Friday, November 1, 2024

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 1st Nov 2024



GENERAL

GSQ Blog
Di Edelman

What is Connections 2025?      Fran Kitto (TravelGenee)

Outback Family History

The National Archives UK

ATLAS OBSCURA

JSTOR Daily
 
Genealogy Ireland

Irish Pioneers in Australia


CEMETERIES
Tomb reader | The Monthly    Army releases report on Trump camp's Arlington cemetery altercation - POLITICO    Explore the life that exists in Wyndham Cemetery in free science event - About Regional  Backyard Naturalist: Brett Amy Thelen – Cemeteries are a favorite haunt  Would You Party at the Cemetery Where You'll be Buried? - House Beautiful    Seven Cemeteries Star Maria Canals-Barrera Dishes on Doing Horror & Dora the Explorer | Interview   Planned bill will address burial, cemetery issues - ERR News   Abandoned Cemeteries Lurking Just Beneath the Surface | News | mdjonline.com  Decatur leaders hope to take ownership of 2 historic cemeteries - WAFF   The Complicated Ecology of Cemeteries - Sierra Club  Worcester County's cemeteries tell stories, history  Immortal Lichen Growing on Gravestones in Cemeteries Never Ages - Atlas Obscura   Record-breaking 'Cemetery of the Year' win for Thornhill Cemetery - Cardiff Newsroom  Exploring Père-Lachaise cemetery and the 20th arrondissement • FRANCE 24 - YouTube   Interview: Danny Trejo Talks Seven Cemeteries, His Positive Outlook on Life - Yahoo     Restless spirits in Austin: Oakwood Cemetery tour revives murder victims for Halloween  The disquieting stones: Stories await visitors in Worcester County's cemeteries   Family: I tried to solve a mystery about my grandfather. Then I made a stunning discovery.  Cologne cemetery mystery: 15-year project identifies burial records - FOX 9
Hometown Horror Stories: Holt Cemetery - YouTube  GRAVE SITUATION (Historic cemetery video) - UM-Flint NOW  Family of fallen soldier told to take down headstone because it has a cross on it  Take Your Picnic to the Graveyard - Eater   New Louisiana historic cemeteries database website taking nominations for sites   Broxtowe: Families angry over plan to remove grave mementos - BBC News Database helping identify and preserve Louisiana's historic cemeteries - MSN   Repairs completed at UPR soldiers' cemetery in western Poland - Ukrinform   Cemetery Tales: The farmer and a self-appointed king - CDCR   2,000 cops to secure Cebu City cemeteries on Kalagkalag 2024  Enfield Memorial Park: Grave danger for Adelaide cemetery sites | The Advertiser Graves burnt in cemetery after bushfire at Fitzroy Crossing - ABC News   Restoring Williamson County's lost cemeteries   This New York City Park Was Built on Top of a Cemetery - Smithsonian Magazine   Families, communities clean up tombs, cemeteries for Undas 2024 - Inquirer.net  Removing Moss and Grime From Gravestones, She Reveals Forgotten History  Historic Hanna's Town cemeteries: some history revealed, some buried forever   Egypt's Culture Minister Orders Halt of Historic Imam Al-Shafi'i Cemetery Demolition  Cleveland Buried History Days: Events at 5 historic cemeteries - MSN Cemeteries no longer just for the dead: Spaces have a new life of their own - USA Today   Why Visiting Cemeteries Is Good for You - The Stranger  Shining a light on Milltown and City Cemeteries - Belfast Media   Oldest cemetery in Minneapolis has some stone-cold stories to tell - Star Tribune  Sacramento family searches for grandparents' graves after Catholic cemetery moves remains  Graveyards dot this town. Its 'Cemetery Troopers' are repairing them. - Washington Post  Paris: everything you need to know about the opening of cemeteries for All Saints' Day   Antique town residents rush to clean cemeteries - Philippine News Agency 

Smithsonian 
These Rare Artifacts Tell Medieval Women's Stories in Their Own Words  Shipwreck Hunters Find Lost World War II-Era Submarine That Vanished With 64 Crew Members Onboard   An Ice Age Infant’s 17,000-Year-Old DNA Reveals He Had Dark Skin and Blue Eyes  When the Nazis Seized Power, This Jewish Actor Took on the Role of His Life    Discover the Mysteries of Italy's Park of Monsters, a 16th-Century Garden Filled With Strange, Colossal Stone Creatures  How Recovering the History of a Little-Known Lakota Massacre Could Heal Generational Pain The Enterprising Woman Who Built—and Lost, and Rebuilt—a Booming Empire During the Klondike Gold Rush  The History of Trick-or-Treating Goes Back Centuries     Archaeologists Map Two Forgotten Medieval Cities That Flourished Along the Silk Road in the Mountains of Central Asia  Amateur Historian Discovers Lost Story by 'Dracula' Author Bram Stoker Hiding in Plain Sight at a Dublin Library  This Savvy Librarian Was the True Force Behind New York’s Iconic Morgan Library

