* GENERAL INTEREST
I Love Bello Shire newsletter Bridging the Generations Quick Quiz
+ long list of events planned
Laura Whitmore's grandfather was one of the people behind a famous Irish landmark Extra.ie
The ScriBbler newsletter Stella Budrikis always interesting.
Animals at the cemetery.... Billion Graves
The National Archives UK newsletter incl. This week's archive jigsaw
Researching health in the 19th and 20th century
Blog: The AIDS health campaign and quite a bit more..
U.S. passport photo of Elizabeth (Noonan) Burns - Digital Commonwealth
Italian cemetery collapses, sending coffins down cliff into sea ABC news
ABC News: This tiny suburb outside of Sydney could become a burial ground for 800,000 people
Whitsunday Regional Council backflips on controversial graveyard policy that banned fresh flowers - ABC News
Finding lone graves in North Queensland to help trace family histories - ABC News
RootsTech Connect.. remember that the sessions will be available for free of charge for the net 12 months or so...
Find My Past
Britain, Marriage Licences Cambridgeshire, Licensed Victuallers
Search all newspapers United States, Black Loyalists evacuated, 1783
Anglo-Celtic Connections
More Digitization? Families of the 1918 Pandemic
FamilySearch Updates Co-Lab Updates for February
The Best Database for Somerset Resources Sunday Sundries
Monday: Toronto Branch OGS Monthly Meeting: Evernote
Monday Memories: Books This Week's Online Genealogy Events
Recent FamilySearch Historical Record Collections Updates
Outback Family History
A Racing Man from Tipperary Tragedy at Cue:
The Prince and the Diggers Daughter:
Family Search Blog
Irish Genealogy: Finding Birth, Marriage, and Death Records
Making the Most out of RootsTech Connect
Smithsonian
The True History Behind Netflix's 'The Dig' and Sutton Hoo
Archaeologists Unearth Egyptian Queen's Tomb, 13-Foot 'Book of the Dead' Scroll
Amateur Treasure Hunter Locates Missing Centerpiece of Henry VIII's Crown
Archaeologists Find 600-Year-Old Golden Eagle Sculpture at Aztec Temple
Trove of 'Ancient Treasures' Found in Shipwreck Off the Coast of Greece
Forgotten 20th-Century Photography Studio Found in New York Attic
Stunningly Well-Preserved Elizabethan Garden Discovered in England
Six Skeletons Found in Wreck of 18th-Century Pirate Ship Sunk Off Cape Cod
Ten-Billion-Pixel Image Shows Every Inch of Vermeer's 'Girl With a Pearl Earring'
The True History and Swashbuckling Myth Behind the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' Namesake
Hear the Musical Sounds of an 18,000-Year-Old Giant Conch
Atlas Obscura
The Great Kenyan Giraffe Rescue Found: An Emperor’s Bedchamber
The Livestock Living at the End of the World Blood Falls
The World’s Youngest Desert Thomas Edison's Concrete Houses
The Quest to Save a Rare Parrot Elusive Lizards, Elusive No More
House of Sarcasm' Teleport-o-Matic' Cambridge Tin House
A Plane With a Story On the Straight and Narrow The Angel Oak
Found: Lost Fort Stephen King's House For the Love of Lobsters
Compton’s Cowboys The Witch's Leg Capitol Records Building
Morse CodeZephyrhills Museum of Military History ‘Lake Stars’
Records-Access-Alerts
Poland Proposes Social Media "Free Speech" Law
19 February 2021 at 9:50:50 am AEST
The Polish government has proposed a new law to stop social media platforms deleting content or banning users who do not break Polish Laws. Social networks could be fined up to 50 million Zlotys ($13.4 million USD) to restore deleted posts or accounts. The new draft act appeared on the Polish Ministry of Justice website on February 1, 2021. See: https://www.gov.pl/web/sprawiedliwosc/zachecamy-do-zapoznania-sie-z-projektem-ustawy-o-ochronie-wolnosci-uzytkownikow-serwisow-spolecznosciowych
It is available only in Polish. A link to it is in the National Law Review article mentioned below.
