FRIDAY FOSSICKING 30th August 2024

 

GENERAL

GSQ Blog  What to keep and what to leave behind 

Pauline Williams

Outback Family History

The Crudace Brothers –     A Fatal Premonition – Michael Madden

The Doubly Deserted –     After the Crushings Over –

ATLAS OBSCURA

The Longest Place Name In The World  Floating Finnish Trees  Cats of Parque Kennedy  Cascade Falls Park  Greece’s ‘Embroidered’ Bread Japanese Ghost Town Inedible Roadside Attractions 10 Tales of the World’s Quirkiest Animals  The Grand Kugel Is This Hill Home to Pirate Treasure? Martha's Vineyard Gingerbread Houses Step Inside the American Society of Dowsers   Remnants From a Mysterious Lost Empire  Dinosaur Journey Museum  Crystal River Archaeological State Park  Retired Signs Find New Life in This Neon Garden    What Will You Find Inside Seattle's Horror Vacui House? The Dutch Take Their Cheese Very Seriously Frogs Can Do Anything in This Specialty Museum  A Pope’s Gift: An Elephant Moon Names Amish Soul Food

The View From Voyager 1 Merritt Reservoir Nebraska Where the Treaty Ending America’s Revolution Was Signed  Shop At This Grocery Store With a Side of Archaeology Ireland Would You Live In This Precarious Lighthouse? Iceland A Counterpart To Kyoto’s Famous Fox Shrine Pay Your Respects at This Memorial to Lives Lost At Sea  The Highs, the Lows, the Major Thrills in Palo Duro Canyon Park  Go Nuts For Grape-Nuts Ice Cream  Welsh Sheep-Shearing Cake

Tavern Pachimon Wars  Mazalae Mongolian Restaurant  4 Colorado Ingredients Worth Traveling For  15 of the Nerdiest Restaurants and Bars Samovar House How This Convenience Store Turned Road Trippers into Obsessive Fans

CEMETERIES

Sydney woman, 102, outlives Waverley Cemetery contract to use plot within 25 years - ABC 

Widows told they can't be buried beside their husbands over technicality

Off-leash dogs in cemeteries disrespectful in many ways - Saugeen Times 

Inside cemeteries of colonial masters, missionaries - Daily Trust 

Human composting - a green alternative to traditional burials - Geographical Magazine 

Burial plots policy causing “great distress to families” - News - Roscommon Herald 

Displaced Palestinians shelter in Gaza cemeteries amid bombings & starvation - YouTube 

Cemetery capacity becoming a live issue, one site has just three years - The Advocate 

Helping remember veterans at Sioux Falls cemeteries - YouTube 

Cemeteries in East Baton Rouge dating back to Civil War listed as national historic landmarks 

Five years of care and attention transform city's old cemeteries - Goulburn Post 

Greece condemns desecration of Greek Orthodox cemetery in İstanbul - Turkish Minute 

Cemeteries of Numbers - Israel Holds 552 Bodies, Including Dozens of Children 

Hundreds sign petition calling on council to reverse decision over clearing tributes from cemeteries

Listen: Shoreside erosion threatens one of Duluth's oldest cemeteries 

Bowsher High School students helping clean up Toledo State Hospital cemetery - YouTube 

ALWAYS INTERESTING

Stella Budrikis The ScriBbler   Passports Past & Present

Humoring the Goddess Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Rachel Wright  I’m Melting…..  Olek (Agata Oleksiak)  

Pauline Conolly  SYDNEY TOWN HALL & THE EPIDEMIC

Jennifer Jones Changes Happening

BOOK REVIEWS

Theresa Smith Writes

Book Review: A Perfect Day to be Alone by Nanae Aoyama

Book Review: Art Hour at the Duchess Hotel by Sophie Green

Book Review: The Swimmer by Graham Norton

Better Reading

Book of the Week: The Venice Hotel by Tess Woods     READ MORE

Better Reading Preview: Everywhere We Look by Martine Kropkkowski

Northern Beaches Readers Festival: 27th-29th September   LEARN MORE

Amy Neff on Finding Inspiration in Everyday Life   Podcast

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That Moment in Time

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 26th Aug 2024, reading challenge, sadness re Cemeteries, Gulliver's foot, Earl Grey's Irish famine orphans, 

Untold stories of D Day, world’s oldest human footprint, remote volcanic islands, radio station has played one song for 15 years, small crickets..big sounds, DNA tests used to claim citizenship, multi level graves, new book releases, new photos in Trove & much more..

