FRIDAY FOSSICKING 4th Jun 2021

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

* GENERAL INTEREST

The National Archives UK 

Blog: Oscar Wilde: triumph, tragedyand exile 

Half term fun for families 

Last chance to buy discounted family history titles from our shop

The National Archives Australia newsletter incl. 

Crime on the rise at the National Archives, Gratefully, Audrey & more

Queensland State Archives 

QSA Talks: In support of the Commandants: subaltern officers of the Moreton Bay settlement, 1824-1850  plus Administration Files & more

TROVE Treasures newsletter incl. Trove Italiano

Newsletter wins award Irish Echo

The ScriBbler.. newsletter    Stella Budrikis...

A teller of tall tales, and where to (safely) find free e-books

Family history: A missing father, a faraway war and a presidential connection Business Post

New content has been added to www.johngrenham.com

I Love Bello Shire newsletter incl. Bello Food Gardening Project plus

A Living Wake

Save Bellingen Hospital.. close to my heart... so many of my family had wonderful care in Bellingen Hospital, as I have also..

Cairns Family History newsletter incl. Shadows from the Past..

Dramatised Evening Walks through McCleod St Pioneer Cemetery

My Irish Castle and more...

Orange City Council NSW incl. VIDEO: Check out Tully's work here  Choices at Home webpage (for older residents)
 

IrelandXO Insight - Irish Naming and Baptism Traditions | Ireland Reaching Out

* Generosity from Family Historians is much appreciated..

Free Family History Mini-Class 2021 : Lesson 9 Just one to go... Courtesy of The Frugal Family Historian

Apps for Family History tasks Carmel's Corner

Wanderlust Twins  Pai Mae Hong Son, Thailand      

Balconies, Barcelona, Spain Baros Resort, Maldives

The chapel of Selva Negra in Matagalpa / Nicaragua

15th Century Millers Cottage, Somerset England

Cottage on the Loch, Scotland   Angkor Wat, Cambodia

Old Fulling Mill and Boathouse on the River Wear in Durham city, England

Find My Past

Middlesex Baptisms   Search all newspapers 

Carmarthenshire Parish Records Baptisms 1921 > marriages.. 1936 >

Outback Family History

Ripping Yarns and Tragic Tales – 30 May 2021

Dastardly and Diabolical Deed at Day Dawn  

The Box Soak Creek Rush  Dorothea Ruby Olive Wraight -grave tales    

Ode to the Nurses by Smiler Hales  An Hotel by any other name

Smithsonian

What Caused the Roaring Twenties? Not the End of a Pandemic (Probably)

Rarely Seen Portrait of Renaissance Queen Catherine de' Medici to Go on View

Visit the Birthplace of Rock 'n' Roll's King, Tupelo, Mississippi

New 'Oregon Trail' Game Revisits Westward Expansion From Native Perspective

Why a 200-Year-Building in Morocco Is the Only National Historic Landmark Outside the U.S.

The True History Behind Amazon Prime's 'Underground Railroad'

This American Monk Travels the World to Rescue Ancient Documents From Oblivion

Scholars Are One Step Closer to Solving the Mystery of an Enormous Chalk Figure

A New Frank Gehry Tower Rises Above the Quaint French Town of Arles

Celebrating America's Oldest Family-Run Stained Glass Studio

Family Search Blog

Ideas for Holding a Celebration of Life Ceremony

Monthly Record Update for May 2021

Atlas Obscura

Heavenly Views   Rio de Janeiro   Threads of God  Sardinia  

Fire Hose Crossing  The Unbuilt Suburb  J.R.R. Tolkien's Grave

Medieval Hymn,  Modern Station  Overlook Mountain House Ruins

Radioactive Rocks 18 Shipwrecks To Safely Visit    Troll Falls Alberta

Enter the Library of Mistakes Edinburgh 'Coventry Doom'

Magnolia Grandiflora planted 1885 Mainzelmännchen Traffic Lights

In Defense of L.A.’s Loquat  Ayahs’ Home  Independence Mine 

Curiosity from Coast to Coast  The Burryman Scotland

Bryant Park Bathroom  Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah Wilderness Study Area

Subway Film Set    Deno's Wonder Wheel NY Sea Turtle Surgery   

Maps to Get Lost In   Cave of Maltravieso Spain Knife Angel

A Literary Best-Shell-er   This Is Not A Coastline  A City of Cat Ladders

JSTOR Daily

Reliving the Wonder Years of Wonder Bread   

Chien-Shiung Wu, the First Lady of Physics

How Women Fought for the Right to Be Bartenders

Solar Housing Is Actually Kind of Retro!

