican Cemetery - Windsor

People | Hawkesbury People and Places

Cemeteries of the Hawkesbury
   
I Love Bello Shire    Carl Foster - In Loving Memory PART 2

Bellingen Celtic Ceilidh Dance Sessions


CAIRNS & DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY INC Newsletter     Volunteers needed
Annual General Meeting 1.30pm Sat 1st  afternoon tea included, guest speaker Tess Golding-Clark


How to become a roots sleuth  Irish Echo

Did You Know?

RootsTech London 2019 Conference Announced

*Applications Open for the Oral History Victoria 2018 Awards

*Sloinne/Surname   thanks to Linda Keohane

September Meeting - Cork in Barbados - Jim Murphy


*The Queensland Archives’ Bigamy Files: What Does it say on Marriage, Family and Society?
Dr. Mélanie Méthot explores how the Queensland courts dealt with bigamous marriage at the turn of the twentieth century  4 September 2018, 10.00am Queensland State Archives, 435 Compton Road, Runcorn

* Unlock the Past News forthcoming event.. Brisbane

*  Announcing South Australia's... Discover family and local history seminars


Always Interesting

The Churchyard of Dunblane Cathedral  HistorianRuby

Civil War Veteran Joins Vigilance Committee  Jamie Gates

Using Postcards for History: Suffragettes  HistorianRuby

Credgington & Bradbury | The Dusty Box

To My Friend LuLu  Claudia

The National Wallace Monument, Stirling  HistorianRuby


Atlas Obscura

Bat-Loving Naturalists Translating the Night             Geelong Bollards      Homespun Museum

Athens' Agia Dynami  The Risograph's New Life        Mansion Turned Museum

Bold Buildings        Delicious Food Quilts    Dungan Mosque       Mafalda Monument

Roller Rink Stickers   Adiyogi Shiva Statue     Pacific Bonsai Museum

Stealing From Libraries           Zofia Rydet's Poland        RMS Olympic Restaurant

Abandoned UFO Boat           Vortex Garden       Decoding Shells

Pep's Maison     Great Auk Sculpture         Vietnam's 'Hands of God'



Anglo-Celtic Connections

Spanish Flu Pandemic Exhibit in London

Finding your Isle of Wight Roots

Should DNA Data be in government archives?

Sunday Sundries

John Mitchell Cram; CWGC Beechwood

New Ottawa Archives Exhibit

OPL Computer Sessions

CWGC Appeal for Relatives

Honoured to be in Great Company

UK Pub History and London


Find My Past

Ireland, Dublin Metropolitan Police Prisoners Books 1905-1908 and 1911-1918

Ireland, Dublin Metropolitan Police General Register 1837-1925

Wiltshire Registers & Records

Westmorland Registers & Records

Nebraska, Omaha Births 1874-1887


The National Archives

>Aliens' registration cards 1918-1957 (MEPO 35)

>Naturalisation case papers 1801-1870 (HO 1)

> Incoming UK passenger records, 1878-1960 (BT 26) from Ancestry

Outgoing UK passenger records, 1890-1960 (BT 27) from FindMyPast


Family History Daily

In 1752, 11 Calendar Days Were Lost Forever: Here’s What Happened

Why You Need to Quit Attaching Records to Your Family Tree, and What to Do Instead

Searching for Lost Family: These Heartbreaking Ads by Former Slaves Are a Vital Genealogy Resource




* IRISH CENTRAL

"Singing in the Rain" star Gene Kelly and his proud Irish roots remembered on his birthday 

Hospice care makes incredible difference to families in rural Ireland 

Road tripping the Wild Atlantic Way on the Dingle Peninsula 

Seeking love, hundreds from China and Japan flock to Irish matchmaking festival 

Factcheck: Did this woman really survive the Titanic, Hindenburg, Pearl Harbor AND 9/11 

This Irish store is the fastest growing retailer in the US 

Can’t-miss stops on a food lover’s tour of Ireland 

Cork teen "looking forward to getting home to dogs" after live-saving skull cancer treatment in USA 

Gaelic Memories Photography captures the passion and beauty of Ireland 

Create the perfect memorial for your loved one by learning about their Irish roots 

