Friday, January 11, 2019

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 11th Jan 2019










FRIDAY FOSSICKING


                                                                


J. Miller MARSHALL (22 November 1858 - 12-Jun-1935)
died in Minehead, England. PUBLIC DOMAIN.















* IRISH CENTRAL

Visiting Dublin soon? Here are four hidden attractions not to miss 

The very best and most beautiful photos of Ireland in 2018 

Soil from this Irish area could help fight the world’s top superbugs 

Ever wonder how many places in Ireland are called "bally"? 

Whiskey makes you live a longer, healthier life, says science 

Rowdy rebels - the formation of the Irish Volunteers in Cork city 

Irish New Year’s resolutions: How to get an an Irish passport 

New Year's Resolution: Get "unstuck" in your genealogical research 

"The Night Of The Big Wind" that killed 90 took place on this date in 1839 

The meaning behind the famous Irish toast "Sláinte" 

Planes, trains and automobiles - getting around in Ireland on vacation 

A gigantic potato has been added to the line-up of this St. Patrick's Day parade 

Oliver Cromwell bust fitted with alarm after UK politician kept turning it to face wall 




* GENERAL INTEREST


The secret of the church minister’s granddaughter – History Out There

Australian Genealogy and History Snippets – December 2018

More workhouse registers online at Tipperary Studies 

Paul O'Brien's lecture on Flo Clancy to Kilrush & Distric... Mixcloud

Huge historical archive of mail from captured ships to go online | The Guardian Thanks, Alona Tester

FREE   Facebook for Australian History and Genealogy Lonetester  (list of groups & pages)

Australia’s Biggest Ever Gold Robbery Lonetester HQ

Kings Meadows Convict Station discovery finds artefacts, convict hat | The Examiner

Best of Queensland  ..Ultimate Queensland Experiences

10 genealogy goals for 2019  Ancestry.com.au blog  Cassie Mercer

Newly opened files at Public Record Office Victoria reveal life in 1940s mental hospitals - RN - ABC


The Real Fake News: Top Scientific Retractions of 2018


Snowy Night, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania       Wunderlusttwins  image


Tiger’s Nest viewed from above, Paro Valley, Bhutan        Wunderlusttwins  image

 A genealogy of the term British reveals its imperial history – and a Brexit paradox The Conversation UK


Timber to ashes, ashes to earth | Inside Story


What's new? John Grenham


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

Meredith Library Genealogy Club to meet Jan. 8   The Lacona Daily Sun


Beyond the web – a research story – Family History Matters at GSV


A 69-year-old woman used an Ancestry DNA test to find her mother.


Sailors, sauerkraut and PTSD: Exploring the link between gut bacteria and mental health ABC news

ABC News: 44 years on from the Tasman Bridge disaster, the memory still haunts the state

Legacy Family Tree Webinars 2019 Schedule Announced  Alona Tester

Finding your Irish family: 'Looking out the airplane window I cried'  Irish Times

The Mistake I Made With My Grieving Friend | HuffPost

Is it time to DECLUTTER your computer? FREE WEBINAR! Maintaining an Organized Computer with Cyndi Ingle of Cyndi's List  View this email in your browser

Caring for Vintage Christmas Decorations - The Family Curator

Australian ghost towns you can visit: Top 10 abandoned places

Collectors Gallery | MAD On Collections

Long Term Food Storage, What a Long Term Food Supply Can Do For You! Candy's Farm House Pantry

It's a Long Way To Tipperary / Pack Up Your Troubles In Your Old Kit Bag - Robert Mandell - YouTube

Who wrote  “It’s a long way to Tipperary” ?

Did You Know?


Irish History : FREE TEXTS : FREE download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet Archive

17 Things You Should Do to Every Blog Post Before + After You Hit Publish (FREE Checklist!) - Melyssa Griffin

Where to Download All the Books That Just Entered the Public Domain     FREE

DNA-testing company 23andMe has signed a $300 million deal with a drug giant. Here's how to delete your data if that freaks you out.

Introducing the 2019 ‘Anything Is Possible’ List  WordPress Blog

Customize Your WordPress.com Dashboard WordPress Blog

Sharing Scanned Family Documents and Photos Online: Pros and Cons Laura Hedgecock

WikiTree and GeneaBloggersTRIBE Scan-a-Thon


Anglo-Celtic Connections


BCG Free Webinars for 2019

Shared Surnames between Canada, France the UK and USA

What did your Ag Lab ancestor earn?

