FRIDAY FOSSICKING 13th Sept. 2024

GENERAL

GSQ Blog   Gems from land files..   Janice Cooper

Outback Family History

Memories of Mt Morgans –    Florence Ayre – grave tales  The Fightin Man – by N E Gledhill

Tinteán Magazine Vale Nell McCafferty — ‘free at last’ (1944-2024)    A Homage to Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh    Land Ownership Part 2   

A new Irish-Australian Meeting point in Brisbane?

Evelyn Conlon talks about her writing  Love Song for Tory Island

Ó Chréanna Eile From Other Earths  A Modern Secular Nunnery

Giving British Imperialism the middle finger 

What’s On in September and Beyond

Genealogy Ireland

Swissvale plays host to 33rd annual Pittsburgh Irish Festival - CBS News 

Billion Graves

10 Unusual Cemeteries from around the world 

Learn about trees that "eat" tombstones' graveyard next to a clown museum and cliff hanging coffins..

Cemeteries

25 Oct 1932 - A LONELY CEMETERY

Cemetery slated for Harkness - Melton & Moorabool | Star Weekly   Derry: Councillors 'understand' travel concerns for cemetery site - BBC       

VA marks 23rd anniversary of 9/11 with National Day of Service and Remembrance events ...   

Town Board reverses cemetery decision | My Hudson Valley     

More than 300 bodies found in Oldham mass grave - most belonging to babies and children

Army Begins Disinterment and Return of Remains for 11 Native Children Who Died at ... 

Chicago opens Catholic "natural burial" cemetery - Aleteia 

New niches available at cemeteries - Sault Star 

10 Spookiest Cemeteries Around Los Angeles 

Local veterans' feedback prompts VA to continue cemetery ceremonies - News 4 San Antonio 

Vienna cemetery celebrates 150 years with graveyard concerts - France 24 

Sault cemeteries open up more space for urns — but don't wait to reserve yours 

YouTuber documents all the chilling things he finds in exploring creepy abandoned catacombs 

Exploring the History Rich Cemeteries of Hillsborough County From - Hoodline 

Arrests in stolen veteran grave markers - WSBT 

LaPorte County Historical Society Museum showing Kingsbury, lost cemetery and lost ... - NWI Times 

Plot twist: how giving old graveyards new life as parks can improve our cities 

Ancestors Pavilion at Walter Pierce Park honors over 8400 people buried there - WUSA9 

Tetrarch secures permission for cemetery on old Citywest golf course - The Irish Times 

On the 8th, when the heat wave did not go away, the memorial facilities across the country ... 

The unusual 'at risk' landmark near a Cambridgeshire village once used for burials

Plot twist: giving old graveyards new life as parks can improve cities - Australian Geographic

2 stole veterans' grave markers from cemeteries: Sheriff - Law & Crime 

Louisiana's endangered cemeteries are topic at author talk | Entertainment/Life | nola.com

Editorial: Honoring the Dead - The Wild Hunt

Belfast cemetery will soon have a place for cremated remains - Bangor Daily News 

Cemetery theft spree suspects arrested after bronze veteran burial markers stolen from headstones

Cemetery hoping to share history with 5k walk/run - YouTube 

9/11 remembrance ceremonies planned for national cemeteries, Pentagon, NYC - UPI.com 

Gravestones stolen from Tallinn's cemeteries | News - ERR 

All in the family: Cemetery groundskeepers honoured for nearly 100 years of work - Montreal 

 Industry Public Cemetery in Arima closed as site hits 95% capacity - Trinidad Guardian 

Rejected in Sentiong, The Story of Christians in Pangalengan Amidst Cemetery Land Disputes

Two Historic East Hampton Cemeteries Restored - 27East 

JSTOR Daily

Tree of Peace, Spark of War    A Selection of Student Confessions  Playing It Straight and Catching a Break   How Sports Shaped Glacier Science  Like, It's a History of Air Guitar, Dudes!  Japanese Tourists at the Dancehall

Atlas Obscura

Raccoons Are Much Smarter Than We Think  The Ancient History of Yerba Mate  Soy Pinoy  Pensacola Lighthouse  How Chernobyl Affected Wildlife  Gedenkstätte der Anatomie Austria  Mertailor's Mermaid Aquarium Encounter  Drive-In Theaters  Art Car World

