FRIDAY FOSSICKING 14th May 2021

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

* GENERAL INTEREST 

My family was from Continental Europe - May 15 talk   Eric Kopittke

Genealogical Society of Queensland...

Twitter for Family History – Let’s Look at #ANZAncestryTime. Shauna Hicks

Occupations and recipes – family traditions Pauline Williams

Over 9 Million New Australian Passenger Lists Online on Find My Past  ... thanks to Alona Tester

Scottish genealogy subject of new book  Atlanta Journal Constitution

Rise in the number of people tracing their ancestors  Q102

The National Archives UK newsletter incl. 

A triple festival of films and jigsaws   

1950s inspired jewellery in our shop

Blog: Edward Bawden's mural Country Life

Wanderlust Twins

Karymsky Volcano in Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia.

The world’s tallest water slide, Insano, Fortaleza, Brazil.

Bulgari Resort, Bali  Loch An Eilean, Scotland

Times Square, New York City, 1944    Canyon Path, Japan

Atlantic Bridge detail in Seil, Scotland

Atlas Obscura

Spot The Eggs Cook Your Way Through India   The Queen of Thieves

Keith Haring’s ‘Once Upon a Time’ Bathroom Mural  

Sub-Sub-Sub Island on Victoria Island  Walden Pond’s Jellyfish

Sourdough Library    Rainforest Rights    Highgate Cemetery    

Lone Tree New Zealand  Saving Lebanon’s Train System  

Exploding Whale Memorial Park   Horseback Librarians

Is Grapefruit Really That Weird?       Red Sea or Red Ocean?

Dolphin Teamwork    Cakeland  Saving the Sea Cucumbers

Japan’s Masked Cat  Cold War History   Octopus Tree of Oregon   

Magruder's Blacksmith Shop built in 1700's Historical Trails

Japan’s Earliest Sound Recordings   Two-Story Outhouse  

Britain’s Last Temperance Bar   Elephant Car Wash Sign

Tolstoy Ghosted His Wife, Then Died  Visingsö Oak Forest Sweden

Find My Past

Australia, Inward, Outward & Coastal Passenger Lists 1826-1972 

Middlesex Poor Law Records          Devon Parish Records

Search all newspapers  Passenger Lists Leaving UK 1890-1960

Did your ancestor migrate to Australia? Discover their amazing stories with tips and resources from genealogists Jen Baldwin and Helen Smith. Watch now   See journeys visualized

Tinteán Magazine

Meath-born priest victim of Australian wartime censorship: the story of Fr James Timmons

A Profile of Michael D. Higgins  Launch of Irish Dance book in Koroit

New Irish non-Fiction    Ghosts of Irish-Australia     

Theatrically Addressing Clerical Abuse     Poems by David Harris

Family Search Blog

Finding Your Ancestors in Japanese Immigration and Emigration

Searching for Your Japanese Ancestors

Anglo-Celtic Connections

Military Monday: Age at Death for Canadian World War Fatalities

Burials at Brentford      Sunday Sundries    FreeBMD May Update

A Deeper Dive into the SDG Digitized Newspapers

More on Identification of the remains of Warrant Officer John Gregory

Advance Notice: FreeUKGEN 2021 Online Conference

Outback Family History

Ripping Yarns and Tragic Tales – 9th May 2021      

The Meekatharra Hero by A E Wallace

Florence Menon’s life of crime!  For a Better Life – pre publication

The Amazing Escapades of Margaret Bale – the finale    

A Beloved Son- Calder family story

The Disappearance of Margaret Bale part 1 ~ Outback Family History

The Amazing Escapades of Margaret Bale part 2 ~ Outback Family History

JSTOR Daily

Victorian Knitting Manuals Collection     

The Newsletter Boom, 300 Years before Substack

Chivalric Romance, Meet Gunpowder Reality   

Georgian Britain's Anti-Vaxxer Movement

The “Deviant” African Genders That Colonialism Condemned

ALWAYS INTERESTING

The Frugal Family Historian

Free Family History Mini-Class 2021 lesson 6

The Legal Genealogist

Doubts about dower     Too much to ask?    The name game

Social Bridge

Parenting

The Gentle Author

Rachael South, Chair Caner    My Source Of Inspiration In Lockdown

Charles Chusseau-Flaviens, Photographer    

Spring At Spitalfields City Farm  At Wellington Buildings In Bow

Peta Bridle’s Riverside Sketchbook

Humoring the Goddess

Look Into My Crystal Ball

Sunday Evening Art Gallery (early week) — Silos in Australia

Seeds of Survival — Ivor.Plumber/Poet (repost)

