FRIDAY FOSSICKING 4th MARCH, 2016

FRIDAY FOSSICKING

Walter Withers

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*  FIND MY PAST

blog.findmypast.com.au  My criminal ancestors

Off the record: Other military records

blog.findmypast.com.au/to-every-book-… Bishops' transcripts

Ireland Roman Catholic Parish Marriages 

Ireland Roman Catholic Parish Baptisms 

Ireland Roman Catholic Parish Burials 

Ireland Census Reports

VIDEO: How to start tracing your UK family history, with family historian Amy Sell 

Was your ancestor too important to send to war?

In pictures: The missing men of Singapore, found in our records 

* IRISH CENTRAL

A guide to Dublin’s rebel museums for the 1916 centennial (PHOTOS) 

Irish barman singing as he works will give you chills (VIDEO) 

 Ireland's most unusual tourist attractions 

The unsolved mystery of Ireland’s jumping church (VIDEO)  

The Tara Brooch, one of Ireland’s greatest treasures, explained  

Did mythical, vanishing island off the western coast of Ireland really exist? 

The top ten prehistoric tourist attractions in Ireland (PHOTOS)  

Irish women who lived as men in the US Civil War, British Army 

Bones found on Clare island may be from the 6th century  

* ANCESTRY

Tracing your Irish Ancestors | 15th-22nd June 2016

 Ireland, Select Catholic Marriage Registers, 1775-1912

 Ireland, Select Catholic Birth and Baptism Registers, 1763-1912

 Ireland, Catholic Parish Registers, 1655-1915

*  GENERAL INTEREST

1916 Rising Film | 1916 Film | Birth of a Nation | Easter Rising

Internet Archive Search: Ireland Parish

http://www.tcd.ie/Library/news/2013/03/book-of-kells-now-free-to-view-online/

MAKE YOUR GENEALOGICAL WILL

About Us - Ulster Historical Foundation

Learn the Meaning and Origin of the Reagan Surname

Meaning and Origin of the Bush Surname

What Does the Last Name Clinton Mean?

Meaning and Origin of the Eisenhower Surname

Access Thousands of Historic Newspapers Online

Qld State Archives Immigration Records

Victoria Aust. BDMs

National Archives Australia Family History

* CLARE ROOTS SOCIETY

Diaspora of the Wild Atlantic Way

*FIBIS

Cawnpore: its early history and Kacheri Cemetery Guide by Zoë Walland

Remains of tram tracks found underneath road in Mumbai

Look Up Mumbai: exhibition invites public to experience city's architecture lying down

Not ‘coolie’, but ‘sahayak’: Railways drop a colonial legacy

* INTERESTING BLOGS

Imagining the Horrors of Death: An Irishwoman Learns of Her Husband’s Death at Gettysburg Damian Shiels

Women and the War Edward Connolly

Memories: A picture paints a thousand words The Silver Voice 'delightful story'

I Ran Out Of February!  Jo Henn (notable for the hints re history books)

Escape to the Country Dara

Where there's a will, there's a way!

FRIDAY FOSSICKING.........

FOSSICKING FOR NEW RECORDS THIS FRIDAY?




Perhaps these can help... maybe you'll strike genie gold...







Walter Withers
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From Find My Past.....

UK and U.S.

• British Mariners, Trinity House Calendars - now fully searchable by name
• A range of fascinating British Royal Artillery Records, 1716-2011
• Roll of Honour from Clacton in Essex, England, 1914-1918
• US Civil War Pension Files Index, 1861-1934

From Ancestry.co.uk  ... some you may not have seen...

New UK Records! Bexley Parish Records '1558-1985'

Digitised for the first time and spanning five centuries, this collection contains births, baptisms, marriages, deaths and burials from the London borough of Bexley in the United Kingdom.

Search now: http://ancstry.me/1H4O1oX

CONNECTED HISTORIES

Connected Histories has recently added four new digital resources to its collection of historical British records.

• Convict Transportation Registers (originally compiled by the State Library of Queensland - contains details of over 123,000 convicts transported to Australia) 
• John Foxe's The Acts and Monuments Online (martyrology and ecclesiastical histories published between 1563 and 1583) 
• Nineteenth Century British Pamphlets (the most significant British pamphlets from the 19th century held in UK research libraries) 
• Cause Papers in the Diocesan Courts of the Archbishopric of York, 1300-1858 (relates to disputes over matrimony, defamation, tithes, probate, breach of faith by the clergy, and church rights)

http://www.connectedhistories.org/