FRIDAY FOSSICKING 8th March 2024

 

GENERAL

GSQ Blog   ‘‘An Evergreen Tree of Diabolical Knowledge’. Researching Irish in the State Library of Queensland Pt. 1‘.   Dr Jennifer Harrison

Old Age Pensions records for genealogy (Queensland and elsewhere) Judy Webster

Public Record Office Despatch..Victoria

incl.  Look History in the Eye podcast

First creative in residence for the Victorian Archives Centre

Congratulations Tahlia Palmer Learn more about the Creative in Residence program.

An evening of mystery in the Eastern Arcade

Video recording now available  Watch on YouTube here.

Outback Family History

Little Boy Lost –       Helena Maud Pike – grave tales

Mt Magnet Murder –    Death of a Girl from the Bush –

Genealogy Ireland

Irish ties - The County   Family history website reveals women are missing from their family trees   Photos from The Massive Baldwin Family Tree - E! News   NIAGARA GENEALOGY: Uncovering your Irish roots | Lifestyles | lockportjournal.com  Irish American Heritage Month: Fast facts about Irish America today - IrishCentral  Map shows most Irish counties in the United States with 9% of Americans claiming Irish ancestry

 

JSTOR Daily

Can Intellectual Humility Save Us from Ourselves?  Bundling: An Old Tradition on New Ground  From Jamaica to the World: Contextualizing Bob Marley Mark Twain's Obsession with Joan of Arc

Land of the Free, Home of the Bootleggers   

Atlas Obscura John Oliver Memorial Sewer Plant   Dig Into These 7 Curious Restaurant Collections  Behold, London's Sewer-Fed Streetlight   A False Alarm Triggered This Town’s Desertion  Feast Inside a Train Car—On a Roof  A Japanese Ghost Town Deep in Canada's Forest  Le Tampographe Sardon    Victorians' Enduring Weirdness  A Monastery's Secrets Open to the Public   National Treasure With a Hidden Message   Even Vampires Want an Island Getaway The Subterranean ‘Lake’ Home to a Phantom

Make a Wish, Hold Your Breath, and Climb Vicars’ Close

Best-Kept Ghost Town You Can Visit ... Legally  The Snowman Who Survived the Desert   Blood Falls Antarctica Science’s 1,500-Year-Old Error  How a Dare Led to America’s Skinniest House  The Loveliest Creek That's Also the Deadliest The 15-Foot Tony Soprano Greeting Train Riders at This Station A Mansion Formerly Owned by a 108-Year-Old Heiress  The Women Who Shaped Rome   A New ‘World’s Largest Snake’   Why Are There So Many Abandoned Churches? The London and New York That Might Have Been   Historic Jail Haunted by Its Past Surprise! You May Own a Cemetery  Our Latest Obsessions  

Always Interesting

Humoring the Goddess Dating Memories    Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Zac Henderson  Art, Rubbish (repost) — My Inspired Life

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Julia Lucey   Flash Forward or Flash Back?   Michael Peuster 

The Legal Genealogist

GAMECHANGER!!!  Overlooked gems  Coming up: March-April 2024

Dreams and Adventures at Cosy Cottage Musings on books

Caught in the Act

allenrizzi  Of Realtors And Old Fish  Cats, Cats And More Cats

Pauline Conolly THE AURORA & THE ANTARCTIC BOTTLE - A MYSTERY

THEY FOUND A CAVE

Brotmanblog: A Family Journey

Moses Max Rothschild and His Family: One Daughter Escaped to America

Anne's Family History Pierre or Peter Champion de Crepigny (Crespigny) (1653-1739)

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

Reviews

Theresa Smith Writes

Book Review: Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

Book Review: When God Was a Rabbit by Sarah Winman

Book Review: The Drowning by Bryan Brown

Better Reading

Book of the Week: The Revenge Club by Kathy Lette   READ MORE 

The Sea Captain’s Wife by Jackie French    READ MORE

What Happened to Nina? by Dervla McTiernan  READ AN EXTRACT

To the River by Vikki Wakefield  READ AN EXTRACT

and from my blog...

That Moment in Time

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 1st Mar 2024, newsletters, fountain of youth, Missing WW11 plane uncovered, great blogs,  book reviews, 

ghosts for sale, interesting libraries, train station made for royalty, scattered body parts, some spartan women had two husbands, 1941 National Farm survey being digitised UK, Sailor Bill’s elopement.. and so much more…

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