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FRIDAY FOSSICKING 23rd Aug 2024

 

GENERAL

GSQ Blog

Digging deeper into the Neville family; my brick wall Bobbie Edes

Earl Grey’s Irish Famine orphans (101):Voyage reports and more… | trevo's Irish famine orphans

Trove Treasures newsletter  incl. Start your family history research

South Australian Family History  Expect the Unexpected Collecting the Olympics New photos in TROVE

The National Archives UK newsletter  incl. Untold Stories of D Day

Family History: Using military history records  Catland: Feline enchantment and the making of the modern world  A 'poison pen' true crime tale 

Smithsonian 

newsletter incl.  See 15 Photos of Real-Life Cowboys and Cowgirls Wrangling Cattle and Riding Bucking Broncos  The Stories Behind Six Iconic Album Cover Shots Taken in America—and Where to Recreate Them  Inside the Fight to Save the Indiana Dunes, One of America's Most Vulnerable National Parks   Explore Egypt’s New Grand Egyptian Museum in VIP Style on the Most Extraordinary Tour Ever

Atlas Obscura

World’s Oldest Human Footprint Fantasy Menus   See the Historic Ruins Hidden Inside Everyday Buildings in Athens  The Mysterious Heat Island Beneath Minneapolis  West Stow Anglo-Saxon Village    Nebraska’s Wackiest and Most Wondrous Summer Events  Best Preserved Ghost Towns  Thirty-Three Avatars of Kannon Colorado’s Natural Treasures: 18 Spots to Enjoy Year-Round Found: Missing Continent  Tolbod Bodega Denmark Berdine's Five and Dime  See 15 Picturesque Views of Paris This Radio Station Has Played One Song for 15 Years Why Are Fishermen Braving Dangerous Waters to Harvest Bizarre-Looking Sea Creatures? They're Delicious   Five Places Where You Can Still Find Gold in the United States  For 100 Years, Santa Feans Have Burned New Mexico's Boogeyman in a 'Sacred Rite of Purification, Laughter and Rebirth'  More Than 200 Dead Bodies Have Been Left Behind on Mount Everest, and Many Mark the Path to the Summit  These Remote Volcanic Islands in the South Pacific Just Became a UNESCO World Heritage Site Iconic 'Double Arch' Rock Formation Collapses in Utah Tourist Carves His Family's Initials Onto a Wall in Pompeii El Ateneo Grand Splendid Japan’s First Tea Tree Still Lives On Today  Can You Spot The Mistake In These Statues?  This Marble Statue of Lucifer Is Stunning  This Isn’t a Forest—It’s One Tree  Resurrecting the Scents of Ancient Cyprus Rub These Statues for Good Look  You Definitely Know This Medieval Female Alchemist   Psychic Archeology  The Highs, the Lows, the Major Thrills in Palo Duro Canyon Park Brunswick Stew Monument Step Inside The Echo Park Time Travel Mart  See a Mosque That Was Built Overnight  A 46-Foot-Tall Carving Of A Legendary Māori Navigator  The Work of Art That Lives Inside a Functional Restroom  John Henry Monument   Happy Jack Chalk Mine  Small Crickets, Big Sounds 12 Murals Dedicated to Local Heroes Gulliver's Foot Scotland Hatfield & McCoy Moonshine 

8 Places Celebrating the Watermelon The ‘Crispy R’  Chocolate-Lovers, Unite!  Hallowed (and Haunted) Grounds in Mineral Wells, Texas  One Of These Is the World’s Oldest Ham  An Italianate Villa-Style Castle In Kansas The Remains of the East Coast’s Largest Film Studio A Telegraph Station Involved In the Spanish-American War  Colorado’s Best Kept Secret? Its Railroads    1,000 Mermaids Artificial Reef  

JStor Daily

How Renaissance Art Found Its Way to American Museums    Monastic Chant: Praising God Out Loud

Gonna Make You a (Bangsawan) Star  Painting Race  

The Scientists, the Engineers, and the Water Wheel

Endangered: North American Cricket  Lessons in Mannerism at the Palazzo del Te

Genealogy Ireland

Tim Walz has Irish ancestors - but where are they from? - BBC   Rise in DNA tests being used to claim citizenship of other countries - The Guardian  Clonmany group to host 'Cures, Remedies and Old Wives Tales' - Ireland Live  Taylor Swift's Irish ancestry traced back after singer's love for country was revealed Tim Walz's Irish roots traced  DNA tests on the rise in Europe: Creating a pathway for people to claim citizenship - WION

Cemeteries

Families exhuming loved ones for reburial in private cemeteries | City Press - News24

Waverley Cemetery Win - ABC listen

Concerns raised over vacating Maafannu cemetery - The Edition 

Utah Cemeteries: What Happens When We Run Out of Space? 

