FRIDAY FOSSICKING 24th Feb 2023

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GSQ Blog   ‘Enjoying the next genealogy journey’, Ross Hansen

IrishGenealogyNews: Ancestry updates Irish headstones, burials & obituaries collections courtesy Claire Santry

Just Because

Archeologists encourage community involvement in cemeteries - WUFT News 

Swansea: Family feud brawlers sentenced after cemetery fight - BBC News 

Volunteers clean historic cemeteries where former slaves buried in Fort Bend County

Archeologists encourage community involvement in cemeteries - WUFT News 

Outback Family History

The Shadow of Death Hotel & Tiger Tail Jerry

Peak Hill Cemetery – grave tales

Death of a Bushman – Ray Jackson

Winter -v- Spring a Darlot Divorce

JSTOR Daily

Using Data to Discover and Explore the Stories of Enslaved People

Principles of Composition in Art and Design

Controversy and Conjugal Visits  

Oyster Pirates in the San Francisco Bay

Keeping Scores: Unearthing the Works of Black Women Composers

Why is New Orleans a City of Parades?

Plant of the Month: Frangipani

Atlas Obscura

Chocolate’s Sacred Roots   Your Roundup of Wonder    Holt House     

World’s Longest-Running Experiment Venice’s Visual Feast: Carnival

Indigenous Desserts of Turtle Island   Heilan Horse Culture Museum

Delaware-Maryland-Pennsylvania Tri-State Point     

World’s Loneliest Post Office   The Cake With a Tragic Past

Newby-McMahon Building Texas This Dark Sky Town Went Darker

Kameya Kiyonaga tried this? Paris’s Black Americans 

Colors of India     Psychic Chicken of Seattle Meet George McJunkin

The Masks Meant to Shame     Kymlinge Metro Station    

Diving Into Food Anthropology  Namak Haram Deorhi

A Lost Monastery  Holsten's Brookdale Confectionery

A First Lady’s Disappearance        7 Spots Celebrating Black Athletes

Lebanon Bologna  Colorado Winter Wonderland Hazarduari Palace

King Cakes Around the World  Official Language, Social Weapon

Smithsonian

The Making of Emily Brontë 

Decorated With 4,000 Skeletons, This Roman Church Will Have You Pondering Your Own Mortality 

Owen Wilson Brings Bob Ross Energy to 'Paint' 

The Best Mardi Gras Parades Beyond New Orleans 

This Missouri Company Still Makes Cassette Tapes, and They Are Flying Off the Factory Floor 

Kandinsky Painting Returned to Heirs of Jewish Collectors Could Sell for $45 Million 

Hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright's Designs Were Never Built. Here's What They Might Have Looked Like 

Manhattan's Mini-Bean Is Finally Complete 

The Toxic Truth Behind Mardi Gras Beads 

Just How Chilly Is the World's Coldest City? 

Machu Picchu Reopens Following Weeks of Civil Unrest 

Did Vermeer's 'Girl' Really Have a Pearl Earring? 

An Abandoned, Industrial Ruin Bursts With New Life in Delaware 

Genealogy Ireland

Kerry amateur genealogist calls for early release of 1926 Census | RadioKerry.ie

How To...Trace your Genealogy - Newstalk 

Share your Irish family tree story and win a tree planted in Ireland - IrishCentral 

Most popular Irish baby names in Ireland, the last 50 years - IrishCentral 

A history of the Irish girl's name Albha | IrishCentral.com 

Fermanagh actor Adrian Dunbar will discover ancestry in DNA Journey | Impartial Reporter 

Zoom Program: Irish Genealogy | Danvers, MA Patch 

Runyon will present Irish program on St. Patrick's Day | Lifestyle - Newsbug.info 

Always Interesting

Pauline Conolly   MARASCHINO PUNCH.  TAXI!

Diary of A Young Genealogist Letters from the Suitcase Part 5

Humoring the Goddess  Oldies But Goodies  

Faerie Paths — Whirling Dervish   Sunday Evening Art Galleries — Glass    Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Elena Dal Cortivo

Sunday Evening Galleries — Buildings   Nikita Golubev

Sunday Evening Art Galleries — Nature

Stair na hÉireann | History of Ireland Pancake Tuesday | Shrove Tuesday

allenrizzi  Trash   One Flew Over The Cuckoo Clock Feet     

The K38 1/2 Story 

Tales from the Grave   Deadly swim on New Year's Day

Dreams and Adventures at Cosy Cottage   40-day Fitness Challenge      

Tracking Down the Family   History For Genealogists: Book Review

Brotmanblog: A Family Journey   Back to the Blogosphere

Reviews

Theresa Smith

The Week That Was… 

Better Reading

Book of the Week: Cold People by Tom Rob Smith READ MORE

Enter the Draw to Win Australia’s Top 100 Books      VOTE HERE

Podcast: Penelope Janu on Her Passion for Writing Romance

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Podcast: Shannon Molloy on Being a Voice for Sexual Abuse Survivors   LISTEN HERE

Penguin Books Australia

Lenny Marks Gets Away With Murder   Kerryn Mayne   FIND OUT MORE

Victory City Salman Rushdie    CHECK IT OUT

The Messiah’s Bride Megan Norris    LEARN MORE

and from my blogs...