Interesting Libraries

Always Interesting

Pauline Conolly

Humoring the Goddess

Liz Gauffreau

Jenny MacKay

Anne Young


BETTER READING

PENGUIN BOOKS Australia
In Too Deep  Andrew Child    TAKE ME THERE
The Message  Ta-Nehisi Coates  CHECK IT OUT
Hot Mess     Jeff Kinney HAVE A LOOK


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FRIDAY FOSSICKING 25th October 2024 Bumper issue, Irish genealogy, vampire plagued family, Princess Centipede, great blogs, Trove Treasures, park of wooden trolls, mutiny of the Gayundah, underwater ‘waterfall’, forgotten soul cakes, 30 ghosts haunt a church, Zelda Fitzgerald on F. Scott’s writing, family alone for 40 years..unaware of moon landing, etc., interesting libraries, book reviews, historic graves and so much more…

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Friday, October 25, 2024

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 25th October 2024





GENERAL

GSQ Blog  My connection to ‘The Valley’ from the late 1850s.  Christine Leonard

Outback Family History

Queensland State Archives

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The National Archives UK newsletter 

incl. Walking through archived colonial histories   SAS Daggers Drawn   Agent Zo    Leave no story behind...... 

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Atlas Obscura

How Algae Revealed Ancient Earthquakes in Croatia   Evil Repellents   The Bell Witch   A Lost, Terrifying Show  Dive Into An Underwater ‘Waterfall’   Wow, That’s One Twisted Boat   Can You Find All the Wooden Trolls In This Park?    The World’s Only Remaining Wind-Powered Paper Mill  Soak Up the Beauty of Santa Rita Hot Springs

Is This Galveston’s Most Iconic Building? The Curse of the Stolen Amethyst  An Occult Imposter Forgotten Soul Cakes All Fear the Tomato  Decoding Ancient Egyptian Tombstones   How an Aqueduct Saved a Mexican Town   Step Inside the World’s Oldest Norman Crypt  These Graves Remember a Vampire-Plagued Family   To See Dinos, Visit This Schoolteacher’s Front Yard   A Magical Town Between the Mountains and the Sea  The Show Always Goes On At The Grand 1894 Opera House   Meet Spring-Heeled Jack  Step Back In Time to the 16th Century     Inside Buckminster Fuller’s Dome Home   Where an Arctic Museum Meets an Ancient Settlement     The 10th-Century Monastery Hiding In Plain Sight The Forbidden Forest Rumored to Spirit Visitors Away   Did This Castle Drive Vlad the Impaler Mad?  This Chapel is Home to Marvelous Medical Sculptures  Explore 100 Years of Curiosities For Sale in Seattle  Real Zombies and Body Snatchers Live Among Us   Autumn Trails Iconic Cemeteries  Our New Family Trip To Egypt!  Thirty Ghosts Haunt This Church  The Castle Where Dracula Was Allegedly Imprisoned  "Only The Dead Get Off At Kymlinge”  Do Not Stay Inside This Extremely Cursed House Where Have All the Vaqueros Gone? The Modern Legend of the Black-Eyed Children Disappearing Traditions The Case of the Mummy Smugglers  Behold, the World’s Largest Aloe Statue Uh, Who Assembled This Unicorn? Here Lies Jack O’Legs, a Robin Hood-esque Mythical Giant  Hundreds of Decomposing Dolls Hang Here  Discover the History Hiding Beneath the Surface of Los Cabos 

10 Festivals That Capture the Spirit of Galveston  Do You Recognize These Iconic Characters?   This Is Where The Feared "Princess Centipede" Is Buried   Can You Find All 1,000 Ghosts Lurking at the York Ghost Merchants?   The Hotel Housing Hollywood, Politicians, and Ghosts   Surreal Teahouses Rise Out Of The Trees  Remember the Fight Over ‘Haunted Lane’?   Here Lies The Man Who Invented the Ouija Board   Guess How Many Mannequins Make Up This Mountain?

