FRIDAY FOSSICKING 4th Nov 2022

Panning by S.T.Gill

* GENERAL INTEREST

GSQ Blog  Family history places are precious. Bev Murray

Stella Budrikis The ScriBbler  newsletter incl. kitchens with breathing space + history of homes

National Archives Australia  Newsletter many events incl.

Dutch–Australian Shared Histories | Online | 7 November

Boom to bust: Ghost town | Perth 17 November

Eltham District Historical Society Inc. Heritage Walk: Montmorency Bushland Reserves – Saturday, 5th November

DESPATCH Newsletter of Public Record Office Victoria incl.

Community History Awards, Exploring PROV records in Ballarat, Ancestors in the archives.....

Wanderlust Twins

The Grand Canal, Venice / Italy  Sudur-Tingeyjarsysla, Iceland  

Ik Kil Cenote in Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico

Reflections, Chapada dos Veadeiros, Brasil Balconies, Letur, Spain 

Mist in the Valley, Yosemite, California         Engadin Valley, Swiss Alps, Switzerland    Golden Canyon, The Alps, Switzerland

Water Spout, Liguria, Italy    Langwald, Switzerland 

Streetside cafe and cube houses in Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Sunrise, Raleigh, North Carolina

Outback Family History

When there’s a Gold Rush ‘Sell Beer’   

Walter Lindrum – the greatest cueman of all time

The Swearful Dryblower – a verse

The Norris Family on the Goldfields

JSTOR Daily

The Horror!   How to Use a Ouija Board    Life with a Jinni 

Halloween: A Mystic and Eerie Significance

The USSR's “Invisible Cuisine”

Atlas Obscura

A “Changeling” Murder   Disappearing Traditions   Mel Blanc’s Grave   Mammoth Spring     Potential Future Danger Signs   Springs Park

The Original ‘Nightmare’  Kostel Svatého Jiří Ghost Church 

The Smell of a Witch  Picnicking in Cemeteries   Kona Skatepark

Architectural and Artistic Wonder Beware the Thunderbird

Jersey Shore Hauntings Balto the Sled Dog   Ascend Ascend on Vinyl

Step Inside the Recreational Fear Lab  Grave of Florence Irene Ford

Do Not Go Near These 6 Things  Legendary Hollywood Hangouts 

Llyn Barfog Wales Kesha and Ghost Hunting  Secrets of Italy

The Hardy Tree a must read    What’s Hiding Under Venice?

Most Mysterious Graves  Fortune-Telling Cakes The Little House

Dining With the Dead   Museums Dedicated to Monsters 

Manna of St. Nicholas of Bari 7 Scientific Sites in L.A.    

Creepy Clown Origins  World's Largest Rubber Stamp

Irish Genealogy plus

Irish names that are popular outside Ireland - IrishCentral

IPL Genealogy Group - Things To Do in Rochester NY - Democrat and Chronicle 

Irish housing crisis goes from bad to worse as homeless figures rise - IrishCentral 

'Bringing Up Bates' Chad Paine's Shocking Family History Surfaces - TV Shows Ace 

Appeal for help: McGinnis genealogy call out - Donegal Live 

It's all relative as Knocknagree's family tree looks to grow upwards again - Irish Examiner 

Lady of the Dunes: FBI identifies woman nearly 50 years after killing - Irish Examiner

Your joyful memories of Ireland at Christmas - IrishCentral

Always Interesting

Pauline Conolly ARTILLERYMAN & ‘THE PEACE CUP’ 

allenrizzi Is Anybody Really Listening?    The Ice Cream Man Cometh Not      Once Upon A Time In Northridge

humoringthegoddess      Faerie Paths — Faerie Tales  

Giuseppe Arcimboldo  Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Halloween Gallery-Style  Yin and Yang — Or Bing and Bang?

TextileRanger  The Endeavourers’ Reveal Day – Quilt Quest

The Empire Called and I Answered Private Arthur Jabons Lane, no known grave

Cicadas, Bees and Barge Poles  Phyllis WINTER. Forever young.

Tales from the Grave Heroic attempted rescue results in tragedy

Anne Young U is for unknown fate of Gerald Mainwaring

Amy Gerson Blumenfeld II, Part II: Two Sons Killed in World War I Fighting for Germany

Jennifer Jones Using Timelines In Genealogy

Gerry Bolton  Ellen Welby and Charlotte Spiers

Reviews

Theresa Smith

Book Review: Horse by Geraldine Brooks

Book Review: Is This a Cookbook? Adventures in the Kitchen by Heston Blumenthal

A Month of Reading: October

Penguin Books Australia

No Plan B Jack Reacher        Lee Child     START READING

The Orphans Fiona McIntosh  (try Fiona's passionfruit melting moments )   START BAKING

15 Seconds of Brave Melissa Doyle

Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story   Bono

The Long Weekend Judy Nunn six short stories   START READING

Fanatic Heart Tom Keneally    READ AN EXTRACT

Someone Else's Shoes  Jojo Moyes

Better Reading

Book of the Week: Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng       READ MORE

Day's End by Garry Disher     READ MORE

East of Alice by Annie Seaton      READ MORE

Broad River Station by Fleur McDonald   READ MORE

Fifteen Seconds of Brave by Melissa Doyle    READ MORE

Podcast: Reece Carter on Exploring Darker Themes in Gothic Children’s Fiction

Podcast: Kate McCaffrey on Gender, Identity and Adult Fiction

and from my blogs...

That Moment in Time

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 28th Oct 2022, 19 catacombs, Irish news, human tower, food & cults, giant flower pot accommodation, dark hedges, human tower, reverse freedom, 6 habits of highly effective researcher, naked ladies, crumbling presidential heads, Sunshine Coast genealogists band together, reviews, great blogs and a whole lot more… 

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

https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2022/10/friday-fossicking-28th-oct-2022.html

HEADLINES OF OLD

MILITARY APPOINTMENTS, RETIREMENTS, ETC. ... Trove Tuesday 1st Nov 2022, various states & services.. also suggestions as to where to find more information…

Feel free to share, the title is the link…

https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2022/11/military-appointments-retirements-etc.html

As They Were

IGP Archives OCTOBER update, headstone photos from Cavan, Donegal, Dublin, Kildare, Leitrim, Limerick, Offaly, Wicklow..

Many thanks to Christina and all the volunteers for this great resource.

https://astheywere.blogspot.com/2022/11/igp-archives-october-update.html

Keep well and safe.
This will pass.