FRIDAY FOSSICKING 11th Jun 2021

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

* GENERAL INTEREST

Federation of Australian Historical Societies FAHS newsletter

incl. National Archives of Australia passes around the begging bowl

WA Government signals timeframe for introduction of First Aboriginal Heritage Act update since   1972   

FAHS Merit Award nominations close 30 June 2021

Be Connected  and more...

Appeal for Relatives - June 2021 | CWGC Commonwealth War Graves Commission

National Archives UK.. newsletter.. Blog: Sir James Pennethorne

This week's archive jigsaw      Celebrating National Volunteers Week

Visit Canberra newsletter incl. Final weeks of Botticelli to Van Gogh

State Library of Qld newsletter incl. Entwined: plants and people

Free talk: Love & War More events

Fury and heartbreak as Scenic Rim Regional Council clears graves at Tamborine Mountain Cemetery - ABC News

Immigration stories are key to your genealogy research   Atlanta Journal Constitution

I Love Bello Shire newsletter incl. 

Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival 2021   

Pyari Chats with Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival Head of Programming Bello Food Gardening Project

Wanderlust Twins    Pacific Resort Aitutaki, Cook Islands

Picturesque alleyways of Chania on Crete Island, Greece

Diving at The Enchanted River in Hinatuan, Surigao del Sur, Philippines

Find My Past

Scotland Roman Catholic Parish Registers Search all newspapers

Yorkshire Monumental Inscriptions

What's New?More exclusive parish registers now online

What's New?Explore brand new military records and memorials

What's New?Discover Scottish family milestones in millions of new records

Trace Catholic connections     Explore exclusive records from dioceses across England, Ireland and America.

Outback Family History

Ripping Yarns and Tragic Tales – 6th June 2021  

Menzies to Kalgoorlie Bike Race When I die – author unknown

The Brothers Mulchaey – a family story    

Frances Michael Connolly – grave tales

Atlas Obscura

Congo’s Nyiragongo Volcano  Danger Bridge Rhode Island

    

Letterlocking: A How-To secure your privacy  Round Falls ?

Servian Wall at McDonald's Italy   Paul Bunyan's Gravesite

Silent Town Crier Competitions   A Historic Russian Recipe    

Haul Road Alaska  Higgins Mausoleum  Deadly Shortcuts

The Wooden Man    Denmark A Gas Station’s Corpse Flower

Caked Alaska  The Stone Graves Of Heysham England

Enter the Birdman     Lake Pontchartrain Causeway Louisiana

Arachnophobes, Look Away  The Black Mailbox   Vicars' Close

Ghost Towns     The Case of the Missing Princess-Saint     

North Toronto Station     The Great Whip Spider Boom     

Seaham Hall Beach    Fremont Troll    Holy Austin Rock Houses

Family Search

Free resources to help you build your family tree

"Connecting Past, Present, and Future" Free RootsTech session 

Remembering a Loved One

Getting to Know Thom Reed, a Deputy Chief Genealogical Officer at FamilySearch

The Family History Library Is Opening Soon—Unveiling the 2021 Remodel

JSTOR Daily

Joanna Koerten's Scissor-Cut Works Were Compared to Michelangelo

Fall in Love with Fabric Samples 

Recipe for an Ancient Roman Glow Up 

Banks' Own Private Currencies in 19th-Century America

Photographing the Tulsa Massacre of 1921

Anglo-Celtic Connections

London Bills of Mortality, and Newspapers    FreeBMD June Update

Advance Notice: Strokestown Famine Orphans in Quebec

Sunday Sundries  

Tinteán Magazine newsletter incl.

