FRIDAY FOSSICKING 26th July 2024

 

GENERAL

GSQ Blog   

Why? Why? Why? Question everything and learn the full story.     Shauna Hicks

Queensland State Archives (QSA) newsletter incl. talk re "Queen of the Dancehalls: Cloudland Ballroom in Brisbane 1939-1982" 

11am-12pm Friday 2 August 2024

Queensland State Archives 435 Compton Rd, Runcorn Must Register

Other session details can be seen on initial newsletter

* Historical records / other genealogy sources: Judy Webster's indexes

 * What's New on Judy Webster's genealogy website

Outback Family History

Black Dennis – a respected man Alec from Auckland Remembers –  

Coolgardie Leidertafel & the Durston family  

Suicide, Cyanide and Scones –

Seven Best Towns in NSW

World Atlas        NSW's charming towns, from Byron Bay to Kiama, offer unique escapes with history, culture, and natural beauty for memorable visits. (Have to agree re these, but I'd like to add a few more... what would you like to add?)

Atlas Obscura

Magic Spells for Bees   Why Is Elvis So Big In Las Vegas?    14 Spots for Tea-Lovers   The People, Places, and Phenomena Keeping Austin Quirky  Galileo's Middle Finger  What’s Up With This Small Skybridge? New York  A Mile-Long Trail of Pottery Lucky Cats Japan   A Museum Dedicated to Celebrating the Humble Wingnu    California   Walk the Ruins of an Almost-Forgotten Fifth-Century Church  Cyprus  Hallowed (and Haunted) Grounds in Mineral Wells, Texas   America’s Loneliest Roads, Mapped  A Fort's Second Life A Monumental Park Heist  Can Food Become Medical Implants?   Savor Santiago’s Exciting and Evolving Homegrown Cuisine  How A Cold Case Was Solved 120 Years Later   Take a Ride On the World’s Only Rotating Boatlift  The Hotel Where Nikola Tesla Spent His Last Days Bittersweet Memories Haunt This “Church of the Dead”  A Church Destroyed In WWII Is Now a Public Garden  The Museum of Shadows 

Gastro Obscura read here 

Includes Athens- Greece,  Penang- Malaysia,   Sydney-Australia, 

Las Vegas - Nevada, Lagos - Nigeria, Santiago - Chile, Beijing - China, Houston - Texas,  Sao Miguel- Portugal...

Cemeteries

Memorial Cemetery gets historical marker year after mistakenly being sold at auction 

Harnett cemetery under fire from families wanting cleanliness - YouTube 

Marker unveiled for historic Black Cemetery - FOX 13 Tampa Bay 

'48 States Tour' for saving America's graveyards includes Boxwood on Aug. 6 | Orleans Hub

Written in stone, literally - Deccan Herald 

Russia's grave investments: Soaring cemetery expenditures amid war - MSN 

Barry's 'Letters to Loved Ones' at Merthyr Dyfan cemetery | Barry And District News

Caring for the graves of Jewish WWII soldiers, 80 years on - The Jerusalem Post 

Hudson veteran cleans gravestones of fallen soldiers - Community Advocate 

Overgrown--Council approves contract to maintain city's five cemeteries | The Northside Sun 

Crowded cemeteries raise tensions between CAR's Muslims and Christians - France 24 

City officials develop plan to harness energy from cemeteries — here's how 

Advocates begin process to include South View Cemetery on Historic Places list - Axios 

 Satellite imagery reveals extent of destruction of Commonwealth war graves in Gaza - ABC 

Russia Rushes To Expand Cemeteries Amid Rising War Casualties - Newsweek 

Oxenden Cemetery gets a Columbarium - Mitchell Advocate 

Preserving History: ERDC research aims to revive Nation's oldest West Coast Naval cemetery 

Can You Be Buried In A Jewish Cemetery With Tattoos? - Jew in the City 

'Govt. finding it tough to get land for cemeteries, playgrounds, hospitals' - The Hindu

Lost history lies in neglected Manteo cemetery - The Outer Banks Voice 

Always Interesting

SAO - OFTEN BUTTERED, NEVER BETTERED - Pauline Conolly

DOROTHY THORNE; A MOSMAN MYSTERY Pauline Conolly

A MOSMAN MYSTERY PART II – ALFRED LOCKYER Pauline Conolly

St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church: A Journey Through Time and Family History  Jenny MacKay

Geraldton’s Gothic Gem: St. Francis Xavier Cathedral and Our Family Legacy Jenny MacKay

The National Archives UK incl.