Splashes     Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Mothers

Liv Hambrett

April

Treasure Chest of Memories

12 Tips on Finding and Using Templates for Family Stories

Genea-Musings

Genealogy News and Education Bytes -- Friday, 7 May 2021 

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Three Things About Your Mother

Best of the Genea-Blogs - Week of 2 to 8 May 2021

Genealogy News and Education Bytes -- Tuesday, 11 May 2021

Stair na hÉireann | History of Ireland

#OTD in 1916 – James Connolly’s wife and daughter visit him in the Red Cross hospital in Dublin Castle where he lies seriously wounded.

allenrizzi

Working For Cheese   The Trip Over

Dreams and Adventures at Cosy Cottage

Update – Fitness Challenge March 2021: Step into Spring for Marie Curie

The Irish Story

Albert Cashier, the woman who fought as a man for the Union.

Podcast: Brian Hanley on the Arms Crisis of 1970

The Dusty Box

The First Death at Paynesville

* IRISH CENTRAL

“Darkness is over” - Celtic Bealtaine celebrated in Ireland with ancient ceremony

Irish music is back! Mullingar to host 2022 Fleadh Cheoil after two-year postponement

Ireland’s oldest grave is more than 9,000 years old 

John F Kennedy’s letters to Swedish mistress go up for auction

Happy birthday Christy Moore! Popular Irish singer-songwriter was born on this day in 1945

Why is Derry also called Londonderry?

Space Day: When NASA snapped a perfect green shot of Ireland 

New York fire truck makes big arrival in Dublin

The Shamrock Children: German refugees who found shelter in Ireland after WWII

Former coastguard's cottage dating back to 19th century is absolute paradise

German airman who crash-landed during WWII and fell in love with an Irish woman

Irish filmmaker in Canada promotes Irish language with new short film

Summering outside? Check out Ireland’s six national parks

Ireland’s Shannon featured among world’s Most Scenic River Journeys 

The top five places to visit in County Fermanagh

"Sinister" statue of mythical Irish creature put on hold in Co Clare

Galway's victims of the Great Hunger and exiled immigrants recalled

WATCH: New trailer released for Riverdance: The Animated Adventure

"Every day is a fight" - Brave Irish mom with heart failure on managing her condition

A local's guide to ten of Galway's best-kept secrets

* INTERESTING BLOGS

When It Was Time To Say Goodbye allenrizzi

Which Books Would You Bring? Humoring the Goddess

Reviews

Theresa Smith

Books to look out for 

Book Review: The Borgias by Paul Strathern

Better Reading

The End of Men by Christina Sweeney-Baird   READ MORE

Before You Knew My Name by Jacqueline Bublitz   READ MORE

The Beautiful Fall by Hugh Breakey   READ MORE

Take Me Home by Karly Lane  READ MORE

The Girl Remains by Katherine Firkin      READ MORE

Podcast: Nicola Moriarty on Growing up in a Family of Storytellers

Podcast: Kate Foster on Raising a Neurodiverse Child

and from my blogs...

That Moment in Time

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 7th May 2021, hoax of rabbit births, convict slang manuscript, Pickle Jar Highway, convict slang manuscript,  researcher beware, forgotten Greece, life onboard prison hulks, 3D printed concrete home, newsletters… society and institutions incl. Nat. Archives Aust., how to use PERSI, grave tales, book reviews for all tastes, Welsh parish records, Cork teen hero, free mini family history mini class no. 5, convict pardons and a whole lot more..

Feel free to share.. the title is the link…

https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2021/05/friday-fossicking-7th-may-2021.html

HEADLINES OF OLD

CERTIFICATES OF NATURALISATION SERIES 12 ,   Trove Tuesday 11 May 2021, lists include names and addresses at time of naturalisation..as well as date.. Listen to a recording of the very first official naturalisation ceremony.. in 1945.