The Nation writers emigrate to Melbourne        My Irish Story       

The Young Naturalist     Finding Our Heart in Irish

Love’s Bitter Mystery: the Year that Made James Joyce     

Always Interesting

Australian Roots and Spreading Branches

Marriage of Henry O’Brien & Anne Smith

Geniaus

An early morning zoom with Ancestry

The Gentle Author

George Parrin, Ice Cream Seller  The City Churches Of Old London

The Lavender Fields Of Surrey  Lyndie Wright, Puppeteer

Pamela Cilia, Truman’s Bottling Girl

Genea-Musings 

Genealogy News and Education Bytes -- Friday, 4 June 2021

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Your "Place Line"

Best of the Genea-Blogs - Week of 30 May to 5 June 2021

The Long-Awaited GEDCOM 7.0 is Here!

Genealogy News and Education Bytes -- Tuesday, 8 June 2021

allenrizzi

Yogurt  Fly Fishing The Italian Alps  Attenti Parenti Serpenti

What’s Important And What’s Not   Hymn To The Fallen 

Doing The Poka-Polka    They Are Us  The Fear Of Dying In Walmart

Humouring the Goddess

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Paul Dmoch    Emeralds

Stressing Over Nothing — Yet    Time to Check Out the Expanded Gallery!

Evening Gallery or Humoring the Goddess? Maybe a Little of Both — William Utermohlen

Stair na hÉireann | History of Ireland

#OTD in 1798 – United Irishmen Rebellion | Rebellion breaks out in Ulster – Henry Joy McCracken issues proclamation calling United Irishmen in Ulster to arms.

The Frugal Family Historian

A Grand (Virtual) Tour of Scotland’s Archives

The Legal Genealogist

With 100 friends…   Land buying age  Tiptoeing back to normal…

Connecticut opens OBCs

The Irish Story

The assassination of Walter Edward Guinness -Lord Moyne – 1944

Social Bridge

It’s an Ill Wind …

Branches On Our Haimowitz Family Tree

Who was Benjamin Haimowitz ~ WWI Casualty

Brotmanblog: A Family Journey

Who is in this Photograph? A Collaborative Effort by the Goldfarb Cousins

GeniAus

Trove Tuesday - Found

Applegate Genealogy

From the Faraway Nearby

* IRISH CENTRAL

Ice hockey created from Irish hurling, documentary reveals

The Irish pigeon that played a vital role in World War II's D-Day landings

How modern Ireland was created

How to see Dingle like a local - food, coffee and sight-seeing

How weather forecast from Mayo lighthouse saved D-Day invasion

Brave Irish teen saves mother and daughter from drowning in Co Carlow

Divers discover ancient artifacts in River Shannon while searching for missing persons

"Save Shannon Airport" petition racks up thousands of signatures

Irish Americans can now apply for their Irish passport online

"Welcome back" - Thousands of Ireland's traditional pubs finally reopen today

Michael Flatley named Ambassador of new Irish county for cancer survivors

Discover one of Missouri's finest Irish stores- the Celtic Ranch

New five-year plan launched to help save Irish language in Gaeltacht regions

Explore IrishCentral's Irish-German World War II series here!

Eating like our Irish Iron Age ancestors

Irish man John McDonnell, most successful NCAA coach in history, has passed away

Irish blessings and sayings on friendship

* INTERESTING BLOGS

The Bug      The Legal Genealogist

O’Driscoll’s Loss    Jessica Barratt

And then there was light: Electrification in rural Ireland   The Irish Story

Local & Family History: George Henry Charles Wright - 25 Nov 1921-9 Jun 2011 Chris Wright

Reviews

Theresa Smith

Book Review: Ariadne by Jennifer Saint

Bookish TV: Panic by Lauren Oliver

Book Review: Sistersong by Lucy Holland

Book Review: Retrospective by Kelly Van Nelson

Allen & Unwin

Nancy Business   R.W.R. McDonald

Small Acts of Defiance Michelle Wright

Magpie's Bend Maya Linnell     READ AN EXCERPT

The Bombay Prince Sujata Massey    READ AN EXCERPT

Better Reading

Book of the Week: We Were Not Men by Campbell Mattinson      READ MORE

Still Life ​by Sarah Winman    READ MORE

The Covered Wife by Lisa Emanuel     READ MORE

The Vet from Snowy River by Stella Quinn     READ MORE

All That I Remember About Dean Cola by Tania Chandler      READ MORE

Podcast: Cathy Kelly on Journalism, Perspective, and How Her Writing Has Evolved

Podcast: Dr. Robert Isaacs on Bridging the Divide Between White and Black Australia

Penguin Books Australia

The President's Daughter (start reading) Bill Clinton James Patterson

Convict-Era Port Arthur     David W. Cameron   CONTINUE READING

See more

and from my blogs...

