FRIDAY FOSSICKING
Convicts Applications to Marry | NSW State Archives
Places of Pride, National Register of War Memorials Can you contribute?
Replacement Medals Policy : Policy : Department of Defence
Griffis: Article warns against DNA testing Danville Commercial News
Lavenders Bridge Bellingen closed | The Bellingen Shire Courier Sun
Immigration to Queensland in the 1860s-1870s Gould Genealogy
Legacy Family Tree Webinars Announces "Down Under Series" of Genealogy and DNA Education Webinars
Boy's letter to dad in heaven receives reply from Royal Mail - BBC News
Convict Records of Australia
16th century images of Irish people | Irish Archaeology
Bookochino opening Sydney Daily Photo - The Emerald City
Worried about online data trackers ABC new
Libraries everyone should visit in their lifetime - INSIDER
Rookwood parliamentary inquiry into burial hears gruesome details SMH
Sydney Daily Photo - The Emerald City Sydney ferry to work
Kokorou stone bridge in Epirus, Greece image
Family devastated after relative's coffin struck by digger ABC
National Library of Australia
Cook and the Pacific Beauty Rich and Rare
Atlas Obscura
Worried about online data trackers ABC new
Libraries everyone should visit in their lifetime - INSIDER
Rookwood parliamentary inquiry into burial hears gruesome details SMH
Sydney Daily Photo - The Emerald City Sydney ferry to work
Kokorou stone bridge in Epirus, Greece image
Family devastated after relative's coffin struck by digger ABC
National Library of Australia
Cook and the Pacific Beauty Rich and Rare
Atlas Obscura
'Chindianapolis' For Sale: Moon Boot Ancient Mosque Phaistos Disk
Medieval Monster Piñatas Poetic Plants Disk of Death Dragon Guard Secrets of NYC
A Work Revised Charles Dickens Holiday Heirlooms Books Over People Catskills
The Old Fortress Messinia, Greece Indestructible Objects Corvin Castle
Anglo-Celtic Connections
Medieval Monster Piñatas Poetic Plants Disk of Death Dragon Guard Secrets of NYC
A Work Revised Charles Dickens Holiday Heirlooms Books Over People Catskills
The Old Fortress Messinia, Greece Indestructible Objects Corvin Castle
Anglo-Celtic Connections
Writing It Up (For People Who Don't Want To Write It Up)
Even the best of us ...
Back to Our Past, Belfast 15-16 February 2019
Top Scottish Baby Names for 2018
The National Archives UK> Webinar: Festival of Britain 1951, Wed 9 January > The trial of Charles I, Fri 18 January
> BAME seafarers in the First World War, Thu 24 January
> Census* > Wills 1384-1858* > Family history research guides
Blogs..
A snowball fight in Constantinople Unidentified Christmas lights and stars in the sky
Podcasts ..
Big Ideas Series: Entity disambiguation in digital cultural heritage
Big Ideas Series: The role of archives in addressing refugee crises
The Annual Digital Lecture: Semantic Capital: what it is and how to protect it
Smithsonian
Find My Past
Newspaper Additions ... Belfast Telegraph Kerryman Wexford People The Bioscope
Christmas Camp – by Dryblower Murphy
Amid the Smoke and Smoulder – a verse
Always Interesting
Christmas Cards: Season’s Greetings from Edwardian New Zealand HistorianRuby
The Spitalfields Nativity Parade the gentle author
Sunday Evening Art Gallery — The Woods Claudia
Discovering a famous sporting ancestor Ancestry.com.au blog
George I’s Christmas Pudding? Christmas Day Tudor Style HistorianRuby
Did you know?
Are you ready? RootsTech 2019 is around the corner! kindredpast
A cautionary tale – John Grenham – Irish Roots
Newsletter Caloundra Family History
Registration Open for Waves in Time 2019 Genealogy Conference
Australian Genealogy and History Snippets – December 2018
Registration Open for Waves in Time 2019 Genealogy Conference
records-access-alerts
The Bibliothèque Historique des Postes et des Télécommunications (BHPT), (Historical Library of Posts and Telecommunications), a remote and obscure library recently reopened. For those researching people who lived in France in the 20th century this is the only repository open to the public containing nearly all the French telephone directories ever published, including those in France's territories and overseas departments. They may be viewed on microfilm. To see the website and what is available online go to: http://www.bhpt.org/ and under Découvertes (discoveries) then click on Ouvrages numérisés (digitized works).
