UPDATE- EXCITING PERSONAL NEWS...

A very big 

THANK YOU

to all who took the time to vote... with your help, I am proud to announce that I received the 

SILVER AWARD FOR ROCK STAR GENEALOGIST!

  Thank you all for your support and encouragement. 
Full details here

rockstar-genealogists-2015-silver-and_14.html

 Thanks to John D. Reid for organising this event.

Look for the GOLD AWARDS also

Congratulations to all nominated and all the winners.



VOTING IS NOW CLOSED

* SOME PERSONAL NEWS...

 I am delighted to be included on this list of genealogists, many of whom I know and admire, who have been nominated for the inclusion in Rock Star Genealogists... full details are here..

http://anglo-celtic-connections.blogspot.com.au/2015/09/rockstar-genealogist-2015-nominations.html



 If you are so inclined, I would appreciate your vote... Thank you for your support.



Thank you to John D. Reid for presenting this opportunity to all.

Anglo-Celtic Connections

FRIDAY FOSSICKING SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

FRIDAY FOSSICKING

Walter Withers

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

*  Deceased Online  has released a new series of records covering the Camberwell cemeteries in the London borough of Southwark. The council area covered by the records includes Bermondsey, Rotherhithe, Walworth, Peckham, Camberwell, Nunhead, and Dulwich.

* AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL      Travelling exhibitions           A camera on Gallipoli Remember me: the lost diggers of Vignacourt          Ben Quilty: after Afghanistan

Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory        Western Australian Museum

*ANCESTRY Check what records are available for FREE over the Labor Day weekend with ancestry.com...they include U.S. Wills and Probate collections...

 * NATIONAL ARCHIVES AUSTRALIA  Keep up with the latest releases by subscribing to Your Story, Our History at  news@naa.gov.au

Toys on this poster represent some of the subjects of the vast collection of Australian Government records.

These are just a couple..

Order collection items

Family history

* SCOTLAND'S PEOPLE     Search the Deaths of Seamen Records A complete record of the deaths of Scottish seafarers from late Victorian times until 1974 are now available to search. on Scotland's People. The 14,000 new records are monthly returns of the Deaths of Seamen, which lists Scots along with other crew members of all nationalities who were serving on British registered vessels between 1909-1974.



* GEELONG AND DISTRICT Susie Zada asks for help in identifying some photos...
http://geelonganddistrict.com/2015/09/01/can-u-help-identify-these-photos-people-and-places/


* FIND MY PAST
What did you do in the war, Grandma?

Joshua Taylor explains ancestral occupations

Smoke and Steam: A railroad family

How to start your family tree ... questions you should ask...

* NEW ADDITIONS  from FMP AUST

WWII Prisoners of War Records published online for the 1st time on 70th Anniversary

Constructing the “Death Railway”: The real story behind the Bridge Over the River Kwai, in Findmypast’s POW records

             WATCH: Findmypast’s exclusive Prisoners of War video, featuring 103-year-old former POW, Dr Bill Frankland MBE ›

* SOME PERSONAL NEWS...

 I am delighted to be included on this list of genealogists, many of whom I know and admire, who have been nominated for the inclusion in Rock Star Genealogists... full details are here..

http://anglo-celtic-connections.blogspot.com.au/2015/09/rockstar-genealogist-2015-nominations.html

Voting starts on Monday 7th... you can still add your own nominations till noon Sunday 6th...

 If you are so inclined, I would appreciate your vote... Thank you for your support.

 To all who are celebrating this weekend and to all who remember fondly.

Miss you, Dad...

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 28th August, 2015

FRIDAY FOSSICKING

Walter Withers

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

* Murderers, prostitutes, mothers and paupers..now that I have your attention...

Victorian female prison registers online for first time

* Associated Press makes one million minutes of historical footage available on YouTube

http://www.ap.org/content/press-release/2015/ap-makes-one-million-minutes-of-history-available-on-youtube

* The Kokoda Track | Australians in World War II | The Pacific War | Milne Bay | Japanese landing and defeat at Milne Bay

http://kokoda.commemoration.gov.au/milne-bay/japanese-defeat-at-milne-bay.php

* Women Heroes of World War II: 26 Stories of Espionage, Sabotage, Resistance, and Rescue

http://www.amightygirl.com/women-heroes-of-world-war-ii


* From the Loft .. of the Justice and Police Museum  (thanks to Sandra Green)

http://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/justice/index.php/page/32/

* Historic Ennis Collection, including McMahon .... Display Clare Museum

http://clareherald.com/2015/08/gallery-historic-collection-goes-on-display-at-clare-museum-5675/

* BRISBANE OPEN HOUSE BUILDINGS LIST RELEASED

Buildings List

* Geelong Hospital Nurses Reunion 50 years... Can you help?

