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Friday, November 6, 2020

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 6th Nov 2020

 


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

* GENERAL INTEREST

* NEW PAGE in Irish Graves..they who sleep in foreign lands  ...

  IRISH TALES Thanks to Moya Sharp from Outback Family History for her contributions.

* CONGRATULATIONS!   IGRS INAUGURATES THE WALLACE CLARE AWARD – Irish Genealogical Research Society    To all mentioned.. with special Congrats to Christina Hunt.. known for so many things but especially as Co Ordinator of IGP..  Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives

* New additions to IGP from October 2020..

* Ever been to a Book Grocer?  

* Cathy Swift's lecture to Kilrush & District Historical So...

* Cairns Family History Newsletter incl. details on Christmas Morning tea 7th Dec., upcoming events

* I Love Bello Shire newsletter  incl. Actions Speak Louder Than Words Huge 'What's On' list

* Songs of the last convict ship - The History Listen - ABC Radio National 

* Society of Australian Genealogists  SAGe  includes News    Web Tips  Events

* FREE CHEAT SHEET 10 Tips & Tools for Transcribing Genealogy Documents

  Download all 30 sheets...30 FREE GENEALOGY CHEAT SHEETS  Thanks to Thomas MacEntee

* Illinois society announces recipients of awards (genealogy)  Danville CommercialNews

* John Grenham  Here be slightly fewer dragons

* National Archives UK  podcast  Civil Rights and Public Health    > Read the blog 

  podcast     Heroic Deeds: Episode one out now

* TV Watch: Liam Neeson in Unknown; and Liz Carr's family tree involves attempted murder in ...  Irish Examiner

* Belfast City Cemetery: 150 years of buried stories - BBC News

Wanderlust Twins  George Peabody Library Staircase in Baltimore, USA    Alaska   Lake Louise, Canada Doug Walkey

Living tunnel in Furzey Gardens, Hampshire, England       

31 October, 2020 23:38     Prozor, Bosnia and Herzegovina   Guangxi, China Khanh Nguyen


Outback Family History

Snatched from the jaws of death:     William Robinson by Glen Munro 

Albert Ernest Gard by Ric Francis    Living in caves: 

Find My Past

Greater London Burial Index      Trace Bahamian bloodlines  Search all newspapers 

A beginner’s guide to Caribbean family history watch video

Anglo-Celtic Connection

Zooming    British Newspaper Archive Additions for October  Le Droit Online

Advance Notice: St Andrew's Day Scottish Webinars from FamilySearch

Reopening LAC – Reservations for Ottawa to open on November 2 at 10 a.m.

Get an OGS Membership Bargain   Sunday Sundries        Your Genealogy Today: Nov/Dec 2020

QFHS Webinar: Past is Present: Using Digital Resources to Find Your Family's First World War History

This week's online genealogy events

Maps added to National Library of Scotland online collection

Atlas Obscura

Reviving America’s Forgotten Election Cake   

American Elections, Italian-Style       Theater of the People   

Grave of Charles Dummett      Witches' Pillory   1872 Monument. 

Debunking Moose Boulder    Kentucky’s Delightfully Obscura Graves 

The Myth of the Werehyena  Jewish Medieval Museum      

Monster Mythology    Beware a Supernatural Shapeshifter

The Tale of Vengeful Spirits      Insectoid Misfortune    

Lakeside Tales with Russia’s Vodyanoy   The Forest Protector 

Fanged Body Snatchers Australia       So You Want to Be A Spy




Family Tree Magazine

How to Self-Publish Your Family History Book    Free Genealogy Writing Prompts eBook

6 Tips for Writing Your Own Life Story   The Best Websites for Finding Historical Maps

6 Things to Do When Your DNA Match Doesn’t Have a Tree      

11 Places to Do Cluster Genealogy Research     3 Tips for Saving Photos Stuck to Glass

The 12 Best German Genealogy Websites

Smithsonian 

The Alaskan Island That Humans Can’t Conquer

Ancient Roman Villa Discovered Beneath Italian Apartment Complex

When Catherine of Aragon Led England's Armies to Victory Over Scotland

Why a New Statue of Medusa Is So Controversial

Ruins of Eighth-Century Pagan Temple Found in Norway

The True Story of 'The Trial of the Chicago 7'

Newly Documented Aboriginal Rock Art Is 'Unlike Anything Seen Before'

