Friday, September 15, 2023

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 15th Sept 2023




GENERAL

BSQ Blog   The Agony and the Ecstasy of Family History Research. Shauna Hicks

Queensland State Archives newsletter incl.... 

Queensland's x-files Watch now   

QSA Talk Japanese War Brides – a Queensland story Watch now

Read newsletter for more info.


Despatch September 2023  Public Record Office Victoria - Grants, awards and creative in residence program news       also...

Happy anniversary V/Line    Digitised photographs ready to explore


National Library of Australia

Grit and Gold: Tales from a Sporting Nation enters extra time
Recording the reactions to the death of Queen Elizabeth II 
Events happening at the Library  Learn more

The National Archives UK  newsletter incl.
Open House Festival

Australian War Memorial newsletter incl.
Learn about the OV-10A Bronco restoration  Big Things in Store event

Orange City Council newsletter incl. What is happening around Orange?

Outback Family History
Life in the Australian Backblocks  A Dastardly Deed in Lefroy Street –          Yuin Reef Mine Cemetery –     The Donkey Man

Tinteán Magazine
John Corbett’s Reminiscence of Edmund Curtis   The Lundy Principle in Northern Ireland     England’s Difficulty, Ireland’s Opportunity: 
A Platinum Anniversary: Seventy Years of teaching Irish Dance in Australia  On Rereading The Country Girls   The Irish Travellers
Four new Irish novels  What’s On 1 What's On 2


JStor Daily   Who and What Was a Knocker-Upper?  Sport in America: A Reading List  Cochabamba People's Agreement: Annotated   EV Cars: Can We Electrify Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis?

Atlas Obscura
The Mystery of a Lost Wedding Dress  Norwegian Cheese in South Korea  Peculiar School Traditions  Washington D.C.
Take an Auditory Escape Through Maine  An Early Women’s Labor Movement  West Bell Street Car Park Dundee, Scotland
Why Do Fantasy Novels Have So Much Food? 
'Saved by a Whale’s Tail'   Creating Crossword Puzzles 
The Real-Life Location of Rivendell Familiar? Think Lord of the Rings  A Victorian Sea Fort’s Second Life  Forging Italian Cuisine
A Sculpture on the Moon  Monk-Brewed Wine
This Sea Has No Land Boundary A Historic Pigeon Tower
Preserving a Mother’s Sweet Tradition Psychic Chicken of Seattle
A Rare Medieval Fortification   World’s Largest Quilting Needle
The Part of Michigan That's Surrounded by Ohio 
Computer History  The First Actual ‘Bug’  The Artisan Family That Made Bells For 1,000 Years  This Is Sealand    Unusual Pizza Spots 
Women In Wartime  A Unique Suspended Lake 
The Bloody Secret Of This Pink House Step Inside the Waffle House Museum  A Subterranean Shopping Street  Early Female Hunters
Living, Breathing Brooches (Bugs)  J.R.R. Tolkien's Grave
A Time-Inspired Specialty Shop Southern Florida’s Notorious Pirate
Edinburgh’s Hidden History A Bookseller Revolt, and More
Roast Eggs In Ash Haunted Stays and Autumn Days in Colorado
Why Is This Car Encased in Concrete? Behold, a 1,200-Year-Old Tree
Haunting Legends In The Witch’s Castle 
Chow Down on Cheese Zombies The Apartments Making Waves
A Strange Chicken-Themed Portrait 

Irish Genealogy
How to find out if there's an Irish language version of your surname - IrishCentral
LISTEN: DNA tests that exposed life changing stories - IrishCentral 
Irish Citizenship Made Easy – Exploring The Benefits And Path To Irish Citizenship Through Ancestry 
Ryedale Family History Group to welcome genealogist to next meeting - Gazette & Herald
Buffalo man attacked in Ireland now home and sharing his story | wgrz.com
New research and genealogy resources added to Clare Local Studies Centre | Council 
Retracing the Steps of My Ancestors, the Wild Scots of Galloway - Condé Nast Traveler

Smithsonian 
This 8,000-Year-Old Village on Stilts May Be the Oldest of Its Kind in Europe
How a Victorian Dinosaur Park Became a Time Capsule of Early Paleontology
See When Brilliant Fall Foliage Will Peak With This Interactive Map
You Can Rent an Entire Baseball Stadium on Airbnb
From Fabled Palaces to Ancient Medinas, a Journey Through Spain's Islamic History
Five Places Worth Traveling to This Fall
The Nectar of the Gods Is Coming to a Bar Near You 
Ruins of 2,000-Year-Old Roman Walls Unearthed in Swiss Alps 
Parisian Booksellers Have Lined the Seine for Centuries. Now, They're Fighting to Stay
Austria Offers Free Rail Travel in Exchange for Getting a Tattoo
See the Whimsical Trolls Taking Over the Pacific Northwest

Always Interesting
Brotmanblog: A Family Journey Guest Post: My Cousin Miki Katzenstein’s Trip to Jesberg and Munich—Retrieving History and Honoring the Past
Lenore Frost Private Yeats and the attack at Polygon Wood
Humoring the Goddess Sunday Evening Art Gallery — NeSpoon  Arno Rafael Minkkinen  Full Time Art Gallery? Randall Rosenthal
Weird Haired Old Lady  Faerie Paths — Crazy
allenrizzi  The Iron-y  My Favorite Photo  Tuscany’s Hidden Secret
Another Fish Story Riding With Private Malone
Pauline Conolly SISTERS…THE SAME BUT SO DIFFERENT  
AIR RAID ACTION IN ULVERSTONE
Dreams and Adventures at Cosy Cottage Tribute to Matilda
The Legal Genealogist  More to the story Year 22… never forget…
Stair na hÉireann | History of Ireland  #OTD in Irish History | 11 September:
Textile Ranger  Nature Photo Challenge #27: Ladybugs

Reviews

Better Reading
Book of the Week: One Day We’re All Going to Die by Elise Esther Hearst READ MORE
Everyone and Everything by Nadine J. Cohen  READ MORE
The Love Contract by Steph Vizard READ MORE

Penguin Books Australia
Fearless  Jelena Dokic's  START READING
The Last Devil To Die        Richard Osman's   READ A SNIPPET
The Fraud    Zadie Smith   SEE THE BOOK
As The River Rises   Fiona McArthur   CHECK IT OUT
Honest Chat  Dylan Buckley    TAKE ME THERE
Question 7   Richard Flanagan  EVENT INFO
The Dictionary People    Sarah Ogilvie     FIND OUT MORE



and from my blogs..

That Moment in Time


FRIDAY FOSSICKING 8th Sept. 2023, A circus full of maps, ghost airline, no gender identification, NEW: various items re cemeteries. Great blogs, book reviews, some Irish surnames..Viking ancestry?, 

Bridge to nowhere, Queen of scandal, Vienna Central cemetery, common genealogy errors..and a whole lot more…

Feel free to share, the title is the link…


https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2023/09/friday-fossicking-8th-sept-2023.html


Headlines of Old


CONVICT PARDONS  Trove Tuesday 12th Sept 2023,  descriptions, rewards offered, conditional pardons.. some notices include  more details than others.. all interesting reading.

Feel free to share, the title is the link…


https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2023/09/convict-pardons-trove-tuesday-12th-sept.html




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