FRIDAY FOSSICKING 8th Sept. 2023

 

GENERAL

Blog GSQ... My Grandma Irvine: Lills Life and her autograph book.

Bobbie Edes

Karrakatta Western Australia.. Headstones to be removed from Karrakatta’s Anglican IA section – Saving Family Headstones at Karrakatta

Cairns Family History newsletter 

28 Aug 1975 - THE EARLY BELUNGER - Trove early Bellingen/Urunga NSW

Find A Grave   Wiener Zentralfriedhof – Vienna Central Cemetery

5 Common Genealogy Errors (and How to Avoid Them) Family Tree Magazine

John Grenham A circus-full of maps

National Archive UK newsletter incl. Record Revealed: Registered design for an expanding travelling basket

Outback Family History 

Seven Brides – the Howie Girls Make History  The Coles Boys – a family story  Mulga Queen – the early days   Cuddingwarra Kate –

JStor Daily

No Joke  Ireland's Upper Sea   The Myth of the Papal Toilet Chair  “Now We Can Begin”: Annotated America's First Ventriloquist   

The Question of Geophagy: Why Eat Dirt?

Atlas Obscura

The History-Defining Land Fraud Affair   Bailong Elevator China

10 Tales of the World’s Quirkiest Animals   A Ghost Airline

Original Taco Bell Sign  Malaysia’s Most Complex Cakes

Foucault's Pendulum Gef the Talking Mongoose—and Ghost

A Global Bakery Tour  John Oliver Memorial Sewer Plant

“Fernweh” Inspiration The Island With Room for One House

Spend Time In A Playhouse In a Lake   A Viking Village Film Set

Ruins of a “Queen of Scandal”’s Castle  A Relic of Victorian Railway Engineering   A Middle Finger Preserved for Posterity

The Mormon King of Beaver Island  Volcano Effects Time’s Running Out!  15 Art Alleyways   The Wreck of a Doomed Plane

An Infamous, Slippery Jester The World's First Salmon ATM

A Historic Chinese Restaurant Endures A Bank Robber’s Mysterious Headstone Site of Charlie’s Place  A French Mustache Strike

What Is a Bay Leaf?   Llyn Barfog 11 Haunted Bridges

A 19th-Century Swill Milk Scandal Cheese Curl History

How to See Studio Ghibli Films in Real Life  Step Inside a ‘Real’ Fairy Ring This Royal Bridge Goes Nowhere  

A Tragic Memento Hangs In this Pub  A Feud Built Beirut’s Thinnest Building  How Ancient Egypt Came to California

PODCAST A Town Called Hell PODCAST A ‘Haunted’ Italian Villa 

PODCAST Quarantine In a Ghost Town  PODCAST The Long Tradition of Kulning  

[Records-Access-Alerts] (S-MA-Boston) City of Boston MA No Longer Requires Sex or Gender Identification on Licenses

[Records-Access-Alerts] (US) Library of Congress Improvements for Web Archives

Irish Genealogy

Clare Roots Society: Your Irish Ancestors - Getting Started On Your Family Tree 

Irish surnames that suggest you might have Viking ancestry - MSN 

Anna Gilroy Obituary (2023) - Oyster Bay, NY - Newsday - Legacy.com

Cemeteries

Doing the groundwork: cemetery spaces under review - Sunshine Coast News 

 Ecological cemetery near Montreal features trees and an app - YouTube 

Plans to extend cemetery in Horsham approved by council - BBC News

Headstones of brothers damaged at Apopka cemetery, 1 stolen - YouTube

Longer life predicted for Whakatāne cemetery | RNZ News 

Verify Status Of Cemeteries, Hc Tells Bmc Commissioner | Mumbai News - Times of India 

New USF exhibit explores unmarked cemeteries in Hillsborough County - WTSP.com 

2 headstones damaged at Florida cemetery - FOX 35 Orlando

Headstones of brothers defaced, 1 stolen from Apopka cemetery - WESH

Always Interesting

Pauleen Cass A muddle of mysteries | From Dorfprozelten to Australia

Jennifer Jones Farquhar Francis Morison and Anne MacPherson

National Family History Month – August 2023

Textile Ranger Recipes from Old Cookbooks 

Anhinga: Bird of the Week 

Humoring the Goddess Sunday Evening Art Gallery — David King

Balloon Dresses   Weirdest Top 10 Lists    Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Dan and Frances Hedblom  Naoki Onogawa Aftermath of Weird Top 10 Lists    Faerie Paths — Flower

The Legal Genealogist Coming up: September-October 2023

Zufferin’ Zebulons!  Labor Day 2023

Pauline Conolly FLOWERS ON THE MANTELPIECE  MAGNOLIA SYRUP

Stair na hÉireann | History of Ireland #OTD in Irish History | 4 September:

Dreams and Adventures at Cosy Cottage A Wish List (aka a Bucket List)

allenrizzi The Dominator Chiara – The Novella  Voices From The Past

In the Still of the Night Everyday Is Payday Me And The Munk

The Booze Caper

Reviews

Theresa Smith

The Month That Was…

Book Review: The Revels by Stacey Thomas

Better Reading

Book of the Week: Ripper by Shelley Burr    READ MORE

Can’t I Go Instead by Lee Geum-yi       READ MORE  

Sleepless in Stringybark Bay by Susan Duncan     READ MORE

Podcast: Kate Mildenhall on Exploring All Aspects of Womanhood     LISTEN HERE

and from my blogs...

That Moment in Time

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 1st Sept 2023, newsletters from various organisations, book & bed hostel, blue moon v. blue super moon....

Irish History’s hidden threads, Hollywood actress acquires Irish castle, stapling bread to trees, podcasts, the island in a lake in a volcano, great blogs, book reviews, heritage walk and much more..

Feel free to share, the title is the link…

https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2023/09/friday-fossicking-1st-sept-2023.html

Headlines of Old

Trove Tuesday 5th Sept 2023, POST MASTER GENERAL & MILITARY TRANSFERS, some had retired, others moved on to other positions… interesting to follow their movements. Some of our ancestors moved more often than we would have expected.feel free to share, the title is the link…

https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2023/09/post-master-general-military-transfers.html

As They Were

IGP ARCHIVES  August 2023, additions to Cork, Donegal, Fermanagh, Kildare, Limerick, Tyrone… Many thanks to Christina Hunt and all the volunteers…

https://astheywere.blogspot.com/2023/09/igp-archives-august-2023.html