FRIDAY FOSSICKING 25th Feb 2022

 

Panning by S.T. Gill

* GENERAL INTEREST

Brisbane’s convict past unearthed during busway excavations Tony Moore .. Brisbane Times

GSQ Blog.. Not Just Any Railway Guard Robyn Dean

ABC News: Magpies outwit scientists by helping each other to remove tracking devices

Salyer twin sisters confuse internet by saying their kids are ‘brothers, cousins and twins’ | The Courier Mail

Brisbane suburbs forever changed by 'revolutionary' Mater Foundation lottery prize homes - ABC News

Judith Slyney's book 'Wild Honey' recounts her family history from Ireland to the Manning  Manning River Times

National Archives UK  newsletter incl. Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall

The Ladies of Llangollen       1921 Census

Genealogy buff leaves legacy to Shores library - C&G Newspapers 

Wanderlust Twins    Winter’s Night, Bern, Switzerland

Outback Family History

A Gentleman of the Road –    Paddington’s Old Cemetery – a verse

The Fight for the Ida H:   Hans Christian Biltoft – grave tales

JSTOR Daily

Words on the Way In: A Retrospective  

Only Love Can Break Your Heart?

Grifting In The 18th Century: The Grift Remains the Same

The Female Husband is So Eighteenth Century

Atlas Obscura

Huge Luge History  Alaskan Glaciers   The Grave of Oderus Urungus

Newly Added Africa Places   Witch Windows A Curry History

World’s Longest-Running Experiment Just Room Enough Island

Bok Tower Gardens  Close Calls Nuclear History Bean Pie

George Washington Turquoise Stone  Phantom Canyon Road

Monticello’s Unsung Culinary Genius Catacombs of Washington, D.C.

Searching For The Yeti  Forgotten Japanese Citrus   The Art of Kulning  The Most Erratic Places   Remnants of the Paris Guillotine

Perfumed (Poisoned?) Gloves  Center of the Universe  Why Eat Bugs?

Eat Like the Knights Templar    Skull Rock (Cleft Island)  

North America’s Secret Forest Plumb Beach  La Nueva Viga Market   Ponyhenge  Best Demon Illustrations  Chicxulub Crater

Bean Puzzle Tombstone  Will This Ancient Site Survive?  

Meet George McJunkin   Food Of The Underground Railroad

Sites of Vision  The Chasms  Sunken King’s Feast   Depot 62

Rakotzbrücke Devil's Bridge

ALWAYS INTERESTING

allenrizzi

What’s Good About Italy  

Pauline Conolly

CYRIL BALLARD & THE POWER OF A PAINTING

The Gentle Author

At KTS, The Corner

The Irish Story

Book Review: Birth of a State, The Anglo-Irish Treaty

Genea-Musings

Genealogy News and Education Bytes -- Friday, 18 February 2022

Dreams and Adventures at Cosy Cottage

Storm Eunice

The Legal Genealogist

What kept her there?

Diary of an Australian Genealogist

Talkfest, New Resources & Events: My Genealogy Week 8-14 February 2022

Stair na hÉireann | History of Ireland

#OTD in 1915 – Sir Roger Casement has made public a letter alleging that the British government has been engaged in a criminal conspiracy to have him captured and murdered.

Anne Young

Relatives at RootsTech

Samantha Anne Elley

80 year mystery sees sailor come home

Geniaus

Joynealogy in Action

Humoring the Goddess

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Claire Scully

In Days Gone By

In Pinkerton Plains

SMITHSONIAN 

In the Florida Keys, a Century-Old Bridge Reopens as a Tropical High Line

Moonbows, Starling Migrations and Other Rare Natural Phenomena Worth Traveling For

Two Sphinxes Depicting King Tut's Grandfather Discovered in Egypt

The Most Anticipated Museum Openings of 2022

Ten of the World's Rarest Foods, and Where to Find Them

This Missouri Company Still Makes Cassette Tapes, and They Are Flying Off the Factory Floor

* IRISH CENTRAL

Irish Heritage Tree planted in honor James Joyce's Ulysses - IrishCentral 

Researchers uncover new evidence in search Ernest Shackleton's Endurance - IrishCentral 

Can you help this Fermnagh woman track down New York family? - IrishCentral 

This St. Patrick's Day, for the first time, I'm officially Irish - IrishCentral 

Mask-wearing set to largely end in Ireland as per NPHET recommendations - IrishCentral 

New EU customs laws cause problems for parcels sent to Ireland from US - IrishCentral 

What were the most popular Irish boy's baby names in Ireland in 1911? - IrishCentral 

Nine out of every ten medieval Irish manuscripts have been lost, study says - IrishCentral 

* INTERESTING BLOGS

Seven days away      In Days Gone By

The Irish Orphan Girl In Our Family    Jennifer Jones

Preserving Vintage Pressed Flowers    A Genealogist In The Archives

Reviews

Theresa Smith

The Week That Was…

Book Review: To the Sea by Nikki Crutchley

Better Reading

Book of the Week: Again, Rachel by Marian Keyes

Take Your Breath Away by Linwood Barclay

The Boy in the Dress by Jonathan Butler set in Townsville

The Trivia Night by Ali Lowe

The Little Wartime Library by Kate Thompson secret underground library

Podcast: Isabel Allende on the Inspiration for Violeta

Podcast: Lizzie Pook on the Dark History Behind Australia’s Pearling Industry

and from my blogs...

That Moment in Time

FRIDAY FOSSICKING  18th Feb 2022,  conviction in Kalgoorlie, Buffalo soldiers, city of live mermaids, lost art of letterlocking, no surrender for 27 years, 2,000 year old bowl discovered intact, digitised names of Holocaust survivors, interesting blogs, book reviews, teachers transferred, and a lot more..

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

https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2022/02/friday-fossicking-18th-feb-2022.html

Headlines of Old

PERSONALS  Trove Tuesday 22nd Feb 2022, are your ancestors mentioned?, BDMs, plus social notices, club officers, unsettled times in 1939.. as noted in the second group of notices..

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

https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2022/02/personals-trove-tuesday-22nd-feb-2022.html

A family tree has many branches..

Stay safe and well..
This will pass.