Friday, November 29, 2019

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 29th Nov 2019









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


* GENERAL INTEREST




[Dictionary of Sydney] The Explorer's stump



Hotel Corones, Charleville | John Oxley Library

Swap till you drop! | Public Libraries Connect

"Like losing the Amazon" Local RFS concerned about Mt Hyland and Point Lookout - Breakfast - ABC Radio




David Rumsey Historical Map Collection | The Collection Thanks to Alona Tester

FIND MY PAST



Ancestor buried in the North East of England? Search the records to discover what was inscribed on their monument or tombstone.

NEWSLETTERS

National Library Australia  Something in Lake Burley Griffin.. 12 Dec FREE

Michael in Ireland  incl.     Massive Decline in Number of Priests in Ireland


ANGLO - CELTIC CONNECTIONS

The United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry newspaper digitization

FreeBMD November Update  Documentary Heritage Communities Program

Minister of Canadian Heritage: The Honourable Steven Guilbeault    Brit Mil Acc & Abbrev

BIFHSGO Video: The Commonwealth War Graves: In Perpetuity  Sunday Sundries

It's that time of year   New in the OGS Ottawa Branch Library Ancestry Give-Away Canada only

Yet More Vernon City Directories Online   Look around the graveyard with AR

Shannon Lecture: “As I remember it: Building digital space to share the life history and teachings of an Indigenous elder.”


ATLAS OBSCURA  

All Pardoned Turkeys Go to Kidwell Farm    Quelmer Boat Graveyard  France

Found: A 99-Million-Year-Old, Pollen-Dusted Beetle      Migrating Lighthouses Denmark

The Hermit House  Israel   Hiding in Plain Sight Greece  Wild West Chateau

Abandoned Ski Lodge  Michigan  Cannibal Ants      Sacrifice Memorial  Greece

India and Nepal’s Feminist Art Renaissance    Mongolian Ice Archaeology  Knife Angel England

Meet the Snailers of Hawai’i  For Sale: A 19th-Century Lighthouse  Kendeda Building

The Great Giant Pumpkin Race   Pantheon of Illustrious Men  Spain  Gobbler Theater Wisconsin

Prehistoric Animals  Empty Photographs  Banting House  The Leechwell  England

How Do You Keep Subways From Flooding?   Places That Live on the Edge   Gouwe Aqueduct

Prehistoric Animals   Women of the Age of Sail   The History of the Cornucopia


FAMILY SEARCH BLOG

Why Is It Called D-Day?      36 British Sayings  Fish and Chips Recipe

The 2016 BYU Genealogy Conference—Archives    Family History Centers

Discover Your Welsh Heritage

JSTOR Daily

Who Really Discovered How the Heart Works?    The Incredibly True Story of Fake Headlines

A History of Human Waste as Fertilizer  Walter Benn Michaels: What's His Deal?

What Happened to Tagging?   Why Renaissance Paintings Aren't as Green as They Used to Be

Ch'arki: The First Jerky   Thanksgiving Stories  Can Zapping Your Brain Really Make You Smarter?

How Local TV Made “Bad” Movies a Thing   Vegetarian Thanksgiving Dates Back to the 1900s

How Much Would You Pay for a Nonexistent Dress?  Talk about This, Not That

Painting the New World

OUTBACK FAMILY HISTORY

Brutal Butchery at ‘The Boulder’:          The Bush Undertaker by Henry Lawson

A Wandering Pommy: the story of Dr Dale OBE        The Prettiest Weddings of the Year:

AUSTRALIAN GEOGRAPHIC

Fight to the death: Platypus vs rakali   Ghosts of Christmases past: where are all the beetles?

Soiling yourself for better health   The blue-throated barbet is ridiculously good-looking

World, meet Bear   The rose-crowned fruit dove looks like a rainbow Paddle Pop

Lores Bonney: the forgotten aviatrix   My year in the saddle (listen now)


ALWAYS INTERESTING

Family History Across the Seas

Christmas Posts 

The Legal Genealogist

Records, not revenue   Documenting that day…   The other son   The end is coming

Turkey Day deals   Choosing number 35 

Claudia

Let’s Write That Book! — Editing  Let’s Write That Book! — Epilogue

Let’s Write That Book! — ReEdit and Feedback* see previous weeks for all in the series

Research is what I’m doing …   Faerie Paths — Elfland  Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Reflection

History Geek

Happy Birthday, Cutty Sark!

The Gentle Author

The Forgotten Corners Of Old London   David Kira Ltd, Banana Merchants 

A Bloomsbury Jamboree   The Curry Chefs Of Brick Lane   At Clapton Community Football Club

In William Blake’s London   So Long, Jonathan Miller   

Treasure Chest of Memories

RootsTech London Review

Mrs. Daffodil Digresses

Hist Went the Corpse: 1889     Kitty’s Railway Adventure: 1894      Notes in the Turkeys: 1899


Branches on our Haimowitz Family Tree

Records From the Arolsen Archives For Uscher Bibrowski

Gerry's Family History

Joseph Stickley 1877-1922

Brotmanblog: A Family Journey

Ella Goldschmidt Sigmund’s Family in the 1910s: For Most, A Quiet Decade

The Man with the Mustache: Are You My Grandfather?

allenrizzi

Rieneck, Germany      Name That Tune

Irish in the American Civil War

“Annie Dearest”: A Corkman’s Last Letter Home during the Final Days of the Doomed USS Maine

Stair na hÉireann

#OTD in 1942 – Death of Peadar Kearney, writer of the Irish National Anthem, ‘A Soldier’s Song’.