Feel free to share, the title is the link…

https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2021/05/certificates-of-naturalisation-series.html

PLEASE NOTE: Friday Fossicking will be taking a break .. the next issue will be 28th May 2021. 

Stay safe and well.
This will pass.

                          Apologies if you receive this more than once... a glitch with publishing.

FRIDAY FOSSICKING.. Dec. 1st, 2017

FRIDAY FOSSICKING

                                                                  




J. Miller MARSHALL (22 November 1858 - 12-Jun-1935)                                                                               

Dead in Minehead, England.  PUBLIC DOMAIN.















* Launch of reflections from Home and Abroad

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  1 December at 20:00–21:30 UTC Minogue's Bar, Tulla, County Clare  Hosted by Jane Halloran Ryan

* IRISH CENTRAL

“Polar low” over Ireland following flooding to cause hazardous conditions 

Atlas of the Irish Revolution among greatest Irish history books ever?

What you should know about the history of your Irish surname 

The National Library of Ireland - where the story of the country unfolds 

The wild Irish countryside is just breathtaking 

11 things that no longer exist in Ireland 

Archaeologists search Montreal construction site for mass grave of Irish famine victims 

The woman who was reincarnated to find her Irish children 

Cheeky, fish-loving Wicklow seal has become a viral sensation 

I took a DNA test and was shocked at what I discovered 

Irish-born cowboys were the fastest guns in the west once upon a time 

LISTEN: The Great Famine podcast series – the Irish rebel Anne Devlin 

Little Irish boy with cancer has best day ever on the set of 'Vikings' 

Why DNA tests show different levels of Irish ancestry among family members 

St. Patrick’s Breastplate - the poem of Ireland’s greatest saint  

Many Irish actually emigrated in order to fight in US Civil War 

When an Irish pub locks you in then the real fun starts out 

Galway city buskers enraged as they may be driven off the streets by new restrictions 

Storm brought salvation during the Great Famine to a Kerry community 

How do you find out if you’re Irish or how Irish you are? 

The very special celebration that is an Irish Christmas 

Irish lad Skype calls his parents while skydiving 

Guess which American president personally hanged two Irishmen from the scaffold? 

Maureen O’Hara’s furs, jewelry and treasures up for auction 

Ireland's beautiful Irish bog cotton a secret delight 

You may have more Irish cousins than you think 

Hilarious sketch of an Irishman living abroad (VIDEO) 

Galway scientists find collagen implant brain fix for Parkinson’s sufferers 

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

Amazing dog learns Irish dancing from its owner (VIDEOS) 

Irishman captured Abraham Lincoln’s killer John Wilkes Booth 

Irish pub wins Christmas with sweetest pint-delivering drone ad

Family Christmas traditions  Claire Santry

LISTEN: Rents, riots and volcanoes – Ireland on the brink of the Great Hunger 


the treats are waiting..

Traditional Irish cod fish cakes recipe from an Irish American Mom 

Traditional Irish Christmas Claire Santry

Christmas   Food Ireland





* GENERAL INTEREST

National Archives UK

Podcast
Loyalty and Dissent: South Asian Soldiers in the First World War

The Radicalisation of Vir Singh (Loyalty and Dissent)

Corner of a foreign field (Loyalty and Dissent)

Cama (Loyalty and Dissent)

Smile (Loyalty and Dissent)


Blogs

Passchendaele - Sassoon's hell

Finding the wounded: re-cataloguing First World War pension files

Diamond cutting for disabled servicemen


Castle found under Turkish Lake

“My Wife & Five children is to be Starved”: An Irish Veteran Failed by the United States  Damian Shiels

Angela makes an 11,000-mile trip - Morpeth Herald

 ZUVERINK: Book details Indian conflicts through 1858 

Long lost Seymour siblings find each other through DNA test kit - New Haven Register

Explore the Victorian Births Deaths Marriages Historical Indexes – Family History Matters at GSV

Determined 90yo wins graveyard battle to exhume and re-inter family remains

School Records, Old Photographs etc. Ireland

The story of a Donegal village, the history of modern Ireland

Ireland Newsletter

Anglo-Celtic Connections


Balmaghie Church link to Canada

FreeBMD November Update

In From The Cold: the S.S. Crusader

Progress on Digitizing Tweedsmuir Community Histories

Any questions for LAC?

