FRIDAY FOSSICKING 22nd Oct 2021

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

* GENERAL INTEREST

National Library of Australia...  Life's A Picnic    Research Guides

3 simple and fun ways to make seed balls for your garden - 

YouTube

GSQ Blog  Two Weddings Meg Carney

The story behind Bourke Street's Legend Café - Neos Kosmos

The 54th Issue (Autumn 2021) of Irish Lives Remembered is now available Free download

Clare History: I.R.A. Volunteers in County Clare, 1916-1925 Clare Library 

Volcanoes       humoringthegoddess  Incredible photos

Outback Family History

Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales – 17 October 2021       

Wally Davis – a life well lived Cecil Thomas Collins – grave tales 

Francis Patrick Joseph Moran – pioneer profile    

The Men Who Passed Through – Part 1

Find My Past

National School Admission Registers  Halifax, Yorkshire   

Search all newspapers    Trace Yorkshire roots   Old school photos

Cheeky test answers

JStor Daily

Magnetism Can Reveal Levels of Local Air Pollution       

Will We Lose Fall Foliage to Climate Change?

How Women Singers Subverted Tango's Masculinity

Anglo-Celtic Connections

Family Tree Magazine: November 2021

Irish Emigration Lists, 1833-1839   Sunday Sundries   

Military Monday: Tyne Cot Cemetery and more

Family Search Blog

6 Online Journals to Make Journaling Easier  

Meet Elaine Hasleton—Daughter of Norway

Atlas Obscura

Bug Nightmares        Canada’s Mountainside Teahouses   

Abandoned Eurostar Train    Halloween Through The Years

Local Lore     Recreating 18th-Century Recipes     Foresthill Bridge   

A Demon Wall    Fortune-Telling Cakes     The Old Apple Warehouse 

Wheat’s Evil Twin  Korovai Ukraine wedding bread

Grave of Florence Irene Ford  Two Princes Staircase  Wind Telephone

Chimney Sweep ‘Mafia’     Durham's Hidden Dinosaur    

Writing Historical Nonfiction    Turning Back Time 

Move Over, Haunted Houses   Casa Grande Neon Sign Park

Shock! Horror! Action!  Rediscovering Moorish Spain’s Cuisine

Ancient Korea’s ‘Moon Castle’     The World’s Quietest Room 

Gustave Whitehead Fountain Magic, Mystery, and Masterpieces

Ikkoku Bridge Stone Marker for Lost Children

Himmelsweiher (Sky Ponds)     Egyptian Egg Ovens   

The Great Whip Spider Boom    Unique Candy Stores

Poor Clares Convent Cemetery  A Mummy Mystery

Family Search Blog

An Introduction to All Souls’ Day: Family History’s Favorite Holiday

Smithsonian

Sparta Was Much More Than an Army of Super Warriors

The True History Behind 'The Last Duel'

Entrance Gate to Greek Temple of Zeus Unearthed in Turkey

Mass Graves of 13th-Century Crusaders Reveal Brutality of Medieval Warfare

Who Is the Enslaved Child in This Portrait of Yale University's Namesake?

Trove of Unseen Photos Documents Indigenous Culture in 1920s Alaska

Life-Size Camel Sculptures in Saudi Arabia Are Older Than Stonehenge, Pyramids of Giza

X-Ray Technology Reveals Marie Antoinette's Censored Secret Correspondence

ALWAYS INTERESTING

The Gentle Author

The Tragical Death Of An Apple Pie    Barbara Jezewska, Teacher  

Looking Down On Old London   Rodney Holt, Designer & Set Builder

At Gardners’ Bags  In The Orchards Of Kent

Eltham District Historical Society

Little Eltham Heritage Walk

allenrizzi

Rosie – Certainly An Original   Graduations

Humoring the Goddess

When Is Your Best Not Your Best?     Artists Are Pouring In!    

Just In Case You Wondered …    Faerie Paths — Cats

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Tia Crystal    Olaf Wieghorst horses

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Ellen Jewett

Brotmanblog: A Family Journey

Salomon Blumenfeld: My Cousin in Spain    

The Irish Story

Perceptions of Richard J. Daley: Ireland and Irish America

Pauline Connolly

BIRDS – THE EYES HAVE IT!  

