FRIDAY FOSSICKING 7th Oct 2022

Panning by S.T.Gill

* GENERAL INTEREST

GSQ Blog     Enhancing your genealogy education Mia Bennett

NAA    (National Archives of Australia) newsletter incl. 

Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize now on!  

Pioneers and pearlers | Online | 13 October      Spy: Espionage in Australia | Travelling | Toowoomba | Closing 30 October

John Grenham A new post about Irish faction fighting- "Bleedin savages" - was published on September 30.

'Disrespect': Frustration grows over plaque for world's first modern milk bar in Sydney - Greek Herald

ABC News: Dazzling, devastating and gruesome: a guide to the 2022 Booker Prize shortlist    A blistering critique of White America, a devastating novella set in Ireland, and a Zimbabwean Animal Farm for the 21st century are among the novels vying for the prestigious literary award

Dulbydilla, once a forgotten railway town, is put on the map by hobby historians - ABC News

Wanderlust Twins

Postcard from Santorini, Greece   Old Mill, Black Forest, Germany

Bamboo Bridge, Japan Evening at Stari Most in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Outback Family History

Nannine Cemetery –      

The Ragged Thirteen – by Dryblower Murphy

Goldfields ‘without’ Chrysanthemums – by Catherine Bond

A Dastardly Deed in Lefroy Street

Smithsonian

Stunning Facial Reconstructions Resurrect a Trio of Medieval Scots 

Why LeBron James Is Buying a Pickleball Team 

Alzheimer's Drug Shows 'Most Encouraging Results' Yet in Clinical Trial 

This Moonshot for Coral Breeding Was Successful 

Wild Souls: Earth Optimism Book of the Month 

After the Wright Brothers Took Flight, They Built the World's First Military Airplane 

Eerie Witches' Marks Found Among Ruins of Medieval English Church

Svante Pääbo Wins Nobel Prize for Unraveling the Mysteries of Neanderthal DNA 

The Gold Coast King Who Fought the Might of Europe's Slave Traders 

'Super-Agers' Might Have Super Neurons 

An Early Star’s Remains May Be Swirling Around a Black Hole 

Modern Crocodiles Are Evolving at a Rapid Rate 

Robotic Pill Aims to Replace Insulin Shots, Injected Antibiotics

Rare Collection of 1940s Art Returns to Zimbabwe After 70 Years 

A New Look for the National Air and Space Museum 

Hubble Is Slowly Falling—and SpaceX Wants to Give It a Boost 

The Ancestors of Flying Pterosaurs Were Sleek Reptiles That Ran on the Ground

Log Cabin Excavation Unearths Evidence of Forgotten Black Community 

Archaeologists in Greece Unearth 'Larger-Than-Life' Statue of Hercules 

The World’s Whitest Paint May Soon Help Cool Airplanes and Spacecraft 

The Cheating Scandal Rocking the Chess World 

Atlas Obscura

How Droughts Brought Down Empires   The Ancient Books of Wales Cirkelbroen (The Circle Bridge)  Tyler Rose Garden

A Five-Second Mask    West Virginia’s Hidden Gems   

The Wondrous World of Apples  A Rare, Custardy Cheesecake

Zanzibar’s Stone Town  Prehistoric Forest Amusement Park

Richard McDonald's Niche  Vaillancourt Fountain

Horseback Librarians    Bloodroot Feminist Restaurant

Please Stop Flushing Goldfish   The Double Life of an Oyster King

Meet Wyoming’s ‘Paleogrannies’   Paris Métro Sign at Victoria Square

‘People Pot Pies'   How to Clear Snow Canyon  The Tree Church

'The History of World Commerce'  The Pranks of Young Orcas

Seaweed Pudding History    Olivastri Millenari Italy Lemon Stick

Step Into a Mannequin Graveyard  Marshall Hall Maryland

12 Unusual McDonald’s Locations   Biblical Monsters     

Cell of the Anchoress of Shere  The Oddities Flea Market Returns!

