FRIDAY FOSSICKING 27TH MAY, 2016

FRIDAY FOSSICKING

Walter Withers

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Public_domain

* IRISH CENTRAL

Curator of Ireland 100 on the three-week celebration of culture (PHOTOS & VIDEOS)

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

 Roots “The bravest man I ever met” Father Brown in World War I 

The passionate love poems and love affairs of Michael Collins 

Five Irish love stories that changed history

Irish singer’s hauntingly beautiful version of WB Yeats' "16 Dead Men" (VIDEO)

Ireland’s Travel Secrets: Sherkin Island, Cork 

Favorite songs from national treasure Mary Black on her birthday (VIDEOS)

Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ based on an ancient Irish story

Cloudless sky offers perfect view of Ireland from space (PHOTOS) 

Ireland’s Travel Secrets: Doagh Famine Village (PHOTOS)

Why the Irish passport is among most powerful in the world 

Two Irishmen entombed in Civil War ship off the coast of Texas

The changing face of Ireland throughout the decades (PHOTOS)

Neglect and death of 800 kids in Galway happened in plain sight 

* GENERAL INTEREST

Queensland

Secrets of Brisbane

What’s in a name – Teutoberg or Teutoburg? NO … it’s Witta!

Queensland State Archives Bulletin Online

ArchivesSearch

Image Queensland

INDEXES Qld State Archives

State Library Services

Queensland Police Museum - Queensland Police Service

The Workshops Rail Museum - Queensland Museum

QUEENSLAND HISTORICAL INDEXES

QLD GOVERNMENT GAZETTES 1859-1890

tony-robinsons-time-walks  On BRISBANE Friday 27th ABC

Varied

10 Free Sites for Researching US Veterans Who Died in Service    about.com

How Other Countries Remember Their Military Dead   about.com

Top Sources for Researching British Military Ancestors   about.com

Top Sources for Researching Canadian Military Ancestors    about.com

Family Search Now 17 Years  article dated earlier, still valid

Western Australia

Hotels of the Goldfields

Tasmania

Tasmania's Convict Archives
Tasmania University Free Online Genealogy Courses

Victoria

Victorian Places
  shared by Shelly Crawford of Twigs of Yore

Ireland

The Irish Manuscripts Commission

Iris (6 yrs old) compared to Monet

Trove

Kew Historical Society Joins Trove

Orbost & District Historical Society

UK

The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913

New Zealand

 Simple Cemetery Search
Papers Past - National Library of New Zealand
NZ Newspapers - Freepages - Ancestry.com


* FIND MY PAST

"Over 1.8 billion birth, marriage, death and census records are free to view this week, including 78 million exclusive parish records, so if you start a new tree, or upload one you've created elsewhere, our hinting feature will automatically scour these records for matches, and you'll be able to meet new ancestors free of charge. Show us what you discover by using #TreeChallenge on Twitter or Facebook."

How to make a Findmypast family tree
How to upload your family tree to Findmypast

British Newspapers
Westminster Baptisms
Westminster Marriages
Westminster Burials
Ireland, Electoral Registers 1885-1886 Browse

* INTERESTING BLOGS

Ireland, 2016!  Janet Maher

Poor little chap Anne Young

Perth History Centre  City of Perth

A Little Bush Grave  Kaypilk

 A Home Affair : how grandparents meet Jinny Fawcett

17-websites-to-find-photos-for-your-blog Alona Tester

Edith Peard, the making of a new woman  Lenore Frost

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 15TH APRIL, 2016

FRIDAY FOSSICKING

Walter Withers

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Public_domain

*ANCESTRY
 Plant Your Tree This Spring
 Take your tree to new heights DNA 
 Your favorite family history show returns to TLC.
 Turn Your Tree into Art
 1940 U.S. Federal Census
 1930 U.S. Federal Census
 U.S. City Directories
 Search the Census Like Ancestry Anne

* FIND MY PAST

Did your family make headlines?
infamous criminals
free webinar   Friday 15th April at 4pm top tips for searching newspapers 
WATCH: Laura Berry explores the newspaper collection
Uploading your tree to Findmypast
Tracking my runaway detective ancestor
Maximise search returns with wildcards
Your April British Newspapers Round-up
Electoral Rolls South Australia, Northern Territory, New Zealand and more

LANDMARK BREAKTHROUGH: Death records for Dr Jekyll... 

