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Showing posts with label Kent BDMS. Show all posts

Friday, January 24, 2020

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 24th Jan 2020








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

* GENERAL INTEREST

Discovering My Roots in Ireland: Jay Cashman   Boston Magazine

ABC News: Meet the 14-year-old defying the odds and running his own free-range egg empire

The British Royal Family: Princesses of Wales Historian Ruby

Australian Gravestone Symbols  Billion Graves


Newsletter

The ScotlandsPeople Newsletter January 2020  almost 13,000 new images online

I Love Bello Shire  incl. Backchat- Pia Etteldorf, OBF Cafe   Protecting our Rivers & the Endangered Bellinger River Snapping Turtle

Australian War Memorial   eMemorial  New Director, exhibitions...

The ScriBbleR  Stella Budrikis  Guildford  plus a lot more

Judy Webster..Genealogist  .. lots of great hints, some freebies...
sign up for free newsletter at   http://www.judywebster.com.au/subscribe.html

Federation of Australian Historical Societies.. here     incl. online course for digital skills

Find My Past

1939 Register update   British Armed Forces, First World War Soldiers' Medical Records

United States, National Veterans Cemetery Index    Search all newspapers

real history behind Sam Mendes' blockbuster 1917.

Kent Baptisms      Kent Marriages and Banns     Kent Burials    British Army Service Records

Understanding parish records  Watch..      Explore our Kent collection

Colin Firth's family tree      Benedict Cumberbatch's family history.

JSTOR Daily

Robert Brandom, a Philosopher's Philosopher     How Medieval Surgeons Shaped Sex and Gender

The Fear That Synthesizers Would Ruin Music  The Great Animation Strike

Insect Jewelry of the Victorian Era   3 Women Philosophers of the Enlightenment

Hitchcock's Transition from London to Hollywood


Anglo-Celtic Connections

The 15 best websites for 18th century UK family history    Kingston Lower Burial Ground Project

Genealogists and Historians Use of Digital Cameras: Poll Results Victorian Industrial Library

The Bytown Museum’s First Century   Which Site for Canadian Censuses?

Dick Eastman Celebrates     History of English Places App     Sunday Sundries

 Lost Children of the Carricks: Defying the Great Irish Famine to Create a Canadian Legacy

GENE-O-RAMA 2020   How the Irish Public Record Office burned

Outback Family History

What Happened in Boulder Cemetery???    The Return of the Prospector- a verse

The Brennan Brothers Marry –    BLACK FLAG – ghost towns 

Lawrence Graham DOW – grave tales    The Binduli Bloodhouse:    The Desert Warriors – 1973

But What’s The Use – Henry Lawson    From Wheat to Gold – Edwards Find

Heroism at the Golden West Mine:

Smithsonian

The Story of How Humans Came to the Americas Is Constantly Evolving

Archaeologists Excavate 200 More Chinese Terracotta Warriors

Church Unearthed in Ethiopia Rewrites the History of Christianity in Africa

Start of 2020 Ushers Thousands of Once-Copyrighted Works Into the Public Domain

The Oldest Person in the World Turns 117  Eighteen Podcasts to Listen to in 2020

A Massive New Database Will Connect Billions of Historic Records to Tell the Full Story of American Slavery

4,000-Year-Old Guide to the Ancient Egyptian Underworld May Be Oldest Illustrated 'Book'


Atlas Obscura

Ancient Hunting Toys     ‘Stuck Gates’ Scottish Borders, Scotland.. why?

The Great Christmas Dinner   Falling for Rocks   Crop-Growing Monoliths  Glacial Castle

Cottages in Disguise  .. what next?  Bunnyhenge   Capturing Birds in Flight    Moo Moods

C’mon Down to Book Town Video  Trippy Black-Light Murals     Mythical Door

Troop Beverly Hills       Paris’s Legendary Film Archive   Concrete Failure      ‘Haint Blue’

The Last Blockbuster     Missing Grave   Witch Hunt Memorial   Forever Ash

Always Interesting...

This week, I am just going to list one each of some of the many blogs I follow... hopefully, Friday Fossicking will be back to normal soon...
In no particular order...

Christmas in Outback Queensland - Love in a little black diary

All The Spitalfields Parties Of Yesteryear  the gentle author

Wrapping up 2019  Textile Ranger

Note to self: get organized!   The Legal Genealogist

Click on the Cat  Carmel's Corner

The Black and Tans and Auxiliaries – An Overview   The Irish Story

Monday Genea-Pourri - Week Ending 12 January 2020   Genea-Musings

Matty Maher: A Legend  Maher Matters

An instruction for my executors  Geniaus  love this one...