Book Review: Tracing Your Oxfordshire Ancestors

The Son Also Rises: surnames and the history of social mobility

Top posts of 2018

British Newspaper Archives additions for December

Your Genealogy Today: Jan/Feb 2019

Is Canadiana really free

The Poor Laws

Advance Notice: BCGS 2019 Seminar

Help Improve FreeBMD

DNA, Me and the Family Tree

Rootstech Live Streaming Schedule

2019 Genealogy Webinars 


Australian War Memorial
Newsletter   On Closer Inspection  View the 360 experience  digital video and VR technology, you can view and interact with the tank both inside and out.
 
National Library of Australia   

eNews Jan 2019        including  Book online for The Art of Literary Investigation

The National Library of Australia Magazine - Past issues


Atlas Obscura

Portraits of Humanity     Chasing Waterfalls (upside down?)   Manduri Monkeys     Spider Silk 

Hungarian Gingerbread          World’s End Close       Aztec Petroglyphs         Church Skate Park

Bread Boy  Horseback Falconry       Miniature Hollywood        Clockmakers Museum     

Beach of Bones     Plague of Nostalgia       Underwater Graveyard         15th-Century Ruins

Forgotten History       Reindeer Saga        Holy Well (Cornwall)               Confetti Collector

Masonic Apron        Super Sinkhole    Arrow-Wielding Elves             Cursed House        Plastic Ban

Concrete Traffic (1957 Cadillac)       Queen’s Staircase (Bahamas)    Mother Goose House


Find My Past


Norfolk Baptisms      Norfolk Banns  Norfolk Marriages     Norfolk Burials

newspapers added

Newcastle Evening Chronicle         Cheshire Observer       Airdrie & Coatbridge Advertiser

Tavistock Gazette     Cheshire Observer       Sunday Tribune          Poole & Dorset Herald 

Liverpool Evening Express


Outback Family History

A Bush Christmas – C J Dennis         Trinity College Examinations:

Norseman Weddings – Methodist Church       Beatrice Hemingway -grave tales

Barrambie : the ‘wild’ in the wild west !!!     Kennedy’s Family Hotel – Coolgardie hotels

St Michael’s School : new records       Charles Carkeek – graves tales

Family History Daily

The Zero Dollar Genealogist: How to Avoid Spending Money on Family History Research

The 10 Collections You Need to Know for Irish Genealogy Research

The 15 Minute Plan for Achieving Your Genealogy Goals in 2019

Family Search Blog

Youth Connecting with Generations      3 Things to Add to Your Family History

What’s Coming to FamilySearch in 2019    Learn about Your Family on FamilySearch.org


Always Interesting

If you enjoy the posts from these regulars, perhaps you'd like to follow them..


The gentle author ....

Midwinter Light At Christ Church        Christmas At The Salvation Army, 1975

Chamberlain’s East End Churches         Sights Of Wonderful London

William Anthony, Last Of the Charlies   Charlie Chaplin In Spitalfields

Spitalfields In Colour

Applegate Genealogy ...

Random Acts of Photo Restoration         All I Want for Christmas…

John Nation’s Journey to America          Sorting My Ancestors into Hogwarts Houses

The Irish Story...

‘Neither very good nor very bad’: The Dunmanway workhouse, County Cork 1841-1920

The Irish Story Top articles of 2018

Branches On Our Haimowitz Family Tree ...

In Memory of Rebecca Strulowitz     Connecting The Strulowitz/Srulowitz Dots – a work in progress

Lonetester

Older and Wiser: What I’d Say to My Younger Genealogical Self

Looking forward, looking back...


John Eaton: the politician and community member

Isaac Cornwell

Historian Ruby...  

Blogmas: 21 Days of Christmas History Posts            My Top Six Posts of 2018

A Royal Wedding: The Duke and Duchess of Sussex Exhibition​ at Windsor Castle

Diana: Her Fashion Story Revisited

Diary of an Australian Genealogist ...

January 1 new archives resources & other news - Genealogy Notes 16-31 Dec 2018

irishacw

A Walk Among Storied Tombstones: The Irish of Arlington National Cemetery

Remembering the Widows of Bull Run: Corcoran & Meagher Intercede

The Legal Genealogist


The Legal Genealogist’s Christmas Wish 2018 


Stair na hÉireann

#OTD in 1820 – Birth of author, Mary Anne Sadlier, in Cootehill, Co Cavan.