That Moment in Time

FRIDAY FOSSICKING  17th Feb 2023, Elvis Presley’s Irish Roots, 

230 year old history discovered in Sydney, shipwreck’s painful legacy, ancient Pompeii’s menu, Victorian “Vinegar Valentines”,

Unique chocolates, ‘once a floating speakeasy’, interesting blogs, book reviews, archaeological “UFO”, Cathedral in the Desert, 

Long Lost letters by Mary Queen of Scots, books for library lovers..

assisted migration (National Museum of Australia)…and so much more..

Feel free to share, the title is the link…

https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2023/02/friday-fossicking-17th-feb-2023.html

HEADLINES OF OLD

TROVE TUESDAY  21st Feb 2023  Absconded Convicts, Details can include names, home, name of ship of arrival, age, physical description, any identifying marks, occupations/trade, sometimes personal relationships.

Note the various dates from when they absconded, some did so years before these notices.

Feel free to share, the title is the link…

https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2023/02/trove-tuesday-21st-feb-2023-absconded.html

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 17th Feb 2023

 

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GSQ Blog  

Beyond Doubt – Mary McMillan really was my 3rd great grandmother. Janine Heggie Assisted migration | National Museum of Australia

National Library of Australia newsletter   incl. Love your library

Books for library lovers   History of your home town video + more..

Trove Treasures   incl.  Explore the AWPA records in Trove

See what's new in February 2023

Australian War Memorial newsletter incl. 

Remembering Fall of Singapore...ACTION! FILM AND WAR.. Museum of Tropical Queensland

Geraldton Regional Art Gallery

National Archives UK newsletter incl. 

Treason against the state: America declares independence   

Rebellion or Revolution? Understanding the American Revolutionary War Visit Treason: People, Power & Plot

Opera songs performed for first time in 200 years

Just Because

230-year-old history unearthed beneath the future Sydney Metro Parramatta | NSW Government

Posts from Lonetester HQ for 11/Feb/2023

 Australian Genealogy and History Snippets – January/February 2023

Outback Family History

The Strange Case of Frederick Smith   Goldfields Hikes in 1893  Brother Pay The Ultimate Price    Joe the Shifter –

Tinteán Magazine The latest articles

Professor J. C. Beckett (1912-96)       A United Ireland     

Summer Schools at Koroit and Bungendore

Trí scannán by Colin Ryan     Novel of the Year 2022     

Elvis Presley’s Irish Roots 

A Blacksmith from Limerick in New York  

What’s On in February or March    

A Brief History of the Irish in Australia

JSTOR Daily

The First Famous Football Team Behind Bars    

Elma Lewis: Boston’s Doyenne of Black Culture

Isabel Allende’s “Two Words”   (great author)  

The Long Life of the Nacirema

Secret Societies and the Fight for Black Freedom     

Exploring the Avante–Garde Architectural Manifesto

ATLAS Obscura

Amish Soul Food Origins      A Shipwreck’s Painful Legacy

Rancho Gordo’s Beans  video An Island’s Enduring History

California’s Name Origins   The Vagabond Hotel  Kelly's Cats 

Ancient Pompeii’s Menu Northern Italy’s Culinary Treasures

An Archaeological ‘UFO’    The ‘Archaeology’ of Plastics

The Recumbent Effigy of Victor Noir   Methuselah Tree (Sequoia)

Persimmon Beer’s Powerful History Debunking Moose Boulder

The Ruins of St. Dunstan-in-the-East   The San Juan Island Pig War

Pompeii’s House of the Vettii   risqué art Look At This Quoll

Cat Island Bald Cypress The Stand Fry bread  Pewsey White Horse

Victorian ‘Vinegar Valentines’   The History of Joe Froggers

Quiahuiztlán Miramar, Mexico  Washington’s ‘Washaway Beach’

Be My AO Valentine (Puzzle) Alaska Highway's Milepost 1523

Cathedral in the Desert  The Little Hare That Could

11 Places to See Real Hearts     Reliquary of St. Margaret Clitherow

How Do You Measure Love?       The Extremes of Mating Season   Chopin's Heart   Unexpected Ways to Confess    The Faerie Playhouse     

10 Unique Chocolates   Pacific Grove Butterfly House

 