 JStor Daily

The Genocide Before the Shoah  Zelda Fitzgerald on F. Scott's Writing   Archimedes Rediscovered: Technology and Ancient History     When “Traditional” Religion Shakes Up Gender Roles   Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Lust  Carry On, Karaoke   Celebrating Indigenous Peoples and Cultures 

Trove Treasures

To read full issue here  e.g. First Australian Maps Explore the collection     Haunted Buildings    Here Comes the Brides

Genealogy Ireland

 GEORGE MEMORIAL LIBRARY TO HOST GENEALOGY LOCK-IN FOR FAMILY-HISTORY MONTH 

Find your family history online - Ireland's 1926 Census is being digitized - PressReader

DNA Journey With Ancestry Sarah Parish and James Nesbitt - Love Ballymena 

Homecoming celebrations create great excitement | KillarneyToday.com 

Smithsonian Magazine

This Russian Family Lived Alone in the Siberian Wilderness for 40 Years, Unaware of World War II or the Moon Landing    

A Secret Sculpture Built for John F. Kennedy's Grave Vanished in the 1970s. Half a Century Later, the Mystery Has Been Solved

The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis Triggered the Worst Shark Attack in History 

Inside Disney's Controversial Plan to Open a Theme Park Inspired by American History

The Real Story Behind 'Saturday Night,' the Movie About the Television Show That Changed Comedy Forever

Archaeologists Discover Intricately Decorated Coffins Belonging to the Only Daughter of an Ancient Egyptian Governor 

How Captain George Vancouver Mapped and Shaped the Modern Pacific Northwest 

Why a Minnesota Man Walked Around the World, Traversing 13 Countries and 14,450 Miles in Four Years

Students Stumble Upon a Message in a Bottle Written by a French Archaeologist 200 Years Ago 

This Defeated Presidential Candidate, Once the 'Best-Known Man in America,' Died in a Sanatorium Less Than a Month After Losing the Election

How Artists, Writers and Scientists of the Past Documented Climate Change

See a Newly Uncovered Throne Room in Peru That May Have Belonged to an Ancient Queen

Van Gogh Painted Some of His Most Breathtaking Works During His Two Years in the South of France

What It's Like to Experience Polar Night in the World's Northernmost Town 

Archaeologists Discover Mysterious Jade Dragon Artifact at a 5,000-Year-Old Tomb in China 

This Park Recreates Vincent van Gogh's 'The Starry Night' With a Dazzling Display of Plants, Trees and Winding Pathways 

Meet the Italian 'Fruit Detective' Who Investigates Centuries-Old Paintings for Clues About Produce That Has Disappeared From the Kitchen Table 

See the Vatican's Magnificent Marble Statue of the Greek God Apollo Restored to Its Former Glory 

This Savvy Librarian Was the True Force Behind New York’s Iconic Morgan Library 

Archaeologists in Petra Discover Secret Tomb Hiding Beneath a Mysterious Structure Featured in 'Indiana Jones' 

How Captain George Vancouver Mapped and Shaped the Modern Pacific Northwest 

This Russian Family Lived Alone in the Siberian Wilderness for 40 Years, Unaware of World War II or the Moon Landing 

A Secret Sculpture Built for John F. Kennedy's Grave Vanished in the 1970s. Half a Century Later, the Mystery Has Been Solved 

The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis Triggered the Worst Shark Attack in History

Inside Disney's Controversial Plan to Open a Theme Park Inspired by American History 

The Real Story Behind 'Saturday Night,' the Movie About the Television Show That Changed Comedy Forever

Archaeologists Discover Intricately Decorated Coffins Belonging to the Only Daughter of an Ancient Egyptian Governor

Interesting Libraries

University Libraries Unveils Special Collections Item of the Month - SM2      The New Jersey Literary Road Trip Leads to 7 Incredible Bookstores and Libraries   New Castle representative resigns from Garfield County library board - Post Independent  It is intended to establish 12 mini-libraries in 12 neighborhoods of Pristina - Telegrafi

The collection of over a million books, in the most modern library in the world  'The library needs to become even more of a student's building' | DUB    Life from the Stacks: Dive into Autumn Fun at the Garberville Library - Redheaded Blackbelt

