FRIDAY FOSSICKING Dec 3, 2021

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

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GSQ Blog ‘Elizabeth Hardwicke’s letter to her daughter Maria’.

John Grenham Quick and dirty are my middle name

New book records Clooney Graveyard Inscriptions - The Clare Champion

Every Story Matters Family Search Video

Great news from Vic BDMs – VAFHO – Victorian Association of Family History Organisations discounted BDM certificates

VOX POPULI: Library in an apartment setting an idea catching on fast | The Asahi Shimbun 

Memories of Living and Working in Australia in the 1960's - LetterPile

Newsletters:

Cairns Family History enews  1 enews 2 incl. missing books

cemetery search great tool

Cooroy-Noosa Genealogical & Historical Research Group Blog: Disaster in the Writing Group

Judy Webster - Genealogy Why not subscribe?

Ireland Newsletter incl.  News from Ireland 

Tlachtga! She Gave Halloween to the World

Australian War Memorial ememorial incl. Museum at Home

Read articles about Christmas during wartime 

Eltham District Historical Society Inc.  ThrowbackThursday: Kaylock’s Bridge

National Archives UK  incl. 

Scarlets and Blues project re transcriptions

Regional hubs to offer free online access to 1921 Census

Researching lives at the Royal Hospital Chelsea

New podcast series: 20th Century Migration

DESPATCH Public Record Office Victoria  

Victorian Archives Centre    Beechworth digitisation complete

Outback Family History

Harry ‘Tambo’ Taylor – Stockman of the Never Never    

Wooden Overcoat Makers-

The Murchison – on dust storms and barmaids    

The McGinniss family of Kunanulling

JSTOR Daily

Are You Still Watching?     The Paradoxical Pomegranate

What Does Thanksgiving Look Like in Prison?

The Plagiarism Scandal That Ended Nella Larsen's Career

Should We Go to Mars? Carl Sagan Had Thoughts

In Rome, Mourning Clothes as Political Resistance

FIND MY PAST

West Glamorgan Electoral Registers 1839-1925    

Index to Death Duty Registers 1796-1903

Leeward Islands Census Substitutes 1678-1753      

Search all newspapers    Explore Carribbean History Video       

5 unique Welsh record sets

Anglo-Celtic Connections

LAC Website News       Military Monday: Fold3 — RNPS  

Sunday Sundries  and more  Internet Genealogy: Dec 2021 - Jan 2022

 

Smithsonian 

How Much Longer Will Roquefort Reign as the King of Cheese?

Bison in Canada Discover Ancient Petroglyphs, Fulfilling an Indigenous Prophecy

Sketch Bought at Estate Sale for $30 May Be Dürer Drawing Worth $50 Million

What's Life in a Martian Habitat Like? Find Out at Our 12/7 Webinar

See a Rare Watercolor of a Black Woman Living in Edinburgh in the Late 18th Century

A Literary Scholar Takes Us Around the World in Eight Books

Smithsonian Scholars Pick Their Favorite Books of 2021

Atlas Obscura

Roadside Food Attractions   Pumpple Cake    The Mayflower Pub

The 'Goodnight Moon' House   Mapping Forests      Tulip Stairs

Venezuela’s Last Glacier         Inside a ‘Torture Orchard’  

The Dolphin Fountain  Madagascar Baobabs   

Life In Extreme Circumstances     Iyake Suspended Lake       

Otterly Adorable Saviors      Inside NYPL's Rare Book Room

How to Make Shaker Lemon Pie     The Gates of Hell      

Delivering Mail to Hell  Linby Docks England  Tree of 40 Fruits     

Cannibal Ants, Nuclear Bunker     The Star Pyramid

Watery Wonders     How Old Is This Big Tree?

Gravity-Defying Marzipan Cake  Chernobyl Selfie

Site of the New Jersey Shark Attacks of 1916    Montezuma Castle

9 Off-Limit D.C. Places     Fruitcake Collectibles

* ALWAYS INTERESTING

Gerry Bolton

The Frederick Stickley Memorial

Genea-Musings

My Mayflower 1620 Connections - Soule, White, Warren, Cooke, Brewster, Hopkins and Fuller

52 Ancestors - Week 407: #630 Michael Bowden (1673-1741) of Marblehead and Lynn, Massachusetts

Added and Updated FamilySearch.org Record Collections - Week of 20 to 26 November 2021

