FRIDAY FOSSICKING 12th Mar 2021

 

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

* GENERAL INTEREST

CONGRATULATIONS to  CYNDI'S LIST.. 25 years of providing a massive and still growing list of free links to all manner of things associated with family history/genealogy... Thank you, Cyndi... 

National Library of Australia newsletter incl.

A Nation Imagined: The Artists of the Picturesque Atlas  

Fashion in the Foyer: Zimmermann + Ellis Rowan  Visit now

State Library of Qld newsletter incl.    Gallery Walk

Queensland Memory Awards  Carpark access has changed

Cut Copy: Brisbane music posters 1977-87

National Archives UK newsletter incl.

Archivists' Guide to Film: Suffragette      This week's Archive Jigsaw

Online events: Churchill's Cook and Women and Protest

Our woman of the week: Emmeline Pankhurst  

National Archives of Australia - NAA newsletter incl.

Spy: espionage in Australia   Killer sharks vs the CWA

Signed, sealed, delivered: when the post office was king

Australian War Memorial newsletter incl.   RAAF Centenary

ANZAC DAY     Collected Podcast HMAS Brisbane

Women's History Month incl. 45 Daughters of Mary Immaculate

Henryka Shaw survived five concentration camps    and more...

I Love Bello Shire newsletter incl. Suggested Holiday Itineraries

Clean Up Australia Day on the Dorrigo Mountain

Are We Killing Our Koalas? ABC Catalyst

Anglican Diocese baptisms +    

Records and Archives — Anglican Church Southern Queensland

Convict Stories | Australian Colonial Dance

Dr Seuss's legacy of kindness has only been bolstered by his estate's decision The Guardian

Genealogical Society To Host Irish Researcher     CapeNews.net Direct from Dublin via Zoom

Pontins surname blacklist banned a million people in Ireland and UK  The Times

Wheeling Author Jack Bodkin's New Novel Has Roots in His Own Irish Heritage  Wheeling Intelligence

International Women’s Day; Choose to Challenge: Hon. Pauline Toner M.L.A.    Eltham District Historical Society Inc.

INTERVIEW: Genealogist Sarah Gutman On "Kiss Me I'm Irish: How To Research Your Irish ...      Hamptons.com

The 10 Most Irish States in America      Money Talks News

Wanderlust Twins  

Seven Dwarfs Mine Train, Walt Disney World / Florida

Outback Family History

What is a t’othersider ????  Murder most Foul  The Wild Colonial Boy

Prize Winning Gardens:

Find My Past

Essex Baptisms   Kent Baptisms  Kent Marriages     

Search all newspapers  Download free activity pack

Anglo-Celtic Connections

Genealogists’ Magazine: March 2021   Sunday Sundries

Ireland: Update on Beyond 2022     Women/Commonwealth Day

Free Access to The Toronto Star Archive

Monday Memories: Genealogy CDs    

Family Search Blog

History of Ireland and Your Heritage

Tinteán Magazine newsletter incl.  BrigidFest 2021

Learning about Australia from John O’Brien     What's On

Sounds Irish: One Hundred Years of Around the Boree Log

Women and the Irish Revolution       and more...

Atlas Obscura

The Bowder Stone   A Haven For Wildlife and One Man    

Miniature Castles   Antarctic Accidents  Tent Toilets

Karja Church Estonia  Fabulous Fruit Trees  The Lillipad Cafe

Rusovce Mansion  Slovakia    The Dragon of Wantley

Istanbul’s Ancient Art       'Wake'  Washington  A Macabre Arms Race

'Verity' statue England      The 1898 American Indian Congress

The Awakening  Maryland   Nansen Ski Jump New Hampshire

Ashfork-Bainbridge Steel Dam Arizona   Jersey Shore Hauntings

The Mystery of a Lonely Skull  South Bailey Sewer Lamp   

Fake Mountains     Xi'an City Walls   Ancient Road Snacks

The World’s Oldest Pet Cemetery       Edinburgh’s Historical Secrets

ALWAYS INTERESTING

Stair na hÉireann

#OTD in 1981 – Day 8 | Bobby Sands recorded his diary for the first seventeen days of his hunger strike in which he detailed his thoughts and feelings on the momentous task that lay ahead of him.

Humoring the Goddess

Faerie Paths — Time   Do You Have a Spirit Guide or Two?

