FRIDAY FOSSICKING 4th October 2019

Edwin Stockqueler (1829-1900) - Public Domain An Australian Gold Diggings, oil on canvas

* GENERAL INTEREST

Book re Waverley Cemetery 'residents'     Thanks to Joan Clarke

Cemetery Research in Genealogy Patch.com

The Genealogy Radio Show - episode 1  Mixcloud

Connecting with County Donegal culture this - and every - week     Irish Central

The unlikely renaissance of libraries in the digital age   SMH  (Sydney Morning Herald)

$1 coins feature quokkas, didgeridoos and Zooper Doopers in Australia Post promotion - ABC News

Tasmanian former convicts join list of officers honoured on Remembrance Day national memorial - ABC News

5 unusually named Australian occupations - Ancestry.com.au Blog

Couple Celebrates 82 Years of Marriage On Their Birthdays | Better Homes & Gardens... thanks to Mike McMahon

Wanderlust Twins... images

Colorful lanterns at Beomeosa Temple in South Korea

“Appenzellerland / Switzerland .” 

Wat Phrathat Doi Suthep buddhist temple in Chiang Mai, Thailand

Ant and Dec to visit Ireland as they explore family histories   BreakingNews.ie

[Dictionary of Sydney] The Great Fire of Sydney

DID YOU KNOW?

* Open this Sunday morning.. City Botanic Gardens... Brisbane

The Curator’s Cottage   Old Government House, QUT  Parliament House  1 William Street

Commissariat Store  Government Printery Office  Treasury Hotel

Check individual building opening days and times. There is a whole range of events, tours and more throughout the precinct so learn more on our website

Preserving Old Family Letters - MyHeritage Blog

“A New Leaf” A new Television Series by Ancestry® to debut on NBC this Fall - Ancestry Blog

Irish Research – Wednesday 2nd October 2019  Susie Zada  Geelong & District

Gordon Gow and the talking clock  Hawkesbury heritage & happenings

Where to Find Historical Images to Illustrate Your Writing Laura Hedgecock

Victoria’s History Week, 13-20 October 2019 Alona Tester

Traces Magazine – Issue 8 (September 2019)   Alona Tester

FIND MY PAST

Scotland, Forfarshire (Angus) Dundee Poor Lists 1821-1840

Scotland, Forfarshire (Angus), Dundee Militia Lists 1801

Irish Parish Register Archive, ffolliott Collection

1939 Register Update

Newspapers    Northern Daily Times  North British Daily Mail  East of Fife Record

Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser    Aberdeen Press and Journal

Aberdeen Evening Express

Anglo-Celtic Connections

Advance Notice: Genetic Genealogy Ireland     Update on Vernon’s Directories Available for Viewing

Family historian's view of Archivists     Help future BIFHSGO conferences, have your say

Something new: Treasured.ca     British Newspaper Archive additions for September

Sunday Sundries           Births decline in Canada in 2018 while total fertility rate edges up

Internet Genealogy: Oct/Nov 2019   Shannon Lecture: Charlotte Gray

Major update of UK, WWI Pension Ledgers and Index Cards, 1914-1923 on Ancestry

Australian Geographic

Meet the rainbow serpent: the white-lipped python

Community unites to provide ‘apple kebabs’ for starving flying-foxes

Gouldian finch: Australia’s winged jewels

The annual Aussie Backyard Bird Count is almost here

The world’s tiniest bird-of-paradise looks like a sad bean

Renowned bird photographer Leila Jeffreys dedicates new exhibition to the budgie

Family Search Blog

All FREE

County Records Yield Great Sources for Your Family Tree

Scottish Names—What Are They All About?    The Scottish Kilt

Finding New York Ancestors—The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society

New Records on FamilySearch from September 2019

German Gazetteers: What You Can Learn from Early Maps of Poland and Germany

ATLAS OBSCURA

‘Dead Sea of Senegal        Witches’ Dance Floor       The Oldest Cookbook in the West Video

Arch of the Argentarii        Black Gospel Records–Saved       Gin Distilling With Copper

Hidden Tunnel Sculpture      Pedicures for Bats     Church of Our Saviour Denmark

Barbed Wire Collection      Neolithic Ukraine     Hidden Maya Ruins    Ancient Egyptian Textile

Judy Garland Museum     White Buddha Temple         Spahn Ranch  14 Lesser-Known Ancient Sites

