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Friday, November 23, 2018

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 23RD NOVEMBER 2018





FRIDAY FOSSICKING


                                                                




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















* IRISH CENTRAL


































* GENERAL INTEREST







Newcastle to Lismore and beyond – Mid North Coast Pioneers

Tom Burnell’s Tipperary War Graves Database | Tipperary Studies Thanks to R. J.Winley





Dictionary of Sydney




Atlas Obscura

Eavesdrop on Orcas          Record-Breaking Beach Bangladesh     World Series of Sorting -  Libraries





Mercantile Library      Flavor Sponges  Taro



National Archives UK










Anglo-Celtic Connections














Did You Know?


Copyright for Genealogists Webinar | National Library of Australia  FREE


Queensland Genealogy: 'Insanity and Unsound Mind' Index for Family Historians  Judy Webster




Always Interesting




Tony Norman’s Geezers        A Blue Plaque For A.S. Jasper     East End At Night     the gentle author



The Youngest     Before Bernadette



Family History Daily




Family Search






Find My Past



Rifle Brigade Chronicle 1890-1920

British Armed Forces, Board Of Trade Rolls Of Honour 1914-1918

Newspaper additions  The Bioscope   New Ross Standard  Lloyd's List
Last week’s special broadcast marking 100 years since the end of the Great war. Join a panel of Findmypast experts as show you how to trace your military ancestors from cradle to grave.
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records-access alerts



The International Tracing Service (ITS) added 900,000 post-war documents online. This brings the total of number of documents freely available in the online archive to over 2 million. One can search by name. The newly added documents contain approximately 405,000 names of Holocaust survivors, former concentration camp inmates and forced laborers. They were under the care of the International Refugee Organization (IRO) in Austria, Italy, Switzerland and England after World War II. 

In June, ITS published its files from the German Displaced Persons  in June. This makes it possible to search online for nearly one million names of Displaced Persons (DP) registered and surveyed in DP camps within the framework of the Care and Maintenance Program.

The DPs filled out questionnaires as a way the International Refugee Organization (IRO) could find out whether it could help these persons and if so how. The personal stories of the DP persons are delineated in the questionnaires and provide better insight as their lives.

To search the online archives go to: https://digitalcollections.its-arolsen.org/
You will need to make a declaration of consent that the sensitive information you are using is solely for research purposes and in accordance with applicable national laws and regulations.

To read more about this see:  https://tinyurl.com/yaa8olxz




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Staatsarchiv Hamburg

On September 9  The IAJGS Records Access Alert first reported on the unconscionable destruction of over one million death records by the Staatsarchiv Hamburg. At the time there were few European news articles about this travesty. Since then there have been more news articles and several blog posts by other genealogical writers. 

As reported previously in the IAJGS Records Access Alert, IAJGS took this egregious act very seriously and wrote to various Hamburg government officials. IAJGS received a response from Dr. Carsten Brosda, Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg Minister of Culture and Media.  In the letter he acknowledges that the State Archives reviewed their actions and concluded their decision to appraise the series was "flawed". "Both the Ministry for Culture and Media and the State Archives are in discussions with historians and researchers on the matter. To ensure that documents used by researchers are not subsequently weeded, the State Archives have already developed proposals for a workflow which would subject future appraisal decisions to multiple checks before weeding was approved.

Dr. Brosda also informed IAJGS that the crimes committed during the Nazi period are a major work of the Hamburg Archives and that next year the archive material from the Jewish communities of Hamburg pre-1945 are going to be digitized in cooperation with the Israel State Archives so that researchers will in the future be able to access the materials online from anywhere in the world. Archival materials and documents on the Nazi crimes of violence and injustice have already been digitized with Yad Vashem and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.  He also mentioned that documents including registers of birth, deaths and marriages and emigration records have been  digitized, indexed and made available online with cooperation from Ancestry.

Finally, Dr. Brosda stated that the Ministry for Culture and Media and the Hamburg Staatsarchiv plan to work more closely with historical research on the use of and access to archive material to ensure that all interests are taken into account.

To read the previous posting on the Staatsarchiv Hamburg and more go to: http://lists.iajgs.org/mailman/private/records-access-alerts/. You must be registered to access the archives.  To register go to: http://lists.iajgs.org/mailman/listinfo/records-access-alerts  and follow the instructions to enter your email address, full name and which genealogical  organization with whom you are affiliated.   You will receive an email response that you have to reply to or the subscription will not be finalized.

Jan Meisels Allen
Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee



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Was the convict James Orton related to John Orton?  Clogs and Clippers

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The Importance of Unicorns and Bratwurst ….Again….  Claudia

Trek Diary September 2018: Meeting Little Man (865m/2,837ft) … And Skiddaw (931m/3,053ft) clarejk2014

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World War One: when War Reunited a Family  HistorianRuby

Before Bernadette: The Story of Mary Ann Farley - Part One  (Need an enquiring mind and a strong cuppa...)

