FRIDAY FOSSICKING 30 Jun 2023

 GENERAL

GSQ Blog...  The elusive background of Mary Sheehy. Christine Leonard

Homeowners in historic Rockhampton uncover fascinating histories with new research service - ABC News

National Archives UK

Video and blog: The Empire Windrush passenger list

Blog: Women on board the Empire Windrush

Podcast: On the Record, Windrush at 75

Online event: The story of Empire Windrush in ten documents

Blog: The story of Edward Lees: Refugee, internee, soldier

Outback Family History

The Pioneer Photographer – Roy Millar 

Mick of the Murchison – Doing Time

George Jessop – grave tales  The Game – by Ray ‘Jacko’ Jackson

Smithsonian

Bronze Age Cemetery Discovered Near Stonehenge 

An Exclusive Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Los Alamos Lab Where J. Robert Oppenheimer Created the Atomic Bomb 

This Ancient Maya City Was Hidden in the Jungle for More Than 1,000 Years 

Archaeologists Find 3,000-Year-Old Sword So Well Preserved It 'Almost Still Shines' 

The Real History Behind the Archimedes Dial in 'Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny' 

How the Santa Fe Railroad Changed America Forever 

Archaeologists Discover 4,000-Year-Old 'Dutch Stonehenge' 

JStor Daily

The Milk Banks of New York   Plant of the Month: Indigo

Martha Graham's Night Journey  Tape Heads 

The Enduring Appeal of Architect Geoffrey Bawa

Atlas Obscura

Remembering ‘Brownie Mary’  The Summer Solstice Triangle     

Miniature Hollywood   Crafting a Miniature Abandoned Room

Podcasts   PODCAST Step Inside the Hand Collection   

PODCAST Ben & Jerry's Flavor Graveyard

Yogi Bear Honey Fried Chicken Restaurant      City Hall Station N.Y. 

The Store Keeping Books in Boats     Orca Behaviour

End of the World Cinema     World’s Largest Miniature Collection   

Come Explore Fairyland After Dark     Doberge Cake

The Britpop Legends Who Almost Launched a Space Program     

Spaceship House      A Collection of Toys for the Afterlife   

Son Kee Chung’s Greek Helmet  World’s Most Beloved Asparagus

Vulcan Point Philippines The Disgusting Food Museum

World’s Only Art Nouveau McDonald’s Serbia Tomb of the Wet Kimono    Humanity’s Most Distant Spacecraft    Unusual Sodas

Garum Biblioteca e Museo Della Cucina Italy Robert the Doll cursed

Debunking National Dishes  AO Tries Tarpon Fishing

Earth’s Coolest Library  Human Scents and Perfumes

Tower Hill Execution Site England  Grapes on Fire   

The Eerie Remnants of an Ancient Forest  Oregon

Step Inside a Garden of Fragrance  San Francisco

Curious Culinary Finds in Colorado  

Irish Genealogy

Kevin Clifton 'proud' to have new role models after discovering family history - Irish News 

Irish pub restores family history in Elroy - WiscNews 

US Governor with local ancestry to address Seanad - Westmeath Independent 

Windham County Genealogy Interest Group to discuss probate gems and Irish ancestry 

Illiana Ancestors: New Irish magazine online | Lifestyles - commercial-news.com 

10 of the biggest MISTAKES tourists make when visiting Ireland - Ireland Before You Die 

Always Interesting

Textile Ranger Knitting for Victory in the Early 1940s

humouring the goddess Kiko Miyares    Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Erich J. Moffitt   This Amazing Time Is Yours! | The Creator

Dumb Questions on a Bright Saturday Day 

Faerie Paths — Masterpieces Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Randall Rosenthal   Cool Windy Cloudy Misty Summer Mornings

allenrizzi The Camp At Lost Creek  

The Long Drive Yankee Doodle Dandy

Pauline Conolly THE WIDOW WONGA     KANGAROO EXPRESS

LADIES, BRING A PLATE (must read)

Dreams and Adventures at Cosy Cottage Wycoller, Brontës and Boulsworth Hill (517m) in Pennine Lancashire