As They Were

ADDITIONS to the IGP Archives MAY 2021, CLARE, DUBLIN, LAOIS, LEITRIM, TIPPERARY, WEXFORD, WICKLOW, headstones, church records, land deed, miscellaneous…

With thanks to Co Ordinator Christine Hunt and all the volunteers at IGP… Feel free to share, the title is the link…

https://astheywere.blogspot.com/2021/06/additions-to-igp-archives-may-2021.html

That Moment in Time

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 4th Jun 2021, library of mistakes, latest news from National Archives UK, Australia & Qld State Archives, Irish naming & baptism traditions, Lesson 9 free Family History Mini Class, Apps for Family History tasks, Middlesex baptisms, Ripping yarns & tragic tales, enormous chalk figure, living wake, sea turtle surgery, solar housing retro, photo repair..new feature, 20th century Irish rural life, absconded convicts, book reviews and a whole lot more…

https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2020/08/blog-post.html

HEADLINES OF OLD

CONVICT PARDONS..   Trove Tuesday 8th June 2021, conditional pardons for some - full pardon for others, some have more details..

Feel free to share, the title is the link…

https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2021/06/convict-pardons-trove-tuesday-8th-june.html

Keep safe and well.
This will pass.

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 4th Jun 2021

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

* GENERAL INTEREST

The National Archives UK 

Blog: Oscar Wilde: triumph, tragedyand exile 

Half term fun for families 

Last chance to buy discounted family history titles from our shop

The National Archives Australia newsletter incl. 

Crime on the rise at the National Archives, Gratefully, Audrey & more

Queensland State Archives 

QSA Talks: In support of the Commandants: subaltern officers of the Moreton Bay settlement, 1824-1850  plus Administration Files & more

TROVE Treasures newsletter incl. Trove Italiano

Newsletter wins award Irish Echo

The ScriBbler.. newsletter    Stella Budrikis...

A teller of tall tales, and where to (safely) find free e-books

Family history: A missing father, a faraway war and a presidential connection Business Post

New content has been added to www.johngrenham.com

I Love Bello Shire newsletter incl. Bello Food Gardening Project plus

A Living Wake

Save Bellingen Hospital.. close to my heart... so many of my family had wonderful care in Bellingen Hospital, as I have also..

Cairns Family History newsletter incl. Shadows from the Past..

Dramatised Evening Walks through McCleod St Pioneer Cemetery

My Irish Castle and more...

Orange City Council NSW incl. VIDEO: Check out Tully's work here  Choices at Home webpage (for older residents)
 

IrelandXO Insight - Irish Naming and Baptism Traditions | Ireland Reaching Out

* Generosity from Family Historians is much appreciated..

Free Family History Mini-Class 2021 : Lesson 9 Just one to go... Courtesy of The Frugal Family Historian

Apps for Family History tasks Carmel's Corner

Wanderlust Twins  Pai Mae Hong Son, Thailand      

Balconies, Barcelona, Spain Baros Resort, Maldives

The chapel of Selva Negra in Matagalpa / Nicaragua

15th Century Millers Cottage, Somerset England

Cottage on the Loch, Scotland   Angkor Wat, Cambodia

Old Fulling Mill and Boathouse on the River Wear in Durham city, England

Find My Past

Middlesex Baptisms   Search all newspapers 

Carmarthenshire Parish Records Baptisms 1921 > marriages.. 1936 >

Outback Family History

Ripping Yarns and Tragic Tales – 30 May 2021

Dastardly and Diabolical Deed at Day Dawn  

The Box Soak Creek Rush  Dorothea Ruby Olive Wraight -grave tales    

Ode to the Nurses by Smiler Hales  An Hotel by any other name

Smithsonian

What Caused the Roaring Twenties? Not the End of a Pandemic (Probably)

