Friday, August 6, 2021

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 6th Aug 2021

 



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

* GENERAL INTEREST

Family Tree Frog..    Game On ! Be sure to read this post NFHM!
**See posts re NFHM below

One big change at Ancestry The Legal Genealogist


Historic organ tells tale of WA shipwreck, settlement and the life of pioneer Sophia Dent - ABC News


Iconic Brisbane restaurant Mama Luigi's set for removal under revised development plan - ABC News N.B. It has been moved to Toowong and restored.


Queensland State Archives facility closed due to lockdown

Now will remain closed until 9am Monday 9 August

During this time, we will not be able to provide copies of records.   However, we can still help with research, so please send your enquiries through to info@archives.qld.gov.au.

NOTE:   ArchivesSearch will be undergoing maintenance from 5.00pm Friday 6 August and will be unavailable until 1.00pm Sunday 8 August. We apologise for any inconvenience.


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


During the lockdown period you can still search the collection through ArchivesSearch, enjoy images and snippets of Queensland history on Facebook and Instagram, and we have many great archival videos on Youtube. You may also enjoy our latest online album that showcases over 900 digitised glass plate negatives from the wonderful Queensland Rail Heritage Collection.


NOTE: it's worth subscribing to the QSA newsletter... there is always lots to learn. The latest one has lots of news including...


#Last month Rose Barrowcliffe, the inaugural First Nations Archives Advisor, commenced at QSA.


# Queensland's Rail History incl. restoration of 900 glass plate negative images     See the collection on Flickr.  


Coming to Queensland a webinar Friday 27 Aug 10.00-11.30am  Register now     


The seminar will focus on:

  • legislation including an introduction to assisted immigration records
  • types of passage, and immigrant
  • immigration records and resources at Queensland State Archives.
# Latest releases..    Police administration files       Mining lease files


GSQ Blog... What Discovery Means To Me ...Shauna Hicks


National Archives Australia newsletter incl.  

 The dark side of the Roaring Twenties.. mugshots, + lots more

From 3 August, the research centre will be open at our temporary location in the Peter Durack Building in Mitchell. You will need to book a visit and request records at least 5 business days in advance.
We expect to reopen the refurbished research centre at National Office, ACT, in mid-September. 


National Archives UK newsletter incl.   'Dude, where art thine quill?




Australian War Memorial newsletter incl. Vietnam Veteran's Day


The ScriBbler news from Stella Budrikis.. interesting notes re workhouses plus lots more..

Clare Men & Women Great War 2 Download .pdf Clare library, Ire


IGP Clare Genealogy Archives- Records


Sweeping historical Irish American drama with Laois roots thrills 

Leinster Express


Black Prods, Beige Prods and little Papes   Reformation and finding Presbyterian records    John Grenham



**National Family History Month blogs..


Crissouli National Family History Month August 2021 Issue 1


Carmel's Corner Use your voice for Family Stories


Family History Across the Seas  Aunts, Uncles and Cousins


Geniaus  Genealife in Lockdown


FamilyHistory4u: Genealife in Lockdown Blogging Challenge - ANFHM


Sue Wyatt   Quarantine in Quebec


Isabel Flynn  Genea-life in Lockdown 1



Lillian’s Tree  

Genealife in Lockdown - NFHM Blogging Challenge - Part 1.


Genealife in Lockdown - NFHM Blogging Challenge  - Part 2.



Outback Family History


Ripping Yarns and Tragic Tales – 1 August 2021         


Kanowna’s Boy Hero – James Sexton


When Temperance Issues Raged   Can I Shave you Mr Smiler ?


Edward ‘Doo Dah’ Sullivan – grave tales


Find My Past


Scotland, Parish Marriages & Banns 1561-1893


Scotland, Parish Births & Baptisms 1564-1929   

 

Scotland, Parish Deaths & Burials 1564-2017    Search all newspapers


Anglo-Celtic Connections

British Newspaper Archive July Additions    Sunday Sundries


TheGenealogist adds to East Suffolk Parish Records


Internet Genealogy Magazine: August/Sept 2021


Family Search Blog


Monthly Record Update for July 2021 numerous records added


Beginning Your Middle East Family Tree


JStor Daily


Emily Brontë's Lost Second Novel       Vaccine Hesitancy in the 1920s


How Pigeons Helped Fight World War I    


How Oysters Became a Food Fad Way out West


Atlas Obscura


Snakes Near a Plane    Kitchen Computers  Boathouses of Ine      


Into Italy’s Musical Woods     The Laurel and Hardy Museum


Leftover Star Wars Sets     World’s Oldest Food    The Boiling River


Cathedral of Salamanca's Astronaut  Vedanta Society's Old Temple


Storm Chaser, Wedding Photographer  Hairy Competition


Jal Mahal India  Prehistoric ‘Proto-Cinema’  Olympic Ruins


Zion–Mount Carmel Tunnel   The Salt Fit For A Pope


Watergate Fountain   Glove-Making Traditions Grotte di Osimo Italy


Meet ‘Firebows’  Italy’s ‘Museum of Abandonment’  


New England’s Stone Walls  Food Truck Fit For a Prince


Normaal Amsterdams Peil Amsterdam Ha Ha Tonka Castle Ruins


India’s Touring Tent Cinemas      Caldwell-Lake George Library  


Yeast-less Bread   World’s Most Wondrous Vegetarian Eateries   


Giant's Causeway Pillar Dino-Sized Mystery  Stephen King’s House 



ALWAYS INTERESTING


Stair na hÉireann | History of Ireland


#OTD in Irish History | 2 August:


The Gentle Author


John Minton’s East End    At London Trimmings 


The Foundling Of Shoreditch   In William Blake’s Lambeth


At Embassy Electrical Supplies  


Victoria Park Model Steam Boat Club


Genea-Musings


Best of the Genea-Blogs - Week of 25 to 31 July 2021


Genealogy Pot-Pourri - Week Ending 2 August 2021


Webtember: All Genealogy, All September Long - 30 FREE Classes!