Smithsonian

How an All-Black Female WWII Unit Saved Morale on the Battlefield 

5,000-Year-Old Tavern With Food Still Inside Discovered in Iraq 

In 1946, a Black Pilot Returned to the Cockpit After a Double Amputation 

Code Breakers Discover—and Decipher—Long-Lost Letters by Mary, Queen of Scots 

The Indigenous Americans Who Visited Europe 

Once a Floating Speakeasy, This Shipwreck Tells a Tale of Bullets and Booze 

Vikings Brought Horses and Dogs to England, Study Finds 

When Lyndon B. Johnson Chose the Middle Ground on Civil Rights—and Disappointed Everyone 

Seven-Foot Sword Unearthed From 1,600-Year-Old Burial Mound in Japan 

Metal Detectorist Discovers Rare Gold Pendant Celebrating Henry VIII's First Marriage 

Archaeologists Unearth Oldest Known Gold-Covered Mummy in Egypt 

Ancient Statue of Emperor Dressed as Hercules Discovered During Roman Sewer Repairs 

Irish Genealogy

How I got my Irish citizenship and Irish passport as an American - IrishCentral 

"Line of Duty's" Adrian Dunbar to feature on "DNA Journey" - IrishCentral 

Irish eyes are smiling as Trainor clan plans large reunion on P.E.I. | CBC News 

Penny's colonialoscopy | The Spectator Australia 

Sharing the story of 'eight Catholic families' | News | parsonssun.com

Family history talk to explore allegiances in South Antrim | NorthernIrelandWorld 

Always Ireland: An Insider's Tour of the Emerald Isle - IrishCentral 

Cast Announced For the UK Tour of FAMILY TREE - Broadway World 

Famine fiend Charles Trevelyan's heirs say sorry, but not to the Irish - IrishCentral 

Remains of Irish hero Patrick Sarsfield discovered on Belgian church grounds - IrishCentral 

How an amateur genealogist from Tipperary cracked Ireland's oldest missing persons case 

New visitor centre documents history of Belfast City Cemetery - The Irish News 

ALWAYS INTERESTING

The Legal Genealogist  Coming up: February-March 2023

Just 33 years…   

Dreams and Adventures at Cosy Cottage   Thoughts and musings…

Isle of Wight: Carisbrooke Castle Books I’ve Read: WWW Wednesday

Anne Young   Assistant Surgeon Dr Russell of the 63rd Regiment (1804 – 1849)   

Diary of A Young Genealogist  Letters from the Suitcase Part 4

Pauline Conolly FINDHORN – A PLACE OF PEACE FOR HAZEL HAWKE.

Gerry Bolton Oops! A branch falls off the tree…

Tales from the Grave  Hordern family behind largest department store worldwide

allenrizzi  Humor: When It Does And Doesn’t Work 

Who’s In Charge?    Working For Cheese    Pasta Con Vongole

Humoring the Goddess  Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Mad Cat Teapots  Geishas   Sunday Evening Art Gallery — The Unicorn Tapestries   Pierre-Philppe Thomire  Taking Advantage

Stair na hÉireann | History of Ireland #OTD in 1848 – John Mitchel publishes first United Irishmen.

Deep in the Heart of Textiles  ScrapHappy February 2023

Reviews

Theresa Smith

Book Review: The Soulmate by Sally Hepworth

Book Review: Someone Else’s Shoes by Jojo Moyes

Book Review: Tuesday Evenings with the Copeton Craft Resistance by Kate Solly

Book Review: Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

Penguin Books Australia

Newsletter incl. Want to know the hottest new names in literature before everyone else does? LEARN MORE

The Collected Regrets of Clover Mikki Brammer       READ IT

Go As a River   Shelley Read     CHECK IT OUT

Chain-Gang All-Stars  Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenya SEE THE BOOK

Lenny Marks Gets Away With Murder   Kerryn Mayne GO TO THE BOOK

Our Hideous Progeny   C.E. McGill 

Anam André Dao  a fascinating tale that blends essay and fiction

Clytemnestra   Costanza Casati  START READING

and from my blogs...

That Moment in Time

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 10th Feb 2023,       SAVE TROVE…your

help needed, over 700 images of Brisbane, The Irish roots of The Doors Jim Morrison & their influence, search aboriginal history, giant iceberg, prisoner's rights, Ireland's fairy forts, Mumbai’s coastal subjects, predictive alternative groundhogs, underwater ballroom, security installed at Orange cemetery, Australia’s worst river disaster, photos from around the world, great book reviews, 

even a crossword, interesting blogs and so much more..

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https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2023/02/friday-fossicking-10th-feb-2023.html

HEADLINES OF OLD

TROVE TUESDAY 14th February 2023   Valentine's Day, origin, celebrations, tales of times gone by.. do you celebrate ? What does this day mean to you?

https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2023/02/trove-tuesday-14th-february-2023.html

Keep safe and well.
This will pass.