Humans of New Zealand: Discovered in our records 

*IRISH CENTRAL
The forgotten Dublin graves of the British who died in 1916 (PHOTOS)
The American Civil War through the eyes of an Irish photographer 
First Great Hunger grave markers for New York unmarked graves
The ancient music and instruments of Ireland (PHOTOS)  
Eleven moments that changed Ireland’s history 
The mystery of Celtic and Irish symbols 
Documenting Ireland’s beloved thatched cottages before it’s too late (PHOTOS)
Top ten interesting facts about County Cork (PHOTOS) 
Old hand-colored photos of Ireland’s heritage sites give glimpse into past
Famine immigrants' desperate search for the missing
Beautiful rendition of U2’s “With or Without You” on fiddle (VIDEO) 




A walk through history - the horrific tale of a Mayo village's death during the Great Famine 

Emotional WWII vet reunited with 70-year-old love letter (VIDEO) 

Irish dancing across the wondrous Irish landscape (VIDEO)

How to research your Irish genealogy using the Library of Congress 

Archaeologists found a 2,600-year-old Celtic Princess in Germany 

Exploring what remains of Ireland’s ancient royal capitals (PHOTOS)

* IRELAND XO INSIGHT

http://www.irelandxo.com/ireland-xo/news/ireland-xo-insight-irish-national-education-sources-relating

*PINTEREST

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/503347695824374520/ records of early convict arrivals Original Doc.

List of female convicts to be transported beyond the seas. Credit NSW State Records

* GENERAL INTEREST

http://home.dictionaryofsydney.org/project/randwick-heritage/ Randwick Heritage APP

http://www.medicalpioneers.com/sources.htm Australian Medical Pioneers Index (AMPI) - Sources of Information About Pioneer Doctors

http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/stevens/ct-50-books-by-age-12-balancing-0405-20160405-column.html    50 books every kid should read by 12 

Common Terms You May Find in Land and Property Records   about.com

10 Cool Things You Can Learn From Deeds   about.com

Locating Land Records on the BLM Website   about.com

Timeline of U.S. Public Land Acts and Legislation   about.com
How & Where to Locate Property Deeds Online   about.com
https://www.raden.com/  new vogue luggage... just fun and practical

* INTERESTING BLOGS

http://www.campbellrivermirror.com/opinion/373416521.html Kristin Butcher ...legacy in the making
http://librarycurrants.blogspot.com.au/2016/04/feeding-from-frenzy.html Carmel Galvin.. good advice

L is for leaving Liverpool Anne Young

Postcards from South Tipperary The Silver Voice.. a wonderful tribute

Judith Ann Neczypor Sharon..       a beautiful story

Five and a bit!  Helen Smith ... I had to include this, even if just for the sheer amount of work Helen puts into all

Some small wonders of Autumn Arija  these posts always gladden my heart

Clonderlaw House, Kilmurry, Killadysert, County Clare. Dr. Paul O'Brien.. always interesting

Keeping it in the Family genielynau  .. in depth research as always

Shining a Light on Queensland’s Lighthouses! QLD State Archives

 and from Society of Australian Genealogists...

http://www.sag.org.au/downloads/OnlineEventsBookingGuide.pdf 

Just a few selections from the link above...

Restoring photos with Photoshop Elements 

Webinar – Did your ancestors serve in the British military before World War One? 

Chinese family history and migration to Australia 

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 4th MARCH, 2016

FRIDAY FOSSICKING

Walter Withers

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Public_domain

*  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 JUNE 5, 2015

FRIDAY FOSSICKING  

Walter Withers

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Public_domain

*  ANCESTRY

Free for 3 days.... all Irish and UK records

http://search.ancestry.com.au/search/group/uk_irish_records?irpid=55537


* FIND MY PAST

* Over 42,000 additional baptisms from Kent, England

* Over 30,000 additional burials from Kent, England

*  Baptisms from Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire, England

*  Burials from Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire, England


 and now for something different...

*  about.com

*  Free Online Military Cemetery and Casualty Databases


*  NATIONAL ARCHIVES UK BOOKSHOP SPECIALS

Delve into the history of what your ancestors did to earn a crust.  These specialist guides offer in-depth information on discovering the working life of your forebears. Explore the full range or choose from the selection below. Tracing your Trade and Craftsman Ancestors £12.99 RRP £14.99 Save £2 Tracing your Medical Ancestors £10.99 RRP £12.99 Save £2 Tracing your Shipbuilding Ancestors £10.99 RRP £12.99 Save £2 My Ancestor was an Apprentice £7.99 RRP £8.99 Save £1 My Ancestor was a Leather Worker £8.99 RRP £9.99 Save £1 My Ancestor was a Coalminer £8.99 RRP £9.99 Save £1 An introduction to Occupations £3.95 Female Occupations £7.99 RRP £12.99 Save £5 Trades and Professions £5.95