Friday, November 15, 2019

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 15th Nov 2019







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


* GENERAL INTEREST






Beautiful nest Australian War Memorial





CFA control Elmore hay shed fire | Bendigo Advertiser

The Genealogy Guys Blog: How Genealogy Has Changed My Life

Genealogy Today: Look to Canada for Irish immigrants      Green Valley News


DID YOU KNOW?

* Allan Stewart Johnston - WartimeNI      Allan is one of many Australian and New Zealander service personnel buried in Northern Ireland.  Thanks to Roy French.


Norfolk Island – Wednesday 20th November 2019  FREE lecture Susie Zada Bookings essential



* National Library of Australia incl.  Talk with Bibliophile Rex Nan Kivell FREE (details via link)

* The ScriBbleR  incl.  Remembrance Day plus.. e.g. Ned Kelly uttering his famous last words


Anglo-Celtic Connections



ATLAS OBSCURA










FAMILY SEARCH BLOG





WANDERLUST TWINS



JSTOR Daily





* ALWAYS INTERESTING

The Gentle Author


Scottish Ancestral Research


The Legal Genealogist

Going, going…

Treasure Chest of Memories


Historian Ruby


The Irish Story


Genea-Musings





The Family Curator


allenrizzi


Claudia




Joseph Sigmund’s Daughters: A Double Tragedy

Dreams and Adventures at Cosy Cottage


Making Ancestors Interesting 


Mrs. Daffodil Progresses


Gerry's Family History

Martha Stickley and the workhouse 

Stair na hÉireann

#OTD in 1879 – Birth of teacher, barrister, writer, revolutionary and one of the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rebellion, Pádraig Pearse, in Dublin.

elthamhistory

OTD: Unveiling of the Shire of Eltham War Memorial, 11 Nov. 1926

TravelGenee

Day Three RootsTech London   


* IRISH CENTRAL

The Irish soccer club in Scotland - the history of Celtic FC 

Award-winning Irish documentary “My Ireland” to debut in New York this weekend 

Why the Wexford Festival Opera is like no other festival in the world 

Metal detectorist in Northern Ireland unearths 500-year-old haul of gold coins 

WATCH: Crowds turn out for Dublin funeral of Irish TV legend Gay Byrne 

Irish UN peacekeeping soldiers recall 1960s service in the Congo 

Buy this former church in Ireland

Remembering Charlie Chaplin's visit to James Larkin in an NYC prison 

Touching moment colleagues buy woman forced to walk miles to work a car 

Ancient secrets of the Hill of Tara revealed 

Memorial to heroic "Fighting 69th" priest to be unveiled for Veterans Day 

Irish soldiers who fought in World War I honored in Dublin 

Winter is coming! Ireland to expect snow and freezing temperatures this week

Armistice Day: A Belfast photographer's personal look at WWI 

US edition of the Photo Album of the Irish to be launched in New York

The most hated people in Irish history 

On This Day: Ellis Island closes after admitting millions of immigrants


* INTERESTING BLOGS

A memorial window in Glenelg | Anne's Family History

11 November  Geniaus

A Life Well Lived GSQ Blog  Lee English

His Third Wife: 1875  chriswoodyard    (Mrs. Daffodil Digresses)

Apple Tree Creek World War I Roll of Honour  Judith Salecich

Fiery death  In Days Gone By


Reviews

Theresa Smith




Against All Odds .....            Dr Richard Harris and Dr Craig Challen      LEARN MORE

Island on the Edge of the World  Deborah Rodriguez   extract

The Starless Sea      Erin Morgenstern     extract

Olive, Again       Elizabeth Strout   extract

Grandmothers  Salley Vickers  extract

Miracle Mutts  Laura Greaves

Who Owns History?  Geoffrey Robertson

Allen & Unwin

The Night Fire          Michael Connelly

In Darknesss Visible  Tony Jones

Starting From Now  Fleur McDonald


Better Reading

Book of the Week: The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman

Against All Odds by Craig Challen and Richard Harris

The Lost Boys by Paul Byrnes

Island on the Edge of the World by Deborah Rodriguez

Riptides by Kirsten Alexander

The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld

Podcast: Judy Nunn Discusses Life and Storytelling, Through both Acting and Writing


and from my blogs...


That Moment in Time

FRIDAY FOSSICKING   hitchhiking possum, NZ research, Chinese cemeteries / Aust., Cornwall & Kent burials, D Day dispatch audio found, buried alive?, absconded convicts, scary old mental hospitals, ghosts of Doodletown, Peaky Blinders,New Zealand’s womens suffrage petition, Legacy Webinar: Understanding Ethnicity estimates, podcast: re Aust. POWs WWII, history of Irish surnames, cemetery in backyard, connect with your Brazilian roots, haunted Leap castle, book reviews, Irish graves additions, and of course there’s more…
Feel free to share…

https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2019/11/friday-fossicking-8th-nov-2019.html


COME INTO MY WORLD

DAYS GONE BY…

It was my pleasure to have a Guest Blogger for this nostalgic collection of childhood memories, written from the heart by my friend, Kevin Banister.. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. Thank you, Kevin.

https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/p/come-into-my-world.html

AS THEY WERE

* New Records for County Clare.. a list of what has been added Note: they are on a paid site

https://astheywere.blogspot.com/2019/11/new-records-for-county-clare-nov-2019.html


* Clare Roots Soc. 21st Nov 2019, Emigration to Ellis Island from Co Clare, Jane Halloran Ryan, Old Ground Hotel,

https://astheywere.blogspot.com/2019/11/emigration-ellis-island-from-county.html


Headlines of Old

Convicts In Tasmania c1831.. Absconders Certificates of Freedom Tickets of Leave..Trove Tuesday 12 Nov 2019, numerous names, full descriptions for many, photos of some convicts,

https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2019/11/convicts-in-tasmania-c1831-absconders.html






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