The Little-Known Story of Queen Victoria's Black Goddaughter

Why a Long-Awaited Artemisia Gentileschi Exhibition Is So Significant

Behind the Scenes With the White House Residence's Long-Serving Staff

'The Good Lord Bird' Paints a Different Portrait of Abolitionist John Brown

Machu Picchu Reopens for a Single Stranded Tourist

Seven Natural Phenomena Worth Traveling to Alaska For

Why Elaine de Kooning's Portrait of JFK Broke All the Rules

Australian Geographic

The spotted litter frog sits like a human and it has us crying

Wombats bums: there’s more than meets the eye

Puggles on plates help save species

JSTOR

What Bats Can Teach Humans About Coronavirus Immunity      

Nine Black Cat Stickers   Why Do We Vote by Secret Ballot?

When the English Witnessed Battles in the Sky  Halloween Stories     

The Bizarre Marvels of Segundo de Chomón, Father of Spanish Cinema

The Bakemono Zukushi “Monster” Scroll'

Family Search Blog

Monthly Record Update for October 2020


ALWAYS INTERESTING 

Trevor McLaughlin

Earl Grey’s Irish Famine Orphans (74): “Criminal” women

Emily's Quill Pen

Jairus’ Daughter

Textile Ranger

Extreme Textile Happiness

Social Bridge-  Jean Tubridy connecting with you from Ireland

Music I Miss      Blogging and Covid 19    All’s Well Again, I Hope…

Humouring the Goddess

Sunday Evening Art Gallery (midweek) — Cars     Faerie Paths — Baking      Lorenzo Quinn

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Niyoko Ikuta     Nature’s Jewels  The Passing of Indian Summer

Family History Across the Seas

Sepia Saturday: Lighthouse lives 

The Gentle Author

A Brief History Of Crypts  The Tragical Death Of An Apple Pie     Bloomsbury Jamboree On Ice

Nicholas Hawksmoor’s Churches      Spitalfields Market Nocturne

Brotmanblog: A Family Journey

The “Disappearance” of Arthur Cohen, My Grandfather’s First Cousin

The Cohen Family Photograph: Who Are These People?

allenrizzi

Halloween     O-gyee  

jenealogyscrapbook

Three months later …

Genea-Musings

Genealogy News and Education Bytes -- Friday, 30 October 2020

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Hallowe'en Memories and Family History

Best of the Genea-Blogs - Week of 25 to 31 October 2020

Monday Genea-Pourri - Week Ending 1 November 2020

Genealogy News and Education Bytes -- Tuesday, 3 November 2020

The Frugal Family Historian

Returning to the Archives: Glasgow City Archives @ The Mitchell

Six (free) family history things to do when the archives are closed

We Will Remember Them

Gerry's Family History

Fathers and sons, uncles and nephews, two World Wars

The Legal Genealogist

The other Judy 

Historical Ragbag

Bergen and Hakon’s Hall

Mrs Daffodil Digresses

The Enjoyment of the News: 1910

Stair na hÉireann | History of Ireland

#OTD in 1920 – Kevin Barry, an 18-year-old medical student, is hanged in Dublin for his part in a raid in which six soldiers were killed.

Geniaus

Saving Reverend Ryan

The Irish Story

Remembering Patrick O’Donnell: The Man who Avenged the Invincibles


* IRISH CENTRAL

These 25 people have been named the most inspirational in Ireland

Historic Medieval manuscript donated to University College Cork

WATCH: IFI marks World Day for Audiovisual Heritage with beautiful Donegal film

Did you know a Roscommon cave is home to the “Gates to Hell”?

Celtic blessings to mark the ancient festival of Samhain

First major English-Irish dictionary in 60 years released on Friday

IrishCentral’s Book of the Month: “After the Silence” by Louise O’Neill

All Saints Day: Ireland's saints and their blessed sites

May the Road Rise Up to Meet You - the story behind the traditional Irish blessing

This slow cooker Irish stew recipe is perfect for cozy, chilly nights 

Six prehistoric sites in Ireland could be made UNESCO World Heritage Sites

Embracing your Irish heritage - how to get started finding your Irish roots 

Hollywood star Olivia Wilde's Irish roots 

 Joe Biden rejoices in Mayo roots as he nears end of campaign trail 

Ireland mourns 100-year-old great-grandmother who's lockdown letter stole nation's heart

