FRIDAY FOSSICKING 6th Oct 2023

 

GENERAL

GSQ Blog  ‘A nun in the family’.  Charlotte Sale

National Archives of Australia   newsletter incl. 

'Out of this world' exhibition lands in Kalgoorlie 

Stories of Service  Webinar | 11 October  

A new home abroad  Brisbane | 17 October  

Under investigation Adelaide | 24 October

Reception this way | North Ipswich

Genealogy Discounts and Freebies Judy Webster  check the dates if applicable..

TROVE TREASURES incl. Research Cycle

Look in the Mirror   Women's Surfing History First Australian Leaders

* 30 years of the web down under: how Australians made the early internet their own Interesting...

John Grenham After every marching band comes the swarm of caveats

Despatch October 2023 - Celebrating history month with 170 years of geological records (Victoria)... incl.  Saturday opening      

Collective City exhibition     Family history research

Researching your home An evening of mystery in the Eastern Arcade 

Researching your home with PROV and NAA resources

These events are from varied places in Victoria...

Outback Australia

All the Little Children – the Willis family    Our Children of the West by Aunt Nora          Kanowna Cemetery – a new milestone   

Died of Thirst – a verse

JStor

Kahlil Gibran: Godfather of the “New Age”

The San Diego Lowrider Archival Project      

Athanasius Kircher's “Musical Ark”    A Short History of Hairdryers

Atlas Obscura

An Accidental Archaeological ‘Goldmine’  Glove-Making In the Alps

Eat Like an Ancient Greek Philosopher Ama Hut Hachiman Kamado

Hoopar Brothers Gravestone  10 Hidden Wonders in Costa Rica

How Poison Fruit Became Irresistible A Hidden J.R.R. Tolkien Quote

The Archduke of Austria's Michigan Grave Treasure In Hell Gate

Mooncake Myths  Hunting For the Perfect Etrog

The Vanishing of the Milky Way  ‘Goodnight Moon’ House

The Cottage That Helped Birth Led Zeppelin 

A Sprawling, Massive Log Home  Wheels of Yesteryear

The Pyramids In Indianapolis Abandoned City of Pripyat Ukraine

The “Phantom” Bridge Doomed to Crumble Cults, Religion, and Food

A Tale of Mutiny and Murder New Jersey’s Chinatown-by-the-Sea

Touring Tent Cinemas    Fat Harold’s Beach Club    

Stroll Among The Cats On Cat Island 'Snowflake' Bentley Exhibit

A ‘Brother’ To The Little Mermaid Statue Lisa Frank Factory

Site of the World's First KFC    Behold, a Fountain Celebrating Man's Best Friend   Why Is This Statue Missing Its Right Hand?

The Forgotten Souls Beneath San Francisco    The Mystery of Pink Diamonds—And More   Pyramid of Kukulcan at Chich'en Itza Mexico

Explore What’s Essential in Costa Rica     Teal McDonald's Arches

Abandoned Places Around the United States   From Apiaries to Art

Cappella Colleoni  What If America Had Lost WWII?

Fat Bear Week   Four Classic Episodes    Kitty’s Cafe

Crafting a Miniature Abandoned Room The Castle of Vlad the Impaler

The ‘Evil Dead’ Cabin Still Stands—Kinda The Magical Horses of Shannon County  Make a Delicious Pitstop At Pie Town

This Castle Fills An Entire Island   The Boiling River of the Amazon

Irish Genealogy

Online Genealogy Resources That Are Completely Free - WeHaveKids 

Limerick Deaths: Friday September 29, 2023  Limerick Leader

You Can Get Citizenship by Ancestry in These 20 Countries - MSN 

Always Interesting

Dreams and Adventures at Cosy Cottage Walking the Tennyson Twenty in the Lincolnshire Wolds

The Legal Genealogist  Tweaks, traits and a paywall

Coming up: October-November 2023

Brotmanblog: A Family History Friederike Blumenfeld Schoen’s Son Jakob: Another Family Lost in the Holocaust

Humoring the Goddess Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Matthew Simmonds   Summer’s Slow Farewell (repost)  Next Week’s Trip Into the Past  Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Johann Sebastian Bach

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — (Days of Future Passed) — Surrealism

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — (Days of Future Passed) — Indigenous

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — (Days of Future Passed) — Body Art

Stair na hÉireann | History of Ireland #OTD in Irish History | 2 October:

Pauline Conolly ROYAL HOBART REGATTA     A RADICAL CHANGE FOR SATIN BOWERBIRDS   THE ‘DEVIL’ TO KEEP IN CUSTODY!

allenrizzi When Life Changes Course….   

Reviews

Theresa Smith

The Month That Was…   

Book Review: Darling Girls by Sally Hepworth

Book Review: Hercule Poirot’s Silent Night by Sophie Hannah

Better Reading

Book of the Week: Back on Track by Tricia Stringer       READ MORE

The Opposite of Success by Eleanor Elliot Thomas    READ MORE

The Seven by Chris Hammer     LEARN MORE

The Running Grave by Robert Galbraith    LEARN MORE

Nineteen Steps by Millie Bobby Brown  LEARN MORE

Podcast: Zeno Sworder on Illustrating the Story of His Parents’ Migrant Experience    LISTEN HERE

Podcast: Kelly Rimmer on the WWII Spies that Inspired The Paris Agent   LISTEN HERE

BE Better Podcast: Dr Tara Swart on The Source​​​​​​​   LISTEN HERE

Penguin Books Australia

Black Sheep  Judy Nunn

The Year I Met My Brain   Matilda Boseley 

The Devil You Knew  Professor Ian Hickie

Condor's Fury  Graham Brown   continuing the adrenaline-fuelled adventures of Clive Cussler's NUMA Series

Property with She's on the Money Victoria Devine

12 Months to Live  James Patterson

Die For You     Lauren Jackson

The Coming Wave   Mustafa Suleyman

Allen & Unwin

Too many to include all, so please visit the list...  Click here

2023 Booker Prize Nominees

The Bee Sting  Paul Murray     This Other Eden   Paul Harding

MORE AWARD-WINNERS

The Night House    Jo Nesbo     SEE THE BOOK

Chasm Stacey McEwan

Percy Jackson and the Olympians: the Chalice of the Gods

Rick Riordan's

Land of Milk and Honey  C Pam Zhang

and from my blogs..

That Moment in Time 

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 29th Sep 2023, interesting newsletters, A Murder in the Kimberleys, Cave of the hanging snakes, A wind phone to call the dead, tame a shark?, ancient books of Wales, upside down tree, mysterious floating chandeliers, oldest cat door on earth, interesting blogs, 8 secrets of the Taj Mahal, photo archive in a cold mine, book reviews.. and so much more..

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

https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2023/09/friday-fossicking-29th-sep-2023.html

Headlines of Old

MISSING PERSONS  Trove Tuesday 3rd Oct 2023   It's hard enough when you know why people left ..far worse when they just disappear!

These items are from various states over a number of years..we can only hope that loved ones found them or at least what happened to them.

https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2023/10/missing-persons-trove-tuesday-3rd-oct.html

As They Were

IGP Archives September 2023. … Many thanks to Christina and all the volunteers who search and compile these interesting records.

Cork, Donegal, Down, Dublin, Kildare, Monaghan, Sligo, Tyrone...

and a whole lot more when you visit IGP.

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

https://astheywere.blogspot.com/2023/10/igp-archives-september-2023.html