FRIDAY FOSSICKING 31st Dec 2021

 

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

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FRIDAY FOSSICKING 17th Dec 2021

 

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

* GENERAL INTEREST

GSQ blog Christmas in the Workhouse Bev Murray

Christmas Trees With Guinness World Records - WorldAtlas

Newsletters

FAHS.. Federation of Australian Historical Societies incl.  

Why Do Indigenous Histories Matter        Local History at Fabrik, SA

Why History Matters to The Law   Heritage and Emotion in Heritage

Ireland Newsletter

• Caílte MacRónáin - The Fastest Man in Ireland go
• Ancient Christmas Traditions in Ireland go
• 'The Purple Hills' by Shaun Ivory go

Eltham District Historical Society

Frederick Edward FALKINER (1820-1881)

National Library of Australia read here incl.

Webinar: Indian Emigration Passes to Fiji, 1879-1916

Wanderlust Twins   Snowy Night, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

Mountain Village, The Dolomites, Italy     St. Vitus Cathedral, Prague  

Freight trains encounter, British Columbia / Canada

Anse Source d’Argent beach, La Digue / Seychelles

by askmeaks on Flickr.Janaki Temple in Janakpur, Nepal.

Spring Blossoms, Kaposvar, Hungary   

Blue Lakes Pass, Colorado Jeanne Schnoor

Tollymore Forest Park in Co. Down, Northern Ireland

Tinteán Magazine   incl.  Happy Christmas from Sunny Australia

My first Christmas in Australia  New non-fiction

‘A very jolly spree’: Irish Contraceptive Laws in the 70s

Ghosts of Irish Australia: Catherine Scullin

JSTOR Daily

What If We've Been Misunderstanding Monsters?

The Declaration of Independence: Annotated

Slumber Parties and Folklore     The Return of the Hidden Hero

Atlas Obscura

Preserving a Heritage Trail    Beautiful Betsy Crash Site Australia      

15 Places That Sparkle Year-Round  Brooklyn-Flatbush Border Line

The Past Beneath Our Feet       The Enduring Mystery of ‘Jawn’

Calling The Great Beyond      St. Ninian's Fife Earth Project

Reading Gravestones       Twin Volcanoes Java   Snake Squad

Monster of the Month: Elves    Presidential ‘Pie’  Sugar Jewelry

Shetland Cake Fridges and Honesty Boxes Scotland

Carousel of Happiness    A Jazz Great in Ghana   Pirelli Building

Brewing Historical Beers   The Smartest Bug In The World

Madame Sherri's Castle   Sleeping Giant Observation Tower

An Infamous Bunker   Big Shots, Small Creatures    Fake Mountains

Pickering Pedestrian Bridge  Post Office Bay  History in a Cesspit

Klo & So Museum of Historic Sanitary Objects

Grave of Sandra West and Her Ferrari    The World’s Smartest Dessert    

Lanternfly Honey  Pointy Medieval Shoes   The Weeping Woman

Virtually Restoring Medieval Castles       Ardmore Ghost Town

Find My Past

Asia, Far East Directories & Chronicles 1833-1941     

London, Synagogue Seatholders 1904  Search all newspapers

British India collection   Find famous faces

ALWAYS INTERESTING

A Genealogist In The Archives

Finding Christmas in the Archives

The Gentle Author

Chapter 2. Horrid Murder     The Lantern Slides Of Old London

Walk Through Time With The Gentle Author

The Lives Of George Lansbury & Will Crooks

Readings At Midwinter    Chapter 3. The Burial Of The Victims

Humoring the Goddess

Faerie Paths — Roads  Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Fountain Pens

Overload on a Monday Morning 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Viktor Schramm

Dreams and Adventures at Cosy Cottage

NaNoWriMo Writing Challenge Update

allenrizzi

Thump, Thump!   Simplicity  Happy Birthday Son  Fly Away

When It Was Time To Say Goodbye It Could Always Be Worse

Genea-Musings

Added and Updated Ancestry.com Record Collections - Week of 4 to 10 December 2021

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Your 2021 "Dear Genea-Santa" Letter

Best of the Genea-Blogs - Week of 5 to 11 December 2021

Genealogy Pot-Pourri - Week Ending 13 December 2021

Stair na hÉireann

Christmas in Ireland

The Irish Story

The Wiggan’s Patch Massacre, Pennsylvania, 1875

The Legal Genealogist

A gift for Keystone State researchers    Freedom’s first guarantee

In Days Gone By..

