FRIDAY FOSSICKING. 8th May 2020

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

* GENERAL INTEREST

ABC News: A little boy left a handprint in his family shed in 1954. This is his tragic story

ABC News: Booed for ordering a naked swimmer to cover up in the 1970s, legendary lifesaver looks to retire

Episode 9: David Ryan - Tracing your Cork Ancestors  Raidió Corca Baiscinnwatch, liten, learn, 

Society Meetings During the Coronavirus Lockdown and Beyond Alona Tester

State Library Queensland.    have your membership card at the ready ... ebooks   Access now

Kanopy.. Stream independent and classic film, documentaries and world cinema, or dive into Kanopy Kids. Access now

Lynda.com  Up-skill from home with thousands of online courses accessible at your fingertips.  Access now

What does your State or local library offer ?

National Library of Australia

Open online...  Learning Webinar:  Register for Tracing the History of Your House Wed 20 May

Read Writing Your Family History  Webinars      Further research guides

Learn more in our research guide for Australian Government Gazettes

I Love Bello Shire  incl. Courage Under Fire: Jo Baff Story 

Outback Family History

The Remarkable Love Life of Beth Maynard:

Bullfinch and the Yilgarn Goldfield – book review

Manslaughter in the Mulga – how Fulton fell

John Joseph Williams -pioneer profile

Jeremiah Minehan – grave tales

Australian Geographic

March of the spider crabs   Blooming marvellous jellyfish  The pioneering lady twitchers of Australia

Healing after the bushfires in south-eastern NSW   

Rescued platypuses return after rainfall replenishes waterways

Rare species of eagle ray spotted on the Great Barrier Reef

“I felt like the loneliest conservationist in the world.”



Find My Past

Scotland, Edinburgh & Lothian Death and Burial Index    Scotland, Aberdeenshire Poll Tax 1696

Yorkshire Memorial Inscriptions  Cambridgeshire Burials      Search all newspapers

Research Renfrewshire  

JSTOR Daily

America, Lost and Found at Wounded Knee

What's Behind the Very Real Butch Quarantine Hair Crisis?

Plant of the Month: Stanhopea Orchids

Shayla Lawson: All of Us Came from the Same Root

Rent Strikes Aren't Just About Rent

Eastern Sports and Western Bodies

Anglo-Celtic Connections

O/T: social risks during the COVID-19 pandemic     Royal Flying Corps: People Index

Who Do You Think You Are? June 2020     Ottawa Citizen Archives at the Ottawa Public Library

Today: The Genealogical Sublime  Sunday Sundries    Your Genealogy Today: May/June 2020 Issue

YouTube: Family Secrets Revealed in Free Archival Canadian Newspapers Online: Canadawide Initiatives

Family Search

Family Tree Update—Standardized Places     New Records on FamilySearch from April 2020

What to Do for Mother’s Day—Simple, Meaningful Activities

Atlas Obscura

Your Guide to Cloud Gazing       The Great Antarctic Escape        How to Make Your Own Map

The Ruins of St. Dunstan-in-the-East     Toxic Dust     Tham Piew Cave     Discovery Island

Lizards Are Evolving in Response to Hurricanes  Greenland’s Hidden Grand Canyon

NASA’s Most Spectacular Image of Earth    Stories From the 1918 Flu Pandemic

A Belated Memorial    Berlin’s Old Medieval Wall        Kitchen Hacks from Tough Times Past

The Great Geology Mystery   Creating Portraits From a Distance   Cliffside Guesthouse

Wildly Impractical Wine Glasses   Quarantine Herbarium      Ghost Town Quarantine

Ring Mountain Petroglyphs    It’s Time to Record Your Family’s History  A Canvas for Creativity

Secret Staircase    Traces of the Bronze Age  Ancient Citadel  Virtual ‘Bookshelf Championship’

The Fiery End of the Biggest Treehouse     The Magic of Imperfect Objects  Tumbleweed ‘Tornado’

Cat Island   Madagascar’s Ancient Mammal     Contact-Free Dining   

ALWAYS INTERESTING 

Stair na hÉireann 

 #OTD in Irish History – 4 May:

Genea-Musings

Best of the Genea-Blogs - Week of 26 April to 2 May 2020

Genealogy News Bytes -- Friday, 1 May 2020

Monday Genea-Pourri - Week Ending 4 May 2020

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Your "Where I'm From" Poem


Genie Tips from Patientgenie

Some Genealogy Treasures inside The Internet Archive

Little Wild Streak

Host and Guests – Vetch   

allenrizzi

Neues Wiener Konservatorium: Ein Blick zurück aus Amerika    Just One More Cast   May Day

Talking Animals? 

The Irish Story

Internment on the Prison Ship Argenta

Humouring the Goddess

Alaa Awad     You Can’t Go Wrong With the Arts  Faerie Paths — Vitality   Blue — A Poem

Wendy Mould   Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Ramon Todo

The Frugal Family Historian

Binge watch?    Stuck at home with the family? 