Register For RootsTech 2022 (3-5 March) - Choose Connection

Amanuensis Monday -- 1740 Deed of Joseph Sever Giving Land in Sudbury, Massachusetts to son Robert Sever

allenrizzi

Thanksgiving In Italy     These Days   Cotton Candy Dreams   

A Menorah In Appalachia    The Best Dog Ever

The Gentle Author

The Language Of Beer    Bloomsbury Jamboree 2021    

Marion Elliot, Printmaker & Illustrator

The Thames Of Old London      The Return Of Sail Cargo To Thames

Brotmanblog: A Family Journey

Dora Blumenfeld Livingston’s Children Herman, Alfred and Gussie

Dora Blumenfeld Livingston’s Two Youngest Children Irvin and Harold

Humoring the Goddess

No Regrets — Kinda   Viktor Mikhailovich Zundalev    

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Arnold Böcklin

Should I Have Said Anything?     Faerie Paths — Mandalas     

Judith Scott     Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Ertan Atay

Pauline Connolly

Amy Sherwin & Stella Carol     Tom Piper & the Pioneer Pilot

historybylarzus

What’s In A Name? – The Astounding Footprint of Aphra Crayford (1587-1662)

The Legal Genealogist

Giving thanks, 2021 style   On GivingTuesday…

Pastlinks

What's in a name?

Stair na hÉireann

Irish Coffin Ships at Gross Isle, Canada

In Days Gone By...

Closing in on the Bennetts

Tales from the Grave

Australia's own Willy Wonka gave us chewing gum and fairy floss

The Irish Story

‘The Blood of Irish rebels flowed in his veins’: Che Guevara and the Irish

Diary of an Australian Genealogist

Rootstech 2022, Winter Genealogy & More Newspapers in Trove: My Week in Genealogy 21 - 28 November 2021

* IRISH CENTRAL

Ancient bones reveal Irish are not Celts after all

Traditional Irish plum pudding recipe for Christmas

Who can apply for an Irish passport and how long is the process taking right now?

The best of the best! Irish Book Awards 2021 winners revealed

Amazing photos from early Kennedy family trips to Ireland

*  INTERESTING BLOGS

My mother’s schooldays: Rannes, the 3Rs and much more Judith Salecich

Reviews

Theresa Smith

A Month of Reading: November

Book Review: The Freedom of Birds by Stephanie Parkyn

Better Reading

Book of the Week: The Judge's List by John Grisham      READ MORE

Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone by Diana Gabaldon     READ MORE

Unforgiven by Sarah Barrie      READ MORE

Fancy Meeting You Here by Ali Berg and Michelle Kalus   READ MORE

The Beautiful Words by Vanessa McCausland   READ MORE

Penguin Books

Atlas of the Heart    Dr Brené Brown

Let Go     Hugh van Cuylenburg

The Book of Hope Jane Goodall

Allen & Unwin

Kill Your Brother   Jack Heath

Fancy Meeting You Here  Ali Berg and Michelle Kalus

Once Burnt, Twice Shy  Karly Lane

The Russian Wife    Barry Maitland

The Freedom of Birds  Stephanie Parkyn

and from my blogs...

That Moment in Time

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 26th Nov 2021, genealogy butler, memories of an Irish emigrant, US obituaries notices, hell banquets, bridges to nowhere, Queen Mother's rebel cousin, scenic Irish train ride 1947, fogs & smogs of old London, Bulong -The IOU- ghost town, book reviews and lots more..

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HEADLINES OF OLD

TICKETS OF LEAVE ...Trove Tuesday 30th Nov 2021, 

Lists from various states, some give just the name of the convict and the ship they came on.. including the journey no., others state an area that the convict had been assigned to…

These cancelled lists are available from both newspapers and government gazettes. There are a number of similar previous posts that you can search for via the bar at the end of the page… just use “Tickets of Leave” .

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As They Were

IGP Archives Updates November 2021, Cavan, Donegal, Fermanagh, Tyrone .. church records, headstones,

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Many thanks to all who contribute…

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Keep safe and well.
This will pass.

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 26th Nov 2021

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

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Helen Kelly, the world's only Genealogy Butler reconnects people with their Irish roots - Daily Express 

 A Toronto library card will give you free access to the city's top attractions starting tomorrow ...   Flipboard

GSQ Blog    Family History Revelations   Lee English

Herveys Range Heritage Tea Rooms, from Townsville's cart and bull days, listed for sale - ABC News

List of convict ship voyages to Western Australia - Wikipedia

SBS Emerging Writers' Competition 2021 Highly Commended: Miranda Jakich | SBS Voices

Memories of an Irish Man Who Emigrated to Australia in 1967 - LetterPile

National Archives UK  newsletter incl.

Spending Power: Cataloguing Exchequer warrants from the Wars of the Roses      

Wanderlust Twins    Images...    Rusty sunrise, Bruges, Belgium 

“Tbilisi / Georgia .”       Canazei, Italy Andrey Chabrov   

La Lauch et la petite Venise, Colmar, France

Picturesque medieval village of Montefioralle in Tuscany, Italy . This one is for Nikita and roua199 :)