Root Stalker Genealogy

The Past meets The Present           #FamilySecrets — Wife and Children Missing

records-access alerts


The Canadian War Museum released four new research guides to help you research those in Canadian military history.
The eight-page guides are about:
·         Royal Canadian Navy, 1910-1919, 1939-1945, and the Merchant Navy, 1939-1945
·         Canadians in the Air, 1914-1945, 1939-1945
·         Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919, and the Canadian Army, 1939-1945
·         Canadian Women in Uniform, 1914-1919, 1941-1945
The guides include information about training, promotions, medals, injuries and medical treatment, graves and memorials, and the context of a person's war service.

To access the guides go to: https://tinyurl.com/yazffqsh
Original url:

Additionally the Museum has an online catalogue allowing users to search both the Canadian War Museum and Canadian Museum of History. This is updated periodically. 
Original url:

Included is "Democracy at War Canadian Newspapers and the Second World War which is fully text searchable of 144,000 newspaper clippings  

This website is available in English and  French. To access the French click on Francais in the upper right corner.
Thank you to Gail Dever and Genealogy Ă  la carte for informing us about these new research guides.

Jan Meisels Allen
Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee


* INTERESTING BLOGS


Bear with me, some of these Christmas themes were too good not to share

Christmas in 1899 |      Lost Yarns of the Outback        The Dusty Box

Quick and Easy Gift Bags            Wrapping up 2018     Goals for 2019       Textile Ranger

The Origins of Christmas Traditions  Lonetester

One More Sleep Liv Hambrett

Winter Solstice: The Holly King vs The Oak King  Stair na hÉireann

My favourite family history gift Gerry Bolton

Footsteps to the Past  Roseann Creagh

The Inimitable Mrs Tracey | The Dusty Box

Family Connections: #52Ancestors - Week 50 - Naughty      Vicki Court

Family Notice Friday: J.H. Greene        Australian Roots and Spreading Branches

Lilian's Tree     Lilian Magill

Come Visit the Gallery! Claudia

Finding Truth in Family History Through DNA | Shauna Hicks History Enterprises

Happy New Year!  Liz Gauffrea

January | 2019 | The Keeper of Stories

Earl Grey’s Irish Famine Orphans (63): a couple of questions | trevo's Irish famine orphans

Other places, other times  Clogs and Clippers

The ironing's not done ....  Geniaus


Reviews

 Theresa Smith

2018 Reading Highlights

Christmas Feature: Mr Dickens and His Carol by Samantha Silva

Christmas Feature: A Very Murderous Christmas edited by Cecily Gayford

Farewell #aww2018, Hello #aww2019

The Aussie Author Challenge 2019

Welcome to Book Bingo 2019

New Release Book Review: Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

One more challenge…The Classics Club

Book Review: The Sweet Hills Of Florence by Jan Wallace Dickinson

New Release Film Review: Mary Poppins Returns

Book Review: Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon

Book Review: Matryoshka by Katherine Johnson

Books on the Screen: A couple of recommendations…

Book Review: The Messenger by Markus Zusak


Better Reading

Half Moon Lake by Kirsten Alexander

How To Be Second Best by Jessica Dettmann

The Truths and Triumphs of Grace Atherton by Anstey Harris


and from my blogs...

That Moment in Time

Dragon Guard, Wartime escape, Dickens revised work, Hampshire records, Christmas goodies (Irish Central), Oscar Wilde & US Civil War, online data trackers, East Perth Cemeteries, convicts applications to marry, national register of war memorials, replacement medals, article re DNA testing, Balmain Cemetery, libraries you must visit, 
Kokorou stone bridge Epirus Greece, unusual collections, more books than people - Catskills,  world’s biggest gingerbread man, enough to keep you busy for weeks… 
Please feel free to share… Merry Christmas to all…


urungamaiden

New page added… MUSINGS  https://urungamaiden.wordpress.com/musings/

Memories of childhood 

CONFESSIONS OF A BIBLIOPHILE

AND A LIBRARY WAS BORN!    Turkey, rescued books - birth of a library,


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As They Were

ADDITIONAL FILES to IGP  ARCHIVES  December 2018, Clare, Dublin, Fermanagh, Monaghan & Fermanagh, Tipperary, Donegal, Meath, Waterford,


Irish Graves

Additions to New Zealand  thanks to Briteyes Gee



There are so many entries on NSW regional, that they had to be split to two pages.




