Friday, November 22, 2019

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 22nd Nov 2019







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



* GENERAL INTEREST

'You just have to put your hand up': The volunteer firies who dropped everything to help in Queensland - ABC News







DID YOU KNOW?

* REMINDER  Officeworks Launches a New Recycling Program For Pens, Markers and Batteries | The Green Hub


* Spoken: celebrating Queensland languages  Opens Nov 21.. FREE  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages  State Library Queensland


* Catholic Gravestone Symbols, Part I. Billion Graves

FIND MY PAST







OUTBACK FAMILY HISTORY




More Vernon City Directories Online  A Street Near You

Virtual Genealogical Association 2020 Webinars

NEWSLETTERS

National Library of Australia  NLA  Book Launch...  Olive Cotton.. Helen Ennis 28 Nov.

National Archives of Australia incl. SPY  Espionage in Australia  FREE 28 Nov 2019 -27 Apr 2020

Family Search  new relationship viewer feature on FamilySearch.org.

The National Archives UK  incl. 1657: Rebel Christmas  FREE 27 Nov - 4 Jan.  FREE workshops, talks, immersive experience...

Saving the Past for the Present. It's Easy. Really.  Maureen Taylor The Photo Detective Listen

FAMILY HISTORY DAILY

Can You Find Your Ancestors in These Old English Criminal Records?

Stop Hiding Your Old Family Photos! 14 Ways to Put Them on Display

FAMILY SEARCH BLOG

The Significance of the Battle of Stalingrad   What Are Welsh Names About?

How to Pronounce Welsh Words   D-Day Invasion: What Happened and Why It’s Important

Finding Your Ancestor’s Hometown Using Immigration Records

Do You Have a Look-alike? Find Your Doppelgänger   RootsTech London 2019 Recap

GOULD GENEALOGY

FamilySearch Celebrates its 125th Anniversary       

Beyond BMDs: Researching Your English Ancestors – March 2020

ATLAS OBSCURA















JSTOR Daily

How Linguists Are Using Urban Dictionary   The Real Joy of Mock Food

In the McCarthy Era, to Be Black Was to Be Red  New York City Bans Foie Gras

Everything You Wanted to Know about Hazelnuts but Were Afraid to Ask

The 1918 Parade That Spread Death in Philadelphia

AUSTRALIAN GEOGRAPHIC

What it will take to rescue the Great Barrier Reef  A guide to Australia’s seals and sea lions

On the frontline of mange one wombat rescuer’s story   The dragontail butterfly is like a dream

NZ’s jewelled gecko has some bizarre colour patterns  KISS rocks the boat for great white sharks

This majestic raptor is a fire-wielding ninja  

* ALWAYS INTERESTING

The Frugal Family Historian

Gifts of Genealogy   Listen Up!

Maher Matters

Alfred Edward Sullivan, In Memoriam     Ruth Conlon McGarty, In Memoriam

Deep in the Heart of Textiles

Banjara Textile Scraps

Humouring the Goddess

Faerie Paths — Golden Tree   Let’s Write That Book! — PreWriting Considerations Part I

Let’s Write That Book! — PreWriting Considerations Part II  Let’s Write That Book! — Writing

allenrizzi

O Norman, Norman, wherefore art thou Norman?      Should I Ship My Car To Italy?

The Legal Genealogist

History too     A NY gift to NY adoptees  Finding Margaret’s mother: part 6

2019 alphabet soup: Q is for…

The Irish Story

Recycling History – the bicycle and protest in Ireland

The Gentle Author

D Day For The Whitechapel Bell Foundry  The Fate Of The Whitechapel Bell Foundry

Peri Parkes’ East End  At Simpsons Chop House  The Wax Sellers Of Wentworth St  

A Photograph of Jeremiah Donovan   Pomegranates At Leila’s Shop   

Stair na hÉireann

#OTD in 1922 – Four Anti-Treaty IRA men from Dublin, who were captured with weapons in Co Wicklow, are shot by firing squad.

GeniAus

Graves in Guyaquil

Mrs. Daffodil Digresses

Dead Man Riding: 1854  The Missouri Peer-Importing Company: 1903  The Fin-de-siècle Bow: 1896

Brotmanblog:A Family Journey

November 15, 2019    Leo Sigmund: Loss of A Life, Loss of a Business Part VII 

Eltham District Historical Society

OTD: Dedication of the Shire of Eltham War Memorial, 16 Nov. 1951

Dreams and Adventures at Cosy Cottage

My second Liebster Blog Award!