Cherry Blossom Walk, Washington D.C.  Wunderlusttwins

The Lace-Smuggler’s Narrative: 1858  Mrs Daffodil Digresses

#OTD in 1785 – Richard Crosbie became the first person to make a manned flight in Ireland.
Stair na hÉireann

Did You Comment Today?  humoringthegoddess

Marks Hyamovitch Revisited & Tracked  Branches On Our Haimowitz Family Tree

Light Keepers: Empowering Women with Family History Experiences  FamilySearch Blog

Milton Goldsmith’s Family Album, Part XV: Childhood Memories  Brotmanblog: A Family Journey

The Confusing Sign  allenrizzi

Give a Little, Gain a Lot Frugal Family Historian

Digital Discoveries: Review of Leora’s Letters  Liz Gauffreau

Solve Your Genealogy Brick Wall  kindredpast


* IRISH CENTRAL

WATCH: Saoirse Ronan’s Irish mammy had the best reaction to her daughter's Oscar nom 

St. Patrick’s Festival 2020 announce more music events  

WATCH: This 89-year-old has been teaching Irish dancing in Australia for 75 years 

In memory of a kind Irishman who deserved better 

WATCH: Irish dancing meets Beyoncé in this exciting “The Greatest Dancer” audition 
On her way to sainthood, Cork-born venerable Mary Aikenhead born on this day in 1787  

Irish master playwright Teresa Deevy's life and legacy 

Irish-American man kills coyote with his bare hands, saves son's life  


Ireland's largest trad music festival kicks-off celebrating 15 years 

Prohibition and Irish whiskey: the amendment that almost collapsed an entire industry  

Remembering Lily Kempson, the longest surviving rebel from the 1916 Easter Rising 

Irish tourist attraction of the week: The Céide Fields 

The "Famine Queen" Victoria died on this day in 1901 



Reviews..

Theresa Smith Writes...

#BookBingo2020 – Round 1: Set in a time of war

Book Review: Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Book Review: Springtime – A Ghost Story by Michelle de Kretser

Book Review: The Diamond Hunter by Fiona McIntosh

Book Review: American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins

Book Review: The Girls with No Names by Serena Burdick

Life According to Literature Tag

Book Review: Miss Austen by Gill Hornby

The Week That Was…

I Should Have Read That Book Tag


 Better Reading

Book of the Week: In the Clearing by J.P. Pomare

Book of the Week: Deep State by Chris Hauty

The Paris Model by Alexandra Joel

Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano

The Lost Love Song by Minnie Darke


and from my blogs....

As They Were

IGP additions Dec 2019-Jn 2020, Belfast, Cavan, Dublin, Mayo, Meath, will with Dublin connections, wills for Clare..

https://astheywere.blogspot.com/2020/01/new-files-igp-archives-from-last-6-weeks.html


Headlines of Old

DESERTING WIVES AND FAMILIES......Trove Tuesday  21 Jan 2020
Australian Government Gazettes, Deserting Wives and Families…Trove Tuesday
21st Jan 2020, detailed descriptions and information..

https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2020/01/deserting-wives-and-familiestrove.html






Friday, June 21, 2019

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 21ST JUNE 2019









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





* GENERAL INTEREST




Sydney’s Devonshire Street Cemetery | Catalogue | State Library of New South Wales



Reader's Blog: A Genealogy Adventure, by Amanda Jones Irish Family History Centre






DID YOU KNOW?





Two Working Men at Cork County Hall The Silver Voice

Scottish Indexes - Helping you trace your Scottish family tree

Organizing Your Family History smead  

Tipperary Genealogy Archives - Church  IGP (Ireland Genealogy Project)

A Guide to Salvaging Water Damaged Documents – Stories from the Archives - Qld State Archives

Wedding Day Photo Clues     Listen to the Podcast    Maureen Taylor The Photo Detective



Anglo-Celtic-Connection






Newspapers





Atlas Obscura

Ancient Cereal Austria    Shipyard Market  India   Rolling in the Grits  Sth Carolina

Saved by Cheese  Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay     Merton’s Hermitage Kentucky

The Kaskaskia Dragon    Illinois  Playful Creatures       Hidden Painting     Vermont


Invasive Plants Instanbul  Singapore Playgrounds   Centuries of Crime Cambridgeshire

Revolution Monument  Mexico       Ship Wreckage Found Alabama  The ‘5pm Chime’ Japan

Jubilee Galleries  England   Enchanted Highway  North Dakota  video   Navy Blue


Family Search Blog









Smithsonian















Newsletters




Outback Family History





JSTOR Daily








* IRISH CENTRAL































* ALWAYS INTERESTING

The Legal Genealogist

2019 alphabet soup: N is for…  Speak out for NY adoptees      Copyright: an annual thing

The legal power of genealogy     In those legal records      A matter of rank

Genea-Musings

Changes to Mining Ancestry.com Hints by Specific Record Collection - Updated!