The BHPT also includes the history of the postal service. This includes maps, showing waterways and roads used for transporting the mail as well as where your ancestors may have traveled. Before railways, the mail was done by land routes—same for your ancestors going to a port to emigrate, or otherwise travel. Postal network maps are online and may be viewed at:
The site is in French only, therefore a translation aide such as Google translate may be helpful.
To read the article on this library and archive in The French Genealogist see:
Thank you to Stan Diamond, President of JGS Montreal for sharing this information.
Jan Meisels Allen
Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
* IRISH CENTRAL
This legendary Irish singer is being honored with his own Dublin statue
What does "Irishness" mean in 2018? Exploring being mixed race and Irish
Lie-detectors used to hunt down family Christmas holiday thieves
WATCH: A year on, Australian town of 11 people still disturbed by disappearance of Irish pensioner
Irish woman in Boston attempts snow angel - what could go wrong?
National Geographic has named this county as a ‘best trip’ for 2019
Traveling to Ireland in 2019? Here's everything you need to know
How Brendan Behan came to join the writing Irish of New York
Co. Clare holy well water delivered to sick child in Philadelphia
The best Irish New Year’s resolution you can make? Travel off-the-beaten-path in 2019
How one little girl inspired a New York journalist to restore faith in Santa
Irish animated movie shortlisted for a 2019 Oscar award
Celtic Thunder’s most popular Christmas songs
Dublin named one of the best places in the world to spend Christmas
How was Oscar Wilde connected to the American Civil War?
Christmas cookie recipes to treat Santa to this Christmas Eve
Traditional family Irish Christmas cake recipe
Christmas cooking tips from Irish chef Tony O’Reilly
* INTERESTING BLOGS
Deck the Halls with Memories and Stories Laura Hedgecock
Baking London’s Largest Gingerbread Man the gentle author
Sorting My Family into Hogwarts Houses Jamie Gates (you should try this at home :-) )
In the News: Lost Bletchley Park Christmas Card Found HistorianRuby
Christmas 1950: Stolen, the Stone of Scone HistorianRuby
Meet the residents of Cosy Cottage clarejk2014
family tapestry: #52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Week 52 Prompt: ‘Resolution'
Snacking and Shopping in Dusseldorf TextileRanger
Trove Tuesday – John Finn Charged with Incendiarism | Shauna Hicks History Enterprises
Trove Tuesday – John Finn Charged with Incendiarism | Shauna Hicks History Enterprises
Dennis & Christine Reeve, Walnut Farmers the gentle author
160 year old photo of my great-great-grandparents Gerry's Family History
Reviews
Theresa Smith
Better Reading
Lost Without You by Rachael Johns Listen to the Bolinda audiobook for Lost Without You here
The Widow of Ballarat by Darry Frase Listen to the Bolinda audio for The Widow of Ballarat here
The True Story of Maddie Bright by Mary-Rose MacColl
The Widow of Ballarat by Darry Frase Listen to the Bolinda audio for The Widow of Ballarat here
The True Story of Maddie Bright by Mary-Rose MacColl
Allen&Unwin
Lessons Gisele Bündchen
and from my blogs...
That Moment in Time
phantom island, end of year Western Australia, Mt Coot-tha murder, eels in seals, Newgate prison records, Cheshire BDMS, Pisa leaning less, fairy forts, marriage to ghost over, scars of WWI, find ancestors in 1790 census, DNA from 10,000yr old gum, FREE items and research, Convicts Ancestors course, Mullarkey Village, animal orphanage, overlooked Canadian memory institutions, recovering memory of Tuam mother & baby children, Great Western Hotel Coolgardie, additions to newspapers including Enniscorthy Guardian, Kerryman, Manchester Evening News and more, applying for National Library Card - benefits of NLA card..
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Trove Tuesday 18th Dec 2018..missing friends, with lots of detailed descriptions... Police Gazettes, 1900-1924, don’t dismiss because these are from NSW, our ancestors did move around often more than we realised, names altered, last for this year…
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