Browse GRO Ireland BMD Images

Handwriting Transcription

Lots of news on the SAG site... see website for details
Society of Australian Genealogists



Outback Family History

Burbanks People – town snapshot

Strange Happenings – grave tales

The Money or the Wife ??? –

Patrick Murphy – Ganger, Prospector and Bushman

Up on old Coolgardie – a verse


I love Bello Shire  Bellingen Shire and surrounds... great craft artisans, historical society, art shows, Christmas Carols, Camp Creative

Sydney's City Circle Transport  Dictionary of Sydney

The GENES Blog: FindmyPast launches new UK subscription tier

Latest Edition - Irish Lives Remembered  FREE DOWNLOAD

Tips for taking memorable family photographs Ancestry blog

Broadcasting since 1982 | Blog | National Library of New Zealand

Female Librarians on Horseback Delivering Books, ca. 1930s - History Daily

Added or Updated Record Collections at FamilySearch.org - Week of 19 to 25 November 2017

Threads of the past: 1860s tapestry returned to its rightful owner   Inside History

A sort of homecoming – An Irishman's Diary on the citizenship ceremony

Shelves of military records stand nearly 30 feet high at the National Archives in St. Louis. (Lenin Hurtado/National Archives)

Are you looking for military records for an ancestor?  The current issue of the Military Times has an article that gives nine steps to help you obtain records and awards. The Military Times received advice from the National Personnel Records Center--NPRC  ( St. Louis, MO) for basic steps. There was a devastating fire in July 1973 which destroyed 18 million personnel files—but even if the file you are searching was destroyed some information may be recovered. That is because the fire destroyed individual records and unit records –were stored elsewhere-in the National Archives—but they are not indexed so the more information you can provide  in your request form the better chance of finding the correct unit record.

To read the article see:

https://tinyurl.com/ybmewldm

Original url:

https://www.militarytimes.com/veterans/salute-veterans/2017/11/14/preserving-the-past-9-tips-on-obtaining-military-records-medals-for-you-or-a-loved-one/

The (US) National Archives National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis Missouri has information on military records—not awards. Awards is a function of each military service department. Requests for the issuance or replacement of military service medals, decorations and awards should be directed to the specific branch of the military in which the veteran served. However, for the Army and Air Force the NPRC the NPRC will verify the awards to which a veteran is entitled and forward the request along with the records verification to the appropriate service department for issuance of the medals. For forms requesting information on service, the National Archives has a page with information. Go to: https://www.archives.gov/veterans  and see what is available online and more on awards.

Philadelphia City Archives are relocating effective December 15, 2017. However, they have to temporarily close to the public to facilitate their relocation. They will be closed through August 2018. During the closure period they will continue to fulfill requests for copies of deeds, but not for historical research and/or academic research purposes. They will reopen their new location to the public on September 1, 2018. The new address is 456 N. 5^th Street in Philadelphia.  Information on where to mail deed requests and how to contact their office is on the notice available at: http://www.phila.gov/records/pdfs/External%20Archive%20Notice.pdf

The Philadelphia City Archives has birth and death certificates from July 1, 1860 through June 30, 1915. For records from 1906 to the present are available from the Pennsylvania Department of Health, Division of Vital Records at http://www.health.pa.gov/MyRecords/Certificates/Pages/11596.aspx#.Wh3e4nlryUk

For information for genealogical records scroll down on the aforementioned url to "genealogy" . Pennsylvania has embargo periods for accessing birth and death records—birth records: 1906 to 1911 and death records 1906 to 1966 are available from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission: see--

http://www.phmc.pa.gov/Archives/Research-Online/Pages/Vital-Statistics.aspx

An article on the Philadelphia City Archives move may be read at:

https://whyy.org/articles/william-penn-margarine-outlaw-philly-city-archives-move/

As genealogists we are as a group people who use digital files and their preservation is critical to our genealogy—it is the core of our records whether they be private, or governmental.  International Digital Preservation Day is held the last Thursday of every November—November 30, 20-17 being the first such day.  It will bring together institutions and individuals across the globe to celebrate preserved collections.  