Genealogy News Bytes - 14 June 2019     Genealogy News Bytes - 18 June 2019

Added and Updated Record Collections at FamilySearch.org - Week of 9 to 15 June 2019

Best of the Genea-Blogs - Week of 9 to 15 June 2019     Monday Genea-Pourri - 17 June 2019

"A Mother's Love ..... or Something Else" by Peter E. Small: Part VII


The Gentle Author

At Bevis Marks Synagogue    The Strangers’ Guide To London    Alexander Baron’s East End

Marie Iles, Machinist   An Abomination In Bethnal Green    Ray Newton, Historian Of Shadwell

A Film About The Whitechapel Bell Foundry

jenealogyscrapbook

Caroline Horsnick – convict

Irish in the American Civil War

A Walk Among Storied Tombstones: Revealing Washington D.C.’s Most Significant Irish Diaspora Site?

Applegate Genealogy

A Very Strong Baker 


Brotmanblog:A Family History

England, Part V: The Final Day    Henry Goldsmith’s Grandsons: College Men 

Henry Goldsmith, Part VII: The Westward Migration

Geniaus

Where do I start?    The People's Show

Carmel's Corner

A Scurry Hurry in Hertfordshire

Backtracking

Whither Catherine Withers nee Scott

Dreams and Adventures at Cosy Cottage

Our World: A dangerous one for badgers    Fitness Challenge 2019: April/May

Historical Ratbag

Wil-im-ee Moor-ring Indigenous Stone Quarry

allenrizzi

Everyday Is Payday      RU Miseducated? – LOL       Too Many Choices

Sunday Evening Art Gallery

Mirrors      Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Christian Richter   

The Frugal Family Historian

From Oliver Cromwell to DNA   

Pauline Conolly

The iconic Paragon cafe at Katoomba has closed.

Stair na hÉireann

#OTD in Irish History – 17 June:

The Dusty Box

I – Murder at Mount Magnet     II – A Suspect Emerges      III – The Final Part

Deep in the Heart of Textiles

Scraps from the Past        Quilt Consultation Results


* INTERESTING BLOGS

Grandma's Easy Lemon Meringue Pie - Love in a little black diary

Quite Possibly, the World’s Bulkiest Quilt  TextileRanger

Delightful Durham and its magnificent cathedral      clarejk2014

Great Horned Owl Fledgling  Little Wild Streak

A Surprise The Irish Aesthete


Reviews

Theresa Smith

The Week That Was…  

Book Review: Love and Other Battles by Tess Woods

Book Review: Imperfect by Lee Kofman


Liz Gauffreau

Adelaide Authors: Angels of Stockholm 

Dymocks

The Last Widow  Karin Slaughter    Rabbit's Hop    Alex Rance   Big Sky  Kate Atkinson

The Power of One  30 years on  Bryce Courtenay

The Electric Hotel  Dominic Smith           Whisper Network  Chandler Baker

Better Reading

Book of the Week: Big Sky by Kate Atkinson  READ MORE

Love and Other Battles by Tess Woods     READ MORE

The Postmistress by Alison Stuart   READ MORE

Messy, Wonderful Us by Catherine Isaac    READ MORE

Allen & Unwin

When the Ground is Hard   Malla Nunn

Song For a Whale  Lynne Kelly

Penguin Books

Who's Minding the Farm?    Patrice Newell          Before I Forget     Geoffrey Blainey

Unsolved James Patterson         No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference   Greta Thunberg
 The Oracle Clive Cussler           On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous    Ocean Vuong
 Tom Clancy's Enemy Contact     Mike Maden

The Whisper Man  Alex North          Ask Again, Yes    Mary Beth Keane



and from my blogs....

That Moment in Time

female convicts research centre, The Tin Ticket, Friday Fossicking 14 Jun 2019, Burial Files, UK Merchant Navy Lists, Earl Grey's Irish Orphans, Club Row Weavers, legacy & history Brisbane’s Albert Hall, Nat. Library Scotland..map additions, prisoner cookbooks, Swedish roots, Ramadan feasts, first filmed total eclipse, life of rigger on Sydney Harbour Bridge, top spots to fossick for opals, pygmy rabbits, FREE ebooks and .pdfs -numerous subjects, Greater London Burial Index available, top spots to fossick opals, FREE events National Library Australia + State Library Qld, brilliant blogs, great book reviews, and more Irish Graves added, with much more..
Feel free to share..

https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2019/06/friday-fossicking-14th-june-2019.html


JUST BECAUSE

https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/p/just-because.html

“On Second Thought... Maybe I was wrong”


CEMETERY -COMMENTS & QUANDARIES
new entries.. Australia and International
https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/p/ceme.html


Confessions Of A Bibliophile

MANNA FOR BIBLIOPHILES
https://crissoulisbookspot.blogspot.com/p/manna-for-bibliophiles.html




Headlines of Old

Trove Tuesday 18th Jun 2019 ... Convicts Absconded, runaways apprehended, extra details where available incl. tickets of leave+ death + where tried for further offences, some Irish, some English, both male and female, NSW Govt. Gazettes via TROVE,
https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2019/06/trove-tuesday-18th-jun-2019-convicts.html