To read more see:
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55678502
and
To read previous articles on the European Union, Digital Services Act, Amazon, Facebook, Google, and more see the IAJGS Records Access Alert archives at: http://lists.iajgs.org/mailman/private/records-access-alerts. You must be registered to access the archives.
Jan Meisels Allen
Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
Denmark appears it will follow Australia and other countries requiring technology giants such as Facebook and Google to pay for content by media organizations on their platforms, i.e. a “link tax”.
Denmark’s Minister of Culture, Joy Mogensen, said she would put forward legislation next month would require technology companies to pay publishers if news content is posted on their website.
Recently, the IAJGS Records Access Alert reported on Australia doing the same proposed legislation and Facebook threatening to stop their news source in Australia.
The European Union passed a copyright directive in 2019 which encourages such a link tax by providing for minimum standards for all EU member countries. While the EU directive does not call for negotiations by media organizations, the Australian pending legislation does and that is what the Danish proposal will do. The Danish proposal says if no agreement is reached between the publishers and the technology giants then Denmark’s copyright license board would settle the disputes.
Facebook states, as only 4 percent of content on Facebook is news articles, there is no economic argument for the company to pay for news. Minister Mogensen rejects that argument.
To read more see:
https://eutoday.net/news/business-economy/2021/facebook-google-to-pay-for-media-content
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has a proposed notice in the Federal Register regarding continuing to collect information from people requesting military records so that they can locate, identify, and provide the requested information.
The information collected via the SF 180 and eVetRecs is vital to NARA’s National Personnel Records Center, which stores and handles these records. They need this information to locate and release information from requested records.
This is a second request for public comment, the first published in the Federal Register on August 7, 2020 resulted in no responses being received.
To read the proposal see: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2021-02-22/pdf/2021-03452.pdf
If you plan to submit written comments they must be received by March 24, 2021.
Send any comments and recommendations on the proposed information collection in writing to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. You can find this particular information collection by selecting ‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open for Public Comments’’ or by using the search function.
Jan Meisels Allen
Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
There is a bill currently in the Georgia House, HB 92, that proposes to lower the embargo periods for birth records to 100 years and death, marriage, divorce and annulment dates for vital records to 75 years respectively. The records would then be transferred to the State Archives from the State Registrar. The bill may be read at: https://www.legis.ga.gov/legislation/58923
Currently, the embargo periods are 125 years for birth records and 100 years from date of death, application for marriage, divorce, or annulment.
Jan Meisels Allen
Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
ALWAYS INTERESTING
Family History Across the Seas
Hapgoods From Marksbury
Great Aunt Dorrie – Dorothy May Seddon nee Waddell
The Legal Genealogist
Dating a typo Think horses, not zebras
Brotmanblog: A Family Journey
Santa Fe Love Song: A Family History Novel
allenrizzi
The Rhyme Doctor There Is A Place For Us Me And The Munk
Social Bridge
Galloping Hooves Black and White Another of Dad’s The Seat
Ray of Light Momentum Kitchen Tableness
The Gentle Author
The Tale Of James Hadfield’s Pistol Vanishing London
AS Jasper, Writer & Cabinet Maker
Remembering Mr Pussy In Winter Adam Dant’s London Squares
Costume Of The Lower Orders Of The Metropolis
Humoring the Goddess
Sound and Texture Gratification Ding Yi Miki Asai
Faerie Paths — Saturday Afternoon ❤️ One Step Closer to Being Me
