Friday, January 27, 2023

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 27th Jan 2023

 



* GENERAL

BSQ Blog returns.... Bobbie Edes Accentuate the Positive   

Note: a number of bloggers have participated in the above Jill Ball’s challenge to Accentuate the Positive. You can read them all on Jill's blog above... Always interesting answers to Jill's challenge. 

Accentuate the Positive 2022 - The Responses    GeniAus (Jill Ball)

Australia Day Free Records: Access 95 Million Records from Australia for Free! - MyHeritage Blog limited time..

* Anne Young  Don’t trust chatbots


#TreasonSeason - exhibition tour video  Online events coming up soon

John Grenham   New marriage maps

Judy Webster  40 of my favourite genealogy indexes / sources

Alex Daw Writing your family history

Stella Budrikis    The ScriBbler a must read, always interesting

Just Because

Hobart quilter Katherine Jones wins national, international awards for two-year creation - ABC News


Bush communities farewell renowned RFDS doctor Don Bowley OAM as he reflects on nearly 30 years of service - ABC News

Wanderlust Twins

Glavni trg Square in Maribor, Slovenia    Summer Rain Porch, Brentwood, Tennessee     Statues at Khai Dinh Mausoleum, near Hue / Vietnam  Traditional beehive huts in Ezulwini, Swaziland  Wandering round temples, Bagan, Myanmar    Primeval Forest, Skipton Woods, England Halloween Night, Salem, Massachusetts   Turquoise Lake, China

Outback Family History

The Kalgoorlie Dog and Poultry Society      

The Coolgardie Chambers – a family story

The Quantock Girls – grave tales  

Coolgardie – a womans point of view

Irish Genealogy

'Next-of-kin appeals resonate with me': Irish genealogy firm offers 'closure' in sad circumstances

These Irish names are “so out they're in" for 2023, experts predict - IrishCentral 

Priest and genealogist to attend burial of Irishman who died alone in England

Atlas Obscura

The Emperor And His Coin   Ecuadorian Dancing Devils

Where Wind Is an Ingredient  Underground House

 Memorial to FĂ©licette, the First Cat in Space      Mad Honey

The Lion House   Podcast    The Lost Art of Funeral Confectionery

Algerian Jewish Sign Language     Breaking Baking Boundaries  

Maggie Wall's Memorial Scotland Real Zombies and Body Snatchers

Mansfield Traquair Centre Edinburgh The Birthplace of Scrabble

The 1910 Gila County Sheriff's Office and Jail     Songs of Ice Podcast

The Chefs Feeding Antarctic Researchers Got Stones? Make Wine

Maasai Mara Wildlife Reserve   Tomb of Daniel at Samarkand 

Mission Garden   Funky Ferry Rides   Bra Sausage    Meet Ma Rainey

The Govan Cat    The Duck Brigade    Wych Elm of Beauly Priory

Antarctica’s Furry, Intrepid Explorers  Museum of Material Failures

The Victorian Society That Tried to Preserve ‘Old London’

Historical Sammies Crossword     Tomnadashan Mine 

Urnes Stave Church  World’s Oldest Billboard  Morning Pub Run

Lloyds Bank Coprolite    How Awe Can Shape Our World

JSTOR Daily

Edna Ferber Revisited  Elements of Design: Spotlight on Color  

How Media Stifles Deliberative Democracy 

The Murders in the Rue Morgue: Annotated

When Uptown Chicago was “Hillbilly Heaven”

Lee Miller, More than a Model

Genealogy Ireland

Tracking down beneficiaries and next-of-kin - Newstalk 

US Speaker Kevin McCarthy's family 'most likely from West Cork' | Southern Star 

ALWAYS INTERESTING

Lonetester HQ  Remembering Valda Irene Phillips (1921-2023)

