FRIDAY FOSSICKING 4th Dec 2020

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

* GENERAL INTEREST

* Queensland State Archives ... Please Note

   ArchivesSearch will be undergoing maintenance from 5.00pm Friday 4 December to  2.00pm Sunday 6 December. During this time the catalogue will not be available. We apologise for any inconvenience.

Other services such as Flickr and Q-Album will continue to be available during this time.

* Paul O'Brien's lecture on Flo Clancy to Kilrush & Distric...     Paddy Waldron

* New Genealogy group on Facebook... 

  Irish Surname Registry (and more)

*  Webinar Weary Geniaus   GeneaDictionary

*  National Archives UK newsletter incl.

    Reading room services to resume from 8 December     

    

    Our first festive film - Images of a Victorian Christmas

    Read about noise in the 1950s and 60s        

   

*  I Love Bello Shire newsletter incl. Bellingen's Kylie Selig Dances for Life

*   ABC News: Australia's longest-running radio program celebrates 75 years

*  ABC News: Corner shop made famous by Shannon Noll music video gets heritage funding

*  Visit Brisbane newsletter incl. 

   30 Things to do in Brisbane this summer

*  The ScriBbleR newsletter Stella Budrikis always interesting

*  Queensland newsletter incl. 

    Which island suits your next tropical escape?  

   30 unforgettable things to do this summer

*   How to Lend a Kindle Book: A Step-by-Step Guide | Book Riot

*   Soc. of Aust. Gen. news incl. News  Web Tips Events

* Wanderlust Twins

 Palouse, Washington Chen Su   

 Gloucester Cathedral, England       

 Bejalasnica, Bosnia and Herzegovina Bez     Dan     

 Street scene in  Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic

  Autumn Bridge, Vermont Snowy Night, Brooklyn, New York

   Rila Monastery, the largest and most famous monastery in  Bulgaria

Find My Past

Scotland Monumental Inscriptions    

United States, World War II Casualty Lists      

British Army, Coldstream Guards 1800-1947         Search all newspapers  

Find family heroes  incl. new rolls of honor from The Bahamas, Barbados, St Kitts & Nevis and Bermuda.

Anglo-Celtic Connections

The Ancestor Hunt Historic Photo Links Updated      

Zoom: Buried Tombstones in Kingston     Sunday Sundries

Order of Canada Appointments    Historical Society of Ottawa Videos

Coming in December    Scottish Indexes Conference VII - 6 December 2020

Outback Family History

John Hosken – grave tales    The Barrowmen of the Outback

Fanny Cracker -Queen of the Outback  The Yalgoo Murder

JSTOR Daily

Thanksgiving Stories    Our Long-Running Love Affair with Pigeons     Plant of the Month: Cascarilla

Hollywood's Version of “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”

Atlas Obscura

Stop Thief!  Newton’s New Audiences  Bronze Age Boat

Abandoned Virginia Renaissance Faire

Guajataca Lake Puerto Rico    Spoonbridge and Cherry      

Canton Avenue Pittsburgh The Separation of Thanksgivings

From “Bush Tucker” to Brunch Australia     

Terminillo's Sword in the Stone  Thanksgiving Culture Wars

Cheyenne Mountain Nuclear Bunker  Memorial to Félicette

The Original McDonald’s French Fry    The Witch's Castle

Renovating a Masonic Temple   Ossian's Hall of Mirrors

The Story of a Sleeping Bag    The Lodge of Edinburgh  

Fort Knox State Historic Site

Family History Daily

Why You Need to Stop Adding Names to Your Family Tree

Ten Expert Strategies to Help You Find a Missing Ancestor

The Hard Truth About "Illegitimate" Births

Family Search Blog

New Languages available on FamilySearch.org

The Silent Generation: Characteristics and History

Smithsonian

Hegra, an Ancient City in Saudi Arabia Untouched for Millennia, Makes Its Public Debut

Behold the Largest Congregation of Bald Eagles in the United States

A History of Felines, as Narrated and Illustrated by a Cat

Botched Art Restoration in Spain Renders Smiling Statue Unrecognizable

Only One Factory in North America Still Makes Washboards, and They Are Flying Off of Shelves

Ancient Bust of Greek God Hermes Found During Work on Athens' Sewage System

Step Into 'The Starry Night' and Other Vincent van Gogh Masterpieces

Remnants of Scotland's Oldest Surviving Bridge Found

See Northern Ireland Through the Lens of a Pioneering Woman Archaeologist

Why a Newly Approved Plan to Build a Tunnel Beneath Stonehenge Is So Controversial

Ten Surprising Facts That Will Make Your Walk Around the Block More Interesting

Family Tree Magazine

Strategies for Family History Storytelling     

6 Overlooked Irish Genealogy Online Resources

Q&A: Finding Italian Genealogy Records

Get Started Researching Your Eastern European Ancestors

Free Czech Genealogy Terms Download

ALWAYS INTERESTING

Mrs. Daffodil Digresses

The Consequences of Marrying a Farmer/Schoolma’am: 1870

Christmas Gifts for the Destitute: 1904

Brotmanblog: A Family Journey

Thanksgiving in a Pandemic

The Irish Story

The Green Frame of British Rule?’ – Irish in the Indian Civil Service

Humouring the Goddess

Happy Thanksgiving!!     Faerie Paths — Tomorrow

Lazily Giving Thanks  Dawn Waters Baker  Infinity’s Rings

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Scott Hagan

allenrizzi

Thanksgiving In Italy   To Be Or Not To Be

O Norman, Norman, wherefore art thou Norman?