The lot of the spinster 

Brotmanblog: A Family Journey

The Family of Ernst Blumenfeld Escaped to America (And His Widow Married My Cousin from Jesberg)

Tales from the Graves

 Abused by husband, but a winner in court

Diary of an Australian Genealogist

Christmas Hampers, new genealogy resources & other news: My week in genealogy 6 - 13 December 2021

* IRISH CENTRAL

 Ireland's oldest ink pen discovered in Burren settlement - IrishCentral

WATCH: Liam Neeson to narrate big-screen documentary "Ireland" - IrishCentral 

 Rare footage documents life in 1920s Ireland - IrishCentral 

* INTERESTING BLOGS

Moses Blumenfeld IIA’s Grandchildren: Did They Survive The Holocaust? Amy

Reviews

Theresa Smith

Book Review: Wendy, Darling by A.C. Wise

Book Review: The Impossible Truths of Love by Hannah Beckerman

Better Reading

Autopsy by Patricia Cornwell

Little Bilby's Aussie Bush Christmas by Yvonne Mes, illustrated by Jody Pratt Kids book of the week...

Podcast: Ann Patchett Reflecting on Her Life and Career

Podcast: Christos Tsiolkas on How His Cultural Heritage Has Influenced his Writing

Podcast: Sara Foster on the Lack of Maternal Figures in Dystopian Fiction

Podcast: Dinah Jefferies on Living in Spain and Her Writing Career

Allen & Unwin

Great Australian Mysteries Graham Seal

1942: The Year the War Came to Australia   Peter Grose 

Red Tail Skies  Jim Eames

and from my blogs...

That Moment in Time

FRIDAY FOSSICKING Dec 10th 2021, 500 graves moved, library book returned 110 years late, Greek Australians image, a night in an Irish castle, Women's Land Army, Kent burials, predatory worms, 

Moose milk, the deadliest lake, excavating Hawaiian history, ghost forest, chop suey history, Paul Bunyan’s gravesite, great reviews, police admin. files, more Irish famine orphans stories, Ireland’s ancient druids, great blogs, convict clippings, and a whole lot more..

https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2021/12/friday-fossicking-dec-10th-2021.html

Headlines of Old

ABSCONDED CONVICTS  Trove Tuesday 14th Dec 2021,   great descriptions, occupations, details on ship of arrival, some give reasons for transportation, where absconded from, rewards offered…

https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2021/12/absconded-convicts-trove-tuesday-14th.html

 

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FRIDAY FOSSICKING Dec 10th 2021

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

* GENERAL INTEREST

Here's why a historic Toronto cemetery has temporarily moved 500 graves | News - Daily Hive  

Boerne's Festival of Trees will help raise funds to preserve genealogy, history records at ... - KSAT 12 

Overdue Book Returned to Idaho Library After 110 Years - TVOvermind

GSQ Blog  ‘One very small sentence’ Lorri Digney

Making a Fresh Start: Tasmanian Female Ex-Convicts in Free Settlement Queensland - YouTube

Greek Australians In Their Own Image: The ‘Golden Greeks’ – Shop Keepers & Service Providers

You Can Spend the Night at the Real Irish Castle in Lacey Chabert's Latest Hallmark Movie Showbiz Cheat Sheet

NEWSLETTERS

Stella Budrikis    The ScriBbler always interesting.. includes really useful gifts  

National Archives of Australia incl. Women's Land Army

Finding Families   North Melbourne Air Crash

Queensland State Archives   incl.   ArchiveSearch  Mining lease files

Police administration files      

National Archives UK incl.  Podcast: 20th Century Migration: 1948 – Citizenship and Empire   Festive events and films for all - fireplaces, feasting and Dickens

State Library of Australia incl. The Great & Grand Rumpus

Find My Past

Kent electoral registers, 1570-1907  Kent Burials   

Kent’s Bexley Asylum between 1901-1939.     Search all newspapers

Atlas Obscura

Chop Suey History  The Case for Pigeon-Watching  

Scalpay Bridge Scotland   Predatory Worms   The Black Mailbox

Forgotten ‘China Girls’    Grand Canyon Caves     Moose Milk

Lincoln Memorial Undercroft   Excavating Hawaiian History

The Hog Island Fig  Delta-09 Minuteman Missile Site   

Long Lines Building    Centers for Disease Control Museum

A Forgotten Florida History   Holy Austin Rock Houses  

Gemini Bridges  Rolley Hole Champions    Paul Bunyan's Gravesite

Contoocook Railroad Covered Bridge     Truffle-Eating Marsupials

An Overlooked History Stumbling Stones  Smokey Joe's Munich

Gespensterwald (Ghost Forest)  A Magical Mystery Beatles Tour

The Deadliest Lake Cameroon      California Etymology

The Great Wall of India Who’s Eating Pando?  20 Culinary Timewarps

Quinlan Castle   Alabama   How a Tapestry Preserves The Past 

Pumping Station House    Step Up The Christmas Cake Game

Holiday Nostalgia Train 

JSTOR Daily

Do We Actually See Shadows?   Share These Victorian Holiday Cards   

The Cabarets of Heaven and Hell   Food…in…Space!

