FRIDAY FOSSICKING 15th May 2020

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

* GENERAL INTEREST

 ABC News: Queenslander hunts for 'Honey Bunch' after mum finds 40-year-old love letter

Genealogy Radio Show - Series 3: Episode 5:– Methodolog...    Raidió Corca Baiscinn

The Awakening - Ireland and Irish America in the summer of 2021  Irish Central

Historical Fiction Novels Being Made Into Movies  Book Bub

30 Best Bucket List Trips For Your Lifetime: The Emerald Isle, From Your Family Genealogy To ...  Forbes

I Love Bello Shire  incl.  Celebrating our Nurses & Midwives   

Cairns Family History  reopening Tuesday 19 May 2020, different conditions

Family Tree Magazine incl. 22 Online Historical Photo Databases  Searching for Your Ancestors’ Home Movies Online

Findmypast Community incl.  Find family heroes   The war in pictures

ABC News: The secret tree door where 'fairies' collect children's letters

Brisbane's tiny door in Burnett Lane unveiled as one of guerilla artist's many projects around city 

- ABC News

Travel ~ 52 Ancestors 52 Weeks #20.     stopthefud (blog)

The latest articles at Tinteán Magazine

Editorial  Eliza McCready: A ‘Belfast Girl’ sent to Moreton Bay       A word for the Brothers

Canonical Australian writers with ties to Ireland   The Hermit Priest   New Irish Fiction

Soldier of the Irish Republic    Ceo Bruithne agus scéalta eile by Colin Ryan  What's On

Anglo-Celtic Connections  

Today: Snowbirds Operation Inspiration         Vernon Directories Project Update 

QFHS Free Events on Zoom         OGS/Ontario Ancestors Opens Webinar Library

Life in Occupied Holland World War II Canadian Army photographs  WW II: those who served in Europe

Tracing the History of your Ottawa Property    NEW: MyHeritage Canadian Newspapers

YouTube: War Children - DNA       Sunday Sundries     OGS/Ontario Ancestors Virtual Conference 2020

TheGenealogist adds Berkshire, Cambridgeshire, Leicestershire and Oxfordshire Tithe Maps

Florence Nightingale at 200 The Road Less Travelled   How are you coping during COVID-19?

 Wealthier Grandparents: Healthier Grandchildren

Find My Past

The Findmypast Photo Collection        World War 2 Allies Collection   75 years on from VE day

Second World War and beyond   Search FREE photos         Rationing Get your share

Britain's bombing blitz Take cover

JSTOR Daily

Can We Protect Against Coronavirus by Rewriting Our Genomes?   The First Movie Kiss

The Linguistics of Cooties (and Other Weird Things Kids Say)

How Reading Got Farm Women Through the Depression

Yes, Mass Observation Still Wants to Know about Your Life

Family Search

How a Family Crest or Coat of Arms Leads to Family Discovery

Out-of-the-Box Indexing Goals and Activities      3 Tips for finding female ancestors

7 Journal Ideas to Help You Record Your Story   

How to Find Russian Military Records from World War II

Atlas Obscura

An Evergreen Staple  Make a 5,000-Year-Old Energy Bar  Cartographic Puzzle Comeback

Dry Tortugas Florida    Glacier Research at the ‘Third Pole’    Preserving Ukraine’s Soviet Past

The Golden Age of Piracy  Spaceship Earth Premiere  The Legacy of Nuclear Testing Lives Underwater

A Celebration of Afro-Mexican Culture  ‘Mail Art’ Is Making a Comeback  Arthurian Mystery

Sold: A ‘Chocolate Museum’ in a Box     Devil’s Bridge     Medieval Book Curses

Sagano Bamboo Forest  The British Museum’s Newly Digital Collection  A Forest Creation

10 Unusual Vending Machines      Fieldwork in the Time of COVID-19

Readers Drew Places They’ve Never Seen  Abandoned Medieval Village  Otherworldly Light

Travel the World Through International TV     Found: Evidence of First Death-by-Meteorite

Forbidden Forest     Cave of the Oilbirds      Pancake Panoramas  Trans Wild West

The Dawn of Quarantinee   A Brief History of Toilet Paper   ‘Devil’s Well’ Italy     Ghost Fleet

The Photo Archive Hidden Inside a Limestone Mine Getty Images      Giant Megaphones



Family History Daily

These Are Some of the Rarest Last Names in the US: Do You Have One in Your Tree?

