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Friday, November 22, 2024

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 22nd Nov 2024


GENERAL

GSQ Blog

Top 5 Technology Skills for Family History Andrew Redfern

Outback Family History

The Railway Arrives in Boulder – a quiet affair    Beware of Victorians Bearing Gifts –    A Wedding at Maybe –   Andrew Barr – and impressive funeral

State Library of Queensland 

Heritage Talks: Houses and homes

10:30 am – 12:30 pm, Mon 25 Nov | slq Auditorium 1, level 2 | Free, booking required 

Our Heritage talks series offers a unique opportunity to explore Queensland's rich history through engaging presentations by expert speakers. Each session delves into fascinating topics relating to the state's heritage, providing fresh insights and perspectives.

In our final Heritage talk of the year, experts will cover subjects such as exploring the concepts of Queensland’s heritage homes, including the iconic Queenslander style, through to the workings of the Queensland heritage register.After the talks, we'll take a walk through our architectural history with a hands-on, curated experience looking at a selection of original materials from State Library’s collections.

Interesting Libraries

Library Corner: Discover Distant Destinations - The Stettler Independent  Commitment to community makes Canton Public Library a top workplace  Caught on camera: all books taken from free little libraries in Buchanan - MSN  OU celebrates National Library Week with book exhibition - The Hans India King Library celebrates Miami authors  Residents getting money's worth with King's libraries - King Weekly Sentinel    The AI Conundrum: Libraries and Ethics in the Modern Age! - elblog.pl - Decoding AI   What is Oakville planning for parks, libraries and rec centres? Four things you should know   Interesting items on show at Warwickshire Libraries' local studies collections    Hidden libraries from around the world - Classic City News  There's something far more interesting, and potentially worrying, about that rumour that Sony ...


General News

Fremantle Prison History I Convict DatabaseFremantle Prisonhttps://fremantleprison.com.au › research › convict-datab...   

Western AustraliaCoraweb.com.auhttps://coraweb.com.au › Websites › Convicts

Wade, Mary - The Dictionary of SydneyThe Dictionary of Sydneyhttps://dictionaryofsydney.org › person › wade_mary

Indexes to Passenger ListsState Records of South Australiahttps://www.archives.sa.gov.au › migration-and-crew › i...

Indexes to Passenger ListsState Records of South Australiahttps://www.archives.sa.gov.au › migration-and-crew › i...

Arrivals, immigration, and departuresLibraries Tasmaniahttps://libraries.tas.gov.au › family-history › arrivals-im...

Free immigration to Tasmania 1803-1946 - IntroductionLibraries Tasmaniahttps://libraries.tas.gov.au › family-history › introduction

Victoria | History, Map, Flag, Population, Capital, & FactsBritannicahttps://www.britannica.com › Victoria-state-Australia

genealogy Ireland

Library hosts free genealogy event - What's on - Western People  Nanton flags are at half-mast to honour late councillor - OkotoksOnline.com   Did Harris' Irish Ancestor Own Slaves in Jamaica? Here's What We Know | Snopes.com   Irish Famine orphan girls - stepping from the shadows of history - IrishCentral  Five countries helping you reconnect you with your roots - BBC From Connecticut to Cael Uisce - American man finds his Fermanagh family - IrishCentral

 Atlas Obscura

these 11 graves get a little interactive.   The Secret Ingredient to Edison’s Lightbulb: Bamboo   Does This Italian Church Have a Gate to Heaven?   All That's Left Of This Massive International Glass Masterpiece Is Ruins   This Statue May Commemorate A Spanish Literature Icon    ‘Baby Bread’ Celebrates Both Life and Death In author Bryan Ford’s second cookbook,   The 400-Year-Old Noodle Spot Frequented By a Fox-Turned Monk Have You Seen A Small Green Archer? Watch Out For the Arrows  A Hindu Goddess Is Said To Have Been Born Here    This Grave Hatched a Movement That Changed Lives  Trixie Motel a lost city that once housed 20,000 people. serving as living remnants of a bygone era. Sacred Native Plants Are Spotlighted In This Oasis  This Toilet Mini Museum Is Flush With History   Step Inside An Intact Windmill Built By the Knights of St. John  The Birthplace of Thailand’s Version of Hainanese Chicken Rice Welcome to the Sunfish Capital of the World