Short Stories full of wisdom and insight……. Boundless Blessings by Kamal
Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Maps
Little Wild Streak
Texas Cold Snap Brings Out the Birds great photos
Genea-Musings
Genealogy News and Education Bytes -- Friday, 19 February 2021
Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Create An Ancestor's Timeline
Added and Updated Ancestry.com Record Collections - Week of 13 to 19 February 2021
Added and Updated FamilySearch.org Record Collections - Week of 13 to 19 February 2021
Genealogy News and Education Bytes -- Tuesday, 23 February 2021
Dreams and Adventures at Cosy Cottage
Stair na hÉireann
Tracing Family Branches
* IRISH CENTRAL
Irish teen cycling 500 miles to support grieving grandad
NYC St. Patrick's Day parade set to be small but symbolic this year
The extraordinary life of Irish priest John Martin Hayes
When Jackie Kennedy brought her children to Waterford after JFK’s death
20 reasons to visit County Tipperary
Liam Neeson joins efforts to stop sale of New York Irish landmark
Ancient Irish wedding traditions and superstitions
Plans for Virtual Shamrock ceremony between US and Irish leaders on St. Patrick’s Day announced
The reality behind the Irish characters in the 1997 Titanic movie
Several Irish baby names among the “most unique” for 2021
The unsung Irishman who saved George Washington’s life twice
Petition appeals for pathway to citizenship for children born in Ireland to non-EU parents
Dublin’s Glasnevin Cemetery held its first burial on this day in 1832
Ireland's most famous dog breeds on Walking the Dog Day!
Irish historian recreates long-lost whiskey recipes using 200-year-old ingredients
Pop culture's favorite Leprechauns ahead of St. Patrick’s Day
When nothing rhymes, Irish music and banter, even virtually, helps
Irish village covered in sea foam in rare oceanic event
WATCH: Irish dancing brothers get shuffling with Shamrock Shakes
Where is the oldest St. Patrick's Day celebration in the world?
* INTERESTING BLOGS
South African Passenger Lists Online Kindred Past
Damp Jeans Social Bridge
Podcast: Irish Revolutionary Women with Liz Gillis and Mary McAuliffe The Irish Story
Reviews
Theresa Smith
Book Review: The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
Book Review: The Sanatorium by Sarah Pease
Better Reading
Book of the Week: The Royal Correspondent by Alexandra Joel READ MORE
Ash Mountain by Helen FitzGerald READ MORE
A Room Called Earth by Madeleine Ryan READ MORE
While Paris Slept by Ruth Druart READ MORE
Podcast: Better Reading Book Chat – episode 1
Podcast: Katherine Kovacic on Serial Killers… and Dogs
Allen & Unwin
The Imitator Rebecca Starford LEARN MORE
The Devils You Know Ben Sanders LEARN MORE
What Could Be Saved Liese O'Halloran Schwarz LEARN MORE
Crackenback Lee Christine LEARN MORE
The Shaman Roland Perry LEARN MORE
and from my blogs...
THAT MOMENT IN TIME
FRIDAY FOSSICKING 19th Feb 2021, how to get free fuel for a year, free records, bookish bathrooms, RootsTech Updates, Presidential 'pie', Ireland's Valentine, book reviews, searching for missing friends or family?, baking bread on the border wall, ASIO spy kid’s life, Family History course - Lake Mac libraries, tracing Welsh ancestors… and a whole lot more..
So many great blogs, in both the Always Interesting (any favourites of yours I should know about) as well as this week’s list of Interesting Blogs… I follow dozens of blogs, but I’m sure you could add some… your own as well..
Feel free to share… the title is the link…
https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2021/02/friday-fossicking-19th-feb-2021.html
HEADLINES OF OLD
ABSOLUTE PARDONS & CONDITIONAL PARDONS ..Convicts Trove Tuesday 23rd Feb 2021, convict records…
These clippings list hundreds of names..starting with those given Absolute Pardons, if any occurred within the time period of the notice published, followed by the Conditional Pardons. They show the name of the convict, the ship they arrived on and either the year the ship left Britain or arrived in Australia.
I have also added some extra information on a select few convicts to illustrate just what you might find on other sites..
https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2021/02/absolute-pardons-conditional-pardons.html
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