Rarely Seen Portrait of Renaissance Queen Catherine de' Medici to Go on View

Visit the Birthplace of Rock 'n' Roll's King, Tupelo, Mississippi

New 'Oregon Trail' Game Revisits Westward Expansion From Native Perspective

Why a 200-Year-Building in Morocco Is the Only National Historic Landmark Outside the U.S.

The True History Behind Amazon Prime's 'Underground Railroad'

This American Monk Travels the World to Rescue Ancient Documents From Oblivion

Scholars Are One Step Closer to Solving the Mystery of an Enormous Chalk Figure

A New Frank Gehry Tower Rises Above the Quaint French Town of Arles

Celebrating America's Oldest Family-Run Stained Glass Studio

Family Search Blog

Ideas for Holding a Celebration of Life Ceremony

Monthly Record Update for May 2021

Atlas Obscura

Heavenly Views   Rio de Janeiro   Threads of God  Sardinia  

Fire Hose Crossing  The Unbuilt Suburb  J.R.R. Tolkien's Grave

Medieval Hymn,  Modern Station  Overlook Mountain House Ruins

Radioactive Rocks 18 Shipwrecks To Safely Visit    Troll Falls Alberta

Enter the Library of Mistakes Edinburgh 'Coventry Doom'

Magnolia Grandiflora planted 1885 Mainzelmännchen Traffic Lights

In Defense of L.A.’s Loquat  Ayahs’ Home  Independence Mine 

Curiosity from Coast to Coast  The Burryman Scotland

Bryant Park Bathroom  Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah Wilderness Study Area

Subway Film Set    Deno's Wonder Wheel NY Sea Turtle Surgery   

Maps to Get Lost In   Cave of Maltravieso Spain Knife Angel

A Literary Best-Shell-er   This Is Not A Coastline  A City of Cat Ladders

JSTOR Daily

Reliving the Wonder Years of Wonder Bread   

Chien-Shiung Wu, the First Lady of Physics

How Women Fought for the Right to Be Bartenders

Solar Housing Is Actually Kind of Retro!

Anglo-Celtic Connections

First Virtual Ancestry Day   

Meanwhile, at Library and Archives Canada … neglect  

Sunday Sundries     British Newspaper Archive May Additions

Library and Archives Canada: Risks and Uncertainties  

Military Monday: British War Dead on Your Street

ALWAYS INTERESTING

Diary of an Australian Genealogist

Genealogy education, new resources & other news: Australia and New Zealand Genealogy News May 2021

Brotmanblog: A Family History

Leo and Rose Goldfarb: The Two Youngest Children of Sarah Brod and Sam Goldfarb

Humouring the Goddess

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Ancient Coins   Maps

Faerie Paths — Exclamation Astronomy — the Song, not the Science   

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Shayna Leib   Memorial Day 2021

Zinovii Shenderovich Tolkatchev such powerful renditions

Geniaus

From the Archives - Cardboard Cutouts or Real People?

allenrizzi

I-95     The Horse Whisperers From Anaconda  Hymn To The Fallen

Guns Now And Then   

The Legal Genealogist

Ran away from home    In the backyard    Memorial Day 2021

Social Bridge

To Mother with Love

The Gentle Author

Fifty Years Since The Stepney School Strike  

London’s Natural History    The Broderers At St Paul’s

Genea-Musings

Genealogy Book Review: "Call Me John," by Michael Schoenholtz

MyHeritage Introduces Photo Repair - New Feature to Automagically Fix Scratched and Damaged Photos

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Who Is #42 on Your Ahnentafel List?