Irishman cycles from Dublin to Mt. Olympus fundraising for cancer research 

Liam Neeson develops Tuam babies movie about harrowing discovery 

Death records for 796 children at Tuam home published in full 

Ghosts of the Irish Famine immigrants haunt Montreal's streets 

Irish Studio acquires British Heritage Travel 

Five years after his death, Seamus Heaney’s poems still speaks uniquely to us 

Grandmother who drank a Guinness a day dies at the age of 100 

When the Blasket Islanders were evacuated to mainland in 1953 

 How a special train journey helped me connect with my Irish ancestors 



* INTERESTING BLOGS

Who was the “husmann”?   Martin Roe Eidhammer

#AppreciateYourCreativeFriendsWeek! Part 4 – ~Ray V~      and

 #AppreciateYourCreativeFriendsWeek #5 – Glorialana        Claudia

Revisiting the MacColls/McColls of Kenmore and Ontario  Cassmob

Remembering Zap (2002-2018)  Lonetester HQ

Family Tree Frog:  Kitty

The Morovians and Gracehill Academy         genielynau

Applegate Origins Part IV: Christina Applegate  Jamie Gates

CLOGS AND CLIPPERS: Inside St Luke's, Adelaide

Writing your own recipe to Thrive - Sizzling Towards 60 & Beyond

The Ghost of Francis Street | The Dusty Box

St Oswald's at Tunbridge - 'A Question of Faith' | Churches of Tasmania Duncan Grant



Book reviews..

Theresa Smith

Book Review: Corpselight – Verity Fassbinder Book 2 by Angela Slatter

Book Review: The Pearl Sister by Lucinda Riley

Sunday Spotlight with Melissa Fagan — Australian Women Writers Challenge Blog

New Release Book Review: Dressing the Dearloves by Kelly Doust

New Release Book Review: How to Be Perfect by Holly Wainwright

New Release Book Review: The Sunday Girl by Pip Drysdale

New Release Book Review: What Will Be Worn by Melissa Fagan

Better Reading

Book of the Week: The Ones You Trust by Caroline Overington

The Right Place by Carla Caruso

Dinner with the Dissidents by John Tesarsch

A Necessary Murder by M.J. Tjia

Just a Girl by Jackie French 

Podcast: Writing Through Grief with Hannah Richell

The Irish Story  Book Review: Migration and the Making of Ireland



and from my blogs...


That Moment in Time

tragic Irish railroad workers, no trace of grandparent's graves, Australia's horror, Google Docs + research, king + horse's ears, Archival records- Australian states & territories, fire insurance maps, Australian service records, Family Search preserving world records, John Grenham, demand for high rise crypts, answer to antibiotic resistance, parish chest-bastardy bonds, travel tips from astronauts,  and a whole lot more… 
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Irish Graves

Additions to
St. Bartholomew’s, Prospect thanks to Jill Finch of Friends of St. Bartholomew’s
Carr Villa, Launceston,   TASMANIA thanks to Janine Wilson

Gerringong, NEW SOUTH WALES REGIONAL… thanks to Brett Andrew Woods


Biographies Second Page


Headlines of Old

Circumnavigating  Australia's Colonial History - Trove Tuesday  28th August 2018 Pt. 9, outback Australia, Longreach, Stockman's Hall of Fame, founding of QANTAS, Cobb & Co, Hugh Sawrey, R.M. Williams, Longreach Powerhouse Museum, Outback Stockman’s Show, goat races, 17 buildings burnt, 



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Friday, August 24, 2018

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 24TH AUGUST, 2018








FRIDAY FOSSICKING

                                                                  




J. Miller MARSHALL (22 November 1858 - 12-Jun-1935)                           
Dead in Minehead, England.  PUBLIC DOMAIN.


















* IRISH CENTRAL

WATCH: Three generations of Irish dancers show what family’s all about 

Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge is an adrenaline junkie's dream destination 

New Duffy’s Cut beer will fund excavation of tragic Irish railroad workers site in PA 

Irish party of the decade as Drogheda hosts 500,000 at the Fleadh Cheoil 

American tourist ties thief to pole in Dublin after mugging attempt 

Ed Sheeran explains why you should all live in Ireland  

Exploring Elvis Presley’s Irish roots on the anniversary of his death 

This Irish hotel in Co Limerick has just been named the best in the world 

How to do Dublin on the cheap - secrets from the Frugal Traveler 

Archaeologists find 30 unbaptized babies buried in Meath 

Irish hurling hero commutes 6,000 miles weekly from New York to play with Galway  

Chris O'Dowd is now the hardest working Irish screen star 

Can you guess the world’s sexiest male name? It’s Irish... 