According to the Digital Preservation Coalition, "the aim of the day is to create greater awareness of digital preservation that will translate into a wider understanding which permeates all aspects of society – business, policy making, personal good practice. Pervasive, changing and ubiquitous, digital technologies are a defining feature of our age."

Many organizations are participating. To read more about this, see:

http://www.dpconline.org/events/international-digital-preservation-day

To read more about what the (US) National Archives does in digital preservation see:

https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2017/11/29/the-lifecycle-and-preservation-of-electronic-records/

* FIND MY PAST


Wales Probate Abstracts 1544-1858 Image Browse

Texas, Comanche County Records 1858-1955 Image Browse

Texas, Naturalisation Records 1906-1989 Image Browse

Texas, Matagorda County, School Census Records 1923-1946 Image Browse

Texas, Nolan County Civil Court Minutes and Case Files 1881-1938 Image Browse

Texas, Bexar County, San Antonio Cemetery Records, 1893-2007

Texas, Eastland County Records 1868-1949 Image Browse

England Roman Catholic Baptisms

England Roman Catholic Parish Marriages

England Roman Catholic Parish Register Browse

England Roman Catholic Congregational Records

British Newspapers

Search The 1939 Register »
1939 Explained »
Getting Started Guide »

Over 350 years of Portsmouth history revealed online for the first time



* INTERESTING BLOGS


21 Signs That Your Partner Isn’t Into Genealogy as Much as You  Alona

Jennyalogy: Just who was Cordelia Knight?

Remembering Norman Kunkel           Part 2   A numbertaker? Say what?!  cassmob

AncestorChasing: There are family trees and there are family trees

My Genealogical Kindness Advent Calendar 2017 – Dragon Genealogy Blog

An open letter to a lost grandfather - GSQ Blog

EDWARD MELLISH & THE SAKATA WRECK OF 1905  Hawkesbury Heritage & happenings

Who are you, really?  Claudia

Thread  Liv

Ancestors Buried in Cardboard Boxes  Sharn White

Passing of the Pioneers   Merron Riddiford

2017 November 16: Nancy McPherson and Memories of Times Past Joan G.Hill

FRIENDSHIP Emily's Quill Pen


and just because I couldn't resist... 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Faerie Houses  Claudia




and from my blogs...

That Moment in Time

'Selling death', floating City of Ghosts, Chinese family history, NZ family tree,  FMP Military records, Irish beach-gone-now back, Aus. old cemeteries, DNA specials, Mungo man, Merciful Trove, Hampshire BDMs, Big savings on DNA kits, creative books, heritage tourism, cemetery symbolism, British & Irish research differences, new Louvre?, changes in US Census Bureau, Prisoners of War 1715-1945, The Red Cow Murders,

https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2017/11/friday-fossicking-24th-nov-2017.html

Irish Graves   

St. Patrick’s Catholic Cemetery, Sutton Forest, NSW  with thanks to Noelene Harris

http://irishgraves.blogspot.com.au/p/new-south-wales.html

New page and one entry UK.. with thanks to Lyn Nunn

http://irishgraves.blogspot.com.au/p/united-kingdom.html

Addition to Of Irish Descent   ..with thanks to Lyn Nunn

http://irishgraves.blogspot.com.au/p/of-irish-descent.html

Warwick General Cemetery .. one post with thanks to Neil Cook

http://irishgraves.blogspot.com.au/p/queensland-cemeteries-outside-of.html

Headlines of Old

Arrival of ‘Golconda’ , October 1858...Immigrants, Full List, Plus Crew   ...Trove Tuesday- Nov. 28th, 2017, Mariners and Ships Mary-Anne Warner, are your ancestors on these lists?, many from Ireland, and UK,

https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2017/11/arrival-of-golconda-october.html

As They Were

New Page… Missing Friends             https://astheywere.blogspot.com.au/p/missing-friends.html

I hope you found something in this edition to dance about!