Best of the Genea-Blogs - Week of 23 to 29 May 2021

Monday Genea-Pourri - Week Ending 31 May 2021

Genealogy News and Education Bytes -- Tuesday, 1 June 2021

Stair na hÉireann

#OTD in 1948 – Death of writer and playwright and member of Cumann na mBan, Lily O’Brennan.

Hapgoods from Marksbury

The Waddell brothers in the 2nd Light Horse in WW1 – a complementary article and new photo?

* IRISH CENTRAL

NYC’s teenage mayor? Thomas Downs has plans

National Pet Month! Top Irish names for your dog

Irish couple donate incredible €30 million to Trinity College Dublin 

The top five tourist attractions in County Waterford

National Inventors Month: Here are the top Irish inventions that changed the world

POLL: Should Irish citizens abroad be allowed to vote in Irish elections?

The life and times of Irish Melodies maker, Thomas Moore

Ireland can resume non-essential international travel in July

John Hume's family donates awards including Nobel Peace Prize to Derry

The untold story of the women who helped build the US railroads

Stone fort is the height of Georgian glamor in West Cork

John Boyne's 'The Absolutist' a hard hitting tale

Curfews, distancing, no loud music - Fáilte Ireland publishes pub reopening guidelines

Now 100, the little Irish girl who rode an Orphan Train to Texas

Incredible documentary examines 20th-century Irish rural life 

Irish son brought mother with Alzheimer's on epic 18-month world tour

TUNE IN: Mass marking 70th anniversary of filming of The Quiet Man, tomorrow!

Daniel O’Donnell reaches out after Donegal man badly injured in Boston

Irish woman living in US celebrates 103rd birthday

On this day: Irish Famine ships arrive at Grosse Île quarantine station, in 1847

What you need to know about County Kerry

Irish divers discover ancient artifacts while searching for missing persons

Petition launched to save Kerry island’s two abandoned donkeys

Ireland’s sweetheart Matt Damon to close out Dalkey Book Festival

The Irish Fenian invasion of Canada began 155 years ago today

Brave Irish teen saves mother and daughter from drowning in Co Carlow

The children's thank you book that highlighted Ireland's post-war aid to Germany

An emigrant's praise of Irish rain

* INTERESTING BLOGS

Joe and Betty Goldfarb and Their Children: A Close and Loving Family, Part II    Brotmanblog: A Family Journey

Villa Gustavo    allenrizzi

For whom the bell tolls: Croydon Cemetery      Judith Salecich

A Day for Projects Humoring the Goddess

Reviews

Theresa Smith

The Week That Was…

Book Review: Mrs England by Stacey Halls

A Month of Reading: May

Book Review: The Shape of Darkness by Laura Purcell

Better Reading

Book of the Week: Still by Matt Nable    READ MORE

Falling by T.J. Newman   READ MORE

Mirror Man by Fiona McIntosh  READ MORE

Both of You by Adele Parks  READ MORE

Podcast: Richard Flanagan on the Rotting Underbelly of the Tasmanian Salmon Industry

Podcast: Madeleine Ryan on Being Diagnosed with Autism While Writing A Room Called Earth

and from my blogs...

That Moment in Time

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 28th May 2021, sinking town, free family history mini class 7 & 8, most beautiful cemeteries,  convict records, Scotland-BDMs, Irish sky garden, rent for the Queen, library bats, wartime knitting spies, poignant WW2 diaries, Native American burial rituals, haunted castles, book reviews and a whole lot more…

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

https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2021/05/friday-fossicking-28th-may-2021.html

That Moment in Time

TROVE ADDITIONS May 2021, additional  newspaper titles, gazettes & newspapers coming soon, redigitised artworks, magazine coming soon..

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

https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2021/05/trove-additions-may-2021.html

HEADLINES OF OLD

ABSCONDED CONVICTS  Trove Tuesday 1st Jun 2021, names, alias, ship of arrival, physical description, employer/master, some with extra information, can you add anything further?

Feel free to share, the title is the link…

https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2021/06/absconded-convicts-trove-tuesday-1st.html

Feel safe and well.
This will pass.