Friday, June 26, 2020

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 26TH JUN 2020





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


* GENERAL INTEREST


QLD STATE ARCHIVES temporarily unavailable 12 noon Sunday 28 June until 8am Tuesday 30th June...new catalogue and new features coming...





John Grenham  The Kindness of strangers

WANDERLUST TWINS.. images.. Admiring the wonder, Machu Picchu, Peru 


ANGLO-CELTIC CONNECTIONS


FAMILY SEARCH

1920s Clothing: Fashions from 1920–1929     Spiffy Slang Words and Phrases from the 1920s


ANCESTRY.com.au

Free Access Terms and Conditions till 28 June..

New Zealand, Electoral Rolls, 1853-1981  Canterbury, New Zealand, Provincial Rolls, 1868-1874

New Zealand, Maori Voter and Electoral Rolls, 1908 & 1919

Note : there are always free records, look for them on all commercial sites...


NATIONAL ARCHIVES UK

Refugee Week...Refugee Stories blog series      Listen to our bonus podcast episode

July 17, Dunkirk: From the Archives to Hollywood     Bordeaux and the Brits


OUTBACK FAMILY HISTORY

The Ragged Thirteen – a verse        James Connolly – grave tales    The Golden Graveyard:

Isabel of the Erlistoun – a family story     Gwalia School – book review

Doyles Well – an oasis in the desert


SMITHSONIAN








FAMILY TREE MAGAZINE




JSTOR DAILY




BILLION GRAVES

Virtual tour of the seven largest cemeteries


ATLAS OBSCURA


* ALWAYS INTERESTING

Genea-Musings



Scottish Ancestral Research


Brotmanblog: A Family Journey

The Irish Story


Claudia

allenrizzi

GeneaDictionary


The Gentle Author

Mrs. Daffodil Digresses


#Poetry Publication: “At Summer’s End”

Branches On Our Haimowitz Family Tree

Kalman Asriel Goldberg married Arlene Srulovitz: Are we connected?

Deb's World

‘They already knew what I was thinking and feeling; they were me’ – Melanie’s story | Bliss

Watching the sunrise at Uluru is amazing!

Australian Roots and Spreading Branches

Military Monday : Harold Augustine Quirk - service in the Australian Army WW1

Geniaus

Value from our Vaults

Gerry's Family History

Trot and Mr Gasson


* IRISH CENTRAL

JFK’s sister Jean Kennedy Smith has died aged 92

Ireland’s historic and surprising government formation

On This Day: The Loughinisland Massacre takes place in 1994

Remembering the Irish role in the Battle of Waterloo

Kathy Bates, Maggie Smith, Laura Linney team up for new Irish movie

Bono shares six life rules with graduating students

39 Irish female artists sing Cranberries’ "Dreams" for domestic abuse charity

Irish Dad movies to watch this Father’s Day

Newly-discovered Battle of Antietam map shows thousands of burials

Pride 2020: A look at Oscar Wilde, Irish playwright and poet

Irish passport ranked sixth-most powerful in the world

The guitar Nirvana's Kurt Cobain used on MTV's "Unplugged" snags $6m at auction



* INTERESTING BLOGS

King John, his treasure and the Wash.     Historical Ragbag

From inside the ‘Cocoon’ – Fluttering away  The Silver Voice

Sepia Saturday – of Casses and Cats cassmob


Reviews

Theresa Smith

The Week That Was…

Book Review: The Spill by Imbi Neeme

Book Review: The Cake Maker’s Wish by Josephine Moon

Book Review: The Secret Life Of Shirley Sullivan by Lisa Ireland

Better Reading

Book of the Week: HRT: Husband Replacement Therapy by Kathy Lette

Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld

Podcast: Melina Marchetta on Writing for a Whole New Age Group

Podcast: Peter Carey on The Importance of Story in Troubling Times #3



and from my blogs...

That Moment in Time

3 husbands at breakfast, bright blue graves, databases of the dead, dragon park, Friday Fossicking 19 Jun 2020, crash landing Galway bog, Qld WWI soldier portraits, UK -city, town & village photos, 1920s inventions still in use, historic comfort foods, Celtic Connections virtual conference, TROVE to be updated, curious unfinished quilt, birth of Dracula, library for birds, book reviews, missing friends, and so much more...
Feel free to share..


https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2020/06/friday-fossicking-19th-june-2020.html

Headlines of Old

Unclaimed Letters various states 1849 plus..Iss.3, Trove Tuesday 23 Jun 2020, thousands of names, local & international, likely clues as to origin of addressees..
Feel free to share..

https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2020/06/unclaimed-letters-various-states-1849.html

As They Were

New records for North Mayo- Ireland, paid site rootsireland.ie, over 67000 Roman Catholic-Church of Ireland-Presbyterian-Methodist burial registers and gravestone inscriptions, 

https://astheywere.blogspot.com/2020/06/new-records-for-north-mayo-ireland.html



Stay safe and well.
This will pass.


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