The incredible Irish Canadian twins who share a brain 

The greatest escape: how a US whaling ship freed six Irish revolutionaries from Australian prison 

Ireland’s top seaside towns, villages, and beaches 

Choctaw Native American leads Tipperary famine walk, compares to “Trail of Tears”  

Book of Kells in Trinity transports history buffs to another world 

Sinead O’Connor reveals her torment after she was sent to a Magdalene Laundry 

Irishman given six months to live gains Harvard masters degree 

60-year-old this year the tales behind "Take me up to Monto" 

The miraculous discovery of the ancient “rolling sun” at Croagh Patrick 

Recalling the 1879 Knock apparition of the Virgin Mary ahead of Pope Francis's visit 

African Irish Waterford Rose Kirsten Mate Maher wins the 2018 Rose of Tralee 

How a young Irish immigrant got his start in America thanks to Tom Moran 

‘Wind That Shakes the Barley’ star Cillian Murphy working on War of Independence documentary

Only in Ireland! Hiker hospitalized having been struck by falling sheep 

Discover research on common Irish names, emigration research, and more at The Genealogy Event 

Travellers can now stay in one of Ireland's lighthouses..


FOOD&WINE: The chef bringing Irish seafood to a new generation 


* GENERAL INTEREST

Tiny viruses could be our answer to antibiotic resistance   silicon republic.com

Grandparents' graves removed without trace under cemetery 'redevelopment'  Susan Blunden

So Fine: Contemporary women artists make Australian history, National Portrait Gallery

Friends of St. Bartholomew's Church

Ever wondered what lies beneath the city? Melbourne gives up it's secrets

Grocery Store, Thailand  wunderlusttwins

Demand for high-rise crypts shows price is no barrier when burial space is running out

Podcast: The Orange Order and the Twelfth of July  The Irish Story

Watch DNA Detective CeCe Moore Solve Foundling Mysteries on ABC’s 20/20 - FREE EPISODES   newsletter  Thomas MacEntee

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Kevin Sloan  Claudia

NFHM, conferences & other news - Genealogy News Notes 1-15 Aug 2018  Shauna Hicks

More than Family – John Grenham – Irish Roots

Canal Lunch by the Pot Shops, Amsterdam, Netherlands  wunderlusttwins

Irish Examiner: Researching the 200,000 Irish-born Soldiers who fought in the American Civil War irishacw

Film Review: Black 47  The Irish Story

Winton's CWA closes after almost a century in operation - ABC News

Archaeologists explore East Africa’s ancient monumental cemeteries | Ars Technica

Final stones laid at Aboriginal portion of cemetery | Moree Champion

‘We haven’t been listening’: Indigenous massacre map expands to 250 sites | NITV



The following are the first few of a week long series by Claudia... an interesting concept.

Second Annual #AppreciateYourCreativeFriendsWeek!!

#AppreciateYourCreativeFriendsWeek! Part 2 – Walt Page  

#AppreciateYourCreativeFriendsWeek! Part 3 – Nancy Roman




Always Interesting

Wordless Wednesday: Afternoon Stroll  Jamie Gates

The Kirkyard of St Nicholas, Aberdeen HistorianRuby

Today in Irish History – August 22, 1922 – Béal na mBláth, The Shooting Of Michael Collins The Irish Story

FamilySearch’s Strategy to Help Preserve the World’s Archives

Dictionary of Sydney 'The Electrical Association for Women'

Launch into Library Research - Family History Focus State Library NSW

JacobBoerema.nl: Transcript: makes transcribing easier. Judy Webster



Did you know?

Time’s ticking in August       NFHM cassmob

Who will save 'jewel in the crown of historic Hawkesbury'?  SMH

Unlock the Past in Seattle Live … and Livestream Lonetester

In the Parish Chest: Bastardy Bonds  kindredpast



Helpful links

Qld State Archives

Assisted immigration 1848 to 1912 - Datasets | Data | Queensland ...

Immigration records and indexes - State Library of Queensland


Wills 1857 to 1940 - Datasets | Data | Queensland Government

Searches for wills and probate | Queensland Courts

Picture Queensland (State Library of Queensland)

Births, deaths, marriages - Search historical records | Your rights ...



NSW State Archives

Online Indexes

Immigration and Shipping

KeyName Search

Collection & Research

Photos in the Archives | NSW State Archives

Historical public records - Births, Deaths and Marriages


Victoria State Archives

Explore our digital image pool | State Library Victoria

Passenger records and immigration - Public Record Office Victoria

Online collections | PROV - Public Record Office Victoria

Find shipping lists or begin family history research - Museums Victoria

Births, deaths and marriages 

Inquests and other coronial records


South Australia State Archives

Family History | State Records of South Australia

On arrival registration and updates - Migration SA

Search Official Assisted Passage Passenger Lists 1845 – 1886 ...

