FRIDAY FOSSICKING 11th Jun 2021

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

* GENERAL INTEREST

Federation of Australian Historical Societies FAHS newsletter

incl. National Archives of Australia passes around the begging bowl

WA Government signals timeframe for introduction of First Aboriginal Heritage Act update since   1972   

FAHS Merit Award nominations close 30 June 2021

Be Connected  and more...

Appeal for Relatives - June 2021 | CWGC Commonwealth War Graves Commission

National Archives UK.. newsletter.. Blog: Sir James Pennethorne

This week's archive jigsaw      Celebrating National Volunteers Week

Visit Canberra newsletter incl. Final weeks of Botticelli to Van Gogh

State Library of Qld newsletter incl. Entwined: plants and people

Free talk: Love & War More events

Fury and heartbreak as Scenic Rim Regional Council clears graves at Tamborine Mountain Cemetery - ABC News

Immigration stories are key to your genealogy research   Atlanta Journal Constitution

I Love Bello Shire newsletter incl. 

Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival 2021   

Pyari Chats with Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival Head of Programming Bello Food Gardening Project

Wanderlust Twins    Pacific Resort Aitutaki, Cook Islands

Picturesque alleyways of Chania on Crete Island, Greece

Diving at The Enchanted River in Hinatuan, Surigao del Sur, Philippines

Find My Past

Scotland Roman Catholic Parish Registers Search all newspapers

Yorkshire Monumental Inscriptions

What's New?More exclusive parish registers now online

What's New?Explore brand new military records and memorials

What's New?Discover Scottish family milestones in millions of new records

Trace Catholic connections     Explore exclusive records from dioceses across England, Ireland and America.

Outback Family History

Ripping Yarns and Tragic Tales – 6th June 2021  

Menzies to Kalgoorlie Bike Race When I die – author unknown

The Brothers Mulchaey – a family story    

Frances Michael Connolly – grave tales

Atlas Obscura

Congo’s Nyiragongo Volcano  Danger Bridge Rhode Island

    

Letterlocking: A How-To secure your privacy  Round Falls ?

Servian Wall at McDonald's Italy   Paul Bunyan's Gravesite

Silent Town Crier Competitions   A Historic Russian Recipe    

Haul Road Alaska  Higgins Mausoleum  Deadly Shortcuts

The Wooden Man    Denmark A Gas Station’s Corpse Flower

Caked Alaska  The Stone Graves Of Heysham England

Enter the Birdman     Lake Pontchartrain Causeway Louisiana

Arachnophobes, Look Away  The Black Mailbox   Vicars' Close

Ghost Towns     The Case of the Missing Princess-Saint     

North Toronto Station     The Great Whip Spider Boom     

Seaham Hall Beach    Fremont Troll    Holy Austin Rock Houses

Family Search

Free resources to help you build your family tree

"Connecting Past, Present, and Future" Free RootsTech session 

Remembering a Loved One

Getting to Know Thom Reed, a Deputy Chief Genealogical Officer at FamilySearch

The Family History Library Is Opening Soon—Unveiling the 2021 Remodel

JSTOR Daily

Joanna Koerten's Scissor-Cut Works Were Compared to Michelangelo

Fall in Love with Fabric Samples 

Recipe for an Ancient Roman Glow Up 

Banks' Own Private Currencies in 19th-Century America

Photographing the Tulsa Massacre of 1921

Anglo-Celtic Connections

London Bills of Mortality, and Newspapers    FreeBMD June Update

Advance Notice: Strokestown Famine Orphans in Quebec

Sunday Sundries  

Tinteán Magazine newsletter incl.

The Nation writers emigrate to Melbourne        My Irish Story       

The Young Naturalist     Finding Our Heart in Irish

Love’s Bitter Mystery: the Year that Made James Joyce     

Always Interesting

Australian Roots and Spreading Branches

Marriage of Henry O’Brien & Anne Smith

Geniaus

An early morning zoom with Ancestry

The Gentle Author

George Parrin, Ice Cream Seller  The City Churches Of Old London

The Lavender Fields Of Surrey  Lyndie Wright, Puppeteer

Pamela Cilia, Truman’s Bottling Girl

Genea-Musings 

Genealogy News and Education Bytes -- Friday, 4 June 2021

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Your "Place Line"

Best of the Genea-Blogs - Week of 30 May to 5 June 2021

The Long-Awaited GEDCOM 7.0 is Here!

Genealogy News and Education Bytes -- Tuesday, 8 June 2021

allenrizzi

Yogurt  Fly Fishing The Italian Alps  Attenti Parenti Serpenti

What’s Important And What’s Not   Hymn To The Fallen 

Doing The Poka-Polka    They Are Us  The Fear Of Dying In Walmart

Humouring the Goddess

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Paul Dmoch    Emeralds

Stressing Over Nothing — Yet    Time to Check Out the Expanded Gallery!

