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Friday, October 8, 2021

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 8th Oct 2021


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

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National Archives UK






GSQ Blog  'From Veteran to Victim: An Unfortunate Life'   Sharyn Merkley

State Library Queensland newsletter incl.

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Queensland State Archives
Visit Search the Records, click the relevant tab and select the index you'd like to search.  
  • Government > Pneumonic Influenza patients, Wallangarra Quarantine compound: Indexes the names of people admitted to the Wallangarra Quarantine Compound of Pneumonic influenza patients 1918-1919. During the outbreak of pneumonic influenza, strict health regulations were enforced to prevent the spread of this highly infectious disease. Border camps, such as Wallangarra Quarantine Compound, were established to keep all people entering the state in quarantine for a period of 7 days. 
    🔎 Find this index in the 'Government' tab.
     
  • Schools, Hospitals and Orphanages > Lazaret patients registers 1892 - 1940: The registers are admission, medical, discharge and death registers of sufferers of Hansen's disease (also known as leprosy) at Stradbroke Island (Dunwich), Friday Island, Peel Island and Fantome Island Lazarets. Several of the registers record personal particulars such as name, age, sex, nationality, parent's details and other biographical information. Also often recorded are dates of admission/arrival, dates and locations of death, burial and grave information, discharge dates and transfer information. Some of the registers record medical treatment and test results during the patient's period of residence.
    🔎 Find this index in the 'Schools, hospitals and orphanages' tab.
     
  • Immigration > Redeemed land orders 1860-1906: This is an index to a number of series registers of land orders held at Queensland State Archives. The registers record land orders issued to immigrants on the completion of their obligations under the law at the time; as well as land orders issued to employers of immigrants; head of the family, businesses and Shipping and Immigration Agents could act as nominators. The registers include details of the immigrant applying and date of issue of the grant.
    🔎 Find this index in the 'Immigration' tab.
     
  • Lands and Mining > Land selections 1885 - 1981: This is an index to registers of selection under the "Crown Lands Act 1884". Information includes name of selector; number of selection; date the land was open to selection; Government Gazette reference; date of application; date of lease; terms of lease; payments made; transfers; any change of number e.g. when the boundaries of Land Agents' Districts were changed, new numbers were allocated to affected selections; and what happened to the selection e.g. purchased, surrendered, forfeited, subdivided.
    🔎 Find this index in the 'Lands and mining' tab.
Victorian Archives Centre

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John Grenham  "No wands, no pointy hats" - was published on October 7th. Accompanying YouTube video here.
 


The Filipino traditions that connect me to my Greek roots | SBS Voices

Wanderlust Twins


Stone bridge at The Hermitage, Dunkeld / Scotland     Florence, Italy


Apartments at the edge of the Atlantic Ocean in Clifton, South Africa


Beautiful glacier waters of Guitar Lake in Fan Mountains, Tajikistan


Sunset Rails, Rye, England     Rocky Mountains, USA


by robertb3 on Flickr.Icebergs on Bahia Onelli Lake – Patagonia, Argentina.


Sunset, Vernazza, Italy Norway  Seaside Overhead Shower Bath, Italy


Tollymore Forest Park in Bryansford, Northern Ireland


Stairway, Castle Kriebstein, Waldheim, Germany


Narwhals, Newfoundland, Canada


Outback Family History


Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales – 3 October 2021  


Suicide, Cyanide and Scones –    


A History of ‘The Round’ buy Darren McAullay


The Matron and the Major – nurse Annie Jones     


Robert Kirkpatrick – grave tales


Find My Past


United States Marriages     Essex Marriages and Banns 1537-1935  


Search all newspapers   vintage wedding photos   


Explore Essex records  Marriage license revelations


Family Search Blog


Monthly Record Update for September 2021  


Anglo-Celtic Connections


Deceased Online adds Barking and Dagenham Cemetery records


Newspapers.com obituary index updates     Sunday Sundries



JSTOR Daily

At South Africa's Constitutional Court, a Democracy Brick by Brick


Venus of the Sewers  The Accidental Invention of the Color Mauve


Eight Open Collections Perfect for Hispanic Heritage Month


The Women (Real and Imagined) Resisting Caudillos


When a Battle to Ban Textbooks Became Violent


Atlas Obscura


Highgate Cemetery  A King’s Toilet Attendant  Modhera Sun Temple


The World’s Youngest Desert  Whistle Stop Restaurant   Mighty Dogs


The Mammoth Site of Hot Springs        Retired Tube Trains   


Mausoleum of Augustus    Unearthing Ancient History 


The Comfort of Silence     The Remains of Hell Point   Fog Beer


Red Planet Books & Comics  Watermelon History Fugitive Cockatoos


Irish Sky Garden Skibereen  Kempe Stones Northern Ireland


The Man Who Lives in a Ghost Town  Bunkers of Alvira


Virtual Castle Restoration  Mysterious Stone Orbs  


A Viking Warrior Woman’s Secret Life     Tributes and Traditions


Underground Dining Spots  Grave of Antoine-Augustin Parmentier


Carmo and Carmelitas Churches Portugal  A Daring Escape


The Fragility of Peru’s Rope Bridges  The Center of the Universe


Brewing Brides  Faces Bridge


Underground Tunnels of Los Angeles 


ALWAYS INTERESTING


Brotmanblog: A Family Journey


Who Arranged Baruch Blumenfeld’s Burial? An Update


Antonie’s Children Margot Engelbert Neuhaus and Julius Engelbert


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


allenrizzi


Of Mice and Men and Voltoren   Kicking The Bucket  

 

