FRIDAY FOSSICKING 29th Jul 2022

Panning by S.T. Gill

* GENERAL INTEREST

GSQ Blog  ‘The china cabinet’ by Bev Murray.

John Grenham A post about new civil death registration surname maps - "Stiffs 'R Us" - was published on July 28.

Just because...

Shark Bay Dolphins forming the equivalent of Boy Bands to attract a mate, scientist says..

Fast fashion is swamping op shops, but long-time thrifters aren't giving up the hunt - ABC News

National Archives UK

Cabinet Office files     Stories from the Collection   

Learn about the Great Smog of 1952    Upcoming online events

Wanderlust Twins

Blue Dusk, Kinsale, Cork, Ireland  Victoria Falls, Zambia

Winter Cabin Andreas Thierschmidt

Festive Lights, Gothenburg, Sweden

InterContinental Resort in Moorea Island, French Polynesia

“Glacier lakes and snowy peaks, Cordillera Huayhuash / Peru .”

Redwood Forest Floor, Humboldt, California

Near Mt. Baker, Washington Greg Howell

Outback Family History

What is a Homestead Lease ???  

An Unlucky Gamble – by Big Jim Allanson

The Coolgardie Safe – a family story

The Prosperity of Southern Cross – 1936

Smithsonian

This New San Francisco Park Sits Above Six Lanes of Traffic

How Scotland Is Reinventing Its Centuries-Old Canals for Paddlers

How Puerto Rico Became One of the Caribbean's Top Agritourism Destinations

Will Electronic Bag Tags Make Air Travel Less Chaotic?

American Tourist Rescued After Falling Into Mount Vesuvius Crater

Altas Obscura

Mysterious Mushrooms   A Pioneering Veterinarian   

Pastry Coffins Jackson's Rēwena Bread New Zealand Methuselah Tree

World's Largest Horseshoe Crab  Eat Like a Gold-Miner     

Warrior Women In Mongolia  Nancy Kerlin Barnett Grave

A Cross-Country Car Excursion Goatman's Bridge

The Voice at Embankment Station    Original Pizza Hut

Ghost Town or Vacation Spot?   Kinzua Bridge Pennsylvania   

Japan’s Unofficial Food Holidays   Turtles All The Way Down

Church of the Holy Parking Structure Tony Soprano Statue

Silence, The Great Plains, and Madness Spain’s ‘Sea of Plastic’

Czech Stop & Little Czech Bakery   Elizabeth Blackwell's Grave  

Mt. Hollywood Tunnel  World’s Biggest Bird     Shark Girl

World’s Toughest Mountain Bike Race    Sweetgrass Winery

Egg Mayo Protection Association   Eating Roadkill

Take Part in Greece's Annual Olive Harvest

JSTOR Daily

Every Good Bird Does Fine  History, Cosplay, and Comic-Con

How the US Handled Its First Monkeypox Outbreak

Rethinking Prison as a Deterrent to Future Crime

The Reality Behind Kitchen Sink Realism Democide: An Inside Job?

IRISH CENTRAL

British PM favorite Penny Mordaunt's Irish roots linked to Wexford 

The Crab Apple Tree: one of Ireland's oldest native Celtic trees - IrishCentral 

Three Irish sites nominated for UNESCO World Heritage status - IrishCentral 

Irish Legend: The Song of Fionuala of the Children of Lir - IrishCentral 

Irish imprisoned in Bermuda during the Great Famine for stealing food 

This Northern Ireland city is one of the best places to find love - IrishCentral 

WATCH: 1970 footage of a seanchaí telling the tale of his missing wife in Co Clare 

Extras

Dromahair welcomes us on our first trip to Ireland! - Leitrim Observer

Study finds Ireland is second most popular European country for American workers

ALWAYS INTERESTING

A State of Denial: Irish state response to the Magdalene Laundries 

Podcast: Ireland and Ukraine with Nadia Dobrianska The Irish Story

I Love When Creative People Get Excited   A Few Blogging Thoughts

A Victim By Choice   Humoring the Goddess

Famous Food Paintings Sunday Evening Art Gallery

Dawson boys lie side by side Tales from the Grave

The Return To Italy    The Reunion     Tirolean Names      allenrizzi

When life is still crazy… The Legal Genealogist

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Best or Important Image or Document Recently Found Online Genea-Musings

Saturday's Snippet: Naturalization   Australian Roots and Spreading Branches 

#OTD in Irish History | 25 July: Stair na hÉireann | History of Ireland  

NO CHARLESTON AT ULVERSTONE!     THE SWATARA & THE TASMANIAN DEVIL  Pauline Conolly

Reviews

Theresa Smith

The Week That Was…

Book Review: Notes on Heartbreak by Annie Lord

Allen & Unwin

House Arrest         Alan Bennett

The War Game         David Horner

Together We Can     Claire O'Rourke

The New Ringer      Roland Breckwoldt

Better Reading

Book of the Week: Woman on Fire by Lisa Barr     READ MORE

The Wrong Woman by J.P. Pomare      READ MORE

The Wedding Party by Cathy Kelly     READ MORE

Podcast: David Knoff on Surviving 537 Days Stranded in Antarctica

Podcast: Mykaela Saunders on First Nations Speculative Fiction

Podcast: Nicole Haddow on Ethically Growing your Wealth

and from my blogs..