Found: Kurt Cobain’s Royalty Check       Spain’s ‘Stonehenge’       Abyssal Wasteland

Meet Big Boy's Engineer       Town Pounds    Why Fossils Are Mostly Male  Border/Lands

The Last U.S.-Canada Border Dispute    Making a Modern Border   The Green Curtain

Colombia’s Grand Border Mosque   An Ancient Order of Knights    Friendship Park

Pheasant Island

JSTOR Daily

Did Humans Once Live by Beer Alone? An Oktoberfest Tale      Sigmund Freud's The Ego and the Id

Industrial London's Maternal Child Abductors   The Occult Remedy the Puritans Embraced

An Ancient Egyptian Perfume Perhaps Worn by Cleopatra  The Question of Race in Beowulf  

Smithsonian

Exploring Roald Dahl’s Wondrous Wales   

Live Like Lady Mary Crawley With a One-Night Stay at Downton Abbey

Outback Family History

Book Review – Pipe Dream to Pipeline   The Kalgoorlie Hotel – Judds pub   Found Dead – a verse

Newsletters

Logan City Council incl.  Batty Halloween      Crime writing with Lea Scott

The National Archives UK incl.  View all Cold War events  closes in 6 weeks  MI5 file release

Society of Australian Genealogists  incl.  NEWS  CALENDAR   WEB TIPS

I Love Bello Shire   incl.  Backchat: Justin Brow Bikey Fixey  Featured Events and What's On

National Library Australia  incl.  Read our 'Australian Joint Copying Project Reimagined’ blog post

View the Australian Joint Copying Project Research Guide   Family history research guide

Read ‘An Ode to Family History Indexes’ blog post    Don't have a Library card? Register online

National Library Australia e news  incl.  Find out about Mina and May Moore  

Catch up on issue 12 of Unbound  Listen to Peter Greste deliver the 2019 Kenneth Myer Lecture

Find out how to use the new eResources portal in our blog post

Into the River   One-hundred-and-thirty years ago, Louisa Lawson wrote that ‘Women whose thought-power, like that of mountain streams, is of little effect alone … when run into a general river of purpose, can potently aid in turning the wheel of time, to grind out a new era.’ A river of women surging forward to grind out a new era. It’s a powerful image and an important reminder that progress comes from the combined, and continued, effort of many.  Read on...

EMemorial     (Australian War Memorial)  incl.   Places of Pride (war memorials)

The courage for peace will Open to the public on 18 November.

Brisbane Open House incl.      City Tabernacle Baptist Church  the reservoirs Spring Hill

Visit Brisbane incl.  GET FROLICKING   Your guide to Ocktoberfest    Brisbane Open House

Brisbane International Film Festival    Adventure through Somerset

* IRISH CENTRAL

Dublin St. Patrick’s Day Festival named among the best festivals in the world 

Vikings' Jordan Patrick Smith dishes on his favorite places in Ireland 

"The Irishman" cast received a special Irish gift ahead of world premiere 

13.7% of the United States population are foreign-born 

Five amazing spots to take photos in Ireland        Why is the Irish border where it is?

17th Irish Film Institute launches five-day IFI Documentary Festival 

100 Irish first names and their beautiful meanings

My trip to America's "most Irish" town

Ireland's emergency services on standby as ex-Hurricane Lorenzo nears

Irishman caught monster fish worth over $3 million 

This town is the winner of Ireland's 2019 TidyTowns competition 

Irish Confederate hero who has a city, two counties named after him

How to plan the perfect budget vacation to Ireland

Northern Irish “GI Baby” learns his eldest sister is actually his mother 

A snapshot of the people of the Wild Atlantic Way 

These are Ireland's Michelin-star restaurants 

Brown bread as your mother made it

* ALWAYS INTERESTING

GeniAus

On Safari     Trove Tuesday - Change of name

The Legal Genealogist

Centennial State laws   A worthy cause indeed  Justice Department issues DNA guidelines

Baker serendipity   

The Gentle Author

Origins Of Facadism    The Pearly Kings & Queens’ Harvest Festival   All Change At Barney’s Eels

Shloimy Alman, Photographer   A Walk With Shloimy Alman  Eleanor Crow’s Butchers  

Philippa Stockley’s Restoration Stories

Genea-Musings

Genealogy News Bytes - 27 September 2019   

Best of the Genea-Blogs - Week of 22 to 28 September 2019

Monday Genea-Pourri - Week Ending 29 September 2019

GenealogyBank Offers Historical Newspaper Search for FamilySearch Family Tree Ancestors