Jennifer Jones Research Timeline: Ernest Welfare WATERS and Hilda Mary Beatrice Gilmour – My great grandparents

Stair na hÉireann #OTD in Irish History | 26 June:

 [Records-Access-Alerts] (Canada) C-18 Bill Requiring Google-Meta to Pay for News Content Becomes Law

https://www.thestar.com/business/2023/06/22/liberal-bill-requiring-google-and-meta-to-pay-for-news-content-passes-in-senate.html  

http://lists.iajgs.org/mailman/private/records-access-alerts/

Reviews

Theresa Smith

Book Review: The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende

Tania Blanchard

Newsletter Read about her latest book... A Woman of Courage 

I've enjoyed a number of her books.. mentioned in her newsletter.

Better Reading

Book of the Week: Yellowface by R. F. Kuang     READ MORE

Storylines by Carrie Cox  READ MORE

A Disappearance in Fiji by Nilima Rao    READ MORE

The Drowning Woman by Robyn Harding     READ MORE     

The Paris Agent by Kelly Rimmer   READ MORE

Podcast: Susan Paterson on Exploring the Power of Art in her Debut Novel Where Light Meets Water    LISTEN HERE

Podcast: James Comey on the FBI, Mob Trials and Writing Crime

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BE Better Podcast: Paul McKenna on Finding Freedom from Anxiety

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Penguin Books Australia

The Secrets of the Huon Wren by Claire van Ryn CHECK IT OUT

READ A SNIPPET

Why We Are Here Briohny Doyle    READ AN EXTRACT

The Scarlet Papers Matthew Richardson TAKE ME THERE

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow Gabrielle Kevin  HAVE A LOOK

and from my blogs...

That Moment in Time

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 23 Jun 2023, The Allure of Book Towns, Man-Fish Friendship, Trees that change your tastebuds, a must read… biographical database of Australia, dangers of tea drinking, the time Iceland banned cats, thousand year rose, outraged farmers mobilise in rural Ireland, great blogs and reviews…

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Headlines of Old

FEMALE CONVICTS.. Trove Tuesday 27th Jun 2023,  Cost of taking female convicts as servants, conditions female convicts were expected to live under, links for further information...

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FRIDAY FOSSICKING 23 Jun 2023

GENERAL

GSQ Blog....  ‘A ship of Contentment and Cheerfulness: Further Researching on Nineteenth Century Queensland Immigrant Vessels’.
Jennifer Harrison

BDA Online — Biographical Database of Australia

just a preview... BDA is a new research tool for historians and genealogists comprising transcripts & indexes of original records and published biographies of deceased individuals who arrived, or were born in, Australia. Advanced search function now available. Many thanks to Judy Webster

John Grenham   Island of Saints, Scholars and Surnames

Wunderlust Twins

Shifen waterfall is a scenic waterfall located in Pingxi District, Taiwan, on the upper reaches of the Keelung River.

Outback Family History

Sailor Bill’s Elopement –    Black Flag – ghost town

Uren Golden Wedding

JStor Daily

The Destructive Myth of the Universal Genius   

The Media's Bottom-Line Problem  The Dangers of Tea Drinking

Should Punishment Fit the Crime?     Sanitizing Foreign Food at the World's Fair   The MCU: A Tale of American Exceptionalism

Atlas Obscura

Necklaces as Power Symbols     That Time Iceland Banned Cats

Fantasy World Philippines   Explore the Colors of the Outback

A Groundbreaking Cookbook Michigan's Lost Peninsula

22 Unusual Roadside Lodgings   Pet de Soeur-Québec  Star Dances

A Forgotten Pie Recipe  Books for Nature-Lovers 

Trees That Change Your Tastebuds   The Ruins of Odd Fellows Home

A Mysterious Book Heist Site The 'Ghostbusters' Firehouse

The Longest Place Name In The World Where Walt Disney Dined

The Story Behind Juneteenth’s Red Foods  World’s Smallest Window What Wine Does the White House Serve?   The Allure of Book Towns    Pavement Clock   A Man-Fish Friendship incredible...

