FRIDAY FOSSICKING 12th May 2023

 * GENERAL

Happy Mother's Day to all who celebrate this coming Sunday

GSQ Blog   Thomas Muir and his Three Wives  Marg Doherty

Cairns Family History Newsletter   incl. interesting articles

National Archives UK newsletter  incl. A ground-breaking ceremony: the coronation of Elizabeth II

National Library of Australia newsletter incl. Stream the Podcast..

Listen to Patricia Karvelas, Mia Freedman, Ita Buttrose and more talk about the past, present and future of women in journalism.

John Grenham IrishGenealogy Search quirks

*PLEASE NOTE*  I'm taking a week off over this coming week, with both "That Moment in Time" and "Headlines of Old".

However, that gives you time to reread your favourite posts. 

Wanderlust Twins Lighthouse, Hyannis, Massachusettes    

Forest Path, The Netherlands  Stetind Peak in Tysfjord, the national mountain of Norway

Outback Family History

The Beatons of Colga Downs Station  

Thomas Joseph Tobin – pioneer profile

The Strange Case of Baby Quinn   Not a Gold Rush but !!

Tinteán Magazine

Irish History Professors in Irish Universities:Brief Lives series. No. 5. Robin Dudley-Edwards (1909-1988)

Blast from our sectarian past   Alice Cashin – the Queen of Marrickville.    A Right Royal Cup of Tay. 

Behind the Scenes of James Joyce’s ‘Exiles’

THANK GOD FOR BOB MAGUIRE

Slán ó Chroí le Maelíosa Stafford Goodbye from the Heart

The Irishman who Shot the Duke of Edinburgh

What’s On in May-June 2023.        What's On

JStor Daily

A Bot Might Have Written This    12 Poems by Asian-American and Pacific Islander Poets     The Pitfalls of the Pursuit of Happiness

The I Ching in America   Plant of the Month: Hibiscus

The Strange Career of the Lady Possum of the New World

Atlas Obscura 

N.B.  For those interested in puzzles, you will see them marked *

Australia’s Child-Eating Bunyip     Titanic’s Last Jelly Dish 

The Long History of Beltane Bannock  Sumida Hokusai Museum

The Great American Bigfoot Tour     War Heroes Crossword*

The Explorer's Guide to U Street Corridor Make ‘Fairy Butter’

Stenberget (Stone Mountain) Argentina’s Loch Ness Monster

The Baffling—and Terrifying—Mystery of the Bell Witch

A Sea Monster Museum  The Sasquatch Outpost  The Gates of Hell

Magnificent Menagerie  A Giant Bookshelf A Donkey Ghost Town

The Strange Tale of the SS Warrimoo   Foods With Royal Roots

Miffy Traffic Light End of the Line Mural The Ruins of Songo Mnara

How to Keep a Ghost Town Ghostly  Site of the World's Tallest Tree

Did This Colombian Legend Actually Exist? The Village of Monsanto

Drown a Goddess for Spring  Cornell Barbecue Chicken

Archaeological Site inside Monastiraki Metro Station 

19th-Century ‘Tear Catchers’    Kaffeost with coffee

Make a King’s Coronation Quiche  Musical Water Monsters

Imagination Park  Fortune Cookie History    Kaktovik, Alaska*

Cobb’s Hill New York Scary Plants and Botanical Horrors

Lilias Adie Grave Marker

Smithsonian

Five Places Where You Can Still Find Gold in the United States

'Star Trek' Fans Can Now Virtually Tour Every Starship Enterprise Bridge

How You Can See Tens of Thousands of Fireflies Flash in Unison

Five Lighthouses Where You Can Be an Overnight Keeper

The Science of California's 'Super Bloom,' Visible From Space

Eight Unusual Roadside Attractions Worth Stopping For 

New Glamping Resort Opens Near Zion National Park

Cemeteries That Save the American Landscape

Greece Is Making Hundreds of Beaches More Accessible

Irish Genealogy

King Charles set to make state visit to Ireland - IrishCentral 

Northern Irish cemetery installs "letters to heaven" postbox - IrishCentral 

Bruce Springsteen visits his Irish ancestral roots as the E Street Band plays Dublin 

Charles Trevelyan's descendants finally think of Ireland - IrishCentral 

Irish police seize ancient artifacts as part of European-wide investigation - IrishCentral 

New York's Natural History Museum Unveils a Canyon-Like New Wing

The Vibrant History of Lowrider Car Culture in L.A.

