FRIDAY FOSSICKING 26th Aug 2022

Panning by S.T. Gill

* GENERAL INTEREST

GSQ Blog..     The Box in the Museum Robyn Dean

Scanning tools and adding text to photos Carmel Galvin .. always helpful...

National Archives UK newsletter incl. Early photography in India.

What was the 1920 Blind March? Learn more in our blog     

Discover your street in 1921

The internet of the 18th and 19th centuries goes online | National Library of Australia..... well worth reading...

Outback Family History

The Big Nugget of Nannine     The Passing of Jones by Bungarra

A Most Prestigious Hotel:     F E Randell & Co – pioneer profile

JSTOR Daily

Staying Cool with Hand Fans      In The Debs Archive

Maia Szalavitz: The History and Future of Harm Reduction

In the Gutters of Neil Gaiman's The Sandman

“Everybody Look What's Going Down”: The Sunset Strip Riots

Medical Mutual Aid Before Roe v. Wade

Atlas Obscura

The Mystery of the Chincoteague Ponies  Crystal-Clear Milk Cocktails   Codex Gigas (The Devil's Bible) Eisenhower’s Uncomfortable Trip

Garuda Wisnu Kencana Statue    The Honey Island Swamp Monster

The Food Welcoming Back the Dead    John Muir's Alarm Clock Desk

What’s Up With Ketchup, Anyway?     Rewriting Insect Science   Insect Nesting Dolls   Torre Argentina (cat lovers will love this)    Chelyabinsk Meteorite    The Tapeworm Diet   The Aventine Keyhole 

Medieval Symbols to Smartphone Emojis    Deaf-Owned Restaurants  Point of Rocks Stagecoach Station Deep-Sea Fish Displays  

‘Root Beer Lady’  Egyptian Building California Indiana Steam Clock

The History of Tutti Frutti  D.C.’s Floating Chandeliers 

Life In Extreme Circumstances Viking Werewolf Obsessions

Paparajotes ? Moths, Museums, Mysteries The Death of Funeral Pie

Polychrome Augustus of Prima Porta The Dark Side to Rainbows

The Home Alone House   Clown Egg Register   Ancient Bison Stew

Paste Eater's Grave  

Smithsonian 

The 50 Million-Year-Old Treasures of Fossil Lake 

A New Exhibit Showcases the Mind-Bending Art of Bridget Riley

Academy Apologizes to Sacheen Littlefeather for Mistreatment at 1973 Oscars 

The Grand Canyon's Phantom Ranch Turns 100 This Year 

Birds Wandering Far From Home Can Be a Boon for Local Tourism 

Why Was a Synagogue Mural Hidden Behind a Wall in a Vermont Apartment? 

The First Chinese Restaurant in America Has a Savory—and Unsavory—History 

The Power of “Bears Ears” and Indigenous Place Names

The Colorful History Behind Panama's Mola    Unraveling the Secrets of Don McLean's 'American Pie'

When I Celebrated the Summer Solstice With Ancient Roman Gods and Goddesses

Irish Genealogy

US genealogist believes owner of Muckross House was descended from slave - Radio Kerry

GIVEAWAY: Win a Celtic hamper and discover the wonders of the Hazel Tree - IrishCentral 

Watch: Lisa Kudrow explains why it's so difficult to find Conan O'Brien's Irish ancestry

 Jewish 'Friends' Star Lisa Kudrow Feels Connected to Her Family's Holocaust Trauma 

At the Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin, a Genealogy Butler Can Find Your Irish Roots - AFAR 

Dear Molly: Should my family stay in the US or move to Ireland? - IrishCentral

Family tree firm not entitled to tax break after it got €1.9m of State backing - Independent.ie

Always Interesting.. a small selection

allenrizzi Rieneck, Germany   The Importance Of Identifying Old Photos    Internet Blues   The 1982 Agoura Fire

humoringthegoddess   I Love the Impossible Getting On Track Monday Morning  Painted Stairways

Pauline Conolly CHILDE AND CHRISTIE; A MARXIST & A MYSTERY WRITER

THOMAS MORT & HIS LITHGOW PICNIC

Stair na hÉireann   #OTD in Irish History | 22 August:

Amy Smokey March 23, 2008 – August 16, 2022

Dusschen Blumenfeld Strauss, Part II: Escaping from Germany

The Legal Genealogist No soup for us!

Geniaus Grateful Grandson

Samantha Anne Elley An update on our flood experience

Anne Young ‘You’ve never had it so good’

Jennifer Jones #NationalFamilyHistoryMonth Week 2: Norfolk Island

Reviews

Theresa Smith

The Week That Was…

Book Review: The Pachinko Parlour by Elisa Shua Dusapin (trans. Aneesa Abbas Higgins)

Book Review: Haven by Emma Donoghue

Penguin Books Australia

Diana, William, and Harry James Patterson

Stay Awake Megan Goldin

Her Fidelity  Katharine Pollock

The Spy's Wife  Fiona McIntosh

Blowback James Patterson

The Opal Miner's Daughter   Fiona McArthur READ CHAPTER ONE

Better Reading

Lying Beside You by Michael Robotham  READ MORE

The Wrong Woman by J.P. Pomare  READ MORE

WAKE by Shelley Burr     READ MORE

So You Want to Live Younger Longer? by Dr Norman Swan

The Patient Doctor by Dr Ben Bravery 

Book of the Week: Five Bush Weddings by Clare Fletcher   READ MORE

Stay Awake by Megan Goldin  READ MORE

1989 by Val McDermid  READ MORE

Podcast: Julie Fison on Alcohol-Fuelled Violence and Coward Punches  LISTEN HERE

and from my blogs...

That Moment in Time

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 19th Aug 2022, Reading handwritten documents, 17th Century dating practices, potential buried treasure, great blogs, death by ice-cream, book reviews, mad honey, bog butter, NATIONAL FAMILY HISTORY MONTH... AUGUST 2022 - BLOGGING CHALLENGE,  treasure in the death certificate, The ‘Knocker-Ups’, Lock your own letters..and lots more

Feel free to share, the title is the link…

https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2022/08/friday-fossicking-19th-aug-2022.html

The Back Fence of Genealogy

My Family Treasures..”so many memories entrusted to me”

Written for Wk 3

NATIONAL FAMILY HISTORY MONTH... AUGUST 2022 - BLOGGING CHALLENGE

Confessions Of A Bibliophile

"THE CAST AWAYS OF HAREWOOD HALL"   by Karen Herbert, a very busy retirement village..great depictions of characters, including the animals…Many thanks to Better Reading for supplying the book for review.

https://crissoulisbookspot.blogspot.com/2022/08/the-cast-aways-of-harewood-hall-by.html

Headlines of Old

CONDITIONAL CONVICT PARDONS OR REWARDS , lists can include names, ship of arrival & what voyage, some physical descriptions, some crimes.. Adding a comment at the base of the post may just help others also looking for ‘your convict’… whether they are included in this list or not…

Feel free to share, the title is the link…

https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2022/08/conditional-convict-pardons-or-rewards.html

Stay safe and well..
This will pass.