Indexes and Special Lists

Online Records

Photographs - State Library of South Australia


Western Australia Archives

Photographs - State Library of WA

Passenger Lists and Immigration Records | SRO

Probate: State Library of Western Australia

State Records Office of Western Australia | SRO

Searching WA Online Indexes - Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages

Convict Records | SRO - State Records Office of Western Australia


Tasmania State Archives

Births Deaths and Marriages : Researching family trees

Tasmanian Archives Online

LINC Tasmania

Tasmanian Wills (1824-1989) - Datasets - data.gov.au

Index to Tasmanian Convicts - Archives Office of Tasmania - Libraries ...

Historic Tasmanian images - Libraries Tasmania


Northern Territory Archives

Selection of images from the archives - Department of Tourism and ...

Search births, deaths and marriages records - NT.GOV.AU

Taking control of the estate - NT.GOV.AU

Search the NT Archives Service - NT.GOV.AU

Northern Territory Public Records Office Resources & Information


Australian Capital Territory

Probate, Administration and Foreign Grants - ACT Supreme Court

Australian Capital Territory | National Library of Australia

Search the collection – National Archives of Australia, Australian ...

Pictures | National Library of Australia

Search the collection – National Archives of Australia, Australian ...

Service records – National Archives of Australia



Family History Daily

The Hidden Feature in Google Docs That Will Help You Research Your Ancestors

These Old Fire Insurance Maps Reveal a Surprising Amount of Genealogy Data

The Detailed Beginner’s Guide to Researching Your Ancestors in England, Wales, Scotland or Ireland


Atlas Obscura

This House Has a Seaweed Roof                Wall of Great Tajik Writers

South Africa's Howick Falls                       Hiking One of the World's Deepest Gorges

The Life of a Canal Lockmaster                 A Pacific Coast Road Trip With NPR

For Fans of Pippi Longstocking                  Basi Sweet Potatoes

A Historic Pinball Paradise                         Hometown Stories From Nevadan Notables   

'Golden Bridge' is Divine                            Mysterious Vaseline Jars on a Calgary Street

The Flatwoods Monster                               Nelson Mandela's Capture Site in South Africa

Clear Toy Candy                                          Architecture of Mysterious Chicago

Berkeley's Lending Library for Tools          The Grotto Church of Saint Michael



Michael in Ireland

full newsletter     'Time Slipping at Seapoint' by Ray McEnaney

Labhraidh Loingseach - The King with Horse's Ears


Anglo-Celtic Connections


Note: Away

Two New Talk Genealogy Podcast Episodes

Find it in a Library?

LAC Signatures Series: Brian Mulroney

Book Review: Tracing Your Ancestors: Cambridgeshire, Essex, Norfolk & Suffolk

Sunday Sundries

Maclean’s digitized — from 1905 to 2008 free to read for a limited time

Ottawa Citizen Archive Online

National Heritage Digitization Strategy: Update


Outback Family History

The brothers Peirce – family album

A Counsel & Co – pioneer profile

Broad Arrow Cemetery – Kurawah



Smithsonian

Artisan Master Classes Hope to Draw Travelers Into the Armenian Countryside

This Los Angeles Grocery Store Has 31,000 Items — and You Can't Eat Any of Them

Discover Taiwan's Stunning Offshore Islands

Newfoundland's Volunteer Puffin Patrol Helps Save Hundreds of Baby Seabirds Confused by Light Pollution

Nine Travel Tips from Astronauts

How an Artist Is Rebuilding a Baghdad Library Destroyed During the Iraq War

A Massive New Museum Dedicated to Comedy Just Opened in Lucille Ball’s Hometown

Fog Sculptures Are Enshrouding Boston's Historic Parks

After 100 Years, Roald Amundsen's Polar Ship Returns to Norway

Vibrant Art Installations Infuse New Life into Abandoned Houses in This Cleveland Neighborhood

Ancient Cats Drove Ancient Dogs to Extinction

Archaeological Dig at Australian Metro Station Unearths 1,000 Human Teeth





records-access-alerts

Interesting reading...



The IAJGS Records Access Alert has frequently discussed the problems that Facebook encounters in the European Union.  Now they are facing a major problem in the United States:  potential breakup due to a coalition, Freedom from Facebook,  asking the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to break them up due to their privacy policies and suggests they have a monopoly. The coalition is asking control be given to its 2 billion users.  They are alleging that Facebook is in violation of a 2011 consent decree it signed with FTC.  If the FTC finds that Facebook is in violation of the consent decree the penalties could run in the trillions of dollars.