Las Playitas Mexico Italian Streets That Don’t Exist

Rinoceronte di Piazza Vittoria Crimson Dawn Witches

The Friendliest Town on the Loneliest Road An ‘Earth Monster’

Europe’s Most Popular Street Name A Chimpanzee Shrine Guide

The Thousand-Year Rose  A Gold Pyramid House Café Lafitte in Exile

Valley of Square Trees

Smithsonian

Nine Ways People Celebrate the Summer Solstice Around the World 

These National Parks Are Hosting Stargazing Festivals in 2023 

The 15 Best Small Towns to Visit in 2023 

Five Reasons to Take a Road Trip Through Arkansas 

Wolves Are Making a Comeback at Michigan's Isle Royale National Park 

Finders, Keepers: Five of the Best Places to Go Gem Hunting in the U.S. 

What Disney Theme Parks Tell Us About Ourselves 

How Spam Became a Staple of Asian Cuisine 

Meet the Lifeguard Dogs Watching Over Beachgoers in Maine 

Eight Unusual Roadside Attractions Worth Stopping For 

Seven Ways to Explore Space Without Leaving Earth 

Great White Sharks Come Much Closer to Swimmers Than Thought in Southern California

Hawaii's Kīlauea Volcano Is Erupting Again—Here's How to See It 

Could This Convertible Seat Improve Air Travel for Wheelchair Users? 

Italy Raises Museum Prices to Help Fund Flood Relief

Irish Genealogy

In Ireland, I learned what life was like for my kin. (But sleeping in a castle was more fun) 

Outraged farmers mobilize in rural Ireland - IrishCentral

History of Irish emigration: its tragedies and what we should embrace and celebrate 

How to plan a genealogy trip to connect with your roots - The Washington Post 

Irish language's centuries-old roots explored in new DNA study - IrishCentral

Ireland has changed utterly since the 1950s but reassuringly stays the same - IrishCentral 

Always Interesting

Humoring the Goddess Faerie Paths — Science Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Mariko Kusumoto    Sunday Evening Art Gallery–Starfish    Thoughts and Music From The Past   Faerie Paths — Stars

allenrizzi Cancer Lesson #1- Purging Toxic People  Don’t Call Us, We’ll Call You    Kicking The Bucket

Pauline Conolly EPIMEDIUM; THE FRISKY GOAT!       MUDGEE MAIL TRAIN – A TERRIBLE JOURNEY

Dreams and Adventures at Cosy Cottage Broody girls – Eliza and Victoria   Video of a broody chicken

Geniaus   600 Burials

Deep in the Heart of Textiles Decorator Dreams from the 1940s

Stair na hÉireann | History of Ireland  #OTD in Irish History | 19 June:

The Legal Genealogist Happy Juneteenth!

Brotmanblog: A Family Journey Good for A Single Journey by Helen Joyce: A Review of A Wonderful New Book and An Interview with the Author

Reviews

Theresa Smith 

Book Review: The Broken Places by Russell Franklin

Better Reading

Book of the Week: The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende     READ MORE              * One of my favourite authors

Broken Bay by Margaret Hickey      READ MORE

The Daughters of Madurai by Rajasree Variyar  READ MORE

The Ghost Theatre by Mat Osman      READ MORE

The Interpreter by Brooke Robinson    READ MORE

Podcast: Naima Brown on Exploring the Dark Side of Reality TV

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BE Better Podcast: Belinda Alexandra on Being Emboldened

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and from my blogs..

That Moment in Time

FRIDAY FOSSICKING  16th Jun 2023, helpful newsletters..e.g. 

TROVE, National Archives UK… great articles from Tinteán Magazine, The Man Killing Clam, Sliced Bread Ban, Aboriginal Traditions, Doomed Lovers, free pdf. issue Irish Lives Remembered, more Irish community archives online, Titanic + new 3D scan, free access to Canadian 1931 Census.. along with great blogs and reviews…

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Headlines of Old

INTESTATE.. NO, NOT INTERSTATE    ...   various states ... Trove Tuesday 20th Jun 2023, these notices give a ist of people who died intestate.. Doubt any claims would still be outstanding..

It’s best to make a will. Feel free to share, the title is the link…

https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2023/06/intestate-no-not-interstate-various.html