Humoring the Goddess


Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Volcanoes    Faerie Paths — A Toast


I Am Smiling … Aren’t I?  Opals  Unusual Flower Arrangements


Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Pablo Picasso


Repost — The Endeavourers’ Reveal Day, August 2021 — Opposite Day — Deep in the Heart of Textiles


Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Daniel Libeskind


The Frugal Family Historian


Free in September


The Legal Genealogist


A Moore unmoored  Tracking back…


allenrizzi


A Pocket Full Of Miracles  The Big One That Got Away


There Is A Place For Us


Dreams and Adventures at Cosy Cottage


Learning about Trees – the Rowan Tree



* IRISH CENTRAL


How Jack B Yeats' “Liffey Swim” won an Olympic medal in 1924


Heroes of Ireland's Great Hunger celebrates men and women who risked it all


WATCH: Women rowers claim first medal for Team Ireland at Tokyo 2020 Olympics


Ireland reaches 72 percent vaccination rate, passes Britain


Wicklow's Military Road, built to capture a rebel captain


Snowflake by Louise Nealon announces an exciting new Irish novelist


Ireland's Olympic rowing heroes return home after taking gold and bronze in Tokyo


Irish Government digitizes O'Donovan Rossa's 19th-century Fenian newspaper


Belfast poet Louis MacNeice's Irish heritage was close to his heart


Connemara Heartlands Gaeltacht, Galway


Irish "hidden gem" is one of the most photographed trails in the world


Another Olympic medal for Ireland as boxer guaranteed at least bronze


Haunting new video of JFK in Ireland discovered after 58 years


8th-century holy well and ancient farmhouse at center of Tipperary motorway row 


Lodge at Ashford Castle - there’s nothing quiet about Cong


Maureen O’Hara’s marriages and loves: The good, the bad and the ugly


Beekeeping, lace making, Wren's Day - Eight of Ireland's cultural practices get state recognition


Aran Islands ranked among best islands in the world


Kylemore Abbey and Victorian Walled Garden, Galway




* INTERESTING BLOGS


In the tracks of Cobb and Co: The Winton-Boulia route Judith Salecich


The Dangers of Fruit Peel  The Dusty Box



Reviews

Theresa Smith


Book Review: The First Time I Thought I Was Dying by Sarah Walker


Book Review: The Golden Book by Kate Ryan



Better Reading


Book of the Week: Thursdays at Orange Blossom House by Sophie Green  READ MORE


A Woman of Intelligence by Karin Tanabe  READ MORE


Cave Diver by Jake Avila    READ MORE


The Inheritance by Gabriel Bergmoser   READ MORE


Double Deal by John M. Green   READ MORE


Podcast: Campbell Mattinson on Using Writing to Break Down Barriers of Love and Loss


Podcast: Shannah Kennedy on Allowing Ourselves to be Happy with Plan B


Podcast: James Phelps on His Research into the Australian Prison System


Penguin Books 


Once There Were Wolves       Charlotte McConaghy     READ Q&A


A Football Story Like No Other  Majak Daw


CSI Told You Lies  Meshel Laurie        WATCH BOOK TRAILER


The Noise James   Patterson and J.D.Barker


Twenty Years Later   Charlie Donlea



and from my blogs...



THAT MOMENT IN TIME


FRIDAY FOSSICKING 30 JUL 2021, Highgate Cemetery-great photos, ancient supercontinent found ?, Scotland civil deaths  burials, Coastal passenger lists Australia, migration to Australia, Peter the Great’s Beard Tax, space medicine, deadly wallpaper, 

Flying Saucer Homes, Irish Convicts, Pentathlon’s Dangerous Origins, the Kalamazoo gals, book reviews and a whole lot more…

Feel feee to share, the title is the link…


https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2021/07/friday-fossicking-30-jul-2021.html


HEADLINES OF OLD


RETURN OF ASSIGNMENTS OF CONVICTS  1833 +  Trove Tuesday 3rd Aug 2021, some transfers, further details on some convicts, extra sites to explore…

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


https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2021/08/return-of-assignments-of-convicts-1833.html


AS THEY WERE


IGP ADDITIONS for JULY 2021


Cavan, Dublin, Clare, Fermanagh, Galway, Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives..

We thank the volunteers for all their hard work.


https://astheywere.blogspot.com/2021/08/igp-additions-for-july-2021.html

Keep safe and well.
This will pass.


2 comments:

  1. Amazing - I don’t know how you manage to collate all of this great info. Congratulations on your dedicated work.

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  2. Thank you, Flissie.. glad you like it. I've been compiling this one weekly for just over 10 years now.

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