FRIDAY FOSSICKING 28th Aug 2020

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

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ABC News: 110-year-old church has a lean 'bigger than a Bible' as it sinks into the earth

This is a beautiful old church we've been there a number of times, though not for quite awhile.

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Which coronavirus vaccine will win the race? The clues are in the vial - ABC News

A medieval charnel house below the streets of Spitalfields – Flickering Lamps

Exemption granted for five-week-old baby son to attend the funeral of Melbourne electrician 

History of 127-year-old Katanning flour mill preserved as luxury Premier Mill Hotel | The West Australian

Judy Webster - Genealogy newsletter incl. latest news from Qld State Archives, Ryerson Index, Ancestry's new messaging system and more...
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Stella Budrikis The ScriBbleR newsletter incl. Painting in Paris and finding books from home

I Love Bello Shire newsletter incl. Through A Different Lens - Photographer Tim Page

Wanderlust Twins... Naksansa Temple in Gangwon Province, South Korea

Berlin, Germany   Cadiz, Spain    Kandooma Resort – South Male Atoll – Maldives Islands.

White Rocks of Portrush, Co. Antrim / Northern Ireland Door in the Rock, Portugal

Che Guevara’s headquarters, Cueva de Los Portales, Cuba

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TheGenealogist releases over 260,000 Poll Book records

The Future of DNA Testing: A Genealogy of Everyone

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Letters of Lockdown     Animal Farm: The cartoon strip and the Cold War

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Solved: A Historical Mystery     Life in ‘Resurrection City’   Reclaiming Holy Water

Uredd Rest Area (Ureddplassen) Norway    Art, Mathematics, Mythology, Rice

Crater of Diamonds State Park    Battlefield to Wildlife Refuge   Lowell Mausoleum

Capitol Records Building Morse Code  Nature’s Coolest Critters

Peek Inside NYC’s Iconic Rubber Stamp Shop  Video   8 Shady Arizona Spots

Sub-Sub-Sub Island on Victoria Island   Poveglia Plague Island  Venice

Radioactive Trash    Surprising Objects Taken to Space    Medieval Pandemic Parallels

The Witch’s Eye  Ada Stonehenge   Museum Legends  Untouchable Flower

Robert the Doll     Charity Stones     Poetry in Plain Sight  Lake Pontchartrain Causeway

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The Fleur-de-lis and Its Meanings and Uses  

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The Prospector’s Daughter     The Picnic – tragedy in the great drought   

The Girl from the Goldfields:    Macquarie’s Dog:   Father and Daughter – grave tales

JSTOR Daily

Plague and Protest Go Hand in Hand   When Asbestos Was a Gift Fit for a King

Sharks Before and After Jaws       Stingray Spines and the Maya     

How Local Newspapers Helped Emmett Till's Murderers Go Free

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Any Reaction is a Good Reaction  I Have a Thing For ……….. Clouds   Tiffany Lamps

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A Particularly Amiable Man  also Magazine & Newsletters via TROVE

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Where Are They Now?

Branches On Our Haimowitz Family Tree

The Headstone for Rosie Levin nee Weiss

The Memoir of Julius Loewenthal, Part IV: Tragedy Strikes

Dreams and Adventures at Cosy Cottage

Garden Makeover 2: Goodbye Decking, Hello Patio

Genea-Musings

Genealogy News Bytes - Friday, 21 August 2020

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Your Disaster Genealogy Go Bag

Best of the Genea-Blogs - 16 to 22 August 2020

Monday Genea-Pourri - Week Ending 24 August 2020

Genealogy News Bytes - Tuesday, 25 August 2020

Social Bridge Jean Tubridy

That Crazy Job Interview       Odds

The Legal Genealogist

They never gave up     Rescuing history   Tarheel dower

Mrs. Daffodil Digresses

The Women Folk are Canning Fruit: 1908   “Will you be my summer girl?”: 1909

Historical Ratbag

The Basilica of Saint Denis and the Kings and Queens of France

Stair na hÉireann | History of Ireland

Banba’s Crown, Malin Head, Co Donegal

Frugal Family Historian

Free Family History Mini-Class : Lesson 7

Textile Ranger

Locked Down in History — Unraveling “The Queen’s Embroiderer”

* IRISH CENTRAL

Celebrate National Radio Day with Guglielmo Marconi’s Irish connection

My trip to America's "most Irish" town

Places in Ireland that can change your life

On This Day: Apparition of Virgin Mary reported in Knock, Co Mayo in 1879

New movies starring Liam Neeson, Jessie Buckley imminent

WATCH: Amazing footage of a cow swimming at a beach in Co Donegal

Titanic hero who saved more than 50 people honored in Cork

What to visit in Ireland? The 10 best places to visit

Ireland’s Brehon Laws were way ahead of their time

Do you know the story behind the Irish flag?

Honoring US hero great-grandfather in applying for Irish citizenship

Meet the Irishman who takes the world’s best animal selfies

Little Jimmy Murphy - A United Irishmen Song

Ireland's population on the up, most Irish returning home since 2007

WATCH: New trailer provides closer look at Brendan Gleeson as Donald Trump

Irish holiday cottage raffle raises more than €800k for frontline staff

Northern Irish 10-year-old discovers ancient broadsword using his new metal detector

On this day: In 1725 Dublin children received the first smallpox vaccination

WATCH: Trailer released for new Saoirse Ronan, Kate Winslet drama “Ammonite”

IFI collection features historic newsreels of Michael Collins and the 1916 Rising

These are the ten most Instagrammed parks in Dublin - have you been?

WATCH: Colin Farrell is unrecognizable as Penguin in "The Batman" trailer

On This Day: The Dublin Lockout begins in 1913

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Create an anchor or bookmark in a Blogger post   Carmel's Corner  Carmel Galvin

Workday Wednesday  Family Tree Frog Alex Daw

Overlooking the Obvious     A Family Tapestry   Jacqi Stevens

Morgan properties in Rowan Road, Derrynoose, Armagh, Northern Ireland   Ancestor Chasing   Kerryn Taylor

The missing piece of the jigsaw - Mary Anne Hynes   Black Raven Genealogy     Dara

Reviews

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The Week That Was…

Author Talks: Christie Nieman on Using Place to Find Your Stories

Book Review: Tiny Pieces of Us by Nicky Pellegrino

Behind the Pen with Lili Wilkinson

Book Review: Night Lessons in Little Jerusalem by Rick Held

The Irish Story

Book Review: Mary J. Murphy, Achill Painters – An Island History

Better Reading

Book of the Week: Tiny White Lies by Fiona Palmer

People Like Us by Louise Fein

Final Cut by S.J. Watson

Podcast: Anstey Harris on Telling Tall Tales When the Truth isn’t Interesting Enough

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and from my blogs...

That Moment in Time

Friday Fossicking 21st Aug 2020, FREE - online Nat. Archives UK + SBS stories + stories to read + videos from Ireland + podcast Ireland in WWII + genie help… whew!  Also  deadly wallpaper, online historical cookbooks, book reviews, Mongolian Railway Museum, Men of the Goldfields, Eltham Roll of Honour,  and much more.. Feel free to share.. the title is the link…

https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2020/08/friday-fossicking-21st-aug-2020.html

Headlines of Old

Lost a convict or living in hope of finding one in your ancestry?  You may just find one in this very detailed list.

Absconded Convicts ..1847... Trove Tuesday 25th Aug 2020, great descriptions and details, numerous names, home counties/cities, 

https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2020/08/absconded-convicts-1847-trove-tuesday.html

Stay safe and well. 

This will pass.