The 2011 consent decree required Facebook to get consent from users before sharing their data with third parties and Facebook agreed  to have a third-party conduct audits of its privacy practices every two years. Facebook does not believe it has violated the consent decree.

The coalition asserts that Facebook and its subsidiaries such as Whats App and Messenger account for more than three-quarters of mobile social networking traffic in the United States.

Freedom from Facebook recommends three main remedies: 
1. Spinning off WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger; 
2. Enforcing interoperability standards, similar to what the FTC imposed on AOL Messenger during the AOL-Time Warner merger settlement in 2001; and
3. imposing strict privacy rules.

Thank you to Dick Eastman's Privacy Blog for informing us of this exclusive to Fox News.








The Library and Archives Canada (LAC) announced this week the launch of an expanded version of their research guide : Finding Aid 300: Other Census and Related Documents (1640-1945).

The guide is for the early census and related records at the LAC mainly dating from 1640 to the 1800s with some records from the 1900s including the provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador from 1921-1945.  To access the guide see:

One of the new features of the this finding aid are images of most documents.

The LAC also updated their census page which includes links to their databases of census returns 1825 t0 1921—the census of the Prairie Provinces of 1926 ( Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta were transferred to LAC June 1, 2018 and an index in currently being developed. A release date is not yet announced. 

Census in Canada took place every 10 years from 1851 to 1901.  The first census of the Dominion of Canada took place in 1871,  prior to that enumerations were conducted in different areas in different years.  In 1905, the Census and Statistics Act required a general census to occur in 1911 and every 10 years thereafter.  A census of population and agriculture was to be taken in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta in 1906, and every 10 years thereafter.

There is a 92 year embargo period for release of the census to the public.

To access the updated census page See: http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/census/Pages/census.aspx

The Library and Archives Canada Blog has a post about the early census records located at: https://thediscoverblog.com/2018/08/21/researching-early-census-records/

Jan Meisels Allen
Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee



* INTERESTING BLOGS

A Thankyou to the Captain  Lonetester

Applegate Origins Part II: John Gates    Applegate Origins Part III: Wendell Applegate  Jamie Gates

Bushed – Australia’s Horror | The Dusty Box

Pastlinks:Doondahlin … 

Thinking “out loud” online    Cassmob

CLOGS AND CLIPPERS: The hard-to-find Hardmans

Sandgate Cemetery - Virtual Records Online    Tracing Family Branches

Questions for Rosina - GSQ Blog   Lyndall Maag

The Story of Ellen Cusack  Before Bernadette




book reviews

Theresa Smith

Behind the Pen with Claire Varley

Bingo! A Month of Sundays by Liz Byrski

New Release Book Review: When The Lights Go Out by Mary Kubica

New Release Book Review: The Lost Pearl by Emily Madden

New Release Book Review: The Right Place by Carla Caruso



Better Reading

The Rules of Seeing by Joe Heap 

Murder Mile by Lynda La Plante

The Escape Room by Megan Goldin

The Party by Lisa Hall

The Peski Kids: The Mystery of the Squashed Cockroach by R. A. Spratt

Celebrating Beloved Australian Classics: Special centenary editions of May Gibbs' Snugglepot & Cuddlepie and Norman Lindsay's The Magic Pudding

Podcast: The Joy of Children's Books with Emily Rodda


and from my blogs...

That Moment in Time

FREE sites Irish genealogy, FREE charts, man saved from baby squirrel, London City Directories,  Italian Emigration, DNA webinars Blaine Bettinger, Kilmainham Gaol, Banned, Witch windows, Japan -village untouched by time, jail sale, more newspapers released on Find My Past, British-died in service of Indian Empire, Battle of Amiens blog, cluster genealogy, Australian Medical Pioneers Index, DNA webinars announcement, island laboratory, fate of parish registers, plus a lot more..
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Irish Graves

Please note.. Rookwood Cemetery now has it’s own page 
here     also new additions





Headlines of Old

Circumnavigating Australia's Colonial History - Trove Tuesday 21st Aug 2018, Fraser Island, Eliza Fraser, Matthew Flinders, Capt. James Cook, Maheno, NZ hospital ship, “inhabited by humans as much as 5,000 years”, largest sand island in the world, earliest known name ‘K’gari’…
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