KL Muslim cemeteries expected to be full in five years 

Chabad History With Rabbi Dalfin – Buffalo Cemeteries Including Anshei Lubavitz 

City cemeteries an eyesore - The Zimbabwe Independent 

LA's most coveted real estate isn't in Beverly Hills - SFGATE 

LETTER: Langley has not green burial options - Aldergrove Star 

'We saved this cemetery,' National Preservation Group helps restore aging cemeteries - WEWS 

My Search for the Afterlife: A Journey Through Edinburgh's Cemeteries - Roar News 

ASK LOIS: Why are Jews buried in their own cemeteries? - Sun Sentinel 

Amid 'green burial' dispute, judge rejects Michigan township's cemetery ban 

Multi-level graves could solve KL's cemetery space 

How did Hollywood Cemetery get its name? | WRIC ABC 8News

As Gaza death toll passes 40000, corpses are buried in yards, streets, tiered graves 

Snowy Monaro cemetery set for multi-year expansion to meet future demand 

Floodwaters expose several caskets in Lowcountry cemeteries - Yahoo

DC Park Built On Two Cemeteries To Unveil Signs Honoring The Dead | WHUR 96.3 FM  Chinese Cemetery getting restoration, repair work - CTV News Calgary 

'Vindicated': Couple wins court battle over planned cemetery in Newaygo County

Andover Stories: A Little Cemetery – A Lot of History | Columns | andovertownsman.com 

Pre-sale of burial lairs in Fife to cease as cemeteries are running out of space 

Walter Pierce Park to honor 19th century burials with new signs - wusa9.com

Memorial plaques stolen from Tweed cemetery

Granum cemetery records, photos to go online - Claresholm Local Press 

Looking back seeing how far we've come - Taylor Press

Sign Up to Volunteer at Valley Cemetery's Workday on September 21st - City of Sonoma 

Cleanup at 300-year-old St. Joseph's Catholic Cemetery | FOX 2

Tombstone Tales returning to Enid Cemetery | News | enidnews.com 

Bahá'í Cemetery in Ahvaz Subjected to Arson - Iran Press Watch

Annual Spraying Set for Sports Fields, Cemeteries | Mirage News

Kerala cemeteries gold mines of untapped tourism potential - The New Indian Express 

Restoring headstones and history: A San Antonio man's mission to bring memories back to life 

It shouldn't be scary': When is the best time to talk about death? - The Courier 

Over 200 people are buried in this N.S. cemetery. These women won't let their names be forgotten 

Interesting Libraries

Teens roar into reporting with UK and Lexington Public Libraries summer workshop 

Cook, paint, sing, build: It's fun and free at the library | News | suncoastnews.com

See What's New at Baltimore County Public Libraries - WMAR 

An Interview with Linnea Eberhart, Librarian-in-Residence at the Law Library of Congress 

Allen & Unwin

Jody Picoult Returns  Jody Picoult returns with her most controversial 

novel yet   start reading now

Penguin Books

The Whole Truth  Jackie O  ANNOUNCEMENT 

Mina's Matchbox   Yoko Ogawa     HAVE A LOOK

8 Months Left  James Patterson & Mike Lupicia      CHECK IT OUT

MOOKi vs The Big Scary Scotty James  TAKE ME THERE

The Outside Larry Blair & Jeremy Goring      START READING

Two Doting Dads Matty J & Ash  AUTHOR Q&A

The Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love India Holton BIRDS

Winter of the Wolf Amanda Willimott  WEREWOLVES

The Venice Hotel Tess Woods    start reading now  

Better Reading

Dirrayawadha by Anita Heiss  READ AN EXTRACT

Northern Beaches Readers Festival: 27th-29th September  LEARN MORE

Podcast: Anna Johnston on Humanising Older Adults Through Storytelling LISTEN NOW

Humoring the Goddess...

Saturday Evening Art Gallery — Kitty Shepherd Pay It Forward

Faerie Paths — Football  Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Lazy Mom

Faerie Paths — Reading  Favorite Soul‑Floating Song?   Faerie Paths — Friends

Jennifer Jones

Australian Family History Month

Pauline Conolly SMALLPOX IN LAUNCESTON 1903

Theresa Smith Writes

Book Review: The Work by Bri Lee

Book Review: The Villa by Rachel Hawkins

Book Review: I Give My Marriage a Year by Holly Wainwright

Book Review: The Echoes by Evie Wyld

Book Review: Frankie by Graham Norton

Book Review: Bear by Julia Phillips

TIME GENTS

How the two-storey Landsborough pub was moved over a kilometre by bullock dray – TIME GENTS

Brotmanblog: A Family Journey 

Moses Rothschild, Part I: When Did He Die?

John Nusbaum Album: Of Babies Who Died Too Soon and Family in Peoria

and from my blog...

That Moment in Time

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 16th June 2024, interesting blogs, “Connecting to a Forgotten Past”..GSQ blog, latest from Tinteán Magazine, a cafe in a bank, Ancient Greek food, sleeping giant, skeletons in basement,  tombstones desecrated, the oldest civic library in Italy, book reviews ..and so much more.. 

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