Catherine de Medici’s Gloves    Thomas Edison's Concrete Houses    Pirate Busters Seven Pillars of the Mississinewa 

JSTOR Daily

Kuda Bux: Fire-walking for Fame and Fortune      

The Wright Brothers: Babysitters Extraordinaire

Beth Macy's Raising Lazarus on the Opioid Crisis

J. B. Jackson and the Ordinary American Landscape

Vampires and Public Health         J. R. R. Tolkien's Jewish Dwarves
Jean-François Champollion Deciphers the Rosetta Stone

Irish Genealogy

IrishGenealogyNews: Four more Irish collections join the free FamilySearch database Claire Santry

Leading Irish genealogist calls on community to attend 'storytelling' sessions - Derry Journal 

 3 10 haunted spots in Northern Ireland: scary places to visit this autumn and Halloween - and tales behind them 
800-year-old monk remains discovered at Wicklow abbey
Tracing your Irish ancestry - The Doherty clan
Tracing your Irish ancestry - The Smith Clan
The man behind Mickey Mouse, Walt Disney has strong Irish roots
Who lived in the spectacular American Irish Historical Society building?
"Cross Bronx: A Writing Life" Memoir explores Irish heritage and New York history 
The haunted castles of County Offaly
The history of your Irish surname, what you should know

The magic of Ireland’s thatched cottages

Top 12 facts you don’t know about Irish names

Tulsa to receive extra resources to cope with applications for birth information 

Always Interesting

humoringthegoddess

Fall into Autumn — janbeek (repost)    II Lee ball-point pen on paper Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Micah Ofstedah  

No One Wants To Be Old Alisa Lariushkina polymer clay art

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Charles M. Schulz

Pauline Conolly WINSTON THE PLATYPUS – A WWII CASUALTY 

SPLASH THE PLATYPUS DE-CLUTTERING CATCHES THE HEART

Liv Hambrett The Therapy of Puppy School

Dreams and Adventures at Cosy Cottage Why I’m pro-choice (and cash is still king)

Gerry's Family History  My Jewish DNA

Stair na hÉireann | History of Ireland   #OTD in Irish History | 3 October:

allenrizzi The Moving Finger    The Confusing Sign

Shauna Hicks Diary of an Australian Genealogist: Loving Wiltshire records, Sands of Time, FHDU 2022 & other news: My Genealogy Fortnight 23 Sep - 7 Oct 2022

Reviews

Theresa Smith

A Month of Reading: September  

Book Review: The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante

Better Reading

Book of the Week:The Three Lives of Alix St Pierre by Natasha Lester

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After You Were Gone by Vikki Wakefield   READ MORE

Halifax: Transgression by Roger Simpson     READ MORE  * Currently reading and enjoying this one.. review soon

Daughter of the Home Front by Jennie Jones READ MORE

Allen & Unwin

The Tilt Chris Hammer

The Sun Walks Down Fiona McFarlane

Runt Craig Silvey

Mad Honey  Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan

Demon Copperhead  Barbara Kingsolver

Penguin Books Australia

Not Now, Not Ever  Julia Gillard

Hellburner    Clive Cussler & Mike Maden

Lighter  Yung Pueblo

We Love Love  Brittany Hockley and Laura Byrne 

The Orphans  Fiona McIntosh   SNEAK A PEEK

and from my blogs...

That Moment in Time

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 30th Sept 2022, highlights from archives, temperance melodrama, ponyhenge, beast gravestone, New Zealand’s Kakapos, concrete book, libraries with culinary treasures, kindred spirit mailbox, history of sourdough, book reviews, Irish history, Broadway farewells “Phantom..” after 35 years, and so much more…

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

https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2022/09/friday-fossicking-30th-sept-2022.html

Headlines of Old

INTESTATE.. NO, NOT INTERSTATE    ...   various states...Trove Tuesday 4th Oct 2022,  best to make a will..

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https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2022/10/intestate-no-not-interstate-various.html

As They Were

IGP ARCHIVES  Update September 2022, Cavan, Cork, Donegal, Dublin, Fermanagh, Kildare… With many thanks to all the volunteers who contribute guided by Christina Hunt …

https://astheywere.blogspot.com/2022/10/igp-archives-update-september-2022.html

Keep safe and well.
This will pass.