ROYAL WEDDING GIFTS FROM DOWN-UNDER

FITZGERALD’S ON COLLINS ST.

Genea-Musings

Genealogy News and Education Bytes -- Friday, 15 October 2021

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Your Best "Genealogy Find" This Week (or Month)

Best of the Genea-Blogs - Week of 10 to 16 October 2021

Genealogy Pot-Pourri - Week Ending 18 October 2021

Genealogy News and Education Bytes -- Tuesday, 19 October 2021

The Legal Genealogist

Recharging batteries

Stair na hÉireann

#OTD in Irish History | 18 October:

Dreams and Adventures at Cosy Cottage

A trip to Butterfly World

The Frugal Family Historian

Putting the Pieces of the Puzzle Together

Elizabeth Gauffreau

Another Writing First: Horror?

* IRISH CENTRAL

Genealogists share tips on how to pinpoint where your ancestors lived in Ireland

Donegal beach wins National Geographic photo competition

Newgrange's magical Winter Solstice event to be live streamed again this year

Irish man up for "Ride of the Year" after surfing behemoth wave off Sligo

New York's Irish Repertory Theatre opens its doors again

Dublin neighborhood ranked 15th coolest in the world

WATCH: Scottish man slammed for "stupid" selfie stunt at Giant's Causeway

LISTEN: Irish podcasts to listen to during cozy fall evenings

Casting a cold eye on how Ireland deals with death

The first "Fungie Day" a huge success in the town of Dingle, County Kerry

What baby names were most popular in Ireland a century ago?

More than 300 pubs in Ireland have closed since start of the pandemic

President of Ireland pays tribute to late Irish poet Brendan Kennelly

Celebrated Irish language poet Máire Mhac an tSaoi dies aged 99

History rewritten: DNA evidence shows Vikings weren’t all Scandinavian, some were Irish 

Authentic thatched cottage and old village cinema up for grabs in Galway

New Irish event celebrates historical Wicklow's Wonder Women

Halloween, an Irish gift to the world 

* INTERESTING BLOGS

Coping With The Six Letter Word – Cancer (Part 3)    allenrizzi

Preserving family history | Anne's Family History

NaNoWriM 2021 Writing Challenge  Dreams and Adventures at Cosy Cottage

Major William Duff 1754 – 1795 Anne Young

F is for FAMILY. 14 William Street, Port Fairy (Belfast), Victoria. Historical Fiction based on fact. Family Tapestry

Reviews

Theresa Smith

The Week That Was…

Book Review: Wild Abandon by Emily Bitto

Book Review: The Hush by Sara Foster

Better Reading

Book of the Week:  Echoes of War by Tania Blanchard READ MORE

The Devil's Work by Garry Linnell     READ MORE

Daughter of the Hunter Valley by Paula J. Beavan   READ MORE

Over My Dead Body by Jeffrey Archer   READ MORE

Podcast: Judy Nunn on Writing, Theatre and Showbusiness

Podcast: John Safran on the Smoking Epidemic and the Rise of Vaping

and from my blogs...

That Moment In Time

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 15th Oct 2021, Demon Core, The Elusive Fenian, secret history of Australian censorship, Moreton Bay penal records, Tony Bennett with Lady Gaga, Boggo Road Women’s Prison 1903, Scotland-Edinburgh Apprentices 1588-1800, Keep a Gratitude Journal, What does a tree see?, The Tombstone House,

The Road to Nowhere, great blogs and book reviews, and a whole lot more…

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FRIDAY FOSSICKING 15th Oct 2021

Headlines of Old

CONVICT ODDITIES  Trove Tuesday 19th Oct 2021, interesting convict related stories, A Convict's Wife, A Pretty Convict Girl, Rev. Henry Fulton..Killaloe-convict, Convict Parsons..

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https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2021/10/convict-oddities-trove-tuesday-19th-oct.html

Keep safe and well.
This will pass.