Chiara (Revisited)  RU Miseducated? – LOL  Coming To America


The Legal Genealogist


His and hers  Estating the obvious… When the answer is right there…


The Gentle Author


Autumn In Spitalfields   Hairdressers Of The Eighties  


Max Levitas & The Battle Of Cable St  Beattie Orwell, Centenarian


Peter Minter, Brick Maker     George Cruikshank’s Comic Alphabet


Genea-Musings


Genealogy News and Education Bytes -- Friday, 1 October 2021


Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Your Favorite Songs in Your High School Graduation Year


Best of the Genea-Blogs - 26 September to 2 October 2021


Genealogy Pot-Pourri - Week Ending 4 October 2021


Genealogy News and Education Bytes -- Tuesday, 5 October 2021


Branches On Our Haimowitz Family Tree


Ida Paley – Death Record Found


Humoring the Goddess


Anyone Can Play  Freakebana  Did I Really Write That?


Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Salt Thrones Aiko Tezuka


Faerie Paths — Cats  Sunday Evening Art Gallery — John Lemke


Stair na hÉireann | History of Ireland


A “Famine Road” in County Clare


Social Bridge


Silent Sunday


Pauline Connolly


HOBART’S FLOATING BRIDGE    FLORENCE RODWAY’S PASTEL PORTRAITS


EDITH HOLMES – AN ARTIST WITH A PERSONAL OUTLOOK


Liz Gauffreau


Sharing Saturday  #BookReview: Vanished


New Release – Grief Songs: Poems of Love & Remembrance by Elizabeth Gauffreau


The Irish Story


Podcast: Irish Army Deserters in the Second World War with Cían Harte


Kerry and the 1920 Railway Munitions Strike: How workers defied an Empire.


Oér the seas we go


Using census records


The Frugal Family Historian


Genealogy Extras: Free Course & Free Conference!


* IRISH CENTRAL


Legendary Jimmy Neary, who welcomed presidents, cardinals and VIPS to his famous pub, dies at 91


A guide to Ireland’s fascinating bodhrán drum      


Turf now being imported to Ireland from Europe


The unknown inside story of Frank McCourt's "Angela's Ashes" on its 25th anniversary


The thrill of Halloween as a child in Ireland


Ireland's most famous haunted pubs 


Own a piece of history, a Donegal railway station to die for


Historic facts about Irish pubs you may not have heard of


Scariest monsters and demons from Celtic myth for Halloween


Michael Collins' walking stick sells for astonishing £52,000 at auction


How to find out if you have Irish Viking ancestry


How a DNA test led a Chicago women to find family ties to Mrs O’Leary of the Great Fire fame


Last call from "Ireland Calling" - John Spain's final column after 34 years


New York's St. Brigid's Church, Fr. Thomas Mooney and the "Fighting 69th"


Irish public rallies to save Temple Bar’s Merchant’s Arch from new hotel plans


Writing the songs of our ancestors - A reflexive exploration of identity


Cork university forced to open food bank, runs out in less than hour 


* INTERESTING BLOGS


Textile Ranger


Tales Told by the Hemp-Dresser  


In Days Gone By


Breaking the fast from the wagon


Diary of an Australian Genealogist


A Geneafeast of Conferences & Other News: Australia and New Zealand Genealogy News September 2021


Family Tree Frog


A Calendar, a Cemetery, and October challenge


Shauna Hicks History Enterprises


Trove Tuesday: the Hazards of Being female



CLOGS AND CLIPPERS  Stella Budrikis


Harriet Whybrew - an update



Reviews

Theresa Smith


The Week That Was…


A Month of Reading: September 


#BlogTour #BookReview: Echoes of War by Tania Blanchard


Book Review: Love and Virtue by Diana Reid


Book Review: The Housemate by Sarah Bailey


Better Reading


Pony by R.J. Palacio         READ AN EXTRACT


Daughter of the Deep by Rick Riordan


The Supernatural Survival Guide by George Ivanoff


Book of the Week: Three Sisters by Heather Morris  READ MORE


The Cuckoo's Cry by Caroline Overington     READ MORE


Permafrost by S.J. Norman    READ MORE


The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki       READ MORE


Summer of Serenity by Nicola Marsh     READ MORE


Podcast: Tim Ayliffe on the Rise of Extremism in Australia


Podcast: Brendan Cowell on Acting, Writing and Everything In Between



and from my blogs...


That Moment in Time


FRIDAY FOSSICKING 1st Oct 2021, 9yr old studying physics at uni, De Niro's Irish heritage, England electoral registers, food crime, 

Cardiff giant, Venice’s secret history, golden finds at UK archives,

book reviews, genie hints, anger at closing of Great Hunger Museum, dolphin song, ghost towns & hometowns, mail jumpers, how to start a journal, and lots more..

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


https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2021/10/friday-fossicking-1st-oct-2021.html


As They Were


IGP (Ireland Genealogy Projects) Updates September 2021,Donegal & Fermanagh, Dublin, Fermanagh, Monaghan, Roscommon, Wicklow, church records and headstones..

Feel free to share, the title is the link.


https://astheywere.blogspot.com/2021/10/igp-ireland-genealogy-projects-updates.html


Headlines of Old


Certificates Of Naturalisation Series 14 Trove Tuesday 5th Oct 2021, covers many states, immigrants from many countries.. a selection from a few years..

Feel free to share, the title is the link…


https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2021/10/certificates-of-naturalisation-series.html


Stay safe and well.
This will pass.

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