Evening Gallery or Humoring the Goddess? Maybe a Little of Both — William Utermohlen

Stair na hÉireann | History of Ireland

#OTD in 1798 – United Irishmen Rebellion | Rebellion breaks out in Ulster – Henry Joy McCracken issues proclamation calling United Irishmen in Ulster to arms.

The Frugal Family Historian

A Grand (Virtual) Tour of Scotland’s Archives

The Legal Genealogist

With 100 friends…   Land buying age  Tiptoeing back to normal…

Connecticut opens OBCs

The Irish Story

The assassination of Walter Edward Guinness -Lord Moyne – 1944

Social Bridge

It’s an Ill Wind …

Branches On Our Haimowitz Family Tree

Who was Benjamin Haimowitz ~ WWI Casualty

Brotmanblog: A Family Journey

Who is in this Photograph? A Collaborative Effort by the Goldfarb Cousins

GeniAus

Trove Tuesday - Found

Applegate Genealogy

From the Faraway Nearby

* IRISH CENTRAL

Ice hockey created from Irish hurling, documentary reveals

The Irish pigeon that played a vital role in World War II's D-Day landings

How modern Ireland was created

How to see Dingle like a local - food, coffee and sight-seeing

How weather forecast from Mayo lighthouse saved D-Day invasion

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

Divers discover ancient artifacts in River Shannon while searching for missing persons

"Save Shannon Airport" petition racks up thousands of signatures

Irish Americans can now apply for their Irish passport online

"Welcome back" - Thousands of Ireland's traditional pubs finally reopen today

Michael Flatley named Ambassador of new Irish county for cancer survivors

Discover one of Missouri's finest Irish stores- the Celtic Ranch

New five-year plan launched to help save Irish language in Gaeltacht regions

Explore IrishCentral's Irish-German World War II series here!

Eating like our Irish Iron Age ancestors

Irish man John McDonnell, most successful NCAA coach in history, has passed away

Irish blessings and sayings on friendship

* INTERESTING BLOGS

The Bug      The Legal Genealogist

O’Driscoll’s Loss    Jessica Barratt

And then there was light: Electrification in rural Ireland   The Irish Story

Local & Family History: George Henry Charles Wright - 25 Nov 1921-9 Jun 2011 Chris Wright

Reviews

Theresa Smith

Book Review: Ariadne by Jennifer Saint

Bookish TV: Panic by Lauren Oliver

Book Review: Sistersong by Lucy Holland

Book Review: Retrospective by Kelly Van Nelson

Allen & Unwin

Nancy Business   R.W.R. McDonald

Small Acts of Defiance Michelle Wright

Magpie's Bend Maya Linnell     READ AN EXCERPT

The Bombay Prince Sujata Massey    READ AN EXCERPT

Better Reading

Book of the Week: We Were Not Men by Campbell Mattinson      READ MORE

Still Life ​by Sarah Winman    READ MORE

The Covered Wife by Lisa Emanuel     READ MORE

The Vet from Snowy River by Stella Quinn     READ MORE

All That I Remember About Dean Cola by Tania Chandler      READ MORE

Podcast: Cathy Kelly on Journalism, Perspective, and How Her Writing Has Evolved

Podcast: Dr. Robert Isaacs on Bridging the Divide Between White and Black Australia

Penguin Books Australia

The President's Daughter (start reading) Bill Clinton James Patterson

Convict-Era Port Arthur     David W. Cameron   CONTINUE READING

See more

and from my blogs...

As They Were

ADDITIONS to the IGP Archives MAY 2021, CLARE, DUBLIN, LAOIS, LEITRIM, TIPPERARY, WEXFORD, WICKLOW, headstones, church records, land deed, miscellaneous…

With thanks to Co Ordinator Christine Hunt and all the volunteers at IGP… Feel free to share, the title is the link…

https://astheywere.blogspot.com/2021/06/additions-to-igp-archives-may-2021.html

That Moment in Time

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 4th Jun 2021, library of mistakes, latest news from National Archives UK, Australia & Qld State Archives, Irish naming & baptism traditions, Lesson 9 free Family History Mini Class, Apps for Family History tasks, Middlesex baptisms, Ripping yarns & tragic tales, enormous chalk figure, living wake, sea turtle surgery, solar housing retro, photo repair..new feature, 20th century Irish rural life, absconded convicts, book reviews and a whole lot more…

https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2020/08/blog-post.html

HEADLINES OF OLD

CONVICT PARDONS..   Trove Tuesday 8th June 2021, conditional pardons for some - full pardon for others, some have more details..

Feel free to share, the title is the link…

https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2021/06/convict-pardons-trove-tuesday-8th-june.html

Keep safe and well.
This will pass.