Friday, January 24, 2020

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 24th Jan 2020








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

* GENERAL INTEREST

Discovering My Roots in Ireland: Jay Cashman   Boston Magazine

ABC News: Meet the 14-year-old defying the odds and running his own free-range egg empire

The British Royal Family: Princesses of Wales Historian Ruby

Australian Gravestone Symbols  Billion Graves


Newsletter

The ScotlandsPeople Newsletter January 2020  almost 13,000 new images online

I Love Bello Shire  incl. Backchat- Pia Etteldorf, OBF Cafe   Protecting our Rivers & the Endangered Bellinger River Snapping Turtle

Australian War Memorial   eMemorial  New Director, exhibitions...

The ScriBbleR  Stella Budrikis  Guildford  plus a lot more

Judy Webster..Genealogist  .. lots of great hints, some freebies...
sign up for free newsletter at   http://www.judywebster.com.au/subscribe.html

Federation of Australian Historical Societies.. here     incl. online course for digital skills

Find My Past

1939 Register update   British Armed Forces, First World War Soldiers' Medical Records

United States, National Veterans Cemetery Index    Search all newspapers

real history behind Sam Mendes' blockbuster 1917.

Kent Baptisms      Kent Marriages and Banns     Kent Burials    British Army Service Records

Understanding parish records  Watch..      Explore our Kent collection

Colin Firth's family tree      Benedict Cumberbatch's family history.

JSTOR Daily

Robert Brandom, a Philosopher's Philosopher     How Medieval Surgeons Shaped Sex and Gender

The Fear That Synthesizers Would Ruin Music  The Great Animation Strike

Insect Jewelry of the Victorian Era   3 Women Philosophers of the Enlightenment

Hitchcock's Transition from London to Hollywood


Anglo-Celtic Connections

The 15 best websites for 18th century UK family history    Kingston Lower Burial Ground Project

Genealogists and Historians Use of Digital Cameras: Poll Results Victorian Industrial Library

The Bytown Museum’s First Century   Which Site for Canadian Censuses?

Dick Eastman Celebrates     History of English Places App     Sunday Sundries

 Lost Children of the Carricks: Defying the Great Irish Famine to Create a Canadian Legacy

GENE-O-RAMA 2020   How the Irish Public Record Office burned

Outback Family History

What Happened in Boulder Cemetery???    The Return of the Prospector- a verse

The Brennan Brothers Marry –    BLACK FLAG – ghost towns 

Lawrence Graham DOW – grave tales    The Binduli Bloodhouse:    The Desert Warriors – 1973

But What’s The Use – Henry Lawson    From Wheat to Gold – Edwards Find

Heroism at the Golden West Mine:

Smithsonian

The Story of How Humans Came to the Americas Is Constantly Evolving

Archaeologists Excavate 200 More Chinese Terracotta Warriors

Church Unearthed in Ethiopia Rewrites the History of Christianity in Africa

Start of 2020 Ushers Thousands of Once-Copyrighted Works Into the Public Domain

The Oldest Person in the World Turns 117  Eighteen Podcasts to Listen to in 2020

A Massive New Database Will Connect Billions of Historic Records to Tell the Full Story of American Slavery

4,000-Year-Old Guide to the Ancient Egyptian Underworld May Be Oldest Illustrated 'Book'


Atlas Obscura

Ancient Hunting Toys     ‘Stuck Gates Scottish Borders, Scotland.. why?

The Great Christmas Dinner   Falling for Rocks   Crop-Growing Monoliths  Glacial Castle

Cottages in Disguise  .. what next?  Bunnyhenge   Capturing Birds in Flight    Moo Moods

C’mon Down to Book Town Video  Trippy Black-Light Murals     Mythical Door

Troop Beverly Hills       Paris’s Legendary Film Archive   Concrete Failure      Haint Blue’

The Last Blockbuster     Missing Grave   Witch Hunt Memorial   Forever Ash

Always Interesting...

This week, I am just going to list one each of some of the many blogs I follow... hopefully, Friday Fossicking will be back to normal soon...
In no particular order...

Christmas in Outback Queensland - Love in a little black diary

All The Spitalfields Parties Of Yesteryear  the gentle author

Wrapping up 2019  Textile Ranger

Note to self: get organized!   The Legal Genealogist

Click on the Cat  Carmel's Corner

The Black and Tans and Auxiliaries – An Overview   The Irish Story

Monday Genea-Pourri - Week Ending 12 January 2020   Genea-Musings

Matty Maher: A Legend  Maher Matters

An instruction for my executors  Geniaus  love this one...