The Powerful Genealogy Hints Tool You've Probably Never Used

How to Print Your Family Tree, and Why You Shouldn’t

Ancestry.com.au.blog

Ancestry Extra; Back to Basics – Free Access Terms and Conditions do read.. free till Sunday May 17 11.59pm AEST

Incl.  Australia Cemetery Index, 1808-2007    Australia, Birth Index, 1788-1922

Australia, Births and Baptisms, 1792-1981           Australia, Marriage Index, 1788-1950

Australia, Death Index, 1787-1985  Victoria, Australia, Coroner Inquest Deposition Files, 1840-1925

New South Wales, Australia, Convict Applications for the Publication of Banns, 1828-1830, 1838-1839

and many more...

Outback Family History

Murty Broderick – He threw a seven!    Menzies Murderer Hanged:   John Avery – grave tales

Kanowna Cemetery a grave condition.

ALWAYS INTERESTING

Maher Matters

Addendum and Transition

The Gentle Author

At St Andrew’s Chapel, Boxley   Ali Touw’s War   Sounds Of Silence In Spitalfields

Lucinda Douglas-Menzies At Butler’s Wharf   In Long Forgotten London

So Long, Philip Pittack  

The Family Curator

Break Down Genealogy Brick Walls With Home Sources

Mrs. Daffodil Digresses

A Cure for the Grecian Bend: 1868

Brotmanblog: A Family Journey

Regina Goldschmidt’s Children: Did They Escape in Time or Not?

Amalie Meyer Bloch: Where Was Her Husband During the War?

Genea-Musings

Genealogy News Bytes -- Friday, 8 May 2020   Best of the Genea-Blogs - 3 to 9 May 2020

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Your "Favorite" Genealogy Websites

Monday Genea-Pourri - Week Ending 11 May 2020     Genealogy News Bytes - Tuesday, 12 May 2020

Humouring the Goddess / Sunday Evening Art Gallery 

Faerie Paths — Gardeners      Colin Fraser   Santiago Rusiñol i Prats 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn      Kazuhito Takadoi

Sunday Evening Art Gallery (flashback) — Aquariums

allenrizzi

Who Was Valentino Flor?    Hello, My Name Is Ashley

The Irish Story

Podcast: Siege Warfare in 17th Century Ireland, with Padraig Lenihan

The Battle of Fontenoy in Irish Nationalist Tradition

Podcast: Brian Hanley on Republican Policing in the Irish Revolution

Root Stalker Genealogy

#AlmostFamous – Oris Sater

Irish in the American Civil War

For Faith & Freedom: Four Men who Served the Pope and their Adopted Nation

Irish in the American Civil War’s 10th Birthday

Kindred Past

The 21-Day Family Connections Experiment: Update

Remembering the Past Australia

Australian Digger Slang – World War I

Stair na hÉireann

#OTD in Irish History – 11 May:

The Frugal Family Historian

Archives Throwing Open Their Records!

Branches On Our Haimowitz Family Tree

The Family of Samuel Leib Weiss and Mariam (Mary) Shwartz

Australian Roots and Spreading Branches

Trove Tuesday: Accident     Wednesday’s Will - Herbert John Sheather

Geniaus

It's a boy!        GeniAus - #AtoZChallenge - Reflections

jenealogyscrapbook

Restrictions Lifted

The Legal Genealogist

Happy mtDNA Day 2020!

Trusting the Process: Getting There From Here

Creatives Rise to the Occasion

* IRISH CENTRAL

How my Cork grandmother cheated death during the sinking of the Lusitania

7-year-old who beat cancer and coronavirus treated to birthday parade

Victorian glamor and old-school seaside vibe at Slieve Donard in County Down

Coronavirus live updates: Ireland successfully "suppressing spread of disease"

Nominate your own Frontline Hero - real-life superheroes battling COVID-19

Archaeological discovery finds Neolithic Irish were dairy farmers

WATCH: Original "Lord of the Dance" troupe reunites for stay-at-home charity performance

The “IRA Cardinal” who changed the North of Ireland forever

P.S. I Love You sequel is on its way! Are you ready? 

Staying together apart - elderly Dublin couples’ love captured on camera

"How To Build A Girl" debuts with Chris O'Dowd

These are the Irish songs to get the party started

The greatest Irish emigrant poem by the late Eavan Boland

Ten things you'll hear an Irish Mammy say..

