FRIDAY FOSSICKING 3rd Sept 2021

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

* GENERAL INTEREST

NATIONAL FAMILY HISTORY MONTH... AUGUST 2021 - BLOGGING CHALLENGE. Do have a look at the impressive blogs that were written for NFHM.. a story to suit all tastes. Who knew that we had so many great writers among us? Perhaps leave a comment to encourage bloggers to continue...

Thanks go to Alex Daw for coming up with idea and to all who participated. Thanks also for the badges.

Alex's Summation..

#NFHM Genealife in Lockdown Blogging Challenge Sum Up

Qld Family History online family history research service

www.qld.gov.au/familyhistory     

 

My family history research journey.....

Cairns Family History QLD eNEWS incl. DNA consultations & lots more

GSQ Blog 

The Bellamys: Pioneers of West Pennant Hills. Robyn Dean

Eltham District Victoria MysteryMonday: Eltham Shire Council Rural Road Maintenance c.1990

Federation of Australian Historical Societies  FAHS eNewsletter

A Family History Month experiment – search millions of name records from GLAM organisations     updates­.timsherratt­.org

The Chase's Anne Hegerty set to learn about Irish heritage on upcoming DNA Journey episode  Sunday World

Find A Grave

Finally home     Interesting Monuments     Pro Tips   Using Virtual Cemeteries

*You can skip the ads with many of the stories below by clicking on the lines/Reader View symbol in the url bar at the top of the page.

Michael Rock Uncovers Family Farmlands and Ancestors in Ireland - Fun 107

Are Americans as Nice as We Think We Are? - Fun 107

Thrift shop reunites family with 1870s marriage certificate hidden behind a painting | Fox News 

The National Archives UK newsletter incl. Archive Jigsaws: posters from the Central Office of Information  

Free adventures in Kew   Entertaining histories

Podcast: Government goes to the movies

The Fastest Way to Clear Your Recent Browsing History in Every Browser Lifehacker

TROVE   Community Language Newspapers

From South Australia With Love

Top 10 Amazing Libraries

National Archives Australia Unclassified incl. 

Voices / Dhuniai virtual tour  #ArchivesatHome Spotify playlist

Free Global Census Records for Labor Day - MyHeritage Blog

Search Census & Voter Lists on MyHeritage now for free

 "Beware Mr Smarty-Pants Database" johngrenham.com

Find My Past

Waterford Poor Law Unions Board of Guardians Minute Books

Clare Poor Law Union Board of Guardians Minute Books 

Search all newspapers  Discover Irish roots FMP Brian Donovan

Discover the destitute  Find workhouse records from Clare and Waterford and more..

Examine the tragedy Great famine   Find fighting Irish

Anglo Celtic Connections

Expert Genealogy Podcasts from AGRA (The Association of Genealogists and Researchers in Archives)

FreeBMD August Update   Sunday Sundries

Military Monday: RCAF in the Battle of Britain

LAC: Two Years into the Mandate

Your Genealogy Today: Sept/Oct 2021 and 25 Years

Smithsonian

Groundbreaking Archaeologist Ann Axtell Morris Finally Gets the Cinematic Treatment

More Than 80 Cultures Still Speak in Whistles

At an Old Juke Joint in Mississippi, the Blues Are Alive 

Why British Archaeologists Are Battling With the Turkish Government Over Seeds

This Map Details Florida's Disappearing Native American Landscape

The Secret Codes of Lady Wroth, the First Female English Novelist

Thieves Attempt to Steal a Monet From a Dutch Museum—but Drop It Mid-Escape

Banksy Murals in England Defaced, Removed Just Days After Appearing

The Audubon Mural Project Brings Threatened Birds Back to New York City

JSTOR Daily

Latin Literature's Problem with Invisibility      

A War of Liberation for Afghan Women?  

A Holy Trinity in Ancient Egypt

Way before MTV, Music Ruled the Living Room

Atlas Obscura

Traffic Light Icons   Ghostly Plant Portraits    Navajo Bridge     

Treehouse Death    Bow & Arrow Brewing Co.  An Onion Island

Forgotten Murals   Toys of Eros     Vale Street  England

The Old Brick Road  Florida  A Most Dangerous Beard     

Religious Pilgrimage    Cactus Club      Modern Diner 1986

Olderfleet Castle Larne, Northern Ireland Spite House For Sale

Staple Street Skybridge    The Spite Wall  Eat Your Weeds

Argentina’s Highest Observatory    Saw Mill River Daylighting

Book and Bed Hostel  Ultimate Guide to Bird Monuments   

Tainted Treasures  Losing the Arctic’s Soul  Rice Art Landscape 

Cappella Colleoni  7 Stone Spectacles in Georgia 

Vic's Ice Cream Parlor  Hidden History The Simpsons House

Hidden Beach Mexico

Family Search Blog

Building Family Bonds by Celebrating Grandparents Day

ALWAYS INTERESTING

Genea-Musings

Genealogy News and Education Bytes -- Friday, 27 August 2021

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Your Junior High School (or Middle School) Memories

Best of the Genea-Blogs - Week of 22 to 28 August 2021

Genealogy Pot-Pourri - Week Ending 30 August 2021

Genealogy News and Education Bytes -- Tuesday, 31 August 2021

Diary of a Young Genealogist

Yet Another NPE      Non-Paternal Event or Non-Parental Event

allenrizzi

Past Tense Verbs  Where Are You Joe? 