Cherry Blossom Walk, Washington D.C.  Wunderlusttwins

The Lace-Smuggler’s Narrative: 1858  Mrs Daffodil Digresses

#OTD in 1785 – Richard Crosbie became the first person to make a manned flight in Ireland.
Stair na hÉireann

Did You Comment Today?  humoringthegoddess

Marks Hyamovitch Revisited & Tracked  Branches On Our Haimowitz Family Tree

Light Keepers: Empowering Women with Family History Experiences  FamilySearch Blog

Milton Goldsmith’s Family Album, Part XV: Childhood Memories  Brotmanblog: A Family Journey

The Confusing Sign  allenrizzi

Give a Little, Gain a Lot Frugal Family Historian

Digital Discoveries: Review of Leora’s Letters  Liz Gauffreau

Solve Your Genealogy Brick Wall  kindredpast


* IRISH CENTRAL

WATCH: Saoirse Ronan’s Irish mammy had the best reaction to her daughter's Oscar nom 

St. Patrick’s Festival 2020 announce more music events  

WATCH: This 89-year-old has been teaching Irish dancing in Australia for 75 years 

In memory of a kind Irishman who deserved better 

WATCH: Irish dancing meets Beyoncé in this exciting “The Greatest Dancer” audition 
On her way to sainthood, Cork-born venerable Mary Aikenhead born on this day in 1787  

Irish master playwright Teresa Deevy's life and legacy 

Irish-American man kills coyote with his bare hands, saves son's life  


Ireland's largest trad music festival kicks-off celebrating 15 years 

Prohibition and Irish whiskey: the amendment that almost collapsed an entire industry  

Remembering Lily Kempson, the longest surviving rebel from the 1916 Easter Rising 

Irish tourist attraction of the week: The Céide Fields 

The "Famine Queen" Victoria died on this day in 1901 



Reviews..

Theresa Smith Writes...

#BookBingo2020 – Round 1: Set in a time of war

Book Review: Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Book Review: Springtime – A Ghost Story by Michelle de Kretser

Book Review: The Diamond Hunter by Fiona McIntosh

Book Review: American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins

Book Review: The Girls with No Names by Serena Burdick

Life According to Literature Tag

Book Review: Miss Austen by Gill Hornby

The Week That Was…

I Should Have Read That Book Tag


 Better Reading

Book of the Week: In the Clearing by J.P. Pomare

Book of the Week: Deep State by Chris Hauty

The Paris Model by Alexandra Joel

Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano

The Lost Love Song by Minnie Darke


and from my blogs....

As They Were

IGP additions Dec 2019-Jn 2020, Belfast, Cavan, Dublin, Mayo, Meath, will with Dublin connections, wills for Clare..

https://astheywere.blogspot.com/2020/01/new-files-igp-archives-from-last-6-weeks.html


Headlines of Old

DESERTING WIVES AND FAMILIES......Trove Tuesday  21 Jan 2020
Australian Government Gazettes, Deserting Wives and Families…Trove Tuesday
21st Jan 2020, detailed descriptions and information..

https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2020/01/deserting-wives-and-familiestrove.html






4 comments:

  1. Thanks as always dear Chris for a most interesting fossick through your smorgasbord of goodies. I particularly liked the book blogs and the recommended podcasts.

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  2. Thanks for your comment, Alex. It's always good to know what segments individual readers enjoy. As you can see, the book blogs always feature strongly..though I do try to cover a variety of stories, etc. to cater for as many as possible.

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  3. Well I thought I would just drop in for a moment today to see how you are...an hour later I have finally made it to the bottom of the post, having learned a lot about the first Americans coming around by the coast, the story of slavery data base, organizing for genealogy, and lace smugglers, among other things. My to-do list for today is still undone, but I feel refreshed! Thanks, Chris!

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  4. I'm so glad you dropped by, Gwen... now you can understand why it takes me so long to select what to include each week... Of course, I also have a file of what I couldn't include... (or you'd need a week to read them) but which I want to follow up personally. I get to those on the last day of the month, sort what needs keeping, and what can be omitted.
    I thought of you when I posted the item about the lace smugglers... only because of your passion for fabrics of course! Thanks for your comment.

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