Anglo-Celtic Connections

First Virtual Ancestry Day   

Meanwhile, at Library and Archives Canada … neglect  

Sunday Sundries     British Newspaper Archive May Additions

Library and Archives Canada: Risks and Uncertainties  

Military Monday: British War Dead on Your Street

ALWAYS INTERESTING

Diary of an Australian Genealogist

Genealogy education, new resources & other news: Australia and New Zealand Genealogy News May 2021

Brotmanblog: A Family History

Leo and Rose Goldfarb: The Two Youngest Children of Sarah Brod and Sam Goldfarb

Humouring the Goddess

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Ancient Coins   Maps

Faerie Paths — Exclamation Astronomy — the Song, not the Science   

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Shayna Leib   Memorial Day 2021

Zinovii Shenderovich Tolkatchev such powerful renditions

Geniaus

From the Archives - Cardboard Cutouts or Real People?

allenrizzi

I-95     The Horse Whisperers From Anaconda  Hymn To The Fallen

Guns Now And Then   

The Legal Genealogist

Ran away from home    In the backyard    Memorial Day 2021

Social Bridge

To Mother with Love

The Gentle Author

Fifty Years Since The Stepney School Strike  

London’s Natural History    The Broderers At St Paul’s

Genea-Musings

Genealogy Book Review: "Call Me John," by Michael Schoenholtz

MyHeritage Introduces Photo Repair - New Feature to Automagically Fix Scratched and Damaged Photos

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Who Is #42 on Your Ahnentafel List?

Best of the Genea-Blogs - Week of 23 to 29 May 2021

Monday Genea-Pourri - Week Ending 31 May 2021

Genealogy News and Education Bytes -- Tuesday, 1 June 2021

Stair na hÉireann

#OTD in 1948 – Death of writer and playwright and member of Cumann na mBan, Lily O’Brennan.

Hapgoods from Marksbury

The Waddell brothers in the 2nd Light Horse in WW1 – a complementary article and new photo?

* IRISH CENTRAL

NYC’s teenage mayor? Thomas Downs has plans

National Pet Month! Top Irish names for your dog

Irish couple donate incredible €30 million to Trinity College Dublin 

The top five tourist attractions in County Waterford

National Inventors Month: Here are the top Irish inventions that changed the world

POLL: Should Irish citizens abroad be allowed to vote in Irish elections?

The life and times of Irish Melodies maker, Thomas Moore

Ireland can resume non-essential international travel in July

John Hume's family donates awards including Nobel Peace Prize to Derry

The untold story of the women who helped build the US railroads

Stone fort is the height of Georgian glamor in West Cork

John Boyne's 'The Absolutist' a hard hitting tale

Curfews, distancing, no loud music - Fáilte Ireland publishes pub reopening guidelines

Now 100, the little Irish girl who rode an Orphan Train to Texas

Incredible documentary examines 20th-century Irish rural life 

Irish son brought mother with Alzheimer's on epic 18-month world tour

TUNE IN: Mass marking 70th anniversary of filming of The Quiet Man, tomorrow!

Daniel O’Donnell reaches out after Donegal man badly injured in Boston

Irish woman living in US celebrates 103rd birthday

On this day: Irish Famine ships arrive at Grosse Île quarantine station, in 1847

What you need to know about County Kerry

Irish divers discover ancient artifacts while searching for missing persons

Petition launched to save Kerry island’s two abandoned donkeys

Ireland’s sweetheart Matt Damon to close out Dalkey Book Festival

The Irish Fenian invasion of Canada began 155 years ago today

Brave Irish teen saves mother and daughter from drowning in Co Carlow

The children's thank you book that highlighted Ireland's post-war aid to Germany

An emigrant's praise of Irish rain

* INTERESTING BLOGS

Joe and Betty Goldfarb and Their Children: A Close and Loving Family, Part II    Brotmanblog: A Family Journey

Villa Gustavo    allenrizzi

For whom the bell tolls: Croydon Cemetery      Judith Salecich

A Day for Projects Humoring the Goddess

Reviews

Theresa Smith

The Week That Was…

Book Review: Mrs England by Stacey Halls

A Month of Reading: May

Book Review: The Shape of Darkness by Laura Purcell

Better Reading

Book of the Week: Still by Matt Nable    READ MORE

Falling by T.J. Newman   READ MORE

Mirror Man by Fiona McIntosh  READ MORE

Both of You by Adele Parks  READ MORE

Podcast: Richard Flanagan on the Rotting Underbelly of the Tasmanian Salmon Industry

Podcast: Madeleine Ryan on Being Diagnosed with Autism While Writing A Room Called Earth

and from my blogs...

That Moment in Time

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 28th May 2021, sinking town, free family history mini class 7 & 8, most beautiful cemeteries,  convict records, Scotland-BDMs, Irish sky garden, rent for the Queen, library bats, wartime knitting spies, poignant WW2 diaries, Native American burial rituals, haunted castles, book reviews and a whole lot more…

Feel free to share..the title is the link…

https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2021/05/friday-fossicking-28th-may-2021.html

That Moment in Time

TROVE ADDITIONS May 2021, additional  newspaper titles, gazettes & newspapers coming soon, redigitised artworks, magazine coming soon..

Feel free to share, the title is the link..

https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2021/05/trove-additions-may-2021.html

HEADLINES OF OLD

ABSCONDED CONVICTS  Trove Tuesday 1st Jun 2021, names, alias, ship of arrival, physical description, employer/master, some with extra information, can you add anything further?

Feel free to share, the title is the link…

https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2021/06/absconded-convicts-trove-tuesday-1st.html

Feel safe and well.
This will pass.