Friday, October 11, 2024

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 11th Oct 2024

 


GENERAL

GSQ Blog

"Discover the historical events that led Salisbury to become one of Australiaʼs largest contributors to industry and manufacturing in the Second World War." extract...

National Library of Australia newsletter incl. Spring has sprung at the Library  Trends through time in Trove and much more..

DESPATCH.. newsletter  Public Record Office, Vic. Aust.

Records recently added include Children's Court registers, mining tenement files, etc.

Learn more and find links in the latest 'what's new' blog.

Watch 'the past is your future'.  media@prov.vic.gov.au

Outback Family History

The National Archives U.K.
Atlas Obscura
Where The Zodiacs Are Depicted as Majestic Stone Gods Remembering The Girl Who Repelled Invaders With An Axe   Celebrating the Birthplace of Clara Barton  The House Where An Exiled Asante King Once Lived     You Can Sail This Rare 19th-Century Ship   How Chain Restaurants Use Smells to Entice Us    The Marketing of American Food Traditions  Séance Room at Muriel's Jackson Square  FEAST on Colorado’s Innovative Food Scene   A Halloween Love Ritual   The Menster Christmas Cookie Gravestone   The Martin Hotel   ‘People Pot Pies’   The Video Game With Ancient Roots Cemetery Symbolism  Nosferatu’s Bloody Legacy   Haunted House Tales  Introducing Wow in the World Family Tours!    The Station Godzilla Visited And Destroyed   A Tragic Stone Maiden Watches Over This Street  Take a Moment to Smell the Award-Winning Flowers    Would You Live Inside “The Camemberts”?     Where Book Lovers Shop in Ann Arbor  Uncover the Magic of Colorado  Skrímslasetrið.. Iceland, The Father of Coney Island Hot Dogs Rests Like a KingThis Gravestone Adds Insult to Injury,  Is a Screaming Spirit Trapped Inside This Tunnel?Monsters Take to the Street in Japan  Imagine ‘Dracula’ Swooping Down On You  Monsters In Indigenous Folklore,  Inside the Edward Gorey House,  Wild Travel Tales, Meet the Unsung Hero of Juneteenth,  Marvel at the World’s Largest Jellyfish Collection,   All Hail the Green Onions In This Museum! ,   How Did a 19th-Century Ship End Up In a Neighborhood?,  Explore The ‘Dragon Stones’, a Hidden Mini-StonehengeRemember That “Impossible” Quest for the Golden Owl?

JSTOR DAILY

CEMETERIES

Genealogy Ireland

Interesting Libraries

Great Blogs
Humoring the Goddess  Faerie Paths — Hummingbirds

Penguin Books Australia
The Fallen Woman   Fiona McIntosh    START READING
Odyssey          Stephen Fry                          CHECK IT OUT
Following the Moon   James Norbury     TAKE ME THERE
The Night We Lost Him     Laura Dave     HAVE A LOOK
MACCA        Mackenzie Arnold       START READING
Murder Island   James Patterson         CHECK IT OUT
The Blue Hour   Paula Hawkins        READ A SNIPPET

Better Reading



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Theresa Smith Writes   


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That Moment in Time


FRIDAY FOSSICKING 4th Oct 2024, Shades of the Past, Brisbane Portrait Pirie, battle against malaria, Kytherians of Inverell, genealogy Ireland, world's best pizza?, libraries infested with bats, haunted house tales, cemeteries turned into solar farms, 11 yr old boy’s great find, great blogs, great reading listed, Nebraska reptile month.. and so much more…

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Friday, October 4, 2024

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 4th Oct 2024

 


GENERAL


04 Jul 1974 - SHADES OF THE PAST - Trove Stan Miles..Urunga, NSW
STATE LIBRARY of Qld
Read whole newsletter here
ORANGE CITY COUNCIL, NSW
Includes...
Archibald Prize opens at Orange Regional Gallery
Council trials combustable wrap     New ANZAC Playground Opens 

NATIONAL ARCHIVES UK newsletter incl.

OUTBACK FAMILY HISTORY

INVERELL, N.S.W.  Kytherians of Inverell

ELTHAM DISTRICT HISTORICAL SOCIETY
JSTOR Daily
 
SMITHSONIAN

ATLAS OBSCURA

CEMETERIES


INTERESTING LIBRARIES

ALWAYS INTERESTING
Pauline Conolly     ULVERSTONE’S LA DONNA, AKA LORNA DOONE    
Dreams and Adventures at Cosy Cottage New Girls in Town – Part II

Allen & Unwin     
The Valley  Chris Hammer
Things Will Calm Down Soon Zoe Foster Blake
The Waiting   Michael Connelly
Rapture Emily Macguire
Murdle Australia G.T. Karber
The Deal Alex Miller

Penguin Books Australia
Juice Tim Winton (Watch the trailer.)   Start reading

and from my blog..

That Moment in Time


FRIDAY FOSSICKING 27th Sept. 2024, tracing merchant seamen, lonely cemetery, interesting libraries, Irish genealogy, New York's slavery history, world's 1st pet cemetery, great blogs, book reviews, 

Hidden history of tomb robbing, rats preserving history, literally elevated eateries, America’s grandest gas stations, convict ship W.A.  and so much more…


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