The Gatekeepers of Portugal’s Joanine Library  Asteroid Explosions 

A River’s Missing Water  What’s Europe’s Most Popular Street Name?  Mission San Antonio de Padua A Special Evening to Celebrate Wild Life IRL  Líder Portugal  Fancy a Match On the World’s Highest Polo Field?  Guess How Many Spoons Are In This Spoon Gallery  Do You Know the Paul Bunyan Muffler Man?  The Remains of a 3,000-Year-Old Tree Saenger Theatre Pensacola  The Controversial Shroud of Turin Edible Relics  How a Crocodile Got Trapped By a Tire  The Forgotten Souls of San Francisco Discover the Springs, Rivers, and Watering Holes of Florida’s ‘Nature Coast’ The Next Stop On This Bus: Whimsy and Delight In This Chapel, Spirituality Comes With a View (Greece) This Monument to Eyeglasses Is a Sight to See The Precursor of Peri-Peri Chicken Was Born Here  Chappie James Museum  Why Voltaire Drank Bull’s Blood  Bone-Eating Vultures Are Totally Metal  The Rebirth of Portugal’s Answer to French Toast  The Benefits Of Listening to Insect Concerts White House Gates in Ohio

A Spooky Stagecoach Stop The Family of Shipwreck Photographers

What’s the Real History Behind This Gravestone?   Mango House

Always Interesting

The Legal Genealogist And so it began…  Internet Archive loses copyright appeal

Humoring the Goddess  Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Andriy and Olesya Voznicki   Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Nik Ramage    

Stirring the Pot  Jean Dubuffet   

Textile Ranger   A Passel of Kids’ Quilts and A Cautionary Tale

Pauline Conolly RAILTON’S YOUNG POLIO VICTIMS

Samantha Elley  Female Law Student undeterred by prejudiced professor

TIME GENTS  Adelaide pub drinkers response to plastic bib proposal – 1954

Anne's Family History Christa Charlotte (Boltz) Champion de Crespigny (1939 – 2024) Confessions of a lazy typist: transcribing with Google docs

Better Reading

The Death of Dora Black by Lainie Anderson    READ MORE

Shadow City by Natalie Conyer   READ AN EXTRACT

Capture or Kill by Vince Flynn  READ AN EXTRACT

The Seachangers by Meredith Appleyard READ MORE

Podcast: Louise Candlish on the triumphs of being a long-standing author     LISTEN NOW

Penguin Books Australia

You Don't Have To Have A Dream   Tim Minchin     FIND OUT MORE

Gabriel's Moon    William Boyd    START READING

Nexus   Yuval Noah Harari   TAKE ME THERE

Live For Me  Lauren Jackson   READ A SNIPPET

Tell Me Everything Lucy Barton   CHECK IT OUT

The Dopamine Brain  Dr Anastasia Hronis  HAVE A LOOK

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That Moment in Time

FRIDAY FOSSICKING   6th Sept. 2024, "little free dog library", hit ballads 17th Century, bawdy house riots 1668, great blogs, stolen headstone markers, London's lost river, radioactive glassware alert, 

The ferry that used to be a bus, National Archives UK, polish war cemetery..…& much more..

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FRIDAY FOSSICKING 6th Sept. 2024

GENERAL

GSQ Blog....   Enjoying the Next Genealogy Journey – All the Way from Prussia. Ross Hansen

Genealogy..

Judy Webster  Genealogy services    How YOU can influence Judy Webster's indexing plans

Ireland Putting genealogy of Kerry island on the record - The Irish Independent PODCAST: On 'The Other Side,' how genetic DNA helped solve Dana Ireland murder case

National Archives UK 

Para athletes in the archives    Six lives: the stories of Henry VIII’s queens  Knitting the Spare Rib ‘Woman’s Woolly’: Making & Re-making in the Archive  Walking Through Countryside’s Forgotten Colonial Histories     Research Stages: Intersections of Performance and Emerging Technologies

Cemeteries

Should cemeteries be for the living as well as the dead? - ABC listen  Upgrades and expansion work across Ipswich cemeteries  QLD

In upstate New York, a cemetery for people who were enslaved is reclaimed | PBS News   Cemeteries vandalized in Grand Rapids - YouTube   St. Joseph cemeteries to add space for cremation interment - The Herald Palladium    Minnesota forest serves as sustainable alternative to cemeteries - YouTube   Polish war cemetery in Ukraine narrowly escapes destruction - TVP World   Minister urges central region churches to plan for urban cemeteries - Borneo Post Online