That Moment in Time

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 22nd Jul 2022, a vault for stolen art, tomatoes as medicine, reconstruction of WW1 soldier’s disfigured faces, transparent toilet, fate of India’s tigers, ghost army of WWII, 

interesting blogs, Irish police launch photographic archive of 100 years, reviews, Glasnevin cemetery, uncommon mailing methods.. just to name a few items…

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https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2022/07/friday-fossicking-22nd-jul-2022.html

Headlines of Old

 Trove Tuesday 26th Jul 2022, TEACHERS TRANSFERRED ISSUE 4, teachers were/are often transferred to various schools ..not always by choice. These notices are yet another way that might help you trace an ancestor… 

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https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2022/07/teachers-transferred-issue-4-trove.html

Stay safe and well.
This will pass.

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 22nd Jul 2022

 

Panning by S.T. Gill

* GENERAL INTEREST

GSQ Blog     ‘Out in the Weather’ by Sharyn Merkley 

National Archives UK newsletter incl. 

Step into the world of the 1920s

Ministry of Time Travel: The 1671 Crown Jewels Heist

Spotlight on: Domesday education video

Old Sydney Burial Ground | City of Sydney Archives

Trove Treasures newsletter incl. Coding Country    Knitting And Crochet vintage patterns        Search maps

Penfound Manor - the oldest inhabited manor house in Britain - The Cornish Bird thanks to Helen Connor

 Eltham District Historical Society Inc.      OTD: Rex ‘Young Pommy’ Whitworth won the Eltham Beer Barrel Drinking Contest, 19 July 1974

Claremorris records highest temperature in Mayo as heatwave ends - Midwest Radio

Revealed: The hottest places in Ireland today as 'multiple' temperature records smashed

Wanderlust Twins

The Writers Museum, Edinburgh, Scotland    Gwangju, South Korea

I just took this photo with my phone, this is how autumn looks like where I live :)

Medieval, Ashford Castle, Mayo, Ireland 

Tree Camping, Elk, California

by communiquel on Flickr.Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden in Cape Town, South Africa.

by EnDie1 on Flickr.The charming medieval city of Meersburg in the southwest of Germany at Lake Constance.

travelingcolors:“ Assos, Kefalonia Greece ”

Three Story Tree House, British Columbia, Canada

Outback Family History

Kundana – The town that never was!   

The Crown for the Queen of the Murchison

The Old Time Track by Darkie Wallace ‘The Axeman’  

Laverton Cemetery update –     The Water Buffaloes by Merv Kennedy

Atlas Obscura

China’s Newly Discovered Sinkhole   Ukrainian Coffee  

'Wall of Frogs'   Trails Traversing History East Broad Top Railroad

Vilcabamba podcast 'fountain of youth' Taupo McDonald's Airplane

Why Do We Use Blankets In Summer? The ‘Iron Lady’ of Kashmir

Devil's Throat  The First Brazilian Carnival Queen

Black Point Fissures by Mono Lake California Belhaven Bridge

A New Home For Vipers  Inside A Vault for Stolen Art

Ruins of King Zog's Estate The Menster Christmas Cookie Gravestone

Italy’s ‘Museum of Abandonment’   Supersized Giant Predators

Transparent Toilet A Pearl Necklace Both Elegant and a Little Evil

Bringing Wine Back to Venice The First Telephone in Las Vegas

The Fate of India’s Tigers  Stories That Unsettle    Tent Toilets

Bryant Park Escape Hatch  Cranes of the DMZ    

Uncommon Mailing Methods     Japanese Giant Spider Crab

JSTOR Daily

Don't Dress Your Whale in Galoshes  Tomatoes as Medicine

One Name, Two Writers: The Story of Michael Field 

Policing Abortion 

Smithsonian

When Authorities Dunked Outspoken Women in Water 

An Ancient Home Found Beneath the Baths of Caracalla Is Now on Display

Inside a Trailblazing Surgeon's Quest to Reconstruct WWI Soldiers' Disfigured Faces