http://geelonganddistrict.com/2015/08/28/geelong-hospital-nurses-50-year-reunion-can-you-help/

* Thinking of self publishing? Perhaps Lulu can help

www.lulu.com

* FIND MY PAST

A petition from Nelson, New Zealand, after the 1843 Wairau Incident

Updates to our Irish newspaper collection, including 8 new titles

Browsable electoral registers from Manchester, England, 1832-1900

Hospital admissions and deaths from Derbyshire, England, 1892-1913

Heroic hounds

* ANCESTRY Free access to all UK records 28-31... N.B. Please read the conditions

http://www.ancestry.com.au/cs/alluk2015?irpid=55537

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 21st AUGUST 2015

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 

Walter Withers

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

* KILMURRY IBRICKANE  BAPTISMAL TRANSCRIPTIONS... CO CLARE

  currently 1839-1864          http://astheywere.blogspot.com.au/p/tranascriptions.html

* FIND MY PAST

probate calendars of England and Wales

Hertfordshire Marriages

Hertfordshire Burials
Northumberland and Durham Burials
British Army, War of 1812 Casualties
British Army, Deserters, Absentees Police Gazette 1914-1919
British Jewry Book of Honour 1914-1920
Scottish Covenanters 1679 - 1688
Church of Ireland Parish Record Search forms - pension applications
Staffordshire Parish Registers

Explore British newspapers now

Just a small selection of those now available...

The new titles come from all over England, Scotland and Wales and include newspapers from Edinburgh, Liverpool, Sheffield and Wolverhampton. The largest of the new publications is Public Ledger and Daily Advertiser which contains over 939,000 articles covering 1805-71. We’ve also added a new national newspaper – Sunday Timesfor 1922.

Of the 94 newspapers that have been updated with additional articles and year coverage, over 1 million articles were added to London Evening Standard. There were also substantial updates made to Falkirk Herald (550,850), Swindon Advertiser and North Wilts Chronicle(224,496) and Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer (217,424).

* FREE ONLINE RECORDS NATIONAL ARCHIVES UK

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/free-online-records-digital-microfilm/

E.G.

CAB 61

Irish Boundary Commission (Feetham Commission): Records Minutes, papers, correspondence and report of the Irish Boundary Commission, and records of oral and written evidence submitted to it

WO 42

War Office: Officers’ Birth Certificates, Wills and Personal Papers Certificates of birth, baptism, marriage and death, with wills, administrations, statements of services and personal papers of officers and their families, in cases where the officer died on service or on half pay and his widow applied for a pension, or application was made for a child’s compassionate allowance

 * Colonial Office and Predecessors: New South Wales Entry Books Relating to Convicts 1788-1868

* WATERBURY IRISH.. great new book soon to be released re those who settled in Waterbury, USA

http://astheywere.blogspot.com.au/2015/08/waterbury-irishby-janet-maher-with-john.html


* The Dublin Gazette from 1750-1800 is online

Thanks to Chris Paton  British GENES (British Genealogy News and Events)


* GERMANY BIRTHS AND BAPTISMS 1558-1898   Familysearch

* FAMILY HISTORY JOURNAL | YOUR RIGHTS, CRIME AND THE LAW | QUEENSLAND GOVERNMENT

https://www.qld.gov.au/law/births-deaths-marriages-and-divorces/family-history-research/information-and-how-to-access-and-order-records/family-history-journal/

* NEWLY SCANNED RECORDS FROM NATIONAL ARCHIVES AUSTRALIA

http://soda.naa.gov.au

* THE CASE OF BRIDGET BETTS  Thanks to Helen Smith
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4ziTxP0-6k


* A SHORT HISTORY OF IRELAND
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkI88YF2XKg

FRIDAY FOSSICKING August 14, 2015

FRIDAY FOSSICKING

Walter Withers

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

* NATIONAL FAMILY HISTORY MONTH  Let Shauna Hicks tell you all about it.

*  http://www.shaunahicks.com.au/national-family-history-month-august-2015-2/

* MAPPING LONDON'S GREAT PLAGUE OF 1665

* http://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2015/aug/12/london-great-plague-1665-bills-of-  mortality

* NEED A REFRESHER ON WHAT NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA HAS TO OFFER?

*  http://www.nla.gov.au/research-guides/family-history

YOU CAN GET ACCESS TO THEIR ONLINE RESOURCES... with an NLA card..

*  http://www.nla.gov.au/getalibrarycard/

* http://www.nla.gov.au/app/eresources/

* SYDNEY BENEVOLENT ASYLUM

* http://www.sydneybenevolentasylum.com/index.php?page=search-index

* JUDY WEBSTER'S TIPS...

http://www.judywebster.com.au/tips.html

* IN TIME AND PLACE...  
  
 Qld State Conference, Family History, Social History, Brisbane

*  http://itap.historyqueensland.org.au

* FIND MY PAST U.K.