Brotmanblog:A FamilyJourney

Photographs of Helen Goldsmith: From Toddler to Young Woman

Branches On Our Haimowitz Family Tree

Rosen Family Revisited: A Shoah Death Discovered  

The Family Curator

When You Find a Surprise at the Local Thrift Shop

allenrizzi

Internet Blues  

In Search of Men and Women with Initiative - Solving Family Puzzles

My “Master and Commander Stories” – the Horatio Mysteries – part 4

Irish in the American Civil War

Illiterate Famine-era Women Remember their Famine-era Marriages in Ireland

The Irish Story

The Border Counties in the Irish War of Independence, 1918-21

Claudia

Anne Vallayer-Coster   Mirrored Reality

A SILVER VOICE FROM IRELAND

Face to face with ‘Penal Crosses’    worth rereading

Family Tree Frog

Sepia Saturday 489: 28th September 2019

* INTERESTING BLOGS

Trove Tuesday: the tragic tale of Lizzie Brophy  cassmob

Hannah at Semaphore  In Days Gone By... 

JosephTucker ~ the whole truth about a lie   Black Raven Genealogy

The Reading Liz Gaffreau

Reviews

Theresa Smith

The Week That Was…        #BookBingo – Round 20

Book Review: Paris Savages by Katherine Johnson

Behind the Pen with Holden Sheppard

Book Review: Cross My Heart by Pamela Cook

Challenge Check In – September

Allen & Unwin

Read Excerpts

The Rich Man's House     Andrew McGahan  

The Breeding Season  Amanad Niehaus

Going Under  Sonia Henry

The Unforgiving City  Maggie Joel

Better Reading

Book of the Week: The Model Wife by Tricia Stringer

The Last Voyage of Mrs Henry Parker by Joanna Nell

Cold Storage by David Koepp

The Book of Dust: The Secret Commonwealth by Philip Pullman

The Australia Survival Guide by George Ivanoff

Madame Badobedah by Sophie Dahl, illustrated by Lauren O’Hara 

Red Can Origami by Madelaine Dickie

Podcast: Social Entrepreneur Lucy Bloom Discusses Changing the World and her Book, Get the Girls Out

Dymock's Booklover

The Dutch House    Ann Patchett

Postscript   Cecelia Ahern  

The Confession  Jessie Burton

The Giver of Stars   JojoMoyes

Ghost Fire  Wilbur Smith


and from my blogs...

That Moment in Time

1400 year old cemetery uncovered in highlands, Boston's Catholic records, Cumberland BDMs, do write your will, FREEBIES, preserving photos, medieval Irish Dictionary, Francis Bacon’s preserved art studio, Davyhurst -ghost towns, treating wounds with magic, more Irish graves, see links to some of my other blogs, haunted Co Cork gas station?, world in late 18th century, Highland Games, Japanese ghost towns, bog loving plants, Brazil’s forgotten history, interactive Scots language map, looking for a new book to read..check the reviews…and there is so much more..
feel free to share…

https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2019/09/friday-fossicking-27th-sept-2019.html


As They Were

* NEW RECORDS FOR DUN LAOGHAIRE, COUNTY DUBLIN
374 records of soldiers born or resident in Dun Laoghaire COUNTY DUBLIN County Dublin (formerly Kingstown),

https://astheywere.blogspot.com/2019/09/new-records-for-dun-laoghaire-county.html

* WEBSITE ESSENTIAL MAINTENANCE  RootsIreland.ie 3rd Oct 2019,

https://astheywere.blogspot.com/2019/10/website-essential-maintenance.html


* Sept. 2019 Update - IRELAND GENEALOGY PROJECTS ARCHIVES, Cavan, Countrywide, Cork, Dublin, Kilkenny,  Kings/Offaly, Laois/Queens, Longford,Meath, Tipperary,

https://astheywere.blogspot.com/2019/10/sept-2019-update-ireland-genealogy.html

Headlines of Old

CONVICTS, CAPTURES & CONTROVERSY  Trove Tuesday Oct 1st 2019, Western Australia, escape, the good and the bad, many links for further reading, database, why not in South Australia?…
as always, feel free to share…

https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2019/10/convicts-captures-controversy-trove.html