Gerry Bolton Frederick Shayler’s Apprenticeship 

Frederick Shayler’s Obituary

The Legal Genealogist   GEDmatch sold again    The plot thickens…

Snippet: About those shares… 

Humouring the Goddess Sunday Evening Art Gallery –Tables 

Micah Ofstedahl   Select a Category … Any Catagory   Tony Cragg

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Tin Yan Chan 

Faerie Paths — Embrace  It Doesn’t Stop .. Not If You Don’t Let It

clarejk2014  Time for an adventure (or how to get motivated into getting fit)

allenrizzi  Etowah, North Carolina   Stock Fences The Biggest Salmon

Graduations

Pauline Conolly THE DODGE     QUIZ TIME WITH BARRY AND JOHN 

Stair na hÉireann  Ireland 1845–52

Geniaus My Cousin Tim

Tales from the Grave Her family history became a literary classic.


Reviews

Theresa Smith




Better Reading






Penguin Books Australia

The Drift     C.J. Tudor        SEE THE BOOK




and from my blogs...

That Moment in Time


FRIDAY FOSSICKING 20th Jan 2023, how to look for census records, passenger list W.A. “Sophia” 27 Jul 1850, new occasional segment “Just Because”, mysterious graves, gourmet guinea pigs, 

Repel evil spirits?, destruction of 30,000 year old cave drawings, “an incentive to marry” …and other great blogs, records access alerts, book reviews, opium’s history in China, good times with bad music.. and so much more..

Feel free to share… the title is the link…


https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2023/01/friday-fossicking-20th-jan-2023.html


Headlines of Old


PERSONALS  &  LOCAL NEWS Trove Tuesday 24th Jan 2023, 

country & city news, over a number of years... some personal, some general news, you never know what you will discover…are your ancestors mentioned?

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


https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2023/01/personals-local-news-trove-tuesday-24th.html



Stay safe and well.
This will pass.

Friday, January 20, 2023

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 20th Jan 2023

 


Panning by S.T. Gill


GENERAL

National Archives U.K. newsletter  incl. 

Federation of Australian Historical Societies    FAHS eBulletin 
Click here for Newsletter  always interesting

Just Because


Wanderlust Twins


Outback Family History

Atlas Obscura
Castle Cary Round House Somerset, England 

Smithsonian 

JSTOR Daily

Irish Genealogy

ALWAYS INTERESTING
The Legal Genealogist  Releasing the land
Textile Ranger ScrapHappy January 2023
humoringthegoddess Friedensreich Hundertwasser
Diary of A Young Genealogist  Letters From the Suitcase: Part 1


[Records-Access-Alerts] (European Union-Ireland) Irish Data Protection Authority Press release on Ireland's DPA Action on Meta-Facebook and Instagram
Date: 13 January 2023 at 5:27:49 am AEST

 [Records-Access-Alerts] (US-MT) Montana Supreme Court Issues Order in Birth Certificate law
Date: 13 January 2023 at 5:53:49 am AEST


Reviews
Theresa Smith


Better Reading







and from my blogs...

That Moment in Time


FRIDAY FOSSICKING  13th Jan 2023, Jan 2023, hidden rules of Puritan dressing, from bacteria to bread, brief history of Irish in Australia, handkerchief project, schools of Qld, remembering the Rosewood massacre, journey to Micronesia, Michigan’s dancing snow God, forgotten Ireland…16mm film 70 years ago..online, automat restaurants, and so much more..

Feel free to share, the title is the link…


https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2023/01/friday-fossicking-13th-jan-2023.html


HEADLINES OF OLD


Certificates of Naturalisation ..Trove Tuesday 17th Jan 2023. These are a selection of notices over various years, months, states… they include the place that the person mentioned was living at when the certificate was granted. You can check later addresses by enrolment lists, often in gazettes available by TROVE, and maybe in general notices by TROVE…

Feel free to share, the title is the link…


https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2023/01/certificates-of-naturalisation-issue-18.html



Keep safe and well.
This will pass.