Additions to Appin, NSW, thanks to Geraldine Anne King



Addition to St. Kilda, Victoria thanks to Jodie Willis

Addition to Buckland, Victoria thanks to Karleen Reilly



The Back Fence of Genealogy



That Moment in Time

NEWSPAPER TITLES COMING TO TROVE JAN... 2019, state and international, 



Headlines of Old

travelling again, love locks, Circumnavigating Australia's Colonial History - Trove Tuesday 8th Jan 2019 Pt. 14, 
list of shipwrecks, danger, lighthouse, change of border boundary, tourism, Perseverance,  Captain James Cook, Australia’s marine history, beautiful scenery, Coolangatta, Tweed Heads, wreck of Orara, 




As a change from the quips, I thought you might like this beautiful image
Courtesy of the Wunderlusttwins..





Thursday, January 3, 2019

NEWSPAPER TITLES COMING TO TROVE JAN... 2019








These digitised newspapers will soon be on Trove.
They are listed by state/territory of publication, then alphabetically by title. They have been funded for digitisation by various contributors, which are indicated in square brackets after the title name.
Titles will be removed from this list when they become available on Trove. You can see which newspapers are already available in the digitised newspapers list. If you are interested in a particular title, you may like to subscribe to the web feed which alerts you to new titles as they are added to Trove.
If a newspaper you are interested in has not been digitised, why not consider partnering with us and adding titles to Trove? See the For Digitisation Partners section of Trove's Help Centre.




NSW

Albury Banner (1881-1896); [Albury & District Historical Society; NSW State Government Regional Cultural Fund]

Border Morning Mail (1938-1942); [Albury & District Historical Society; NSW State Government Regional Cultural Fund]

Daily Express (Wagga Wagga: 1919-1929); [Wagga Wagga & District Historical

Mosman, Neutral and Middle Harbour Resident (1904-1907); [Mosman Historical Society]

QLD

Toowoomba Chronicle (Sept. 1917-Sept. 1922); [State Library of Queensland]

Toowoomba Chronicle and Darling Downs Gazette (Oct 1922-Dec 1933); [State Library of Queensland]

SA

Messenger (1951-1954) [State Library of South Australia]

Port Augusta & Stirling Illustrated News (Feb.-Aug. 1901) [State Library of South Australia]

Portonian (1871-1873) [State Library of South Australia]

VIC

Elmore Standard (1882-1905);[Bendigo Regional Genealogical Society]

Great Southern Advocate (1907-1913; 1919-1926); [Korumburra & District Historical Society]

Richmond Guardian (1907-1909;1915-1916) [Rhett Bartlett]

WA

The Fremantle Advocate (Aug 1926 - Jan 1942); [Fremantle Library]

International

A Voz de Timor (1965-1975) [Canberra Friends of Dili and the National Library of Australia]




Friday, December 21, 2018

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 21st Dec 2018


FRIDAY FOSSICKING


                                                                


J. Miller MARSHALL (22 November 1858 - 12-Jun-1935)
died in Minehead, England. PUBLIC DOMAIN.













*  GENERAL INTEREST

Convicts Applications to Marry | NSW State Archives

Places of Pride, National Register of War Memorials  Can you contribute?

Replacement Medals Policy : Policy : Department of Defence

Griffis: Article warns against DNA testing      Danville Commercial News 

Lavenders Bridge Bellingen closed | The Bellingen Shire Courier Sun



Legacy Family Tree Webinars Announces "Down Under Series" of Genealogy and DNA Education Webinars

Boy's letter to dad in heaven receives reply from Royal Mail - BBC News


Balmain Cemetery Sydney  thanks to Tricia Mack

East Perth Cemeteries  Western Australia









 Writing It Up (For People Who Don't Want To Write It Up)

 Even the best of us ...

Back to Our Past, Belfast 15-16 February 2019

Top Scottish Baby Names for 2018


The National Archives UK
> Webinar: Festival of Britain 1951, Wed 9 January   > The trial of Charles I, Fri 18 January
> BAME seafarers in the First World War, Thu 24 January

> Census*    > Wills 1384-1858*   > Family history research guides

Blogs..

A snowball fight in Constantinople  Unidentified Christmas lights and stars in the sky

Podcasts ..