Genea-Musings

Best of the Genea-Blogs - Week of 17 to 23 November 2019       

Monday Genea-Pourri - Week Ending 24 November 2019 

Genealogy News Bytes - Tuesday, 26 November 2019       Happy Thanksgiving 2019!!

historybylarzus

Michael Devon – Weaver of London

Little Wild Streak

A Woman in Alaska in the 1930s


* IRISH CENTRAL

Easter Rising leader who inspired famed song "Grace" born on this day

County Derry father and son break marathon Guinness World Record 

Irish bartender treats pub goers to live version of “Dirty Old Town”

How Irish food may have played a role in one of the first Thanksgivings 

How 155 Irish soldiers became heroes at the Battle of Jadotville 

Roscommon's Lady Betty - thief, murderer, and executioner 

WATCH: Trailer for new Irish-language Famine film "Arracht" 

A Bronx Irish Thanksgiving in days gone by saw children dress up as "ragamuffins" 

WATCH: Dermot Kennedy releases special videos for two of his songs 

Remembering the Irishmen who fought for the Confederates during the Civil War 

US family proves you can make a successful move to Ireland

Second-known picture of notorious Billy the Kid set to auction for $1M 

How to discover if your family was in the Irish military 

The Fighting Irish 69th gets its own Irish whiskey 

These are the best Irish books of 2019 

For Irish Americans, Thanksgiving used to be Halloween 

Did your Irish relative serve in World War II? This group wants to hear from you 

Terry O'Neill, photographer who defined swinging 60s, dies at 81 

Why you have to visit Glasnevin - the resting place of Ireland's heroes and heroines

White Christmas? Famous Donegal postman says it's a "strong possibility"

WATCH: Co Armagh man dying of cancer attends his own Irish wake 

Trial begins in Australia for 1997 murder of Irish woman Ciara Glennon

Express your gratitude with these Irish phrases this Thanksgiving 

How 'The Fields of Athenry' became Ireland’s most famous song 

WATCH: Here’s what the fall fashion was like in 1962 Dublin 

Guinness Pumpkin Pie is the Thanksgiving dessert we deserve 

* INTERESTING BLOGS

TextileTopia        TextileTopia, Part Two                     Textile Ranger

Saving & Writing Family History, WDYTYA & Other News - Genealogy Notes 1-21 Nov 2019
Diary of an Australian Genealogist

Preston Guild Wheel: Part 2  Dreams and Adventures at Cosy Cottage

Christmas Cake Aussie-Style  Judith Salecich

A Passage to India | Anne's Family History

Limerick  Stella Budrikis

Vive Dunkirk, Vive Dunkerque Jamie Gates

Reviews

Theresa Smith

The Week That Was…     #BookBingo – Round 24

Book Review: The Weekend by Charlotte Wood

#TBT What I was reading this time six years ago… 

Penguin Books

The Diamond Hunter  Fiona McIntosh  Read the prologue...

Criss Cross  James Patterson    extract.... below

CHAPTER 1 
It was a miserable mid-March afternoon, chill and sleeting, as John Sampson and I ran to the main gate of the Greensville Correctional Center, a hexagon-shaped high-security prison in the rural, southern part of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
We ducked inside the security shack, showed our badges and identifications, and surrendered our service weapons. A gate rolled back, and we walked through.
As a homicide detective with the DC Metropolitan Police and as a behavioral specialist with the FBI, I have been to many jails, prisons, and penitentiaries over the years, but I am still unnerved by the sound of steel-barred gates slamming shut behind me. We passed through seven such gates, following Warden Adrian Yates and several reporters who’d arrived before us. Continue
Love Is As Strong As Death  Poems chosen by Paul Kelly   discover poetry
The Big Book of Australian War Stories  Jim Haynes  Read more

Your Own Kind of Girl  A memoir  Clare Bowditch  Read more

The Irish Story




and from my blogs...

That Moment in Time

dragontail butterfly, Hunting for ‘Spooklights’ ,  A Lost and Desolate Wanderer, Norfolk British Armed Forces, WWI Soldiers' Medical Records, volunteer firies dropped all to help in Qld, Poitin Day?, Recycling History – the bicycle and protest in Ireland, was your family in the Irish military, Irish Dad sleeps with cancer stricken dog, warrior’s lost toolkit, largest radio telescope, Baltimore’s lost cemetery, Irish convicts,  PERI source index update, oooh..NO kissing in public, FREEBIES..exhibitions, podcasts, webinars… national tragedy -decimated koala habitats and so much more..  Feel free to share as always…

https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2019/11/friday-fossicking-22nd-nov-2019.html


As They Were

CONTRIBUTIONS

Thanks to Paul O’Brien and Cathy Carley.. apologies for the long delay, but I am now up to date with the contributions from both of you.

https://astheywere.blogspot.com/p/courtesy-of-paul-obrien.html


Irish Graves

TOOWONG , BRISBANE, QLD
https://irishgraves.blogspot.com/p/toowong-cemetery-brisbane.html
With thanks to Kym Hyson

VICTORIA
CLUNES
With thanks to Wendy Broomfield
See BIOGRAPHIES Second Page
https://irishgraves.blogspot.com/p/biographies-scond-page.html


Headlines of Old

CONVICTS - TASMANIA - Trials, Deaths,  1821,1824 ..TROVE TUESDAY 26 Nov. 2019, numerous names, horrific crimes, click to enlarge clippings…
Feel free to share…
https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2019/11/convicts-tasmania-trials-deaths.html




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