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Dasil  Faerie Paths — Hope   Silver

allenrizzi

Beyond Oz      Rosie – Certainly An Original

The Legal Genealogist

Silver bells for Cyndi’s List!     Happy 200th birthday, or maybe not

The challenge of Ann     A year in the life

The Gentle Author

Raju Vaidyanathan’s Brick Lane  Thomas Newington’s Recipes

John Thomson’s Street Life     The Bakers Of Widegate Street

A Lost Corner Of Whitechapel   

Brotmanblog: A Family Journey

Amalie Schoenthal Wolfe and Etta Wolfe Wise: Photo Analysis Part II

Amalie Schoenthal Wolfe and Etta Wolfe Wise: Photo Analysis Part III

The Irish Story

Ambushes in the Irish War of Independence: Myth and Reality

The Battle of Tory Island – the last engagement of the United Irishman rebellion of 1798

Social Bridge

Sandals    Last Drops of Light  Ireland and Covid    23074    Lostness

Genea-Musings

Genealogy News and Education Bytes -- Friday, 5 March 2021

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Fearless Females 2021 

Best of the Genea-Blogs - Week of 28 February to 6 March 2021

Using Ancestor Explorer for WikiTree to Generate an Ancestor List and Map

Genealogy News and Education Bytes -- Tuesday, 9 March 2021

Dreams and Adventures at Cosy Cottage

Secrets of Preston: Highgate Wood  

Treasure Chest of Memories

7 International Women’s Day Writing Ideas

The Frugal Family Historian

The Pick of the Irish Research Sites

* IRISH CENTRAL

WATCH: Magical murmuration in Mullingar captured in perfect photo

Plant an Irish Heritage Tree on a former secret WWII air base

Ireland's illegal adoptions examined in new RTÉ investigative documentary

Memories of St. Patrick's Day as a child with my father in Donegal

“Who speaks properly?” Little girl with Northern Irish and American parents puts their accents to the test

Paul McCartney working on autobiography with Irish poet Paul Muldoon

Is the Irish language hard to learn?

Remembering New York City’s famous Irish immigrants this St. Patrick’s Day

TUNE IN: Trinity explores the history of the Irish pub for St Patrick’s Day 

Mystery of missing 87-year-old Irish pilot off Florida coast

Irish set dancing teacher provides online classes to help people with Parkinson's

TUNE IN: Discover your new favorite Irish musician live today

The Irish orphan girls who were flogged on a ship bound for Australia

International Women's Day - the inspiring lives of some of Ireland's fiercest females

St. Patrick's real name was actually Maewyn Succat

Liam Neeson to play hired killer with early Alzheimer's in next movie

Inspiring quotes from Irish heroes for International Women's Day

Northern Ireland - Scotland tunnel could be inching closer to reality

New technology recreates the face of Irish rebel leader Robert Emmet

St Patrick’s Day goes virtual and is packed with events

Irish beach voted among best in Europe, again!

How we celebrated Saint Patrick's Day in rural Ireland, 1959

No "clear evidence" established for Ireland's illegal birth registrations

WATCH: Incredible 1929 news footage shows Irish shepherd in Prospect Park, New York

The Irish brands that every person knows and loves

* INTERESTING BLOGS

A Row of Thoughts   Social Bridge

Lydia Jelley 1824 – 1899 :A Different Way To Get By   larzus

Short month, lots of genealogy: Australia & New Zealand Genealogy Notes February 2021   Diary of an Australian Genealogist

Married by Hoyts | The Dusty Box

Reviews

Theresa Smith

The Week That Was…

The 2021 Stella Prize Longlist

Book Review: The Breaking by Irma Gold

Book Review: Rags of Time by Michael Ward

Allen & Unwin

Of Gold & Dust   Samantha Wills

Dead in the Water  Richard Beasley

How to Endo   Bridget Hustwaite    re endometriosis surviving & thriving

Kate Kelly Rebecca Wilson  ....  Ned Kelly's little sister

Bastard Behind the Lines  Tom Gilling

With My Little Eye   Sandra Hogan

Better Reading

Book of the Week: A Home Like Ours by Fiona Lowe       READ MORE

The Codebreakers by Alli Sinclair       READ MORE

The Family Doctor by Debra Oswald  READ MORE

Born Into This by Adam Thompson      READ MORE

Podcast: Kellie McCourt on Dyslexia and Dropping out of University to Become a Poet

and from my blogs..

THAT MOMENT IN TIME

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 5th Mar 2021, Anglican Church-records & archives, FREE NZ index, Societies newsletters, Trove Treasures, Snake Squad, Damper & tinned dog, East End Jewish bookshops, 

Medieval tiles, Ennis Co Clare..over 70 years ago, 95 yr old Irish lady publishes first book, great books reviewed, absconded convicts lists, Dublin nuns in dance challenge, burial index for England & Wales, details of Donegal ‘Black & Tan’ murder and a whole lot more…

Feel free to share… the title is the link…

https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2021/03/friday-fossicking-5th-mar-2021.html

HEADLINES OF OLD

TICKETS OF LEAVE CANCELLED  9TH Mar 2021 Trove Tuesday, 

Details include convict’s name, ship they arrived on, reason for cancellation, court/bench/district decision given.

The reasons for cancellation are so varied and make interesting reading. Male and female convicts mentioned. Hundreds of names listed.

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

https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2021/03/tickets-of-leave-cancelled-9th-mar-2021.html

Keep safe and well.
This will pass.