That Moment in Time: FRIDAY FOSSICKING 5th Aug 2022

Panning by S.T. Gill

* GENERAL INTEREST

August NATIONAL FAMILY HISTORY MONTH... AUGUST 2022 - BLOGGING CHALLENGE, see a selection of great blogs...

GSQ blog A Carpenter in law Bobbie Edes

The ScriBbler newsletter Stella Budrikis incl. summary of Stella's new book re Charles Yelverton O'Connor

National Archives Aust. newsletter incl. Constitution Day Forum 2022, Members workshop – Finding families | Canberra | 17 August +

State Library Qld 2022 Queensland Literary Awards Finalists

Judy Webster always worth visiting Judy's site...Four (4) new items (for a wide variety of records) were added to this page today. Check to see whether they might help with your family history researchwww.judywebster.com.au/specials.html

DESPATCH newsletter of Public Record Office Victoria

Celebrate Family History Month in Bendigo

Upcoming Bendigo Regional Archives Centre events Book now

Local History Grants here. full list of recipients..

CHECK OUR WEBSITE FOR OUR LATEST SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS.

Irish News Archives search for newspapers

9 Skills Our Grandkids Will Never Have - MyHeritage Blog Thanks to Alona Tester

Wanderlust Twins

Shadows, Llanthony Priory, Wales Flinders Ranges, Australia

Outback Family History

Struck by Lightning – a lucky man Search for the lost Diprotodon

Yunndaga – ghost town Murder or Suicide – that is the question.

JSTOR Daily

Body Double Gold Weights and Wind Scales in the Asante Empire The Chilean Wide Web? Who Made That Word and Why?

Plant of the Month: White Sage

Ecosystems and Extreme Weather Events

The Scholars Charting Black Music's Timeline: Earl Stewart and Michael Veal

Atlas Obscura

Hot-Air Balloon Restaurant The Healer Stones of Kapaemahu

The Dog Keeping Invasive Mussels At Bay

The Duke of Wellington’s Mounting Stone Attention All Shoppers

Inside the Virtual Record Treasury Use Baking Soda Like a Scientist

Nabta Playa Stone Circle Egypt Michigan's Lost Peninsula

The Queer Suffragists Who Changed History For the Mango Lover

8 Fantastic Ferris Wheels Witley Wonder Underwater Ballroom

Wyoming Sculpture Is This The World’s Oldest Tree? ‘Well of Hell’

Physical Graffiti Building Public Utility Conduits of Ginza

Ireland’s Greatest Unsolved Heist Sea of Stars 'The Walking Man'

Lost Monastery, Neolithic Surprise The Return of Swiss Cheese Baths

New York’s Last Public Payphone Kiosk Table 31 at Tam O’Shanter

Code-Breaking On the Armenian Subway Chop Suey History

‘Hobo Code’ The Ruins of a Hawaiian Fort Reis Education Canoe

Þrídrangaviti Lighthouse Obscure Maine Food Finds

Irish Central

Monaghan census records from the 1500s go online - IrishCentral

Irish American woman reunited with her parents' ashes that were lost en route to Dublin

Extras

Maggie Rogers: 'I was thinking a lot about Irish folk music because it's my ancestry'

Pat Spillane: One of the greatest ever footballers with a special family history - The Times

Nicky Campbell's tragic family history from estranged mum to loss of 'real' parents

ALWAYS INTERESTING

Tribute to Dottie clarejk2014

I Want to Go Somewhere! Watches humoringthegoddess

Coming up: August-September 2022 The Legal Genealogist

THE STUMP – A TREE’S LAST HURRAH JOHN WINTERBOTTOM – CONVICT TOWN CLERK Pauline Conolly

Antarctic explorer and discoverer of coal fields Samantha Anne Elley

#OTD in Irish History – 1 August (Lúnasa): Stair na hÉireann

Sunday Evening Art Gallery – Alisa Lariushkina humoringthegoddess

Dusschen Blumenfeld Strauss and Her Seven Children, Part I: Three Who Went to America Amy

#tanka publication: “Over the River to Grandmother’s House We Go”

Liz Gauffreau

Lieutenant John Walker R.N. Anne Young

Old Movies allenrizzi

Reviews

Theresa Smith

The Week That Was…

A Month of Reading: July

Book Review: The Night Ship by Jess Kidd

Book Recommendation: The Making of Her by Bernadette Jiwa

Better Reading

Book of the Week:The Bellbird River Country Choir by Sophie Green READ MORE

The It Girl by Ruth Ware READ MORE

Framed by John M. Green READ MORE

The Unbelieved by Vikki Petraitis READ MORE

Gone to Ground by Bronwyn Hall READ MORE

Podcast: In Conversation with Pulitzer Prize-Winner Geraldine Brooks LISTEN HERE

Podcast: Indira Naidoo on Using Writing to Explore Grief LISTEN HERE

Podcast: Helen Fitzgerald on Social Work and Writing LISTEN HERE

Allen & Unwin

The Unbelieved Vikki Petraitis Winner of the inaugural Allen & Unwin Crime Prize. READ THE OPENING CHAPTER

Everything Feels Like the End of the World Else Fitzgerald

LEARN MORE

Twenty-Six Letters Charlotte Nash LEARN MORE

Dark Rooms Lynda La Plante LEARN MORE

and from my blogs..

That Moment in Time

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 29th Jul 2022, electronic bag tags, pastry coffins, shark girl, rethinking prison, 3 Irish sites nominated World Heritage, Magdalene laundries, great blogs, reviews, looking for love..Northern Ireland, Greece’s annual olive harvest, great smog of 1952, Spain’s sea of plastic and much more..

Feel free to share, the title is the link…

https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2022/07/friday-fossicking-29th-jul-2022.html

Headlines of Old

Trove Tuesday 2nd Aug 2022, UNCLAIMED LETTERS, lost an ancestor? Try the unclaimed letters .. you just might get some clues. However, though you may see a familiar name, you can’t be sure that it was your ancestor. These are published to give you some ideas as to where to look… more hints included. I would love to hear if you can trace someone..good luck.

Feel free to share, the title is the link…

https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2022/08/unclaimed-letters-trove-tuesday-2nd-aug.html

As They Were

IGP Additions July 2022 including Cork, Donegal, Dublin, Limerick, Longford …all headstones…

Many thanks to Christina Hunt and all the volunteers from

Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives

https://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/

https://astheywere.blogspot.com/2022/08/igp-archives-updates-july-2022.html

The ‘Back Fence’ of Genealogy

PAPAULI …. a tribute to a much loved grandfather ..

National Family History Month Challenge August 2022

Week 1 - August can also mean respected or impressive. Who do you think is the most respected or impressive member of your family tree and why?