The most touching Irish ballads

How to pinpoint where your ancestors lived in Ireland

Irish pub using drones to fly beer to its customers during COVID-19

Stirring Mayo tourism video says "When the storm settles, we’ll see you again"

President of Ireland marks International Nurses Day with message of gratitude

Gardaí serenade elderly care home resident on his birthday with Irish folk song

WATCH: Poet's "Collectively Counting" looks at Irish life in lockdown

County Fermanagh - exploring a northern star

* INTERESTING BLOGS

Auntie Dulcie and the Bung-in Cake - Love in a little black diary.  Judith Salecich

The Adventure of the Little Wax Figure: 1895 Mrs. Daffodil Digresses

Becoming Mr. Bruce allenrizzi

Settling Into A Pandemic Janet Maher

Ah-Ha vs. Good Grief Humouring the Goddess

Finding Joy in the Little Things Textile Ranger

Reviews

Theresa Smith

The Week That Was…

#BookBingo2020 – Round 5: Themes of Politics and Power

The Night Circus Effect

Book Review: The River Home by Hannah Richell

Shelf Share: Read in Isolation

Shelf Share: Watched in Isolation

Better Reading

Book of the Week: Little Disasters by Sarah Vaughan   READ MORE

The Secret Life of Shirley Sullivan by Lisa Ireland   READ MORE

The Long Shadow by Anne Buist    READ MORE

Podcast: Jess Hill, the 2020 Stella Prize Winner on Domestic Abuse

Better Reading Preview: The Bluffs by Kyle Perry

Penguin Books

A Hilarious Q&A with Kathy Lette

The Kennedy Curse James Patterson  (Read first chapter)

Ghost Species      James Bradley         (Read first chapter)

and from my blogs...

Friday Fossicking 8 May 2020, Cat Island, numerous records... Scotland- burial Index..poll tax, Yorkshire memorial inscriptions, watch, listen, learn, Ghost town quarantine, toxic dust, free archival Canadian newspapers online, NASA’s most spectacular earth image, record your family history, contact free dining, interment on prison ship, book reviews, Fungie the dolphin missing visitors, 

healing after the bushfires, new County Westmeath records and so very much more…

https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2020/05/friday-fossicking-8th-may-2020.html

Headlines of Old

 TICKETS OF LEAVE, CONDITIONAL PARDONS, NSW & TASMANIA, female & male           Trove Tuesday May 12th 2020, some listed under counties in NSW, towns included, Government Gazettes 1842 -1844 + Launceston Examiner 1852.. hundreds of names with name of ship arrived on included… Further reading list included..

Feel free to share…

https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2020/05/tickets-of-leave-conditional-pardons.html

As They Were

New County Armagh records, Church of Ireland, Presbyterian, Soc. of Friends/Quaker, Headstone Inscriptions, paid site rootsireland.ie, 

https://astheywere.blogspot.com/2020/05/new-county-armagh-records.html

Stay safe and well, this too will pass..

FRIDAY FOSSICKING. 8th May 2020

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

* GENERAL INTEREST

ABC News: A little boy left a handprint in his family shed in 1954. This is his tragic story

ABC News: Booed for ordering a naked swimmer to cover up in the 1970s, legendary lifesaver looks to retire

Episode 9: David Ryan - Tracing your Cork Ancestors  Raidió Corca Baiscinnwatch, liten, learn, 

Society Meetings During the Coronavirus Lockdown and Beyond Alona Tester

State Library Queensland.    have your membership card at the ready ... ebooks   Access now

Kanopy.. Stream independent and classic film, documentaries and world cinema, or dive into Kanopy Kids. Access now

Lynda.com  Up-skill from home with thousands of online courses accessible at your fingertips.  Access now

What does your State or local library offer ?

National Library of Australia

Open online...  Learning Webinar:  Register for Tracing the History of Your House Wed 20 May

Read Writing Your Family History  Webinars      Further research guides

Learn more in our research guide for Australian Government Gazettes

I Love Bello Shire  incl. Courage Under Fire: Jo Baff Story 

Outback Family History

The Remarkable Love Life of Beth Maynard:

Bullfinch and the Yilgarn Goldfield – book review

Manslaughter in the Mulga – how Fulton fell

John Joseph Williams -pioneer profile

Jeremiah Minehan – grave tales

Australian Geographic

March of the spider crabs   Blooming marvellous jellyfish  The pioneering lady twitchers of Australia

Healing after the bushfires in south-eastern NSW   

Rescued platypuses return after rainfall replenishes waterways

Rare species of eagle ray spotted on the Great Barrier Reef

“I felt like the loneliest conservationist in the world.”