You Can Buy a Beautiful Uninhabited Scottish Island for $187,000

The Crown's Claire Foy shocked to discover family caught up in murder trial - Metro 

Genealogy tourism big business as US visitors seek to trace their roots - Irish Examiner 

Cork genealogy database holds 57000 burial records to help search for ancestors 

Irish Family History Forum -Breaking Down Brick Walls - Long Island Events  Only 42% of Irish weddings are Catholic - IrishCentral 

[Records-Access-Alerts] Federal District Court: Ancestry Buy Doesn't Immediately Trigger Genetic Information Privacy Act

Well worth reading!

 [Records-Access-Alerts] (US) 2020 Census - Census Bureau Report Says 2020 Census may have Missed Substantial Share of Non US Citizen Residents

Always Interesting

Lonetester HQ Join SLQ’s New Transcription Project

Carmel's Corner: April an acrostic of books

Pauline Conolly  CORONATION DAY AT ULVERSTONE 1953

SISTER ROSA O’KANE – A HEROINE OF WWI

humoringthegoddess Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Arno Rafael Minkkinen    Untitled beautiful     Faerie Paths — Reading

You Listened to What??   Sailing Ships

allenrizzi Becoming Mr. Bruce  The Porched Paper  Back To Back

I Never Got To Be A Bass Man

JennyMacKay My Journey as a Lawn Bowler

A Lifetime of Royal Moments

The Legal Genealogist About that milestone… PTP finally!!!

Textile Ranger Photos from the City Nature Challenge

Stair na hÉireann | History of Ireland #OTD in Irish History | 8 May:

Anne Young  Everywhere 

Dreams and Adventures at Cosy Cottage      Adventures on the Lake District mountains: Crinkle Craggs (860m/2822ft) and Wansfell Pike (482m/1581ft)

Brotmanblog: A Family Journey Blog Update

Reviews

Theresa Smith

This week in reading…

Better Reading

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus   READ OUR REVIEW

Someone Else’s Shoes by Jojo Moyes   READ OUR REVIEW

The Collected Regrets of Clover by Mikki Brammer

The Tea Ladies by Amanda Hampson   READ OUR REVIEW

Book of the Week: Home Before Night by J.P. Pomare READ MORE

Orphia and Eurydicius by Elyse John  READ MORE

Estella by Kathy George   READ MORE        

* My review.."ESTELLA" Kathy George

Podcast: Loraine Peck on Criminal Ex-Husbands and Writing Courses

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Podcast: BE Better: Gretchen Rubin on Living Life in Five Senses

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Podcast: Candice Fox on the Success of Her Novels   LISTEN HERE

Allen & Unwin 

newsletter incl. excerpts from eight current books...

and from my blogs...

That Moment in Time

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 5th May 2023, great Australian stuff, coronations through collections, Who Do You Think You Are, Killer Rabbit Cave, Beltane Fire Festival, secret library apartments, Street of the Nights (Greece),  Kevin Costner’s Irish ancestry, interesting blogs, book reviews, top 100 books revealed, exploding chocolate teacakes, oldest mosque in the U.S., tree eyes….and so much more…

Feel free to share, the title is the link…

https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2023/05/friday-fossicking-5th-may-2023.html

Headlines of Old

CERTIFICATES OF NATURALISATION  Trove Tuesday 9th May 2023, These are a selection of notices over various months, and states published in the Commonwealth of Australia gazette. Each page may have several dates. These posts may help you track missing relatives…

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

https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2023/05/certificates-of-naturalisation-trove.html