Friday, January 13, 2023

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 13th Jan 2023

 


Panning by S.T. Gill

* GENERAL INTEREST

TROVE is still waiting to hear if it will be funded.. it has become an essential service, not just for genealogists, but researchers, all interested in history, students, teachers, the list is endless. I don't usually do this but this is worth considering... Can you spare a few minutes? It isn't just helping me, it helps people worldwide..

EMEMORIAL newsletter incl.  Planning a visit to the Australian War Memorial? It's free, but   Book your ticket
The Australian War Memorial has acquired an artistic exchange between Afghan and Australian women, The Handkerchief Project.

QUEENSLAND STATE ARCHIVES    info@archives.qld.gov.au
newsletter incl.  Schools of Queensland album

 
 Ancestry.com  can be accessed on any computer in the Reading Room by clicking the ‘search using Ancestry’ button on the homepage.
You will then be able to search Ancestry.com for family history and genealogy information!     *Features NOT available to use include family trees, message boards or DNA.  Book your spot in the Reading Room


National Archives UK newsletter incl.  

Wanderlust Twins


OUTBACK FAMILY HISTORY


Tinteán Magazine

RECAPTURING THE IRISH SPIRIT AT EUREKA

British Espionage after The Rising

VOICES of the Irish Famine Orphan Girls to Melbourne

A Brief History of the Irish in Australia

The McCarthy who kept the Normans out of Munster

Bilingual Haiku

The Story of Early Melbourne

Maggie O’Farrell’s Latest

What’s on in January/March 2023

What's On


JSTOR Daily

Waste Not, Want Not     Remembering the Rosewood Massacre

Edgar Allan Poe (Sort of) Wrote a Book About Seashells

To the Lighthouses: A Path to Nationhood       

Julia Morgan, American Architect  Creating the “Criminal Class”

Aspymmetrical Powers: Economic and Cyber Espionage


Atlas Obscura

The ‘Witches of the Sea’   Our Favorite Abstract Wonders  

Pen Hospital India   Journey to Micronesia   Mlíko  

The Art of Science    Illinois Railway Museum  A Lost Ancient City

Mexico’s Zone of Silence  The Oracle of Delphi  Greece

A Life-Saving Feature Meow Wolf Convergence Station

Medical Clowning Program podcast Michigan’s Dancing Snow God

A Controversial Folk-Art Landmark      Obake Kaidan

El Moro Elfin Forest Natural Area   From Bacteria to Bread

Floating Forts for Birds The Lobero Golden Eagle  

Bat Bar in Lost Canyon Cave  Arizona’s Striking Natural Wonders

The Hidden Rules of Puritan Dressing   Saint Olaf's Church Estonia

The Brewing Brides   Paparajotes Spain    Where Is ‘Y’all’ From?

A Tour of Mouth-Numbing Spices     Geoffrey Chaucer Statue     

The Sunken Gardens    The Era of Automat Restaurants

Aungier Street Lidl Archaeology   The Tree That Owns Itself

Missouri’s Great Escaped Snake Scare 


Irish Genealogy

Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon discovered to have hidden Cork rootsIrish Family History Forum - Mid-Island Times    

Celebrating Bruce Springsteen's Irish roots with a native tree in Ireland

 David Bowie's Irish links: music, art, literature and Tipperary - RTE 

Ireland's population to top 6 million by 2050, study reveals - IrishCentral 

Ancient bones, teeth found in shipwreck burial ground help explain genetic ancestry of ... 

These are the most popular names for newborns in Ireland - IrishCentral 

Study: British And Irish Ancestry Present In Scandinavia Due To Viking Raids And Slavery Practices

WATCH: Forgotten Ireland, captured on 16mm film 70 years ago - IrishCentral 



ALWAYS INTERESTING


Judith Salecich Snow angels in Cottbus: The reunion (Part 1)

humoringthegoddess Unusual Rugs Davide Salvadore

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Bonsai Trees    Edas Wong

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Anna Berezovskaya

Always Fine Tuning   Faerie Paths — Peacocks

Anne Young Hugh Lyons Montgomery Beggs (1815 – 1885)

Beggs family visit to Ireland   

A boshter and other postcards from Bob Whiteman to Jack Young

Trove Tuesday: fire at Barrington

200 years since the arrival of the Taylor family on the Princess Charlotte

allenrizzi   Who Gets Your Stuff?   The Camp At Lost Creek

Before Bernadette The Story of ... Susan Mary McCane

The Legal Genealogist Those spreading genes  Kids these days…

Dreams and Adventures at Cosy Cottage New Year Resolutions for 2023   Books – WWW Wednesdays

Samantha Elley Father gunned down by notorious bushranger

Pauline THE STONY RISE QUARRY

Gerry Bolton Great Uncle Sydney

Amy Time for A Break



[Records-Access-Alerts] (European Union) 

Meta's Ad Practices Ruled Illegal Under EU Law   

The Irish Data Protection Commission ruled on January 4, 2023  against Meta’s (parent of Facebook and Instagram) advertising business after they found it had illegally forced users to accept personalized ads. Meta was fined 390 million euros ($414 million). This decision may  require Meta to make costly changes to its advertising-base business in the European Union (EU).  The Irish regulator serves as its main regulator in the European Union as its headquarters are in Dublin, Ireland. 

Full article here..