This Golden Dove Is Good Luck For Lovebirds One of the World’s Oldest Suspension Bridges Is In A Castle Take a Walk Along America’s Oldest Spanish Aqueduct Where Book Lovers Shop in Ann Arbor  

The National Archives UK

New records on the transatlantic slave trade added to our catalogue

Disability History Month..  incl.  Virginia Hall    Sir John Fielding   Members of the National League of the Blind      Stories Unboxed

Smithsonian  

The Feminist Who Inspired the Witches of Oz     Father and Son Discover Rare Trove of 16th- and 17th-Century Silver Coins While Metal Detecting in a Polish Forest   When White Supremacists Staged the Only Successful Coup in U.S. History  DNA Evidence Is Rewriting the Stories of Victims Who Perished in Pompeii Nearly 2,000 Years Ago  Archaeologists Discover Ancient Egyptian Family Tomb Full of Necklaces, Bracelets and Rings  The Hidden History of Bermuda Is Reshaping the Way We Think About Colonial America   Visions of Nuclear-Powered Cars Captivated Cold War America, but the Technology Never Really Worked  The Surprising Artwork That Inspired Netflix's 'The Piano Lesson,' a New Movie Based on August Wilson's Award-Winning Play    When a Search Party Discovered the Frozen Body of a British Explorer Who Raced to the South Pole—and Lost

 JStor Daily

Portico's Part in Telling the Story of Emmett Till  Becoming Beatrice    JSTOR Daily: What I Learned  Chimney Sweeps and the Turn Against Child Labor   The Treaty of Paris 1783: Annotated   Could “Rosie the Riveter” Be Chinese American?  High-Flying Geology

Cemeteries

The pope's cemeteries - Catholic Outlook     A star tries to take his dog to the grave: What you don't know about pet cemeteries - Audacy  From Clowns to Chimps, Circus Communities Bury Their Dead Here - Fodors Travel Guide   Helping out the local cemeteries - YouTube   Over two-dozen 'forgotten' graves found in historic cemetery - FOX 35 Orlando   Upgrades continue at Columbus Catholic cemeteries   Greek government funds for cemeteries - Telegraph - Telegrafi  Cemetery Sleuths Uncovering History one Tombstone at a time - WMUR  Damage to Jewish cemeteries is severely condemned - Telegraph - Telegrafi   After institutions for people with disabilities close, graves are at risk of being forgotten   Korean War hero's remains return home to Grafton - WDTV  Improvements to cemeteries in St Albans District are approved   Places of reflection and remembrance - Geelong Independent Jo-Ann Prescott: Fall cleanup of cemeteries - Greenfield Recorder Learn about island history as a Cemetery Commissioner - theOrcasonian.com   Sleuthing in the cemetery | Culture - Illinois Times Lost ones, easily found - Sauk Centre Herald A history of overwriting : Jewish cemeteries in postwar Poland, Ukraine and Belarus  Cemeteries in Poland as Built Structures and Their Impact on Shaping the Social ... - CEEOL  Patrols to increase at Roselawn crematorium after paramilitary displays - BBC   Two more mass graves are discovered in Bosnia - Telegrafi  Regular patrols to be held at cemetery after paramilitary displays - Yahoo News Canada  Visiting Beethoven's final resting place in Vienna | The Star   Is This the Funniest Tombstone in All of Iowa? - ESPN Sioux Falls    Meet the Metal Characters Living in Québec's Forest    The Big Story Behind Atlanta's Collection of Tiny Doors   How Did Live Animals and Political Artwork End Up in a Shoe Store?  Is This the World's Most Delicious Museum?  Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Petr Axenoff Dubbo cemeteries modernise with community input | Daily Liberal  Loved ones gone but not forgotten - The SE Voice Confederate flag not welcome in Oregon historic cemeteries   South Surrey organizations oppose proposed cemetery expansion - CTV News Vancouver  LOCAL LIFE: An extension for the Cul-de-Sac cemetery | Faxinfo  Jharkhand cemetery remembers forgotten Chinese soldiers of World War II - Telegraph India  Family frustrated by restricted access to cemetery on private property - Herald Ledger  Jo Hayes: A picnic in the dead centre of town - The Catholic Weekly  Cemetery Tour keeps history alive | Article | The United States Army   Cemetery is 'disrespecting the dead' due to 'failed experiment' - Yahoo News UK  The time of the dead: anthropological research in a Latvian cemetery  31 additional graves found at historic Melbourne cemetery - Spectrum News 13 Cemetery under fire for 'disrespecting the dead' after 'failed experiment' leads to 'wholesale neglect' A Voice at the Table: Highways, Higher Pay, Historic Cemeteries, and a YRI 2024 Recap  Sebastopol's historic cemetery is up for sale  High winds in Paris: parks, gardens and cemeteries closed this Tuesday - Sortiraparis.com


 Interesting Blogs

humoringthegoddess  A Fun Way to Tap Into Your Creativity!    