Watch: Colossal waves off Irish coast captured by fisherman during Storm Aiden


* INTERESTING BLOGS

The Endeavourers’ Reveal Day 12 – The Sea Textile Ranger

A Look at Lighthouses - Sepia Saturday Scot Sue


My first published genealogy article ! Dara, Black Raven Genealogy

Trove Tuesday – a little Dungog humour Pauleen Cass

The Dress Doctor: An Ingenious Lady’s Profession: 1894 Mrs. Daffodil Digresses

Reviews

Theresa Smith

A Month of Reading: October

The Week That Was…

Book Review: Honeybee by Craig Silvey

Book Review: The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth


The Irish Story

Book Review: Saving the State: Fine Gael from Collins to Varadkar

Better Reading

Book of the Week: The Great Escape from Woodlands Nursing Home by Joanna Nell    READ MORE

Lioness by Sue Brierley     READ MORE

Love Your Life by Sophie Kinsella     READ MORE

Mary's Last Dance by Mary Li       Companion to Mao’s Last Dancer     READ MORE

The Freedom Circus by Sue Smethurst      READ MORE

Podcast: Richard Flanagan on Unexpected Tenderness and Grateful Wonder     LISTEN TO THE PODCAST

Podcast: Kate Mildenhall on Overcoming her Fear of Failure with Writing   LISTEN TO THE PODCAST

Allen & Unwin

Infinite Splendours  Sofie Laguna     READ AN EXCERPT

Death in Daylesford  Kerry Greenwood     LEARN MORE

The Law of Innocence Michael Connelly  READ AN EXCERPT

The Shearer's Wife  Fleur McDonald   LEARN MORE

Memorial   Bryan Washington     LEARN MORE

Penguin Books Australia

A Promised Land     Barack Obama     READ EXTRACT

Untold Resilience Future Women     READ Q&A

The Woman in Black  Susan Hill  LEARN MORE

Join our Premiere Event to celebrate the release of Fiona McIntosh's new novel, The Champagne War. Thursday 12 November at 7pm (AEST) on the Penguin Books Australia Facebook page. 
FIND OUT MORE


and from my blogs...

That Moment in Time


FRIDAY FOSSICKING 30th Oct 2020,  Dangerous Women, Catherine of Aragon, Vodka from milk, praying with skulls, FREE cheat sheets, Love on a hearse, Celtic myth & halloween, reviews...

Shortlist Irish Book Awards, internet in the Alps, migrating birds and glass buildings, London’s cesspit treasures.. and a whole lot more..

Feel free to share … The title is the link…


https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2020/10/friday-fossicking-30th-oct-2020.html


Headlines of Old

Certificates of Naturalisation  1967  Series 8 Trove Tuesday 3rd Nov 2020, various states, numerous names & addresses…

Here are the steps you have to work through to become an Australian citizen now...it varies from country to country, age, nationality of parents, etc. Addresses are given for the time of application, so that may help you trace an ancestor.


https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2020/11/certificates-of-naturalisation-1967.html



IRISH GRAVES


BRISBANE, QUEENSLAND


Brisbane, Toowong

With thanks to Kym Hyson.


NEW SOUTH WALES METRO


Castle Hill

Camperdown

Thanks to Noelene Harris


ROOKWOOD CEMETERY, METRO NSW


Thanks to Noelene Harris


NEW SOUTH WALES REGIONAL      A - I


Buladelah

Thanks to Noelene Harris


Coonabarabran

Thanks to Geraldine Rae


BIOGRAPHIES Second Page

Camperdown, NSW Metro

Thanks to Kevin Banister


IRISH TALES New  Page


Thanks to Moya Sharp, Outback Family History


AS THEY WERE

New additions to CONTRIBUTIONS

New additions to IGP from October 2020..




Keep safe and well. 

This will pass.



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Friday, April 24, 2020

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 24th Apr 2020







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




* GENERAL INTEREST




Society of Australian Genealogists 
Due to restrictions on events as part of the COVID19 response, all of our events are currently being delivered online using Gotowebinar. We are planning on the assumption that such restrictions may well be in place for the rest of 2020. Unfortunately, a small number of events have been cancelled as they could not be delivered online. You can get the latest information about our events from the Events page of the SAG website. 
When you register for an event, the confirmation email will contain information about how to join the event online. In many cases, this will require you to complete a further step of registering with Gotowebinar. If you have not used Gotowebinar before, you can find information about it on our website here.
For full details and programs, why not subscribe... it's free to get the S.A.G.S. newsletter.
I Love Bello Shire   incl.  I Love Writing Short Story       The Waste.. Craig Jarman