Remember What Was & Who Went Before  Liv

How to Host a Turkey Shoot (Camera Required)  The Family Curator



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Behind the Pen with Matt Feraz



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That Moment in Time

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Irish Graves

Additions to Irish Graves..

Rockhampton General, thanks to Cherry Adams
QLD Cemeteries outside of Brisbane


Rookwood Cemetery, NSW, thanks to Noelene Harris

Waverley Cemetery , NSW Metro, thanks to Noelene Harris


Biographies Second page



Menzies Cemetery, Western Australia, thanks to Moya Sharp


As They Were

THREE MEN FROM CLARE.. A book of their memories by Jackie Elger & Patricia Sheehan, George Casey (aged 94), Morgie O'Connell (aged 93), Tom Cusack (RIP 2015), book launch 25 Nov 2018

KILRUSH & DISTRICT HISTORICAL SOCIETY Lecture: The Murder of the Colleen Bawn by Tom Donovan, Tues 27 Nov. 2018,




Headlines of Old

Australian Catholic History 1787-1953 .. encompasses much of Australian History also, Trove Tuesday 20 Nov. 2018, numerous names, a number of portraits, references to so many events from the Irish rebellion to the bombing of Darwin, Irish political prisoners- including priests, who was the priest sent to Western Australia  as Vicar general in 1843?, when was the Magdalen Asylum established?, who was the 2nd Catholic Prime Minister of Australia?, centenary of Freeman’s Journal, 

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Additions to BRISBANE PAST AND PRESENT














Friday, November 16, 2018

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 16TH NOVEMBER 2018





FRIDAY FOSSICKING


                                                                


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








* GENERAL INTEREST



Researching Scots-Irish Ancestors – John Grenham – Irish Roots








Dubrovnik steps / Croatia  wunderlusttwins   image

Alcove Day Bed, France    wunderlusttwins   image



Spitalfields Remembers     Wilfred Owen In Shadwell       The Gentle Author









Granny’s a Loser (Not)  Claudia



Anglo-Celtic Connections






Atlas Obscura

Ice Sheets From Above    Found Paintings  Round and Around  Hertfordshire, England


Sonic Reconstruction            Legendary Building             Carved Temple out of a mountain, China


Turning Apples Into Art     Symbolic Signs       Coffin-Shaped Church Poland



The National Archives UK






Family Search Blog

Posts with a difference...    Traditional Swedish Pancakes       Savory Swedish Meatballs  





Outback Family History





Family History Daily





Norfolk Island - Cathy Dunn

Norfolk Island Baptisms, Burials and Marriages 1801 – 1806     CD

Facebook Groups and pages

Australian History Buy-Swap-Sell

First Fleet Researchers

Second Fleet Researchers

Third Fleet Researchers

Norfolk Island History Researchers

Convicts and Free people 1792 – 1800

NSW Corps

Old Sydney Burial Grounds

Michael in Ireland

'Mullarkey Village' by Joe Mullarkey    'Ye're Glad I Came' by Mattie Lennon



* IRISH CENTRAL

Ancient Irish fort featured on 140AD Ptolemy map of Ireland 

Records of Irish soldiers in World War I now available online 

Dublin declared one of the places in the world to spend Christmas

The early bird gets the worm: nine Dublin dinner spots that won't leave you broke 

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

From shoe box to widow box - The journey of Ireland’s First World War veterans 

1,000-year-old miraculous Saint Patrick’s bell goes on display 

The true history of “Long Way to Tipperary” finally revealed this Armistice Day 

Commemorating Armistice Day: A Belfast soldier secretly photographed World War I 

Women's desperate attempts to escape Magdalene Laundry documented

Ellis Island closed on this day in 1954 after admitting millions of immigrants

12-year-old Irish singer mesmerizes passersby on Dublin's Grafton Street 

“Find of a lifetime:” Archaeologists find another Newgrange in Ireland

How Bram Stoker created Dracula with the aid of Irish folklore to celebrate his birthday  

Ireland investigating major UFO sightings by pilots off Co Kerry coast 

21 pioneering Irish Diaspora women celebrated at Ireland’s embassies around the world 

Five brave Sullivan brothers died on this day in 1943 

Irish men-only club to admit women for first time in 235 years 

NYPD cop give Irish tourist $20 toward her “Hamilton” Broadway ticket 

Fusion Fighters innovative Irish dancing crew release new video with house music backtrack 


Irish apple crumble cake recipe  




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Thomas Waters Letter to Bedfordshire – August 1862 | Tracking Down The Family

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Remembering Wives and Mothers       Geniaus


Unfettered and Alive  Anne Summers

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Trove Newspapers Update.. Titles To Come Nov. 2018, NSW, QLD., SA, VIC., WA, INTERNATIONAL, 




Headlines of Old

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