Find My Past

Scotland, Edinburgh & Lothian Death and Burial Index    Scotland, Aberdeenshire Poll Tax 1696

Yorkshire Memorial Inscriptions  Cambridgeshire Burials      Search all newspapers

Research Renfrewshire  

JSTOR Daily

America, Lost and Found at Wounded Knee

What's Behind the Very Real Butch Quarantine Hair Crisis?

Plant of the Month: Stanhopea Orchids

Shayla Lawson: All of Us Came from the Same Root

Rent Strikes Aren't Just About Rent

Eastern Sports and Western Bodies

Anglo-Celtic Connections

O/T: social risks during the COVID-19 pandemic     Royal Flying Corps: People Index

Who Do You Think You Are? June 2020     Ottawa Citizen Archives at the Ottawa Public Library

Today: The Genealogical Sublime  Sunday Sundries    Your Genealogy Today: May/June 2020 Issue

YouTube: Family Secrets Revealed in Free Archival Canadian Newspapers Online: Canadawide Initiatives

Family Search

Family Tree Update—Standardized Places     New Records on FamilySearch from April 2020

What to Do for Mother’s Day—Simple, Meaningful Activities

Atlas Obscura

Your Guide to Cloud Gazing       The Great Antarctic Escape        How to Make Your Own Map

The Ruins of St. Dunstan-in-the-East     Toxic Dust     Tham Piew Cave     Discovery Island

Lizards Are Evolving in Response to Hurricanes  Greenland’s Hidden Grand Canyon

NASA’s Most Spectacular Image of Earth    Stories From the 1918 Flu Pandemic

A Belated Memorial    Berlin’s Old Medieval Wall        Kitchen Hacks from Tough Times Past

The Great Geology Mystery   Creating Portraits From a Distance   Cliffside Guesthouse

Wildly Impractical Wine Glasses   Quarantine Herbarium      Ghost Town Quarantine

Ring Mountain Petroglyphs    It’s Time to Record Your Family’s History  A Canvas for Creativity

Secret Staircase    Traces of the Bronze Age  Ancient Citadel  Virtual ‘Bookshelf Championship’

The Fiery End of the Biggest Treehouse     The Magic of Imperfect Objects  Tumbleweed ‘Tornado’

Cat Island   Madagascar’s Ancient Mammal     Contact-Free Dining   

ALWAYS INTERESTING 

Stair na hÉireann 

 #OTD in Irish History – 4 May:

Genea-Musings

Best of the Genea-Blogs - Week of 26 April to 2 May 2020

Genealogy News Bytes -- Friday, 1 May 2020

Monday Genea-Pourri - Week Ending 4 May 2020

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Your "Where I'm From" Poem


Genie Tips from Patientgenie

Some Genealogy Treasures inside The Internet Archive

Little Wild Streak

Host and Guests – Vetch   

allenrizzi

Neues Wiener Konservatorium: Ein Blick zurück aus Amerika    Just One More Cast   May Day

Talking Animals? 

The Irish Story

Internment on the Prison Ship Argenta

Humouring the Goddess

Alaa Awad     You Can’t Go Wrong With the Arts  Faerie Paths — Vitality   Blue — A Poem

Wendy Mould   Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Ramon Todo

The Frugal Family Historian

Binge watch?    Stuck at home with the family? 

Irish in the American Civil War

Three Bodies. Three Families. Three Stories. Kerry’s 1860s Diaspora in Ireland and New York

The Gentle Author

H W Petherick’s London Characters      Agnese Sanvito’s London Queues   

At The Solidarity Britannia Food Bank   Travelling Roads Through Time

List Of Local Shops Open For Business     Birds Of Spitalfields

Mrs. Daffodil Digresses

A Rose from the May-Queen’s Crown: 1892      No Fare for the Doll: 1890

The Smoking Suit: 1880s 

Clogs and Clippers

A tale of two dragons, plus Baldwins and Brewsters

Brotmanblog: A Family Journey

Regina Goldschmidt Meyer: Another Young Widow 

My Cousin Anna Seghers: Activist, Author, and Survivor

German Jewish Refugees as Enemy Aliens in the UK during World War II: Some Resources

The Legal Genealogist

More on copyright and old letters      And the view…  

* IRISH CENTRAL

Irish World War II hero beats COVID-19 ahead of VE Day

Coronavirus live updates: Ireland begins to gradually reopen from May 18

Irish payback Great Hunger kindness reaching out to Native Americans struck by COVID-19