Local jogger captures video of a vandal damaging graves in Woodlawn Cemetery Letter: Respect in military cemeteries - Anchorage Daily News  Restoration underway after Grand Rapids cemetery vandalism - YouTube Nearly 150 burial chambers spanning 2100 years found under China zoo - WION Veterans Cemetery Receives Award - NRVNews  Two more bronze headstone markers stolen from veteran gravesites in LaPorte County

Interesting Libraries

One of Japan's Largest Manga Libraries Operated by a University in Central Tokyo | AUGUST 2024

E-books are expensive for libraries. Some states are trying to change that - WVIK 

Royal Oak woman builds 'little free dog library' with supplies for dog walkers - C&G Newspapers

Analog Sweden SWEnigiser Euro, the unique Enigiser multimode filter for Eurorack

OpenSCAD Library Creates QR Codes On The Fly - Hackaday

Rugeley library to host 'Great Haywood' book launch - Staffordshire County Council 

While "My Name is Kim Sam-soon" has been reborn for the first time in 19 years, more ... 

Atlas Obscura

Medieval Women and Trials by Combat  Best Demon Illustrations  Dictionary Collections  Blue Food Galore   FEAST on Colorado’s Innovative Food Scene  The Real Unreal Texas   Take a Ride On a Ferry That Used To Be a 1980s Bus  Why Is a 15th-Century Albanian Noble Honored in London? The Resilient Gnome Symbol of a Community  The Church That Transformed Into a Concert Darling Johnson Beach  The Crack on the Chassahowitzka River  Here's Where Legends Went to Conspire Over Coffee  California's Own Rock of Ages  The Country's Oldest Chinese Restaurant Serves Up Culture and Comfort   Investigate Fifty States of Mysteriously Abandoned Places  Radioactive Glassware Alert A Global Tour of Bakeries (if only)  Tejocote’s Spicy History of Fruit Smuggling 4 Colorado Ingredients Worth Traveling For  Braaaains? Try Cheeeeeese  Old Mill House Gallery & Printing Museum  A Beloved Bean Collection Lives On  One Lick Could Cost You Your Life The Dark History of Hawai‘i’s Iconic Hand Gesture ‘Space Excavation’   An Elusive Flavor Spider or Snake? This Perfume Shop Still Supplies Scents For Royalty  During Typhoons, This Statue Might Help Gauge Flood Levels  One of London’s Lost Rivers Runs Through a Tube Station A Rare Qing Dynasty House Lives On a Museum’s Campus  Chappie James Museum Here’s a Surprise…  The Hit Ballads Topping 17th-Century England’s Charts  Decoding Moon Time For Earthlings

Graveyard of Lost Species England How the Vampire Myth Was Born

Washington Monument Commemorative Stones How to Make Nobel Ice Cream  Tay Bridge Memorial 6 Cursed Objects And Their Histories Beans That Connect a Community  Vintage Rail Cars  Jekyll and Hyde and a Cabinet  The Monterey County Agricultural and Rural Life Museum Why Church Authorities Didn’t Love This Poetic Tribute  Knight’s Wash House A Well-Preserved Mosaic In a Soviet Gas Station  An Interactive Museum With a “Space Chicken” Coop   A Crowd-Funded Gravestone For a Beloved Local 

JSTOR Daily

The Sovereignty of the Latter-day Saints  The Bawdy House Riots of 1668  Policing the Holocaust in Paris  The Curious History of Competitive Eating   “The Crocodile,” Dostoevsky's Weirdest Short Story Hi, Jai Alai   Writing Online Fiction in China  

Always Interesting

Humoring the Goddess Faerie Paths — Art  Future Gallery Magic … or Madness   Sunday Evening Art Gallery — George Inness  Is AI Art?   Elfriede Lohse-Wachtler

Pauline Conolly PROFESSOR McCOY & A CASE OF FRAUD

QUEEN VICTORIA MUSEUM’S GREATEST DEAL? 

The Legal Genealogist

The inevitability of change a must read for followers...

Tales From the Grave

He ran the 700km postal trip in a fortnight

Theresa Smith Writes

August: Read, Listen, Watch, Repeat…

Brotmanblog: A Family Journey

Moses Rothschild, Part II: Is this his death certificate?

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That Moment in Time

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 30th August 2024,  Greece's 'embroidered' bread, Japanese Ghost Town, precarious lighthouse, nerdiest restaurants, interesting authors, pirate treasure, quirkiest animals, outlived cemetery contract, human composting? And so much more..

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