There Was A Fish There, I Think     For Butch…. For All Of Us

Dreams and Adventures at Cosy Cottage

The Bonny Banks of Loch Lomond – a wee Scottish break: Part Two

The Bonny Banks of Loch Lomond – a wee Scottish break: Part Three

The Legal Genealogist

Reconsidering that match  Those interrogatories…

GeniAus

Genealife in lockdown - Robbed

Pauline Connolly

SCHOOL REBELLION AT GOULBURN  CREMATION – 1905

Brotmanblog: A Family Journey

Abraham Blumenfeld II’s Granddaughter Dina and Her Sons Ernst and Otto Blum

My Cousins Karoline, Franziska, and Rosa: Unanswered Questions, Tragic Endings

Humoring the Goddess

Come On Over!    A Letter to My Friends    Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Ingrid Siliakus

The Gentle Author

My Quilt  Tree Huts Of Epping Forest At Minto Place, Bethnal Green

Henrietta Keeper’s Photographs Memoirs Of William Henry Knapp

Tracking Down the Family

Kiva Micro Loans   August Family History Month Update #sentenceaday #NFHM021

Stair na hÉireann

#OTD in 1170 – Richard de Clare (Strongbow) marries Aoife Ní MacMurrough and sets a precedent for Norman rule in Ireland.

Family Tree Frog

Bingo!

The Irish Story

Escaping Martyrdom in Manchester: The story of William and John Martin

* IRISH CENTRAL

Irish swimmer takes Ireland's first gold at 2020 Paralympic Games

WATCH: Niall Horan's hilarious opening monologue on Jimmy Kimmel Live!

WATCH: Chris O’Dowd and Melissa McCarthy team up again for ‘The Starling’

Where does the name Ireland come from?

Do you know the story behind the Irish flag?

The Great Flood in Gweedore - a freak and fatal incident in 1880

You know you were brought up by Irish parents if…

Closure of Ireland's Great Hunger Museum is a scandal beyond belief

Irish language Great Hunger film "Arracht" to get the Hollywood treatment

On This Day: One-fifth of Ireland attends Michael Collins's funeral in Dublin

At the (Irish) movies with Jack

WATCH: Irish music group honors 9/11 anniversary with stirring performance

How to choose which Irish instrument to learn how to play

The history and the craft of Mucros Weavers in the heart of Kerry

WATCH: Peter O’Toole describe what being Irish means in the most beautiful way

Duffel bag returned to daughter of fallen Irish-American war hero

WATCH: A summertime swimming gala in Dublin nearly a century ago

Seven-month-old lamb rescued off side of cliff in County Dublin 

Irish population jumps above 5 million for first time since the Famine

Irish origins of the surname Campbell

Find out the meaning behind your Irish name

* INTERESTING BLOGS

How do you decide? cassmob

My Great Grandfather Ernest Welfare Waters Jennifer Jones

Dictating memories and Designing Roosters    Family Tree Frog

The Buck Stops…. Nowhere     allenrizzi

Reviews

Theresa Smith

The Week That Was…

Book Review: The Song of Lewis Carmichael by Sofie Laguna, illustrated by Marc McBride

A Month of Reading: August

Book Review: The Riviera House by Natasha Lester

Better Reading

When You Are Mine by Michael Robotham        READ MORE

The Last Guests by J.P. Pomare   READ MORE

The Others by Mark Brandi  READ MORE

Billy Summers by Stephen King  READ MORE

The Nameless Ones by John Connolly  READ MORE

Book of the Week:  Riviera House by Natasha Lester     READ MORE

The Things We See in the Light by Amal Awad  READ MORE

Modern Marriage by Filip Vukašin       READ MORE

Happy Hour by Jacquie Byron     READ MORE

In Moonland by Miles Allinson      READ MORE

Daring to Fly by Lisa Millar  READ MORE

August at Better Reading BE: Wellness Books for Lockdown and Beyond      READ MORE

Better Reading Shares Notable Books with The Australian

Podcast: Dr Norman Swan on the Toll COVID has Taken on Our Wellbeing

Podcast: Karen Brooks on Challenging the Male Perspective of History

Allen & Unwin

Happy Hour  Jacquie Byron    READ AN EXTRACT

The Housemate      Sarah Bailey       READ AN EXTRACT

Sweet Jimmy  Bryan Brown       LEARN MORE

The Heart Principle   Helen Hoang   LEARN MORE

The Curlew's Eye    Karen Manton   LEARN MORE

The New Kingdom  Wilbur Smith  LEARN MORE

The Dark Remains William McIlvanney, Ian Rankin  LEARN MORE

and from my blogs...

That Moment in Time

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 27TH AUG 2021, Rewilding an Irish Estate, FREE videos National Library Aust., Chinese Australian stories, Nat. Archives UK..wills & probates,  art ‘prints’ ..very valuable originals, Irish pubs with no beer.. Want some reading suggestions? See book reviews…  grave cleaning, Greater London Burial Index, FREE records  incl. passenger lists & travel records, and a whole lot more.. Feel free to share, the title is the link…

https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2021/08/friday-fossicking-27th-aug-2021.html

National Family History Month  POST 2021 Issue 5 “Rounding Up the Family

National Family History Month POST 2021 Issue 6, " We Can't, We Might, We Will..SOON!" Our changing world…

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

That Moment in Time

TROVE UPDATES.. September 2021..

Newspapers & Magazines… as of today, these will now be posted on this one page, so you can see what has changed from the last notice. Feel free to share…

https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/p/trove-updates-newspapers-magazines.html

HEADLINES OF OLD

ABSCONDED CONVICTS  Trove Tuesday 31st Aug 2021, great details re physical appearance, details re names-ship-position-employer… This first list includes the prisoner's number, then their occupation/trade, followed by physical description, including any identifying posts such as tattoos, deformities, etc.  They also give their address and on what date the convict absconded. Not all lists give so much detail, so these are like gold to researchers.

Feel free to share, the title is the link.

https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2021/08/absconded-convicts-trove-tuesday-31st.html

Keep safe and well.
This will end.