I’m Okay   Fountains  Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Otherworld  Faerie Paths — Dinosaurs Freya Jobbins

Anne's Family History Looking after Whitmore in the twentieth century

Dreams and Adventures at Cosy Cottage A Worm Request

Pauline Conolly  Mining for Gold – Damper, Spuds, & Mutton Birds

Beatrix Potter – Remembered Pleasures

Brotmanblog: A Family Journey Moses Rothschild’s Three Oldest Children and Their Families in the 1930s: Samuel, Rudolph, and Albert

Theresa Smith Writes..

Book Review: Love Objects by Emily Maguire   

Book Review: Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors

Allen & Unwin

The Battle of the Generals     Roland Perry

Buckham's Bombers    Mark Baker

Stories My Grandmothers Didn't Tell Me.   Andra Putnis

Magnificent Obsession   David Dufty

Australia's Greatest Stories    Graham Seal

Better Reading

Book of the Week: The Golden Thread by Tea Cooper     READ MORE

Preview: One Dark Night by Hannah Richell

Penguin Books

The City and its Uncertain Walls   Haruki Murakami ABOUT THE BOOK

Pictures of You Emma Grey  START READING

The Place of Tides James Rebanks    TAKE ME THERE

Birdle (100 puzzles all about Australian birds.)  Liam Runnalls

Gliff   Ali Smith   CHECK IT OUT

Desolation Code   Clive Cussler   HAVE A LOOK



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That Moment in Time


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Friday, September 8, 2017

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 8TH SEPTEMBER, 2017






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* GENERAL INTEREST




Society of Australian Genealogists  NEWS   CALENDAR   WEB TIPS



Library and Archives Canada have the 1921 Canadian census  on their website.  Prior to yesterday only Canadians could browse the 1921 census for free due to a contractual arrangement with Ancestry.ca. Those outside of Canada had to have a subscription to Ancestry to access the census.  Now that the 5 year agreement with Ancestry.ca is completed, where Ancestry assumed the cost of indexing the census, anyone may access the census for free. The census has information on 8.79 million people.

To read more about the census and  search see: http://tinyurl.com/y79t5kgp
Original url:

Earlier Canadian censuses are available at: http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/ENG/CENSUS/Pages/census.aspx



Chris Paton: "Australian War Memorial service 20 AUG 2017" Video

Inside History magazine | What’s New Online: Latest family history records, August 2017

Anglo-Celtic Connections

FreeBMD Second August Update

OGS to Operate CanadianHeadstones.com

Poets’ Pathway Final Unveiling, Sept. 9, 2017      

Blogging Reduced

Harvey recovery begins as family mourns history lost in grandmother's flood-damaged home - ABC News 

Tales of finding ancestors  History Space * suggest you use READER as lots of ads

Meetings & Milestones - Lifestyle - The Review - Alliance, OH

 - Remembering the Past



Family Memories from Down Under « MyHeritage Blog Shauna Hicks

 Creative Ireland support for Dún Na Sí   Westmeath Independent

Dying with the Irish: A Native American, German & Québécois in    Irish Regiments  Damian Shiels

The Dalkey column – An Irish Civil War Story    The Irish Story

Outback Family History

The Murder of May Wain – grave tales

We dont like Cricket ‘Oh No’ We love it !!!!!

New Online Genealogy Course: Germans Outside of Germany    Gould Genealogy

TasPast        All Tasmanian records

Michael in Ireland Newsletter

Connemara: the Hidden Gem

Clíodhna of the Banshees

The State of the Irish Nation 2017

"Homeless Crisis Continues To Escalate"   scroll down

The two births of John Cameron - GSQ Blog

What a Recent Survey Told Me – John Grenham – Irish Roots

Things to do in Brisbane this spring, your guide to 22 things you must see at Brisbane Festival

Brisbane Open House

Milford Irish Festival   Milford Orange Bulletin

James Bray and his Museum of Curios    Dictionary of Sydney

Family History Links  other than Catholic Nat. Library Ireland

How to Use Ancestry's Hints Without Going Crazy - Amy Johnson Crow

The sunshine cure - Shooting The Past - ABC Radio

Famine Map      irishnewsarchives  well worth a look..