Off the record, birth and baptism records

* http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/2015/off-the-record-birth-and-baptism-records/

* TEXT QUEENSLAND... always a favourite, but have you seen the books lately?

Try this one, Australia's Women.. many more to choose from...

* http://www.textqueensland.com.au/item/book/eb3472d763c29e9e39ae6fa75323741f

* FIND MY PAST AU

* New South Wales 1828 census householders' returns

* Over 81,000 Scottish Covenanters, 1679-1688

* Church of Ireland parish record search forms

* Over 39,000 additional baptisms from Northumberland and Durham, England


* FIND MY PAST 

* British Army, War of 1812 casualties

IMPOSSIBLE FLOWERS

Hooker's Lips (Psychotria Elata)   Dancing Girls (Impatiens Bequaertii) Laughing Bumble Bee Orchid (Ophrys bbomyblifora)   Swaddled Babies (Anguloa Uniflora)   Parrot Flower (Impatiens Psittacina)   Flying Duck Orchid (Caleana Major)   An orchid that looks remarkably like a tiger   Happy Alien (Calceolaria Uniflora)   And his friends...   Angel Orchid (Habenaria Grandifloriformis)   Dove Orchid Or Holy Ghost Orchid (Peristeria Elata)   White Egret Orchid (Habenaria Radiata)   The Darth Vader (Aristolochia Salvadorensis)   An Orchid That Looks Like A Ballerina   Monkey Face Orchid (Dracula Simia)   Moth Orchid (Phalaenopsis)   What a wonderful world!

FRIDAY FOSSICKING August 7, 2015

FRIDAY FOSSICKING

Walter Withers

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

*  NEWLY DIGITISED RECORDS COMPLETE STORY OF NAVAL CAREERS UK

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/newly-digitised-records-complete-story-of-naval-careers/

* BRITISH LIBRARY RELEASES OVER A MILLION PUBLIC DOMAIN IMAGES 

http://tinyurl.com/pmg3l6k

* GENEAMUSINGS... Randy Seaver tells of the new/updated records at Family Search

http://www.geneamusings.com/2015/08/new-or-updated-record-collections-at.html

* THE BRITISH GENES BLOG: TASMANIA, VICTORIA AND NEW ZEALAND RECORDS ADDED TO ANCESTRY

http://britishgenes.blogspot.com.au/2015/08/tasmania-victoria-and-new-zealand.html

* APPLICATIONS FOR SUSTENANCE DURING THE DEPRESSION 

   (Aust. thanks to Helen Smith)

http://prov.vic.gov.au/blog-news/new-archives-to-the-collection-applications-for-sustenance-during-the-depression

* NEW IRISH WORKHOUSE RECORDS

http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/New-workhouse-records-reveal-rural-Irelands-harsh-past.html

* NEW ZEALAND'S PAST PAPERS

http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=q&e=-------10--1----0-

* NEW ADDITIONS TO DIGITISED NEWSPAPERS ON TROVE

* FIND MY PAST

* HISTORY OF AFRICANS IN BRITISH RECORDS

http://blog.findmypast.com.au/2015/the-history-of-africans-in-british-records/

* CENSUS, ELECTORAL ROLLS, LAND SURVEYS

http://tinyurl.com/orhksdg

* AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTIONAL RECORDS

http://search.findmypast.com.au/search-australia-and-new-zealand-records-in-institutions-and-organisations

* JAYNE SHRIMPTON PHOTO DETECTIVE

             Jayne Shrimpton, Photo Detective: A Twenties Snapshot ›


*  Browsable parish registers from Staffordshire, England

*  Over 480,000 additional baptisms from Staffordshire, England

*  Over 265,000 additional marriages from Staffordshire, England

*  Over 280,000 additional burials from Staffordshire, England

* JUST FOR FUN

* 18 BEAUTIFUL AND WEIRD MAPS THAT WILL CHANGE HOW YOU THINK ABOUT LONDON
http://www.buzzfeed.com/tomchivers/beautiful-and-weird-maps-that-will-change-how-you-think-a#.wjRZODy05x

* WALKS IN IRELAND

http://www.ireland.com/en-au/what-is-available/walking-and-hiking/articles/six-walks/

* GENEALOGY EBOOKS

http://www.gen-ebooks.com


* RTE RADIO1 (IRELAND)

 http://www.rte.ie/radio1/




MY OTHER BLOGS.. hope you find something of interest...

* AS THEY WERE   all to do with Irish and Ireland 
   Check out Irish Clips & Snips and BDM transcriptions..thousands of entries

http://astheywere.blogspot.com.au/  

* IRISH GRAVES - they who sleep in foreign lands, always new additions

http://irishgraves.blogspot.com.au/  


*THE BACK FENCE OF GENEALOGY

http://thebackfenceofgenealogy-crissouli.blogspot.com.au/