Big Ideas Series: Entity disambiguation in digital cultural heritage

Big Ideas Series: The role of archives in addressing refugee crises

The Annual Digital Lecture: Semantic Capital: what it is and how to protect it


Smithsonian







Find My Past






Newspaper Additions   ...  Belfast Telegraph  Kerryman   Wexford People   The Bioscope


New Theme: Twenty Nineteen    WordPress.com Blog














The  Bibliothèque Historique des Postes et des TĂ©lĂ©communications (BHPT), (Historical Library of Posts and Telecommunications), a remote and obscure library recently reopened. For those researching people who lived in France in the 20th century this is the only repository open to the public containing nearly all the French telephone directories ever published, including those in France's territories and overseas departments.  They may be viewed on microfilm. To see the website and what is available online go to: http://www.bhpt.org/ and under DĂ©couvertes (discoveries) then click on Ouvrages numĂ©risĂ©s (digitized works). 

The BHPT also includes the history of the postal service. This includes maps, showing waterways and roads used for transporting the mail as well as where your ancestors may have traveled. Before railways, the mail was done by land routes—same for your ancestors going to a port to emigrate, or otherwise travel.  Postal network maps are online and may be viewed at:
The site is in French only, therefore a translation aide such as Google translate may be helpful.

To read the article on this library and archive  in The French Genealogist  see:

Thank you to Stan Diamond, President of JGS Montreal for sharing this information.

Jan Meisels Allen
Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee





* IRISH CENTRAL

This legendary Irish singer is being honored with his own Dublin statue 

What does "Irishness" mean in 2018? Exploring being mixed race and Irish 

Lie-detectors used to hunt down family Christmas holiday thieves 

WATCH: A year on, Australian town of 11 people still disturbed by disappearance of Irish pensioner 


Irish woman in Boston attempts snow angel - what could go wrong? 

National Geographic has named this county as a ‘best trip’ for 2019 

Traveling to Ireland in 2019? Here's everything you need to know 

How Brendan Behan came to join the writing Irish of New York 

Co. Clare holy well water delivered to sick child in Philadelphia 

The best Irish New Year’s resolution you can make? Travel off-the-beaten-path in 2019


How one little girl inspired a New York journalist to restore faith in Santa 

Irish animated movie shortlisted for a 2019 Oscar award 

Celtic Thunder’s most popular Christmas songs 

Dublin named one of the best places in the world to spend Christmas 

How was Oscar Wilde connected to the American Civil War? 



Christmas cookie recipes to treat Santa to this Christmas Eve 

Traditional family Irish Christmas cake recipe 

Christmas cooking tips from Irish chef Tony O’Reilly 






* INTERESTING BLOGS



Sorting My Family into Hogwarts Houses  Jamie Gates  (you should try this at home :-) )




family tapestry: #52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Week 52 Prompt: Resolution'



Dennis & Christine Reeve, Walnut Farmers  the gentle author

160 year old photo of my great-great-grandparents  Gerry's Family History


Reviews

Theresa Smith







Better Reading



Allen&Unwin  

The Great Cave Rescue   James Massola  

Lessons     Gisele BĂĽndchen



and from my blogs...

That Moment in Time

phantom island, end of year Western Australia, Mt Coot-tha murder, eels in seals, Newgate prison records, Cheshire BDMS, Pisa leaning less, fairy forts, marriage to ghost over, scars of WWI, find ancestors in 1790 census, DNA from 10,000yr old gum, FREE items and research, Convicts Ancestors course, Mullarkey Village, animal orphanage, overlooked Canadian memory institutions, recovering memory of Tuam mother & baby children, Great Western Hotel Coolgardie, additions to newspapers including Enniscorthy Guardian, Kerryman, Manchester Evening News and more, applying for National Library Card - benefits of NLA card..
Please feel free to share…


Irish Graves

Barcaldine, thanks to Di Don




Headlines of Old

Trove Tuesday 18th Dec 2018..missing friends, with lots of detailed descriptions... Police Gazettes, 1900-1924, don’t dismiss because these are from NSW, our ancestors did move around often more than we realised, names altered, last for this year…











PLEASE NOTE:
The next FRIDAY FOSSICKING will be on the 
11th January, 2019.


I would like to thank you all for your continued support
and look forward to bringing you more
interesting and informative stories, articles, 
blogs you may have missed, sources for genealogy, 
book reviews, current trends and items of general interest,
 in the coming year. 

Family History Societies are welcome to send me 
their newsletters of information about upcoming events,  
readers are welcome to notify me about family reunions.

 Feel free to contact me if you come across any stories 
you think would be suitable for Friday Fossicking..
I can't promise to include all, but I will if they suit.

In the meantime, why not wander through the earlier 
editions in case you missed any. 
To prevent that happening in the future, 
it's easy to subscribe..
see details in the side column.

Have a wonderful, safe, relaxing and 
Happy Christmas and New Year