Genea-Musings

Lucille Ball is My 7th Cousin Twice Removed

Genealogy News and Education Bytes -- Friday, 27 November 2020

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Which Ancestor Am I Most Thankful For?

Best of the Genea-Blogs - Week of 22 to 28 November 2020

Monday Genea-Pourri - Week Ending 29 November 2020

Genealogy News and Education Bytes -- Tuesday, 1 December 2020

Social Bridge

Santa’s Clearance  One Puck at a Time

Dear Co. Waterford …     Old Fashioned Shopping

A Precious Post that Went under the Radar?

The Legal Genealogist

Giving thanks, 2020 style    The road less traveled by

Ancestry sued for yearbooks

Geniaus

From the Archives - There's one in every family!

The Gentle Author

Doreen Fletcher, Still Standing   

A Walk Through Walter Thornbury’s London

Stair na hÉireann

#OTD in 1895 – Death of Young Irelander, Author and Poet, Denny Lane.

Scottish Ancestral Research

2020: Gifts of Genealogy

Dreams and Adventures at Cosy Cottage

Our World: Covid litterbugs

* IRISH CENTRAL

"Weile Weile Waile" - How an old Irish murder ballad became a children's song

Family fighting for Irish language tombstone have legal bills covered 

Celebrating Eugene O’Neill on the anniversary of his death

Ireland’s favorite Christmas movie revealed

We're not crying you’re crying! This Irish supermarket's Christmas ad has a beautiful twist

Irish language Great Hunger film selected as Oscars contender

Death of an Irish neighborhood as Woodside, Queen's Irish fading away

Two Irish cities named as the friendliest in Europe

Elderly couple foil burglary with ancient Irish walking stick

Condé Nast Traveller names the 12 most beautiful villages in Ireland.  Do you agree?

What I missed about Ireland in the lost year of COVID

Oscar Wilde’s 11 best quotes on the anniversary of his death

Be like Liam Neeson! Plant your family heritage tree in Ireland

The Irish Rocket Man who almost blew up a Massachusetts town

Genetic study may explain Irish giant folklore 

Saoirse Ronan's powerfully understated new turn in 'Ammonite'

* INTERESTING BLOGS

John Hosken – grave tales Outback Family History 

Kate Fitzgerald 1824-1911 historybylarzus

#CourageousCousins – Fred Wininger KIA Root Stalker Genealogy

Thank You For Being a Good Person   humoringthegoddess

Reviews

Theresa Smith

The Week That Was…

A Month of Reading: November

Book Review: Vanishing Falls by Poppy Gee

The Sunshine Blogger Award

Better Reading

Dark Tides by Philippa Gregory      READ MORE

The Berlin Girl by Many Robotham    READ MORE

People of Abandoned Character by Clare Whitfield     READ MORE

The Valley of Lost Stories by Vanessa McCausland     READ MORE

Allen & Unwin

Hideout Jack Heath   

Something Like This   Karly Lane

Maeve Binchy's Treasury Maeve Binchy

Two Besides  Alan Bennett

A Necessary Death  Anne Holt

and from my blogs...

THAT MOMENT IN TIME

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 27th Nov 2020, FREEBIES, Bury Ditches, unique sign language, 19th century pie, British Armed Forces soldier's wills, more Scottish family records coming, multistorey graves?, ghost of a girl, List of wounded & missing WWI, hints for Norwegian genealogy, Bloody Sunday 1920 revisited, book reviews & podcasts, military deserters, 

Feel free to share… the title is the link…

https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2020/11/friday-fossicking-27th-nov-2020.html

HEADLINES OF OLD

MISSING.. FRIENDS and CONVICTS Trove Tuesday 1st Dec 2020, selected from 1863 - 1923 from newspapers and police gazettes, from a number of states. Great descriptions and also useful to trace where people were from, some list ships of arrival and former homeland… some give names of family members.

Convicts escaped from gaol as well as from work gangs…

Feel free to share… the title is the link…

https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2020/12/missing-friends-and-convicts-trove.html

AS THEY WERE

ADDITIONS to  IGP Archives - November 2020, Cavan, Fermanagh, Galway, Monaghan, Sligo, Tipperary,

Thanks to Christina & all the volunteers…

https://astheywere.blogspot.com/2020/12/additions-to-igp-archives-november-2020.html

                                                   

Keep safe and well.
This will pass.