FRIDAY FOSSICKING 18th March 2022

Panning by S.T. Gill

* GENERAL INTEREST

GSQ Blog  Explaining a Missing Couple in my Research Marg Doherty

'That's my home on the lawn': This is the reality of cleaning up after Lismore's floods - ABC Everyday

National Archives UK newsletter incl. 

Fragmented lives: Migrant sex workers' lives in the archives

Women in the Second World War: Military service in East Africa

Trailblazing Women of the 20s... meet Mary Bailey

Celebrate St. Patrick's Day at Irish Week, plus other fun things to do around Seattle  The Seattle Times

Roman Catholic Diocese announce cemeteries might not be included in settlement | SaltWire  best read via READER.. click on the bars in the URL bar

Volunteers needed for cemetery preservation events | Chariho Times | ricentral.com 

Nation-first guide launched to find, protect unmarked Indigenous graves - National Indigenous Times 

John Grenham An antidote to Paddywhackery

Best Free Genealogy and Family History Websites Family Tree Magazine.      

N.B. Don't forget to search through TROVE free to all.. newspapers, Government Gazettes, photos, archived websites, to name a few...

GeneaDictionary  

Green Roots

Outback Family History

Early Days in Cue –          In Search of Mordaunt Reid:     

Cuddingwarra – ghost town  

The Murchison – on dust storms and barmaids

Atlas Obscura

Historical Cookbooks A Multicultural Legacy Cuscus Revelations

Tim Willis' Junkyard Playground The Rocker Grandma

Squirrels, America’s Beloved Pets  Teaberry Ice Cream

Battle of the Oranges    Big Idaho Potato Hotel   Elephant Clock

London Underground Labyrinths Imagine Museum

Eat Across Route 66      L.A.’s First Mexican Food Museum

Bringing A Queen Mother Home 34th Street Graffiti Wall

A Native American Coffee Movement    Sesshōseki (Killing Stone)

Possum Monument The Tomb Of Hannah Courtoy A Burr Mystery

Secret Agent Women  Between Enemy Lines   14 Women Activists

The Legacy of Félicité Niyitegeka   From Actress to Spy

Indonesia’s Chicken Church   Tree Planters Photography     

Statue of Liberty, Pont de Grenelle      A Telling Clue  

Visingsö Oak Forest  Greece: Ancient Ruins to Modern Culture

Ancient Toilet Revelations   Pythagorean Cup Don Knotts Statue

Man’s (And A Cheetah’s) Best Friend   Chimney Rock

5 Forgotten Pies  Fur Coats and Tragedy  The ‘First Lady of Seaweed’ Transcontinental Railroad Back Country Byway Haitian Monument

A Cursed Sculpture Gets New Life Australia

Anglo-Celtic Connections

Sunday Sundries   FreeBMD March Update

JSTOR Daily

Philanthropy and the Gilded Age   Lviv: Open to the World   

Batman: A Hero or a New ‘Mr. Hyde’?

Description and Discovery: Elizabeth Keckley's Memoir

Race and Gender Under the Big Top

The Famous and Forgotten Women of STEM

ALWAYS INTERESTING

The Legal Genealogist

The sweet and the bittersweet

Sunday Evening Art Gallery

Sunday Evening Art Gallery – My Friends and Family

Genea-Musings

Genealogy News and Education Bytes -- Tuesday, 15 March 2022

Stair na hÉireann

#OTD in 1981 – Day 14 | Bobby Sands recorded his diary for the first seventeen days of his hunger strike in which he detailed his thoughts and feelings on the momentous task that lay ahead of him.

Pauline Conolly

STEPS IN MAKING AN ENTRANCE

Samantha Anne Elley

Her expertise was in sheep

allenrizzi

Raining Tuna

Tracking Down the Family

Mavis Taylor #womenshistorymonth

The Irish Story

Gloved sparring on the big stage: touring exhibitions of boxing in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Ireland.  

Deep in the Heart of Textiles

ScrapHappy March 2022

* IRISH CENTRAL

Relatives of former Brisbane Archbishop chip in to buy old family home in Limerick - IrishCentral

A sacred memory: Ireland's past is Ukraine's present - IrishCentral 

Quinnipiac chooses Fairfield as new home for Ireland's Great Hunger Museum - IrishCentral

She thought she was Polish, but a DNA test revealed a hidden family secret - IrishCentral 

INTERESTING BLOGS

Switch The Planets Around   Humoring The Goddess

Reviews

Theresa Smith

The Week That Was…

Book Review: The Dictator’s Wife by Freya Berry

Book Review: The Beautiful Words by Vanessa McCausland

Better Reading

Book of the Week:The Language of Food by Annabel Abbs

Mothers and Daughters by Erica James

Remember Me by Charity Norman

Reputation by Sarah Vaughan

Podcast: Robert Gold on Publishing, Crime Fiction and Working with James Patterson

Podcast: Jamar J. Perry on Writing Diverse Characters in Children’s Books

Penguin Books

The Match Harlan Coben

Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?     Julie Smith

Reckoning  David Hill

and from my blogs...

That Moment in Time

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 11th Mar 2022, Women's History Month, preserve historic cemeteries, crime waves & moral panics, raw herring ice-cream, world's hidden blunders, 12 extraordinary women, scam calls..how to deal with them, dystopian fiction, Greek Australians, cemeteries of the solar system, mushroom fence, Japan’s ‘ghost houses’, half-century-old soup, Irish dust devils, tribute to Irish Famine Orphan Girls, great blogs, Irish online database BDMs extended, IGP updates, Unclaimed Letters, book reviews and a whole lot more…

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

https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2022/03/friday-fossicking-11th-mar-2022.html

Headlines of Old

Trove Tuesday 15th Mar 2022  TRANSFERS OF PUBLIC SERVANTS, These notices are from a couple of states and over a number of years. Some are from Government Gazettes, some from newspapers. They can be very useful in tracing the movements of ancestors. Note that there are quite a number of later dates being added to Trove now. Feel free to share, the title is the link…

https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2022/03/transfers-of-public-servants-trove.html

I think we could do with a smile...

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