Meet Diane Nash, the Civil Rights Icon Awarded the U.S.' Highest Civilian Honor

How Disney Propaganda Shaped Life on the Home Front During WWII

The Secrets of a Long-Overlooked Cipher Linked to Catherine of Aragon

How the Ghost Army of WWII Used Art to Deceive the Nazis

Why American Girl Dolls Are Starring in Viral History Memes 

The Oldest Footage of New Orleans Has Been Found 

Well-Preserved, 30,000-Year-Old Baby Woolly Mammoth Emerges From Yukon Permafrost 

Bradford Freeman, Last Surviving Member of WWII 'Band of Brothers,' Dies at 97

Archaeologists Begin First-Ever Excavation of Tomb Linked to King Arthur 

The Schoolteacher Who Saved Her Students From the Nazis 

Always Interesting

Violence against Women in Belfast, 1920-22 – Part 2  The Irish Story

The River Lee and the Republican Armoured Cars of the Irish Civil War

BAKERY BREAK-OUT AT PARRAMATTA GAOL Pauline Conolly

The Story of ... Ernest Thomas Stanley Cusack   Before Bernadette

#52Ancestorsin52Weeks Week 26/52 Margaret McLOUGHLIN (nee TAYLOR) – 1877 - 1957 Family Tree Frog

Earl Grey’s Irish Famine Orphans (88): the Bridget effect | trevo's Irish famine orphans

Life Of A Genie Update   Jennifer Jones

Cool Me Off  humoringthegoddess

The Disaster at The Nek  The Empire Called and I Answered

Armando Marino  Sunday Evening Art Gallery

Anniversary of the marriage of Philip Crespigny and Charlotte Dana 

“Pink Hats on Gentle Ladies” Second edition by Vida and Daniel Clift  Anne Young

#OTD in Irish History | 18 July: Stair na hÉireann | History of Ireland

Bad lighting on new bridge proves fatal     Tales from the Grave

Moritz Werner And Family, Part III: After The War Amy

Upcoming free events     Scottish Ancestral Research

Featured Podcast – He Said, She Said: the maid who jumped out the first-floor window (Nenagh 1899)   Tipperary's Hidden History

Irish Central

US genealogists return to Ireland for a magic trip and brought their family along for the ride 

Irish police launch photographic archive of 100 years online | IrishCentral.com 

Glasnevin Cemetery: history that shaped modern Ireland - IrishCentral 

Ireland secure historic series win in New Zealand after thrilling victory - IrishCentral 

Northern Ireland home to real-life Narnia - IrishCentral 

From dreaming of Ireland in prison to discovering strong Irish roots - IrishCentral 

Extras

Emigration Stories and Genealogical Sessions at Scariff festival - The Clare Herald

Meet the heir hunters who find long-lost relatives including the mystery son linked to ... 

American-based charity says Irish people can help identify woman murdered in 1992 

Penny Mordaunt's Irish roots traced back to Catholic family from Co Wexford 

The best athletes of Irish descent - Yardbarker.com 

Reviews

Theresa Smith

The Week That Was…

Book Review: Young Women by Jessica Moor

Book Review: Elektra by Jennifer Saint

Better Reading

Book of the Week:The Brightest Star by Emma Harcourt     READ MORE

The Map of Night by Kimberley Starr     READ MORE

Kiss the Sky by Krista and Becca Ritchie     READ MORE

A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas      READ MORE

Podcast: Michael Robotham on the Golden Age of Australian Crime Fiction

Podcast: Luke Mathers on Changing Curious Habits

Penguin Books

Denizen James Mckenzie Watson     CHECK IT OUT

With Love from Wish & Co  Minnie Darke      SNEAK A PEEK

The Plated Prisoner series - Glow Raven Kennedy

The Paper Palace  Miranda Cowley Heller  READ WITH FRIENDS.. Book Club?

and from my blogs...

That Moment in Time

Friday Fossicking 15th Jul 2022, Bohemian National Cemetery, Earl Grey's Irish Orphans, Fraud in Ireland, Boer War memorial, secret sounds of Notre Dame's bells, family history in India, Irish collections in Britain and beyond, dance activism?, sacred trees in Japan, eat like Jane Austen, great blogs, best actors of Irish descent, interesting book reviews, and the list goes on…

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FRIDAY FOSSICKING 15th Jul 2022

Headlines of Old

STRANGE HEADLINES  Trove Tuesday 19th Jul 2022.. A change this week..instead of convicts or great events, etc. just need a laugh or that ever effective raised eyebrow..?

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https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2022/07/strange-headlines-trove-tuesday-19th.html

Keep safe and well.
This will pass.