Genea-Musings

Monday Genea-Pourri - Week Ending 27 October 2019 

Genealogy News Bytes - Friday, 15 November 2019  

Best of the Genea-Blogs - Week of 10 to 16 November 2019

Added and Updated Record Collections at FamilySearch.org - Week of 10 to 16 November 2019

Monday Genea-Pourri- Week Ending 17 November 2019  

Genealogy News Bytes - Tuesday, 19 November 2019

Randy Seaver Not Surprised He is Related to Tom Hanks and Fred Rogers

Irish in the American Civil War

Americans Abroad: The 18th Century American Soldiers Who Lived in Ireland

* IRISH CENTRAL

Newspaper publishes obituary of man who is still alive 

Join 25 Irish artists celebrating their talents in the US this weekend 

Amazing photos from early Kennedy family trips to Ireland 

WATCH: The Crown season 3, the real historic events 

New podcast showcases the best of Irish innovation and tech talent to global diaspora 

Why one Spanish region stormed the British Consul General during Irish War of Independence 

Harry Connick Jr. Irish roots revealed and he thinks they are "so cool"

U2 song proven most effective in the world for putting young children to sleep 

This Irish city voted the third best place to visit in winter 

Irish Dad found sleeping with family dog battling cancer 

Learn secrets of Irish moonshine poitín, illegal for 150 years, this International Poitín Day 

Almost 9 in 10 believe Catholic priests should be able to marry

Irish castle brings you back in time with the day-to-day Lord of the Castle experience 

Hot Irish barman singing The Rare Auld Times will make your day

In 1937 a woman in Dundalk was sentenced to prison for kissing in public 

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

How to discover if your family was in the Irish military

Happy birthday, Robert F. Kennedy! Best quotes from the iconic Irish American 

Dublin house made world famous by James Joyce under threat from developers

Irish teen will have to learn how to walk again after savage machete attack 

On this day: President JFK lifts naval blockade on Cuba 

William Trevor: A sculptor of words 


* INTERESTING BLOGS

Inquest Series – Baby Jones  Tracking Down The Family  Jennifer Jones

Fires, drought and climate change within New England  Jim Belshaw  New England, Australia

Another Poetry First: Tanka   Liz Gauffreau

Preston Guild Wheel: Part One   Dreams and Adventures at Cosy Cottage


Reviews

Theresa Smith

The Week That Was 

Book Review: The Museum of Broken Promises by Elizabeth Buchan

Better Reading

Book of the Week: The House of Brides by Jane Cockram

Incidental Inventions by Elena Ferrante

Our Stop by Laura Jane Williams

The Devil Inside by D.L. Hicks

Lovestruck by Bronwyn Sell.

Podcast: Dr Karl Kruszelnicki on Everything Ever… (Perhaps Not Everything, but he Certainly Knows a Lot)

Podcast: Tim Slee on How he Wrote a Great Aussie Yarn Sitting in Airports Around the World



and from my blogs...


That Moment in Time

Friday Fossicking 15th Nov 2019, Elmore hay shed fire, Irish immigrants Canada, Aust. & NZ servicemen buried in Nth  Ireland, any 'slob' genealogists, Post Mortem Chapel, Tasmania & convicts, recycling history, wild bee hotels, paddock to plate, indigenous artefacts returned, Canada & Irish immigrants, Veteran’s Day, Norfolk Island, Remembrance Day, all that glitters is lead, Blitz rubble beach, Galapagos Land Iguanas, book reviews,
matchmaker for plants, march of the shipwrecks and yes, much more still…

https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2019/11/friday-fossicking-15th-nov-2019.html

Burial Customs Around The World

https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/p/burial-customs-ariound-wortld.html

CEMETERY - COMMENTS & QUANDARIES  

https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/p/ceme.html


Irish Graves

TOOWONG , BRISBANE, QLD
https://irishgraves.blogspot.com/p/toowong-cemetery-brisbane.html

With thanks to Kym Hyson


QUEENSLAND CEMETERIES OUTSIDE OF BRISBANE
https://irishgraves.blogspot.com/p/queensland-cemeteries-outside-of.html
Cloncurry
BIOGRAPHIES Second Page
https://irishgraves.blogspot.com/p/biographies-scond-page.html

With thanks to Tracie Nana Reagan, Kevin Banister, State Library Qld


Headlines of Old

Irish Convicts Transportation Records To Australia incl. Tasmania, details re selected convicts, women convicts, various convict ships..TROVE TUESDAY 19th Nov 2019

https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2019/11/irish-convicts-transportation-records.html


CONFESSIONS OF A BIBLIOPHILE

Manna for Bibliophiles
additions to library, books, etc. links, with Australian and International

https://crissoulisbookspot.blogspot.com/p/manna-for-bibliophiles.html








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