My Frontline Hero honors real-life superheroes battling COVID-19

Drone operator makes incredible archaeological discovery in Clare  

The most touching Irish ballads   

Dingle locals say Fungie the dolphin missing visitors during the COVID-19 lockdown

Priest hears confession in Dublin car park amid social distancing   

WATCH: Surfers in Co Clare come face to face with 20 sharks

A guide to Ireland’s fascinating bodhrán drum

Irish fund brings 100k meals to frontline heroes in six weeks

WATCH: Vintage footage of First Holy Communion in 1930s Ireland

Bealtaine and Ireland's other sacred Celtic holidays

Coronavirus live updates: Roadmap to "reopen Ireland" expected tomorrow

Michael Buble moved to tears over Irish "We will rise again" video

The Green mountains of Sligo and Leitrim will replenish your soul and refill your imagination

Irish drones delivering essential supplies to vulnerable patients

Two Irish journalists among this year's Pulitzer Prize winners

5,000-year-old Bealtaine lighting of fires goes ahead despite coronavirus

Donegal sanctuary welcomes first wild boarlets born in Ireland in centuries


* INTERESTING BLOGS

Textile Ranger  The Endeavourers’ Reveal Day – Miss Havisham’s Banquet

cassmob Spanish Flu and Ithaca Brisbane

The Silver Voice  From inside the’Cocoon’ – There is a crack in everything

Kerryn Taylor  Stanley Raymond Tuckett

Lenore Frost     HMAT Boonah in Quarantine on Torrens Island, 1919

Lonetester HQ   Record History as it Happens

Kindred Past  Charlotte Lillie Davis, Nurse, H.S. ‘Brittanic’


Final of A~Z Challenge

cassmob

My A to Z finale  A to Z 2020 blog reading and thoughts

In Days Gone By...

If you do nothing - Zero      So that was April   

GeniAus

GeniAus - #AtoZChallenge - Z is for Zachery and Zita



Reviews

Theresa Smith

The Week That Was…

Author Talks: Lisa Ireland on The Women Who Paved My Way

Book Review: Elly by Maike Wetzel

A Month of Reading: April


Book Review: Almost Everything by Anne Lamott


Better Reading

Announcing: Better Reading's Top 100

Book of the Week: Code Name Hélène by Ariel Lawhon

Night Lessons in Little Jerusalem by Rick Held

Just My Luck by Adele Parks

The Things She Owned by Katherine Tamiko Arguile

The Lizard by Dugald Bruce-Lockhart

Podcast: Kelly Rimmer on Why Nothing Compares to When Readers Share their Personal Stories

Podcast: Andrew Daddo on How to Make Reading Fun for Kids


Allen & Unwin

The Viennese Girl   Jenny Lecoat

Fool Me Once  Karly Lane

A Treacherous Country   K.M.Kruimink    Australian Vogel's Literary Award Winner 2020

The Power of an Adventure Wilbur Smith podcast

The Wisdom of Tea Noriko Morishita

An Alice Girl    Tanya Heaslip

Radio Girl  David Dufty




and from my blogs...

That Moment in Time

Friday Fossicking May 1 2020, British Army War Diaries 1914--22, UFO village, naturalisation records, FREE Broadway Musicals, Greater London Burial Index, sparkling dolphins, Portuguese-French-Italian Archives, underpass troll, 1918 influenza diaries, Kent Baptisms-marriages & Banns - burials, livestream the Great Barrier Reef,  wives & children of Irish convicts 1825-1840, read unclaimed letters yet? …Databases of the dead, FREE audiobooks and much more….
Feel free to share…

https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2020/05/friday-fossicking-may-1st-2020.html

JUST BECAUSE
https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/p/just-because.html

Do you think God will ever run out of ideas?


Headlines of Old

Unclaimed Letters 1849, Various States Issue 2, 5th May 2020, thousands of names, some occupations, suggestions for further research, further reading..destinations vary from streets to places to hotels to post offices, etc. Some have lots of details, others just names…Feel free to share..

https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2020/05/unclaimed-letters-1849-various-states.html


As They Were

New County Westmeath Records, 13000 added cemeteries -baptisms -marriages-deaths, Rootsireland.ie… Mullingar RC, Clara Horseleap RC Updates, Castlepollard RC, Mayne ( Coole parish) RC,  and more..

https://astheywere.blogspot.com/2020/05/new-county-westmeath-records.html

Stay safe and well and be kind to yourself.