Friday, November 3, 2023

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 3rd Nov 2023

 


GENERAL

GSQ Blog

National Archives Australia    newsletter includes numerous events along with.. Focus: Australian government photographers  opens Fri. 17 Nov. 2023

Judy Webster Genealogy tips for Queensland, the UK etc 

Interim Index: Names from various sources (useful for genealogy)

Historical records / other genealogy sources:

Women's applications to protect their earnings (Qld)

Despatch November 2023 - Local history grants applications now open (Public Record Office Victoria)   Learn more and apply here.


Surprising Collectors Items That Are Worth A Fortune Today.JourneyRanger

British Army soldiers up to 1913 - The National Archives

Outback Family History

The Leading Ladies of the Goldfields –          

The Cemetery at Mt Margaret –       A Prospector Looks Back

Frank Henry Winfield – pioneer profile

The Legal Genealogist: Living legacy of Dred Scott    

Coming up: November-December 2023

JStor Daily

AI and the Creative Process: Part One      Bride of Frankenstein

Xerox and Roll: The Corporate Machine and the Making of Punk 

Why #StarringJohnCho Is Not Enough for Asian American Cinema

Autopsy of a Saint    Sex and the Single Witch

Atlas Obscura

The Mystery of Area 51      27 Unusual Headstones

Welcome to The Afterlife, You Will Now Be Judged

The Monks Who Turned Themselves Into Mummies

The Bird Cage Theater   Hitchcock’s Unusual Dinner Parties

The History of World’s End  This Water Tank Is Home to an Iconic “Phantom” Supernatural Wartime Menaces    A Creepy Fake Town

Poisonous Butterflies  Paris’s Catacomb Mushrooms

History of the Sutro Tunnel A Waterway Named For a Ghost

The Iconic Rocker Grandma  Europe’s Westernmost Point

The House Between Two Rocks  One Church, Divided Under God

Inside The Winchester Mystery House   The Warren's Occult Museum

A Viking Age Ritual  How to Sell a Haunted House   Spiced Mummies

The Tales In Our Stars  Haunted Stays and Autumn Days in Colorado

House of the ‘Blood Countess’   Manhattan’s Oldest House

The Paranormal Museum  Japan’s Deepest Train Station

Behold, 18 Death Dioramas  Beware Soap Sally  Hell on Earth

You’re Visiting the Wrong Salem   Tom Devlin’s Monster Museum

Kostel Svatého Jiří Ghost Church Meet the Snallygaster!  

Homey Gravestone Recipes    Our Photo Contest Winners

La Isla de las Muñecas (Island of the Dolls)   Witch Trial History

The Fight Over Paris’s Catacombs   Squash-Obsessed City

Meet the Penny Farthing A Bridge That Leads Nowhere   

Dive Into a Barracuda Lake   A Teahouse Bothy   ‘Fantasy Swan’

PODCAST Into the Twilight Zone   PODCAST The Art of the Heist

Irish Genealogy

Walking in the footsteps of Irish ancestors | The West Australian 

Expert genealogy tips: Irish marriage licence bonds - IrishCentral

Always Interesting 

Chris Wright  The Ancestor Digger  

Pauline Conolly  A HOLLYWOOD DREAM FOR TASMANIANS

Dreams and Adventures at Cosy Cottage Ingleborough – 0ne of Yorkshire’s Three Peaks

Tania Blanchard newsletter re latest book.. A Woman of Courage.. (love her books)

Reviews
Theresa Smith

Better Reading

Penguin Books Australia

Li Cunxin announces retirement after 11-year tenure at Queensland Ballet  Mao's Last Dancer   MARY'S LAST DANCE


 *    AUTHOR EVENTS


and from my blogs..

Headlines of Old


PENSIONERS IN CONVICT SHIPS   Trove Tuesday. 24th Oct 2023, Western Australia, 1850.. Pensioner Guards were English military personnel who served on convict transportation ships en route to the Swan River Colony between 1850 and 1868, and were given employment and grants of land on arrival.

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

https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2023/10/pensioners-in-convict-ships-trove.html


That Moment in Time


FRIDAY FOSSICKING 27th Oct 2023, Genealogy tips, before the druids, haunted grocery store, Here Be Dragons, reviews, podcasts, spooky Irish ghost town, after 50 years sister found,  haunted houses, 1890 ice-cream parlor/ parlour, secret Scottish shrine, great blogs and lots more…

Looking for a great book to read… see the reviews…

Feel free to share, the title is the link…

https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2023/10/friday-fossicking-27th-oct-2023.html



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