Find My Past

United States Obituaries Notices     Search all newspapers

United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Marriages

Discussing US Records Watch video      Explore migrant roots

British and Irish migration via Canada  

Discover the roots of US presidents

Outback Family History

Harold A S Cocking – pioneer profile    

Thieves’ Gold – by N.E. Gledhill

James Fyfe – grave tales  Bulong – The I.O.U – ghost town

Anglo-Celtic Connections

Digitally Re-Mapping Ireland’s Ordnance Survey Heritage

Sunday Sundries    FreeBMD November Update

Atlas Obscura

Revitalizing a Lost Language    West Berneray Beach Scotland    

Hell Banquets   Armstrong Tunnel Pittsburgh Clothing History

Museum of Museums Seattle Decoding Knots  Springerle  cookies

Revitalizing a Lost Language    Monster of the Month: Swamp Ape  

Book Donkeys  Bake a 19th-Century Pie    8 Bridges to Nowhere 

Octopus Observation  The Jagannath Temple   Octopus Tree of Oregon

Freeport McDonald's

ALWAYS INTERESTING

The Gentle Author

The Queen Mother’s Rebel Cousin   The Bread, Cake & Biscuit Walk

The Fogs & Smogs Of Old London  David Carpenter, Ocularist

David Garrick In Aldgate  Autumn At Spitalfields City Farm

Genea-Musings

Genealogy News and Education Bytes -- Friday, 19 November 2021

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Your Ancestral Family Migration Map

Best of the Genea-Blogs - Week of 14 to 20 November 2021

Carringers in the News -- District Attorney Marion Carringer Shot in 1915 in Forest County, Pennsylvania.

Book Notice: Rhode Island State Census For Genealogists, by Diane MacLean Boumenot

Genealogy News and Education Bytes -- Tuesday, 23 November 2021

allenrizzi

It’s A Family Thing    A Long Look Back     Pax Orbis

Humoring the Goddess

Lady Pink    Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Mark Gee

Creativity Never Takes A Break Tom Every — Dr. Evermoor

Faerie Paths — Wine Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Pianos

The Legal Genealogist

Fall 2021 DNA sales   Of patents and deeds  Saying no to nullification

Stair na hÉireann History of Ireland

#OTD in 1943 – Death of suffragist, trade unionist and Irish independence activist, Winifred Carney, in Belfast.

Diary of an Australian Genealogist

Exciting Progress, online events & what's coming up: My Week in Genealogy 13-20 Nov 2021

Tales from the Grave

Sailors friend has plinth erected in her memory

The Irish Story

Civil War casualties in County Wicklow, 1922-1923

Brotmanblog:  A Family Journey

My Cousin Sigmund Livingston, The Founder of the Anti-Defamation League

The Empire Called and I Answered

Trooper Cyril Kaighin - one of the 'Glorious Dead'

Textile Ranger

Some Kids’ Quilts Finishes

Tracking Down the Family

Book Chat: Non-Fiction

Dreams & Adventures at Cosy Cottage

200 blog posts! Congratulations, Clare!

Pauline Connolly

Dobell; The Fury& The Fuhrer

Geniaus

Ball Bounty

* IRISH CENTRAL

WATCH: A scenic train ride through the Irish countryside in 1947

"TÁIN: The Women's Stories" retells the famous Irish epic of Cúchulainn

$1m raised to save USS The Sullivans, dedicated to five Irish brothers who perished in WWII

WATCH: New #WeBelieve Irish Christmas ad will have you in tears

* INTERESTING BLOGS

The illness of Tim the guinea pig  Dreams and Adventures at Cosy Cottage

Margaret Waddell Kay – from Amargh to Gympie Karen Hapgood

Richard Peard buried 1683 in Cork     historybylarzus

Reviews

Theresa Smith

The Week That Was…

Book Review: The Swift and The Harrier by Minette Walters

Better Reading

Book of the Week: Ciao Bella! by Kate Langbroek

Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult

These Precious Days by Ann Patchett

Podcast: Anita Heiss on the Aboriginal Heroes of the Gundagai Flood

Podcast: Shane Jenek on the Genesis to Courtney Act

Podcast: Julie Kalman on People Smuggling and the Criminalisation of Refugees

Penguin Books Australia

Go Tell the Bees that I am Gone    Diana Gabaldon  READ AN EXTRACT

The Spy's Wife      Fiona McIntosh     BROWSE BOOK CLUB NOTES

and from my blogs...

That Moment in Time

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 19th Nov 2021, A Graveyard of Ships, history of postmortem photography, Indian army records, historic terraces in The Rocks Sydney, dogs in trenches WW1, sea pork, 

Adorable frogs, Ireland’s bravest, Irish soldiers deceased in WW1..online database, unclaimed money, Suffolk’s crooked houses, dogs in the trenches of WW1, book reviews and a whole lot more…

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https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2021/11/friday-fossicking-19th-nov-2021.html

Headlines of Old

CERTIFICATES OF NATURALISATION SERIES 15 Trove Tuesday 23rd Nov 2021, search beyond the names…some examples given of further searches..These are from 1935.. 

several batches, and people listed are from a range of countries.

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https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2021/11/certificates-of-naturalisation-series_01845711615.html

Keep safe and well.
This will pass.