Gossip Girls (and Boys)

Anglo-Celtic Connections

19th–century English and Welsh town plans     Sunday Sundries

Military Monday: Jake Gaudaur 

Outback Family History

The Marvellous Corricks     What happened to Dan Heitmann?     

Cecil Thomas Collins – grave tales   The McArthur Family Tragedy –

ALWAYS INTERESTING

The Gentle Author

My East End Vernacular Lecture  George Cruikshank’s Festive Season

Robson Cezar’s Wooden Houses From Whitechapel

Maria Pellicci’s Christmas Ravioli  1. The Death Of A Linen Draper 

Matilda Moreton & The Cries Of London 

Matyas Selmeczi, Silhouette Artist

Brotmanblog: A Family Journey

My Cousin Moses Blumenfeld (1849-1911) of Momberg, Part I

Moses Blumenfeld IIA’s Surviving Children All Died Between 1930 and 1939

Humoring the Goddess

The chicklet’s tree is up…for the moment at least…wishing you a Merry Chickmas. — Rethinking Life

Too Much For The Sorting Hat  Game of Thrones Way of Thinking

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Chris Campbell  Artists Are My Friends 

allenrizzi

Pasta Con Vongole   Stereotypes   Being An Author   Retirement

A Euro For Your Thoughts   Benvenuti a Fondo?

Genea-Musings

 Genealogy News and Education Bytes -- Friday, 3 December 2021

Book Notice: "Research Like a Pro with DNA" Available in Paperback

Carringers in the News -- The Great Tornado of Washington County, Iowa in May 1873

Rabbit Holes With Randy - 1871 Birth Record for Maria Loreta Cerasoli in Capestrano, Italy on FamilySearch

Trevor McClaughlin

Earl Grey’s Irish Famine Orphans (81): Lost and Found, a few more orphan stories | trevo's Irish famine orphans

The Legal Genealogist

Another theory shot down      An overdue “thank you”

Sluby Scholarship for 2023    Those OTHER patents

Eighty years ago today

Dreams and Adventures at Cosy Cottage

A Tale of Two Jack Russells  Our World: Plastic pollution

The Irish Story

Book Review: Without a Dog’s Chance, The nationalists of Northern Ireland and the Boundary Commission 1920-25

Treaties that Shaped the Course of Irish History

Tales from the Grave

A woman's influence at the Eureka Stockade

Tracking Down The Family

Breaking Through Brickwalls

Diary of an Australian Genealogist

More online geneafeasting, Gift ideas & Other news: My Week in Genealogy 29 Nov - 5 Dec 2021

* IRISH CENTRAL

"Enchanting" Galway garden wins Tidy Towns competition

Salthill Prom’s magic captured in heartwarming short film and poem

Cork's Midleton Distillery to be transformed to into world-class whiskey destination

The best Irish Christmas songs to get you in the holiday spirit

Top Irish Christmas traditions that make the season

Celtic Woman returns with "Postcards from Ireland" North American tour 2022

Journeying to Kilkenny to discover the truth behind the bones of St. Nicholas

The history behind Ireland’s ancient Druids 

Irish grandmother jailed again for not wearing mask while Christmas shopping - IrishCentral 

* INTERESTING BLOGS

Memories of Living in Australia in 1967 as a 10 Year Old Irish Child - LetterPile

Not in the Mood Humouring the Goddess

Reviews

Theresa Smith

The Week That Was…

Quick Shots Book Review: The Younger Wife by Sally Hepworth

Book Review: Water Music by Christine Balint

Quick Shots Book Review: Cold Coast by Robyn Mundy

Better Reading

To the Sea by Nikki Crutchley           READ MORE

The Prodigal Sister by Darry Fraser         READ MORE

The Freedom of Birds by Stephanie Parkyn     READ MORE

No Hearts of Gold by Jackie French      READ MORE

Penguin Books Australia

Go Tell the Bees that I am Gone   Diana Gabaldon    WATCH THE EPIC TRAILER

This year's unmissable Aussie books     READ ARTICLE

and from my blogs..

That Moment in Time

Friday Fossicking Dec 3  2021, cemetery search tool, newsletters, museum at home, Victorian Archives Centre, go to Mars?, Welsh record sets, pumpple cake, Gates of Hell, Star Pyramid, “torture orchard”, mapping forests, thanksgiving in prison, Irish Book Awards, podcast 20th Century migration, book reviews and a whole lot more…

Feel free to share, the title is the link…

https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2021/12/friday-fossicking-dec-3-2021.html

Headlines of Old

COLLECTION of CONVICT CLIPPINGS  Trove Tuesday 7th Dec 2021,  Stolen Certificates/Tickets of leave, apprehended runaways, female convicts, convicts from UK/Ireland, some with great descriptions, ships they arrived on and what voyage, Tickets of Leave cancelled and reasons…

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

https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2021/12/collection-of-convict-clippings-trove.html

Stay safe and well.
This will pass.