Conquest and rebellion, betrayal and murder 

Better Reading

Beyond Summerland by Jenny Lecoat  READ AN EXTRACT

Preview: The Life Impossible by Matt Haig

Preview: I Was Anastasia by Ariel Lawhon

Podcast: Jake Adelstein on Working in Japan and His Career Trajectory as a Journalist

From my blog..

That Moment in Time

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 19th July 2024, great blogs, century old gramophone returns 'home', family history month, snowflake man, crime of the century..a century late, Benjamin the library cat, Carousal of love, French historian who invented the Olympics, relics of the USS Arizona..and lots more.. Feel free to share.

https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2024/07/friday-fossicking-19th-july-2024.html

Friday Fossicking!

São Miguel

Great Blogs

Outback Family History  Black Dennis – a respected man    Coolgardie Leidertafel & the Durston family    Alec from Auckland Remembers –      Suicide, Cyanide and Scones –

Jenealogy Scrapbook   St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church: A Journey Through Time and Family History   

Humoring the Goddess  Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Francisco Goya

Pauline Conolly   WEEDA COPPER

 

Better Reading

A Year of Fresh Voices: 5 Compelling Debut Novels  READ MORE

Beyond Summerland by Jenny Lecoat    READ AN EXTRACT

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 19th July 2024

 

GENERAL

GSQ Blog 

The Neville family myth. False, true or maybe?   Bobbie Edes

Always Interesting

The ScriBbler Stella Budrikis

Historical records / other genealogy sources: Judy Webster's indexes

My Unconquerable Soul — Details | • Allyson Jeleyne 

These are the 9 places we can't wait to go eat Gastro Obscura

Century-old gramophone used by Queensland's first radio station returns to the ABC

*August is Family History Month

State Library Qld.. Family research resources at your fingertips

See all events

ATLAS OBSCURA

Meet 5 animals you’ve likely never heard of... View this email in your browser  Necropants and Other Tales of 17th-Century Icelandic Sorcery Wondrous Festivals  The Strangeness of Borders  Vermont’s ‘Snowflake Man’  An Insider’s Guide to the Wonders of Peru   Grave of Hattori Hanzō A Salt Flat Dating Back To the 19th Century Spain

This Island Fort Is Only Protecting its Ghosts Have Some Color With Your Hot Spring Water  A Skateboarding Park With Ocean Views  Indulge in the Flavors of Morocco How to Survive Without a Cell Phone Signal Inside the International Astronomical Youth Camp

Holyoke’s Frog Circus  In the Middle of Cityscapes & Forestscapes The Survival of the World’s Rarest Raptor   Relics of the USS Arizona Immerse Yourself In a Mongolian Summer Festival Hawai‘i’s Breeziest Shirt History  Bella the Beithir 21 Airport Attractions For Your Next Layover  The World’s First ‘Cold-Storage Banquet’   Benjamin the Library Cat  The Carousel of Love    9 Music Venues in Austin to Live Out Your Music Dreams  The Secret Past of Highway 42

Smithsonian

A Buried Ancient Egyptian Port Reveals the Hidden Connections Between Distant Civilizations     Meet Vivian Maier, the Reclusive Nanny Who Secretly Became One of the Best Street Photographers of the 20th Century    How Coffee Helped the Union Caffeinate Their Way to Victory in the Civil War    There’s Nowhere Better Than Southeast Montana to See History up Close   How All-Female 'Juries of Matrons' Shaped Legal History Why Ernest Hemingway's Younger Brother Established a Floating Republic in the Caribbean Meet the Forgotten Woman Who Revolutionized Microbiology With a Simple Kitchen Staple  The History of Presidential Assassination Attempts, From Andrew Jackson to Teddy Roosevelt    How the Rise of the Camera Launched a Fight to Protect Gilded Age Americans' Privacy Nine Things You Didn't Know About the Ancient Olympic Games  

Amateur Historians Unearth a Long-Lost Tudor Palace Visited by Henry VIII and Elizabeth I   The Forgotten Black Explorers Who Transformed Americans' Understanding of the Wilderness 'The Crime of the Century,' a Century Later

genealogy Ireland

 Country music legend Shania Twain presented with bespoke guitar which reveals her Irish roots 

JSTOR Daily

Building the Olympic Games The “Mexican-Hindus” of Rural California   The Stickiness of Teflon  Real Estate and the Revolution

Legal Personhood: Extending Rights to Nature?   The French Historian Who Invented the Olympics  The Barrier-Breaking Ozark Club of Great Falls, Montana

Interesting Blogs

THE BURNIE POST OFFICE ROBBERY  Pauline Conolly

AMBERGRIS – A TASMANIAN TALE   Pauline Conolly

Norman Lindsay & the Joseph Conrad  Pauline Conolly

CareyBay2283  GenieAus

Enameled and Gilded Glass from Islamic Lands 

humouringthegoddess

My First Story Empire Post!  Liz Gauffreau

and my blog...

