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

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

Moorabbin Hospital records dating back to 1948

Happy anniversary V/Line    Digitised photographs ready to explore

National Library of Australia

Grit and Gold: Tales from a Sporting Nation enters extra time

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Recording the reactions to the death of Queen Elizabeth II 

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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…

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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.

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