FRIDAY FOSSICKING DECEMBER 2, 2016

FRIDAY FOSSICKING

Walter Withers

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Firstly, thanks to all who asked about Friday Fossicking last week. I appreciate your interest and support, but it just wasn't possible for me to compile it. Back again... 

You might just need a thermos instead of a cuppa this week ...enjoy!

* GENERAL INTEREST

New Zealand Irish Connection, University of Otago

'Roll of Honour queensland casualties at the front' - Pictures, photos, objects - Trove

Anglo Celtic Connections

Ancestry Update Ottawa Journal BMD Notices

 Traumatic start to war bride voyage to Canada

Genetic Genealogy Ireland presentation: The genetic identification of the 1916 Cork Rebel, Thomas Kent

 Unique Histories from the 18th and 19th Centuries

 New South Wales, Govt. railways, tramways Roll of  Honour,

 1914-1919

Dictionary of 50,000 surnames and their origins

Northern Beaches Council Manly Cemetery heritage

The Argonauts Club.. remember this?

10 Tips for Digging Up Great Family Stories

How to Safely Remove Photos from Old Sticky Photo Albums

50 Questions to Ask Your Relatives

5 Genealogical Journals You Should Be Reading  

Top Genealogy Magazines for Family History Enthusiasts  

New Zealand sea bed lifted over 19 feet during earthquake

Get to Know Your Irish Heritage With a Genealogy Butler 

Eneclann capitalises on appetite for genealogy 

Aledo native travels to Belfast to start her business 

Copper Coasting in Co. Waterford beautiful video

Grab the image text  Carmel Galvin gives a great tip

25 Christmas Gift Ideas for the Genealogist in Your Life Helen V. Smith

The forgotten milestone that shows how far Australian women have come  Annabel Crabbe

National Archives Of Australia Newsletter

Name Lifelong Learning Space -  Open some evenings - Iconic Australian Houses - curator Karen McCartney - morning tea in Brisbane 21 Deec. 2016 - On Tour, Gladstone, Albury, Wannaroo

National Archives UK newsletter 

Visit the First World War 100 portal, Physical disability and the First World War,  Read more about A Graphic War,  Discover our British Army war diaries,

Podcasts: Defeating the Zeppelins, Somme Tales, Big ideas: The women's war in the Middle East

Society of Australian Genealogists

NEWS  CALENDAR  WEB TIPS  SHOP  Honourable East India Company Ships Logs

State Library Qld Great Gift Ideas

* IRISH CENTRAL

Why "The Quiet Man" endures 

The history behind Ireland’s ancient Druids (PHOTOS) 

Breathtaking Irish landscapes and where to find them (PHOTOS) 

Ten remarkable facts about Cobh where 2.5 million Irish left for America (PHOTOS) 

The top five places to visit in County Tipperary (PHOTOS) 

Ireland won’t buy Padraig Pearse surrender letter because it’s too expensive 

Auction of Patrick Pearse’s mysterious second note of surrender in 1916 

The Celtic Cross, then and now 

The top five tourist attractions in County Clare 

Did the Celts build America’s Stonehenge 4,000 years ago? 

50 tragic portraits Irish Famine victims in the poorhouses of New York 

The top five tourist attractions in County Waterford 

Aran sweaters, Claddagh rings, tin whistles: the story behind Ireland’s beloved artifacts 

Rare Irish silver from Cromwell era to be auctioned in England 

Your Irish roots online, a guide to some of the best genealogy sites 

The best beaches of the Dingle Peninsula (PHOTOS) 

John F. Kennedy - ten facts about the Irish American president 

A glimpse inside Ireland’s historic ghost villages (PHOTOS) 

The top five places to visit in County Laois (PHOTOS) 

Stunning photos of the Kingdom that is Kerry 

How an Irish ship created first Thanksgiving for grateful Pilgrims 

The wild Irish countryside is just breathtaking (PHOTOS) 

The epitaphs of wit and wisdom found on Irish tombstones 

"Luck of the Irish" how 250 convicts survived shipwreck en route to Australia 

Celebrating famed playwright Eugene O’Neill on the anniversary of his death 

Abraham Lincoln donated to Ireland during the Great Famine 

This Irish a cappella group will give you the chills (VIDEO) 

Welcome to Clare the mystery person who bought the $18.7k cottage 

Ten must-see museums in Ireland (PHOTOS) 

Video of Irish waterfall used around the world to cure insomnia 

The ancient history behind Ireland’s roads (PHOTOS) 

Donegal in winter: stark, beautiful, strange (VIDEO & PHOTOS) 

Ireland’s spectacular south west coastline as you’ve never seen it before (VIDEO) 

How to get an Irish passport 

The top five places to visit in County Leitrim 

Oscar Wilde’s 11 best quotes, on the 116th anniversary of his death 

Top five places to visit in County Longford (PHOTOS)

Waist-high snowfall in 822 AD led to Irish famine and death 

and a few treats...

Chocolate Guinness cookies with Bailey’s frosting recipe 

Marmalade, Guinness bread, and other Ulster treats

An Irish whiskey pumpkin pie recipe

Pumpkin and crispy pancetta risotto recipe

Wholesome Irish soda bread recipe

Roasted butternut squash soup with coconut and curry 

Baileys Irish cream pumpkin pie recipe 

* FIND MY PAST

1939 Register

Your town in 1939

Britain, The National Guard In The Great War 1914-1918

Ireland, 19th Century Directories

A vanishing Britain

British Army Service Records - Scots Guards 1799-1939

Queensland, Mackay, funeral notices and funeral director records

Pennsylvania baptisms 1709-1760

Pennsylvania burials 1816-1849

Irish Newspapers  Tyrone Courier, Mayo Constitution

Search Scottish Records 

Naming patterns Scotland

Scottish newspapers

Scottish Covenanters

Find Your Female Ancestors 

Search Our Marriage Records

Searching Newspapers

Search Military Records

Life Lessons

* INTERESTING BLOGS

Personalising the Immigrants: A Convict   Cassmob

Ancient Street, Tuscany, Italy Wanderlust Twins worth exploring

Another Ireland social bridge

Forgotten Irish: Early Reviews Damian Shiels

Earlier Years: An elusive great great grandfather  Carmel Galvin

Cemeteries: Port Fairy – Historical Ragbag

My Gratitudes  cassmob

My Genealogical Kindness Advent Calendar     From Helen V Smith's Keyboard

Not At Watsons !!! – pub tales  Outback Family History

A Tale of Two Brothers  Jess

Ways of Sleeping - Dr Marion McGarry

Death of an astronomer: Hawkesbury's John Tebbutt 1834-1916 Hawkesbury heritage & happenings

Remembering our grandfather  The Silver Voice

Library Love Geniaus

Advent Calendar of Castles December 1st: Castle Rising  historicalratbag

from my own blogs...

IGP additions, Nov 2016, Cavan Dublin Galway Leitrim Longford Louth Meath included,

Reconstructing West Clare Family Histories using DNA, Paddy Waldron, Kilrush and District Historical Society

Christmas Special, NSW Transcriptions just $18.

Coronation Day 1953, Urunga celebrations, souvenirs, Queen Elizabeth II, sporting event and parade, parade Queen, unexpected act gets attention,

"The Turnpike", Book Launch Clare Roots Society, Flan Hehir, Old Ground Hotel Book Launch, Thursday Dec 1st 2016

May ye sup well!