GS Public Records Access Alert <records-access-alerts@iajgs.org>
Subject: [Records-Access-Alerts] (US-NY) New York State Residents May Now Chose Gender "X" on Their Birth, Marriage and Death Certificates

For more information about birth, death and marriage certificates, please visit the State Health Department's website here.(https://health.ny.gov/vital_records/birth.htm).

To read the announcement see:

https://health.ny.gov/press/releases/2023/2023-01-09_x_gender.htm

 


Reviews

Theresa Smith


The Week That Was…

Book Review: When I First Held You by Anstey Harris


Better Reading


Book of the Week: The Summer Party by Rebecca Heath     READ MORE


The Homecoming by Alison Stuart    READ MORE


Podcast: Fiona Palmer on the Town that Inspired The Wrong Sister


Podcast: Behrouz Boochani on his 6 years on Manus Island


Podcast: Nikki Crutchley on Why Psychological Thrillers Need a Killer Setting


and from my blogs..


That Moment in Time


Friday Fossicking 6th Jan 2023, FRIDAY FOSSICKING  6th Jan 2023, a bumper edition….FREE 3 day pass RootsTech 2023, new records, historical dance, Christmas traditions, Irish news.. great blogs, book reviews, witch grave, Helen Mirren family ancestry, threats to Trove’s funding, US genealogy records fees rise, puzzles and crossword, nerdiest restaurants and bars..and so much more…

Feel free to share, the title is the link…


https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2023/01/friday-fossicking-6th-jan-2023.html


HEADLINES OF OLD


SHIPPING LISTS   Trove Tuesday 10th Jan 2023, various lists/ships/details of journeys.. some links for further info. TROVE has lists from newspapers as well as gazettes… you never know where your ancestors went to, and sometimes where they came from…

Feel free to share, the title is the link…


https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2023/01/shipping-lists-trove-tuesday-10th-jan.html

Stay safe and well.
This will pass.


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Friday, January 6, 2023

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 6th Jan 2023





Panning by S.T. Gill



* GENERAL INTEREST

Happy New Year to all ... I do hope you all had a great Christmas and New Year... May 2023 be full of great surprises, good health, love and laughter!


Some of these items some of you may have seen, however, there will be many others who haven't, so please bear with me. 



Hand-sewn, 108-year-old christening gown worn by four generations across six countries - ABC News


John Grenham Grief and genealogy and The Lost Words


DESPATCH.. newsletter of Public Record Office Victoria

 New year, new records to explore  Attention Ballarat researchers


  Land records of historical significance


  Fierce & romantic: Annie Holt & her Melbourne matrimonial agency

  

 Upcoming event at the Victorian Archives Centre  Book Now


* Dancing in Fetters exhibition | Australian Historical Dance

Tour Dates coming to a place near you?

Dancing in Fetters: the culture of convict dance is a museum exhibition presenting the lost heritage of convict dance and music. It re-traces the origins of this largely unknown aspect of life in the early penal colony based on the doctoral research of Dr Heather Blasdale Clarke into convict culture of the years 1788-1840

The national tour will travel to venues in five states and territories across Australia with significant links to convict life. This project has been assisted by the Australia Government’s  Visions of Australia funding. Thanks is extended to partners the Abbey Museum of Art & Archaeology and Bush Traditions Inc.

National Archives Australia

On now in Canberra! Explore 28 stories of social change in Australia.


Read the whole notice re various exhibitions here


Wanderlust Twins

Outback Family History

JSTOR Daily


Atlas Obscura
Zavikon Island known for?  

Irish Genealogy

Clare History: The changing ruling class in Sixmilebridge and the impact they left on the community, 1650-1900 by Jayme Keogh


ALWAYS INTERESTING




The Legal Genealogist The laws of Christmas: 2022 reprise   
Welcome to 1927! Yes, that's correct..   Rules of my road: 2023


Gerry Bolton Granny Allsworth




KindredPast Looking Forward

Lonetester HQ  

Recent Articles:  I’m still here …    The Road to Gumeracha


crgalvin  Read and Listed in 2022    A year of books

 * [Records-Access-Alerts] (Australia) National Library Threatening to Pull Plug as Trove's Funding Runs Out


[Records-Access-Alerts] (US) USCIS Proposes Fees Increases Including 54% and 85% Increases for Genealogy Records Searches and Requests
The United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS), a branch of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), has proposed some fee increases and they do affect the genealogy program. The genealogy program currently is at $65.00 for the Genealogy Index Search Request (G-1041) and Genealogy Records Request fee (Form G-1041A) and a hard copy once you know the record number for another $65.00.

Reviews

Theresa Smith








and from my blogs....

That Moment in Time


FRIDAY FOSSICKING 23rd December 2022, Christmas memories, secrets of ancient Egypt, ride in historic carriages, Christmas markets, what do Irish expats miss?, be paid to move to Italian town, un-merry Christmas, world’s largest ball of paint, explosive winter punch, trailblazing women, palm tree sham, 100 greatest films of all time.. and much more..

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

However you celebrate Christmas, may you be healthy, happy and content.. 

Thank you for your ongoing support. Friday Fossicking is taking a break and will return January 6th, 2023. 


https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2022/12/friday-fossicking-23rd-december-2022.html


HEADLINES OF OLD



UNCLAIMED LETTERS...Trove Tuesday 3 Jan 2023, selection from 1842-1912, various states.. These letters can’t be claimed now, but they may give a clue was to where your ancestors were at one time. Enjoy…

May the New Year be kind to us all…


https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2023/01/unclaimed-letterstrove-tuesday-3-jan.html


Stay safe and well.
This will pass.


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