The National Archives UK  newsletter incl. research tips, Boredom Busters

 What we lost when we stopped reading - The Washington Post ... thanks to Christina Hunt

 103-year-old nun is Ireland’s oldest COVID-19 survivor | IrishCentral.com

Scotland's People newsletter   FREE online resources incl. 1881 (LDS) census  maps and plans

 From Isolation - Inspiration | Ireland Reaching Out

 FIND MY PAST




JSTOR DAILY






ANGLO-CELTIC CONNECTIONS





MyHeritage LIVE 2020 Postponed


AUSTRALIAN GEOGRAPHIC





ATLAS OBSCURA









Hear the Soundscapes of Cities Transformed   The Dying Art of Building Boats  Abandoned Hotel

How Museums Will Capture COVID-19   Temple of Valdier   Making the Invisible Visible

‘Commuter Banking’   Creating New Accents     Mechanical Magic whimsical    Granary Ruins

The Ancient Elegance of Horseshoe Crabs  Discovering Forgotten Apples   Bahá'í Temple

Vintage Sign Nerds    Warner Castle


 ALWAYS INTERESTING

Genea-Musings

 Book Review: "Practical Genealogy" by Brian Sheffey -- and a Giveaway Contest!

Genealogy News Bytes - Friday, 17 April 2020      Genealogy News Bytes -- Tuesday, 21 April 2020

Best of the Genea-Blogs - 12 to 18 April 2020

 The Gentle Author

 Bluebells At Bow Cemetery  A Pack Of Knaves  Cable St Gardeners  Val Perrin’s Empty Brick Lane

Rosie Dastgir’s Letter From Tokyo   Joanna Moore’s Spitalfields

 Brotmanblog : A Family Journey

Escaping from Germany to Brazil and Israel: Brick Walls     

Escaping from Germany: Another Splintered Family, the Cramers

Stair na hÉireann

#OTD in Irish History – 20 April:

Social Bridge

 The Bypass    One of Dad’s    So Glad to be Asked 

Treasure Chest of Memories

Why You Should Start a Covid-19 Journal and What to Include   

Humouring the Goddess

Faerie Paths — Perfection     Si Scott   Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Charles Vickery

Mrs. Daffodil Digresses

 The Phantom Husband: 1850s   That Paris Look: 1924      Gowns That Copy Flowers: 1901

A Yankee Girl’s Pluck: 1883 

Geniaus

Trove Tuesday - A Memento for Albert     

allenrizzi

Attenti Parenti Serpenti

The Irish Story

 Henry Hugh Tudor – His Life and Times    The Truth in the News: The Irish Press Cartoons of Victor Brown

Textile Ranger

 Earth Prayer

The Legal Genealogist

Putting a face to the name 

Gerry's Family History

 Dad on the stage

The Silver Voice

 From inside the ‘Cocoon’ – Sorrow


 * IRISH CENTRAL

Imagine quarantining in this 18th-century Dublin mansion by the sea

TUNE IN: Glen Hansard celebrates his 50th birthday with an Instagram concert

The last letter written on board the doomed Titanic

Honorary police officer in Co Donegal has a very special COVID-19 message


U2, Nirvana, Elvis, and Bruce Springsteen make list of most iconic songs of all time

Irish stylist brings famous art pieces to life during lockdown

Irish people have far more Viking DNA than was suspected

Sinead O'Connor and Conor McGregor spar on Twitter about foreign labor 

My life in books - Irish author Sophie White

Brian Dennehy, award-winning Irish American actor, dies at 81 

Irish woman pens “My sister is not a statistic” poem after COVID-19 death 

Master piper Liam O'Flynn's life's works examined in TG4 documentary 

Lidl Ireland brings together Ladies GAA and Jigsaw mental health services 

WATCH: Historic newsreel shows 1916 Easter Rising aftermath in Dublin 

WATCH: Amazing colorized footage of Titanic in Belfast 

Irishman in China will ship millions of masks and gowns to hospitals that need them 

How to support your local Irish shops right now 

Nathan Carter calls on people to Stay at Home, Stay Alive in charity single  

Amazing Grace written after author landed safe in Donegal after shipwreck 

Stunning photographs capture lives of Irish Travelers 

All was changed - but who are those "vivid faces" in Yeats' Easter 1916?