That Moment in Time

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 19th Jul 2024, 2023 penguin Literary Prize Winner,  great blogs, August Family History Month, world wide feast, frog circus, Shania Twain discovers her Irish heritage, sneaky decoy spiders, doomed Dino museum, macabre secret of Poor Clares convent cemetery, building the Olympic Games, interesting blogs, book reviews and much more…Feel free to share..

https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2024/07/friday-fossicking-19th-jul-2024.html

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Smithsonian

A Buried Ancient Egyptian Port Reveals the Hidden Connections Between Distant Civilizations  Meet Vivian Maier, the Reclusive Nanny Who Secretly Became One of the Best Street Photographers of the 20th Century  How Coffee Helped the Union Caffeinate Their Way to Victory in the Civil War  There’s Nowhere Better Than Southeast Montana to See History up Close    How All-Female 'Juries of Matrons' Shaped Legal History   Why Ernest Hemingway's Younger Brother Established a Floating Republic in the Caribbean  Meet the Forgotten Woman Who Revolutionized Microbiology With a Simple Kitchen Staple  The History of Presidential Assassination Attempts, From Andrew Jackson to Teddy Roosevelt  How the Rise of the Camera Launched a Fight to Protect Gilded Age Americans' Privacy

Nine Things You Didn't Know About the Ancient Olympic Games    Amateur Historians Unearth a Long-Lost Tudor Palace Visited by Henry VIII and Elizabeth I  The Forgotten Black Explorers Who Transformed Americans' Understanding of the Wilderness  'The Crime of the Century,' a Century Later   Explore the Great Outdoors With Photography From U.S. National Parks   Eight Weird and Wonderful Museums in Paris  Archaeologists Stumble Upon Marble Statue of Greek God in Ancient Sewer   The Surprising History of Pad Thai   The Island Known as the Birthplace of Apollo Is Sinking  Tourist Carves His Name Into Ancient House in Pompeii  The Forgotten Black Explorers Who Transformed Americans' Understanding of the Wilderness   Five Places Where You Can Still Find Gold in the United States  The 15 Best Small Towns to Visit in 2024  This Pathbreaking South African Horseman Hands a New Generation the Reins   Leftover Ramen Broth Is Causing Problems on South Korea's Mount Halla  Indonesian Cave Painting Is Oldest-Known Visual Storytelling

JSTOR Daily

Building the Olympic Games   The “Mexican-Hindus” of Rural California  The Stickiness of Teflon  Real Estate and the Revolution    Legal Personhood: Extending Rights to Nature?  The French Historian Who Invented the Olympics  The Barrier-Breaking Ozark Club of Great Falls, Montana   

Interesting Blogs

My First Story Empire Post!   Liz Gauffreau

CareyBay2283  Geniaus

THE BURNIE POST OFFICE ROBBERY  Pauline Conolly

Norman Lindsay & the Joseph Conrad   Pauline Conolly

AMBERGRIS – A TASMANIAN TALE    Pauline Conolly

Enameled and Gilded Glass from Islamic Lands     humoringthegoddess

Penguin Books

2023 Penguin Literary Prize Winner..

Jade and Emerald Michelle See-Tho        START READING

This Kingdom of Dust   David Dyer   READ A SNIPPET

The Bright Sword    Lev Grossman    READ AN EXTRACT

What Have You Done?   Shari Lapena     CHECK IT OUT

The Forever War  Nick Bryant     START READING

From my blogs...

Confessions of a Bibliophile

“The Girl With a Violin” Shelley Davidow

If ever a book got my whole attention from beginning to end, it was ‘The Girl With the Violin”.. I loved this story.  It begins with the ambition and the longing to visit Berlin to study with a renowned musician and to find more about the demise of her Jewish grandmother. As her dream starts to become fact, the story becomes far more involved.

The whole story develops like a perfect composition of music, of frustration, of love, of self awareness.. it entices the reader to want more. Definitely a book to be reread.

https://crissoulisbookspot.blogspot.com/2024/07/the-girl-with-violin-shelley-davidow.html

and my blog..

That Moment in Time

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 12th Jul 2024, A Soldier's Tale, Margaret River Nannas, playground in a cemetery, great blogs, book reviews,

Apollo Moonprints Immortalized,  flavours of Vietnam, old world charm in Boston’s Beacon Hill, In the mood for “Fake Music”?, The French Historian Who Invented the Olympics… and so much more… Feel free to share..

https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2024/07/friday-fossicking-12th-jul-2024.html

So many books, so little time...