Cemeteries

Volunteer at VA National Cemeteries      OPINION | BCM's repetitive response to state of cemeteries disgraceful - Daily Dispatch   Tusten cemeteries: Who's buried there? - The River Reporter     Kāpiti council plans for future cemetery space - Inside Government NZ     “We're All Dead!” - Danny Trejo on Seven Cemeteries - CBR   Accused firebug Tianna Addison Diodato Day refused bail over arson attacks | The West Australian   How Modern Technology Is Helping to Locate Long-Forgotten Graves   The Death Issue: Stories of Pets Memorialized in Pet Cemeteries Across Greater Cincinnati  'Spirits of the Silent City' brings the dead to life at Milwaukee's Forest Home Cemetery  10 historic graveyards to visit - PressReader   Franklin community removes historical dividing fence at Owensville Cemetery - KXXV   Weymouth: Grieving relatives 'angry' over graveyard grass - BBC   Calvary Cemetery an honorable resting place for fetal remains - Catholic Star Herald    Pinch of Salt: Long Beach cemeteries come to life for annual day of stories - Press Telegram   As taxes spread thin, Michigan communities get creative with cemeteries    Bruno Zappavigna | Catholic Cemeteries & Funeral Services - Archdiocese of Toronto   This Denver area was once a Freemason cemetery, so why was it abandoned? - KDVR   St. Louis County cemetery to honor the long forgotten by finding graves with radar - STLPR  A Window on the Past: Old Settlers Cemetery history, and lecture Tuesday about gravestone    Interview With John Gulager, Director Of 'Seven Cemeteries' - PopHorror   Trenton's Mercer Cemetery To Hold Free Training Workshop on Gravestone Repair  Some cemeteries damaged, flooded due ahead of Undas | GMA News Online    Could old graves be reused to make up for burial space shortages? - BBC News Mansfield cemeteries join forces for cleanup   Grandma's birthplace was Australia, yet she was a Louisiana native. Was Australia in La.? Westlock County has sufficient cemetery capacity for 30 years - Athabasca Advocate  Deep Cleaning Project Reveals Hidden Treasures of History at Kolkata's South Park Street Cemetery  Is this really London's most haunted borough? - TimeOut Lifelines: The remaining question after death | Michigan | cnhinews.com  People get the chance to tour the oldest established cemetery in Beaumont - YouTube   Cemetery explorer and filmmaker has a new take on graves - The Huntington News   Cemeteries are hallowed ground—until RAGBRAI comes to town - Bleeding Heartland  SPOOKY SEASON: Alabama's oldest cemeteries (+ their most famous decendants!)

Interesting Blogs

Pauline Conolly     Flora Drennan; the Sydney Sprinter.

Anne Young  Serendipity

Humoring the Goddess  Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Richard Mayhew   Michael Boroniec  Being Bored is Never a Problem — 24 Hours Is   Faerie Paths — Lost    Otto Dix  Things I Learned Hanging With “the Guys”  Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Dale Dunning

Faerie Paths — Paintings  Bubun   Going With the Guys   Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Holly Coulis

Elizabeth Gauffreau  A Noble Bargain by Jan Sikes: Blog Tour Stop #3 :  #historicalfiction #sawmill #smalltown #moonshine #abuse #baseball #woodywagon #arkansas #missouri

TextileRanger  ScrapHappy October 2024 — A Quick and Easy Group Quilt Project

Brotmanblog: A Family Journey Albert Rothschild’s Family 1915-1920: Loss and Survival

Better Reading

Head for the Hills by Tricia Stringer     READ MORE

The Booklover’s Library by Madeline Martin   READ MORE

Christmas at Hogwarts by J.K. Rowling, Illustrated by Ziyi Gao    READ MORE

I Was Anastasia by Ariel Lawhon  READ MORE

PODCAST: Nick Bryant on The Complex Interplay Between Politics and Society In The U.S.A.

Penguin Books

Sonny Boy Al Pacino memoir  READ A SNIPPET

Your Celestial Compass  Natasha Weber START READING

What Does It Feel Like? Sophie Kinsella    CHECK IT OUT

Stories from the Otto Bin Empire   Judy Nunn

Theresa Smith Writes

Book Review: Sandwich by Catherine Newman

Book Review: Into the Storm by Cecelia Ahern

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FRIDAY FOSSICKING 18th Oct 2024, 10 places for pancake lovers, great blogs..., Japanese Demons,Tinteán Magazine, Legend of vanishing hitchhiker, Bye Bye Russian Gas, GSQ Blog, how to read illegible text, 300 year old cottage decorated with shells, Netherlands returned stolen artifacts to Indonesia, Russia running out of cemeteries, “Little Libraries” restocked, movie night at the cemetery, haunting lighthouses and so much more… 

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