FRIDAY FOSSICKING 15th Oct 2021

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

*  GENERAL INTEREST

National Archives of Australia

Banned: the secret history of Australian censorship #ArchivesatHome

Girls on film enlisted WWII   Spy: espionage in Australia |   

Wild West: Animals in the Archives | Perth

Queensland State Archives     

Moreton Bay Penal Colony records      records here. 

‘Convicts and early settlers’  Search the Records

GSQ Blog   'The Wreck of the Quetta and the family of Thomas McGladdery' Marg Doherty

One woman is revealing the stories of convicts, settlers buried on the Isle of the Dead - ABC News

Stella Budrikis The ScriBbler newsletter always interesting..

Eltham District Historical Soc. Inc.

ThrowbackThursday: The Eltham Hotel

Tony Bennett prepares to perform with Lady Gaga

'New York has a great way of getting over cataclysmic events' - The Irish Times

Life in the 1903 Women's Prison Boggo Road

Surviving kin of Chicago's famous O'Leary family ready for new chapter following harrowing past 

Donald Jordan Obituary (2021) - Westminster, MD - Carroll County Times - Legacy.com  genealogist

Quiz: How much do you know about these well-known Irish migrants? - TheJournal.ie 

Funds for all the family: Wealthy entrepreneurs are investing their wealth in Ireland - The Times 

National Archives UK 

Blog: A face through time: Further opening up our prisoner of war records  

What's On, guides and collections     Archive Jigsaw: Building bridges with America

Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Medal cards > Find a medal

A portrait of two convicts, 1793. - Ancestry Blog AU

Wanderlust Twins

by petez on Flickr.Cameron Lake. Waterton Lakes National Park. Alberta, Canada.

Find My Past

Scotland, Edinburgh Apprentices 1588-1800     Search all newspapers

British Armed Forces and Overseas Births and Deaths

Black British history... Watch video  Apprenticeship records

Family Search Blog

Getting the Most from Your Search: Understanding the Search Records Page

Thomas MacEntee: The Abundant Educator  

What to Write in a Journal  Keeping a Gratitude Journal

JStor Daily

The Very Human Appeal of American Horror Story  

Did Thoreau Do Yoga?

10 Poems for National Hispanic Heritage Month  

Indigenismo in the United States

New York City, Underwater       What Does a Tree See?

Atlas Obscura

Introducing: Fright Club!  Deep-Sea Fish Displays   Demon Core  

Haunted Margaritas  The Teahouse Bothy  The Churchill Arms 

Sub-Sub-Sub Island on Victoria Island  Mannequin Mountain

Famous Fat Bears  Writing Historical Nonfiction   Quali-Tea Places

Revisiting Dyckman Oval   Clown Motel   Merlin’s Cave

Tattoo Historians  Brunswick Stew Monument   The Tombstone House

New Hampshire and The Devil  Carved Camels A Dreadful Beauty

Ain’t No Mountain High Enough   Russian Fort Elizabeth

Frank Lloyd Wright's Burnham Block    Russian Metamorphosis Balls

Puppet Palaces    The Road to Nowhere  

Outback Family History

Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales – 10 October 2021

A Very Pretty Wedding    Arthur King or Theo Herchler

Oldest Bike Store in Australia   Fanny Hannah Hunt – pioneer profile

Tinteán Magazine.. a selection.. for more

The Elusive Fenian  One hundred years later, Partition v Brexit    

One of a Kind  From Swirling Cark Mountain Mists  

The Lillypilly Tree   The Detail is Where Angels Lurk

Anglo-Celtic Connections

Sunday Sundries  Military Monday: death of nurses 

England and Wales Building Age Map    Family History Survey

ALWAYS INTERESTING

Brotmanblog: A Family Journey

A Survivor’s Story: The Shoah Foundation Testimony of Inge Goldschmidt Oppenheimer, Part II

The Final Chapter of Baruch Blumenfeld’s Family: His Daughter Charlotte

The Gentle Author

A Brief Introduction To Criminality  In The Debtors’ Cell

Parkash Kaur, Shopkeeper  Maureen Rose, Button Maker

At David Kira Ltd, Banana Merchants 

Aubrey Silkoff At The Boundary Estate

Pauline Connolly

THE WATTLE BROOCH – FIT FOR A QUEEN      JUNE MILLINERY – OH MY HAT!

STAMPS OF VAN DIEMEN’S LAND!

Humoring the Goddess

Tiers — Repost  Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Druzy Stone

Amber Cowan  Sunday Evening Art Gallery — William Blake

A Paragraph then a Request   Amethyst  Faerie Paths — Change

Albrecht Dürer

allenrizzi

County Line   Italy, Pick-Ups And Smart Phones  The Tired Dinosaur

Genea-Musings

Genealogy News and Education Bytes -- Friday, 8 October 2021

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Ancestor Photographs

Best of the Genea-Blogs - Week of 3 to 9 October 2021

Genealogy Pot-Pourri - Week Ending 11 October 2021

Genealogy News and Education Bytes -- Tuesday, 12 October 2021

Hapgoods from Marksbury

Sarah Elizabeth Hapgood and Mark Jones

The Legal Genealogist

Recombining relations

* IRISH CENTRAL

100 years ago today Michael Collins named treaty delegation - De Valera refused to join

County Kerry is Irish people’s favorite place to vacation in Ireland 

John Spain steps down - a true Irish Voice who spoke his mind fearlessly

Discovery of skeletal remains halts demolition of historic Cork pub

Fungie the Dolphin to be given a day of celebration in Dingle

A Furious Devotion: The Authorized Biography of Shane MacGowan

"We've come a long long way" - Derry Girls begins filming final season

Gardaí launch fresh search for missing women who vanished in 1990s

Irishman who sailed to America with Christopher Columbus

Everything you need to know about St. Brigid, Ireland's female patron saint

Paddy Moloney, Irish trad legend and founder of The Chieftains, has passed away

Dublin neighborhood ranked 15th coolest in the world

Good and bad luck signs from Irish folklore

Astronaut shares out-of-this-world picture of Dublin from the International Space Station

* INTERESTING BLOGS

 

A Jar of Buttons Textile Ranger

Four of six Lowe Family siblings fall victim to tuberculosis Judith Salecich

Previews

Theresa Smith

Book Review – Earthshot: How to Save Our Planet by Colin Butfield, Jonnie Hughes

Book Review: 2 Sisters Detective Agency by James Patterson and Candice Fox

Book Review: Flight of the Budgerigar by Penny Olsen

Better Reading

Book of the Week: Birds of a Feather by Tricia Stringer      READ MORE

Funkytown by Paul Kennedy      READ MORE

The Women of Pearl Island by Polly Crosby   READ MORE

Reprieve by James Han Mattson      READ MORE

We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride and Jo Piazza      READ MORE

Podcast: Tom Keneally on Exploring Rural Australia Through Fiction

Podcast: Damien Cave on How Moving to Australia Changed His Relationship with Risk

and from my blogs..

That Moment in Time

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 8th Oct 2021, FREE Irish certificates online, search records Qld State Archives, Victorian History Month, A daring escape, fog beer, generous naval hero, Venus of the sewers, 

Violent battle re ban of textbooks and a whole lot more..

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

https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2021/10/friday-fossicking-8th-oct-2021.html

Headlines of Old

TROVE TUESDAY 12th Oct 2021, many people went missing over the years...this is a random selection from 1892 (including some inquiries from Ireland) to 1930..from Australia wide.

Feel free to share, the title is the link.

https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2021/10/trove-tuesday-12th-oct-missing-friends.html

Keep safe and well. 
This will pass.