Melissa McCarthy shares hilarious quarantine dream about Mark Wahlberg

Hozier’s stunning “The Parting Glass” performance released as charity single 

How to make scrapple and other life lessons from MoMo Hughes 

Lockdown blues: Exploring my 2km - memories and making friends?

NYC Irish pub Coogan's forced to close for good due to coronavirus

WATCH: NFL star does amazing Irish dance routine to Ed Sheeran's 'Galway Girl'


 * INTERESTING BLOGS    

On the Subjects of Age and Disabilities      Social Bridge

Dear Jill ... Best Wishes Bill  Geniaus

On Being A Geezer  allenrizzi

 From inside the ‘Cocoon’ – Stepping Up      The Silver Voice

 Earl Grey’s Irish Famine Orphans (72): Mental Asylums | trevo's Irish famine orphans

Keep Your Glitter!  Humouring the Goddess


Reviews

 Theresa Smith

 The Isolation Lucky Dip Reading List by @TheresaSmithWrites

 The Week That Was…

Book Review: The Secrets of Strangers by Charity Norman

Author Talks: Sonya Bates on the transition from Children’s Fiction to Crime Thriller

Book Review: The Girl She Was by Rebecca Freeborn

Book Review: The Age of Witches by Louisa Morgan

Book Review: The Paris Secret by Natasha Lester

Book Review: Caked in Dust by Mel A Rowe


Better Reading

Book of the Week: Small Mercies by Richard Anderson

Inheritance of Secrets by Sonya Bates 

Long Petal of the Sea  Isabel Allende

Robin Hood by Robert Muchamore

Podcast: Economist Richard Denniss on Where Australia, and the World, is Headed Now

Candice Fox: Visiting Prison in the Name of Research

Better Reading Preview: The Silence by Susan Allot


Penguin Books Australia  Newsletter

 Another company that is offering activities plus in these hard times.

 Remember that, while bookshop doors may be closed, you can still connect with your local, many of whom are offering free delivery and phone orders. Click here to find yours.

START AN AUDIOBOOK ADVENTURE for all the family

 Use what you have in the fridge...

 Veggie-filled Sausage Rolls     CWA Tomato Relish   MORE DELICIOUS RECIPES

A selection of some of the A-Z Challenge

 In Days Gone by..

 Names and Neighbourhoods   Occupations, ordinations and obituaries  Photos from the newspapers

 Quarantine of the Hydaspes   Receptions and Return Thanks   Schools and Sports


Geniaus

 GeniAus - #AtoZChallenge - N is for Newsworthy Notts         

GeniAus - #AtoZChallenge - O is for Obituaries 

GeniAus - #AtoZChallenge - P is for Pallamallawa 

GeniAus - #AtoZChallenge - Q is for Queensland

GeniAus - #AtoZChallenge - S is for Strayed


cassmob

 NATURE’S GLORY and DRAMA    Ordinary People   The Price of Peace   Queenslander!

Of Reading and Religion         Serendipity, Skills and Talents       Travel genes



and from my blogs...

That Moment in Time

Friday Fossicking 17 Apr 2020, FREEBIES & discounts, BDMs Durham & Northumberland, Bishop's transcripts, FREE ebooks, Belfast Girls, Irish Titanic Hero, what a waste of beer, keeping busy in isolation, digitising 100,000 historic Belgian Texts, Sprinklers-sirens & Freud's toilet, Fingal's Cave,
Facts & myths about Ellis Island, Victorian Divorce Index (Aust.) 1939-1942 FREE to download or share, legally blind sports caller..aged 10, indexing family history ...   Remember Mrs. Beeton?  More entries in Always Interesting, why not subscribe to those blogs that interest you.. including this one perhaps...        Reading more? Lots of book reviews to help you choose..
Feel free to share...

https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2020/04/friday-fossicking-17th-april-2020.html


Headlines of Old

Lost Ancestors  
additions

https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/p/trove-tuesday.html

Headlines of Old

Absconded Convicts, Colonial Convicts, Apprehended Runaways, Trove Tuesday 19 Apr 2020, numerous names, detailed descriptions, includes place-occupation-ship, selection from 1836 - 1853,

https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2020/04/absconded-convicts-colonial-convicts.html


Irish Graves ..they who sleep in foreign lands

KALGOORLIE, Westen Australia
https://irishgraves.blogspot.com/p/western-australia.html
with thanks to Moya Sharp

AVOCA, Tasmania
https://irishgraves.blogspot.com/p/tasmania.html
With thanks to Rod Ward




Images courtesy of Pixabay







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