FRIDAY FOSSICKING 3rd Feb 2023

 

* GENERAL

GSQ Blog  Accentuate the Positive  Pauline Williams ..part of Jill Ball's challenge

The ScriBbler by Stella Budrikis incl. Lola Montez (Eliza Gilbert)

..always interesting... incl. how to work out family 'levels' 

National Archives of Australia newsletter incl. 

2002 Cabinet records released  

Exhibitions - Ghost town: stories from the ruins | Perth 

Disrupt, persist, invent: Australians in an ever-changing world | Canberra      Spy: Espionage in Australia | Albury | Closing 5 February

Sponsoring the survivors

Writing your family history familytreefrog Alex Daw

Despatch February 2023 - Records added to Bendigo and North Melbourne collections   

Look history in the eye. The Kamarooka panther and more..

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Eltham District Historical Society Inc.    February Meeting: Eltham Lower Park … a history

Just Because

How to recycle your old computer, phone and other electronics | CHOICE

Wanderlust Twins

Ancient Palace, Calais, France   27 January, 2023 14:32 Norway  

Hobbiton movie set, Matamata, New Zealand   

Ferchensee reflection, Oberbayern, Germany

Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah Isle of Skye, Scotland

Private houses on the beach, Islas Las Perlas, Panama

Chedi reflections in Sukhotai Historical Park / Thailand

The Crooked Forest, Poland Kayangan Lake, Palawan

Light in the Forest, Olympic Peninsula, Washington

Gacnik Waterfall in Julian Alps, Slovenia

Wooden trail at Knysna Lagoon, South Africa

Outback Family History

A Tonsorial Dynasty – the Mickle boys   Coles’s Find – a fair prospect

Leslie Frederick Carter – grave tales      The Old Terbaccy Tin –

JSTOR Daily

Michael Gold: Red Scare Victim   The Rise and Fall of Fanny Cradock

The Colonial History of the Telegraph 

The Next (Salamander)Epidemic

Victorians Mourned with Vulcanized Rubber Jewelry 

Atlas Obscura

5 Colorful Lunar New Year Stories    Mud Volcano Eruption  

U.S. Route 412   A Desert’s Unique Biodiversity   Culinary Naples

Celebrate Burns With Haggis   The Covington Film Garden    

Here Comes the Sun (And Coffee)     La Maison du Gruyère    

Ancient Egypt and Pigeons     Celebrate the Year of the Rabbit  Musical Cryptography  Spruce Street Suspension Bridge San Diego    Uncle Harvey's Mausoleum C.S. Lewis and Turkish Delight

A Pink Fairy Armadillo  America’s Only Floating Post Office

Birthplace of Joan of Arc     A Time Traveler Party   Pulque

Empress Anna’s Ice Palace podcast 8 Gargoyles and Grotesques

Water Tank Beneath Palais Garnier Italy’s War on Pasta

Forgotten Warrior Queens  Street Cat Bob Memorial Statue London

Arizona’s Ancient Petroglyphs    Spies Are Forever  Enter the Iceman

Puente Laguna Garzón incredible Skull Rock (Cleft Island) Australia

“Homecoming”  America’s Ancient Abattoir Yuncheng Salt Lake

Modern Map, Ancient Roads Berczy Park Dog Fountain   

The Queens of Ancient Nubia  Dijon’s Last Mustard Maker 

Fabius Page's Mule and Horse Graveyard

Galileo’s Middle Finger podcast An Adults-Only Children’s Book

Smithsonian 

A Ring of Fire, Millions of Monarchs and Other Rare Natural Phenomena Worth Traveling For  

The Most Anticipated Museum Openings of 2023

Italian Police Seize Rubens Masterpiece From an Exhibition 

Take a Peek Into One of the Last Studios Still Making Globes by Hand 

Drying Great Salt Lake Could Expose Millions to Toxic Arsenic-Laced Dust     U.K.'s Oldest Toy Museum Shuts Its Doors

Genealogy Ireland

Davitt family descend on Straide - The Mayo News 

Enoch Burke's family tree from home schooling to high profile court cases and every incident ... 

Ireland's Famine Black '47: A tragic chapter in Irish history - IrishCentral

Always Interesting

Geniaus   Descendants

allenrizzi Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind?  Fran Lori

I Remember Nonna     Important People   Tirolean Names

humoring the goddess   Every Line is Not a Straight Line

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Paitoon Jumee 

Faerie Paths — Particulars        Cactus — Houseplant Size   

I Y’am What I Y’am

Dreams and Adventures at Cosy Cottage Isle of Wight: Mottistone Long Stone     Isle of Wight: Appuldurcombe House

Pauline Conolly TIN-KETTLING

Shauna Hicks  Diary of an Australian Genealogist: Genealogy Diary Update for January 2023: Meeting the new twig on the family

The Legal Genealogist: Ancestry privacy update: no big deal

Between the lines

Samantha Anne Elley  He showed her his love until the day he died

Conor Reidy Featured Podcast – In search of the young Saint Brigid

Textile Ranger The Endeavourers’ Reveal Day — Portrait Two-for-one brilliant..

Diary of A Young Genealogist         Letters from the Suitcase Part 3

Reviews

Theresa Smith

Book Review: Leaning Out by Kristine Ziwica

A Month of Reading – January

Better Reading

Book of the Week:Maggie by Catherine Johns    READ MORE

Crows Nest by Nikki Mottram        READ MORE

Never to Surrender by Mary-Anne O'Connor   READ MORE

River Sing Me Home by Eleanor Shearer      READ MORE

Podcast: Ellidy Pullin on Deciding to Have Her Late Husband’s Child       LISTEN HERE

Podcast: Rebecca Heath on Exploring Class and Grief in The Summer Party     LISTEN HERE

Penguin Books Australia

Newsletter  incl.     

3 Days to Live    James Patterson       CHECK IT OUT

I’ll Leave You With This   Kylie Ladd about the book

Penguin Random House author, Taryn Brumfitt who has been named Australian of the Year 2023.  

Books that inspired Oscar-nominated films....

All Quiet on the Western Front    TAKE ME THERE

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse: The Animated Story  

READ NOW

and from my blogs...

That Moment in Time

FRIDAY FOSSICKING  27th Jan 2023, Free records from Australia  limited time, tracking beneficiaries in Ireland, great blogs, lost art of funeral confectionery, book reviews, museum of material failures, funky ferry rides, mad honey..  Need a list of Aust. & N.Z. genealogy facebook groups & pages..? Thanks to Lonetester, you can download free..           and there’s still so much more..

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

https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2023/01/friday-fossicking-27th-jan-2023.html

Headlines of Old

RETURN OF ASSIGNMENTS  OF MALE CONVICTS     Trove Tuesday 31 Jan 2023, Did your ancestral convicts return to their families..maybe they are listed in the following pages... They include names, sometimes place returned to, sometimes relationship, occupation/trade.

Feel free to share, the title is the link…

https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2023/01/return-of-assignments-of-male-convicts.html

Keep safe and well. 

This will pass.