Irish in the American Civil War

Three Bodies. Three Families. Three Stories. Kerry’s 1860s Diaspora in Ireland and New York

The Gentle Author

H W Petherick’s London Characters      Agnese Sanvito’s London Queues   

At The Solidarity Britannia Food Bank   Travelling Roads Through Time

List Of Local Shops Open For Business     Birds Of Spitalfields

Mrs. Daffodil Digresses

A Rose from the May-Queen’s Crown: 1892      No Fare for the Doll: 1890

The Smoking Suit: 1880s 

Clogs and Clippers

A tale of two dragons, plus Baldwins and Brewsters

Brotmanblog: A Family Journey

Regina Goldschmidt Meyer: Another Young Widow 

My Cousin Anna Seghers: Activist, Author, and Survivor

German Jewish Refugees as Enemy Aliens in the UK during World War II: Some Resources

The Legal Genealogist

More on copyright and old letters      And the view…  

* IRISH CENTRAL

Irish World War II hero beats COVID-19 ahead of VE Day

Coronavirus live updates: Ireland begins to gradually reopen from May 18

Irish payback Great Hunger kindness reaching out to Native Americans struck by COVID-19

My Frontline Hero honors real-life superheroes battling COVID-19

Drone operator makes incredible archaeological discovery in Clare  

The most touching Irish ballads   

Dingle locals say Fungie the dolphin missing visitors during the COVID-19 lockdown

Priest hears confession in Dublin car park amid social distancing   

WATCH: Surfers in Co Clare come face to face with 20 sharks

A guide to Ireland’s fascinating bodhrán drum

Irish fund brings 100k meals to frontline heroes in six weeks

WATCH: Vintage footage of First Holy Communion in 1930s Ireland

Bealtaine and Ireland's other sacred Celtic holidays

Coronavirus live updates: Roadmap to "reopen Ireland" expected tomorrow

Michael Buble moved to tears over Irish "We will rise again" video

The Green mountains of Sligo and Leitrim will replenish your soul and refill your imagination

Irish drones delivering essential supplies to vulnerable patients

Two Irish journalists among this year's Pulitzer Prize winners

5,000-year-old Bealtaine lighting of fires goes ahead despite coronavirus

Donegal sanctuary welcomes first wild boarlets born in Ireland in centuries


* INTERESTING BLOGS

Textile Ranger  The Endeavourers’ Reveal Day – Miss Havisham’s Banquet

cassmob Spanish Flu and Ithaca Brisbane

The Silver Voice  From inside the’Cocoon’ – There is a crack in everything

Kerryn Taylor  Stanley Raymond Tuckett

Lenore Frost     HMAT Boonah in Quarantine on Torrens Island, 1919

Lonetester HQ   Record History as it Happens

Kindred Past  Charlotte Lillie Davis, Nurse, H.S. ‘Brittanic’


Final of A~Z Challenge

cassmob

My A to Z finale  A to Z 2020 blog reading and thoughts

In Days Gone By...

If you do nothing - Zero      So that was April   

GeniAus

GeniAus - #AtoZChallenge - Z is for Zachery and Zita



Reviews

Theresa Smith

The Week That Was…

Author Talks: Lisa Ireland on The Women Who Paved My Way

Book Review: Elly by Maike Wetzel

A Month of Reading: April


Book Review: Almost Everything by Anne Lamott


Better Reading

Announcing: Better Reading's Top 100

Book of the Week: Code Name Hélène by Ariel Lawhon

Night Lessons in Little Jerusalem by Rick Held

Just My Luck by Adele Parks

The Things She Owned by Katherine Tamiko Arguile

The Lizard by Dugald Bruce-Lockhart

Podcast: Kelly Rimmer on Why Nothing Compares to When Readers Share their Personal Stories

Podcast: Andrew Daddo on How to Make Reading Fun for Kids


Allen & Unwin

The Viennese Girl   Jenny Lecoat

Fool Me Once  Karly Lane

A Treacherous Country   K.M.Kruimink    Australian Vogel's Literary Award Winner 2020

The Power of an Adventure Wilbur Smith podcast

The Wisdom of Tea Noriko Morishita

An Alice Girl    Tanya Heaslip

Radio Girl  David Dufty




and from my blogs...

That Moment in Time

Friday Fossicking May 1 2020, British Army War Diaries 1914--22, UFO village, naturalisation records, FREE Broadway Musicals, Greater London Burial Index, sparkling dolphins, Portuguese-French-Italian Archives, underpass troll, 1918 influenza diaries, Kent Baptisms-marriages & Banns - burials, livestream the Great Barrier Reef,  wives & children of Irish convicts 1825-1840, read unclaimed letters yet? …Databases of the dead, FREE audiobooks and much more….
Feel free to share…

https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2020/05/friday-fossicking-may-1st-2020.html

JUST BECAUSE
https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/p/just-because.html

Do you think God will ever run out of ideas?


Headlines of Old

Unclaimed Letters 1849, Various States Issue 2, 5th May 2020, thousands of names, some occupations, suggestions for further research, further reading..destinations vary from streets to places to hotels to post offices, etc. Some have lots of details, others just names…Feel free to share..

https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2020/05/unclaimed-letters-1849-various-states.html


As They Were

New County Westmeath Records, 13000 added cemeteries -baptisms -marriages-deaths, Rootsireland.ie… Mullingar RC, Clara Horseleap RC Updates, Castlepollard RC, Mayne ( Coole parish) RC,  and more..

https://astheywere.blogspot.com/2020/05/new-county-westmeath-records.html

Stay safe and well and be kind to yourself.