* IRISH CENTRAL

Nine myths about the Irish busted 

Happy Birthday to the Belfast hero Van Morrison! 

How John Ford and 'The Quiet Man' shaped Irish identity in the US  

NYC St. Patrick's Day parade picks 2018 Grand Marshal - and it's a good one 

Five jobs that artificial intelligence will replace in the future 

Getting Creative in County Longford! 

“I’ve never seen anything like it” - Northern Ireland man describes Hurricane Harvey 

Who were the druids? The magical people of ancient Ireland  

First look at Saoirse Ronan as Mary Queen of Scots 

Irish dance king Michael Flatley’s mansion the most expensive property in Cork 

Think you know what a real Irish wedding is? Think again. 

Will changing Ireland’s national anthem make Ireland more welcoming? 

A vision of Ireland like you’ve never seen it before 

Irish 9/11 hero passes away 

There’s no mystery why Fungie the dolphin calls Dingle home 

An old Irish blessing for love and laughter  

3-year-old’s first Irish dance feis video will melt your heart 

Poignant 1950s photos capture powerful images of Dubliners 

Places in Ireland that can change your life 

Ireland by the numbers: The facts and figures you thought you knew 

Meet the Last King of Ireland living off Donegal 

Celebrate New York City’s Irish American heritage at the Great Irish Fair 

Getting Creative in County Louth! 

Irishman is hilariously no help at all when a bat flies into his parents home 

Calling all Americans - A homecoming to Belfast 

Getting Creative in County Mayo! 





and here they be...

Is this Irish stew recipe as good as your family’s? 

Irish meals you won’t easily find in America 


* FIND MY PAST

View All New Records

Oxfordshire Marriage Bonds 1634-1849

Britain, Marriage Licences Browse

England, Clandestine Marriages Browse

New Zealand Birth Index    1848 0n...

New Zealand Marriage Index

New Zealand Death Index


SEARCH SCHOOL RECORDS    Britain and Ireland

UK school records

admission records

log-books

A-Z of records page

A LANDMARK COLLECTION    England and Wales school records

5 QUICK TIPS          Make the most of education records



 * Reminder paid sites are mostly available free through your local library or Family history societies...


* INTERESTING BLOGS

One Little Scrap of Paper, So Many Stories  Textile Ranger

How one of my childhood sweets lead to a gene discovery - TravelGenee

Everything is Instant Alona

Patrick Dwyer – ‘a man of somewhat eccentric character’ | rustenivy

Postcards from Carbury Co Kildare  The Silver Voice

Earl Grey’s Irish Famine Orphans (51) : just a few from South Australia | trevo's Irish famine orphans








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That Moment in Time


Patrick Pease haunts ambassador, Blood-bookworms-bosoms & buddies, death from despair, tombstone tourists, Bye bye bang bang, hurricane Charley, Canada Census 1851, Scotland registers, exploring your origins NZ, unlock the secrets of family videos, Port Macquarie & Districts Fam. History Laurieton, Photos & digital dark age,




As They Were 

IGP'S AUGUST UPDATE...

Cork,  Carlow, Cavan, Donegal, Dublin, Fermanagh, Galway, Meath, Monaghan & Fermanagh,
Roscommon, Tipperary, Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow,


Carmody Hotel Tragedy, Ennis Remembers Sixty Years On, Clare Roots Society, share your memories, 



urungamaiden




Headlines of Old


Trove Tuesday 5th Sept. 2017, headlines of 100 years ago, An Unusual Charge, Entertainments, Brisbane Courier, Daily Examiner Grafton, Irish Surnames,




Irish Graves

WESTERN AUSTRALIA  Darlot, Lawler,



NEW SOUTH WALES  Camperdown, Newton







PLEASE NOTE...

FRIDAY FOSSICKING will be taking a break next week and will be of reduced size the following week...
Then back again, bigger and better than ever...









"Look behind thee and forward.. for what you do day today is part of the past and opens the window into the future..." CBG