Friday, October 25, 2024

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 25th October 2024





GENERAL

GSQ Blog  My connection to ‘The Valley’ from the late 1850s.  Christine Leonard

Outback Family History

Queensland State Archives

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The National Archives UK newsletter 

incl. Walking through archived colonial histories   SAS Daggers Drawn   Agent Zo    Leave no story behind...... 

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Atlas Obscura

How Algae Revealed Ancient Earthquakes in Croatia   Evil Repellents   The Bell Witch   A Lost, Terrifying Show  Dive Into An Underwater ‘Waterfall’   Wow, That’s One Twisted Boat   Can You Find All the Wooden Trolls In This Park?    The World’s Only Remaining Wind-Powered Paper Mill  Soak Up the Beauty of Santa Rita Hot Springs

Is This Galveston’s Most Iconic Building? The Curse of the Stolen Amethyst  An Occult Imposter Forgotten Soul Cakes All Fear the Tomato  Decoding Ancient Egyptian Tombstones   How an Aqueduct Saved a Mexican Town   Step Inside the World’s Oldest Norman Crypt  These Graves Remember a Vampire-Plagued Family   To See Dinos, Visit This Schoolteacher’s Front Yard   A Magical Town Between the Mountains and the Sea  The Show Always Goes On At The Grand 1894 Opera House   Meet Spring-Heeled Jack  Step Back In Time to the 16th Century     Inside Buckminster Fuller’s Dome Home   Where an Arctic Museum Meets an Ancient Settlement     The 10th-Century Monastery Hiding In Plain Sight The Forbidden Forest Rumored to Spirit Visitors Away   Did This Castle Drive Vlad the Impaler Mad?  This Chapel is Home to Marvelous Medical Sculptures  Explore 100 Years of Curiosities For Sale in Seattle  Real Zombies and Body Snatchers Live Among Us   Autumn Trails Iconic Cemeteries  Our New Family Trip To Egypt!  Thirty Ghosts Haunt This Church  The Castle Where Dracula Was Allegedly Imprisoned  "Only The Dead Get Off At Kymlinge”  Do Not Stay Inside This Extremely Cursed House Where Have All the Vaqueros Gone? The Modern Legend of the Black-Eyed Children Disappearing Traditions The Case of the Mummy Smugglers  Behold, the World’s Largest Aloe Statue Uh, Who Assembled This Unicorn? Here Lies Jack O’Legs, a Robin Hood-esque Mythical Giant  Hundreds of Decomposing Dolls Hang Here  Discover the History Hiding Beneath the Surface of Los Cabos 

10 Festivals That Capture the Spirit of Galveston  Do You Recognize These Iconic Characters?   This Is Where The Feared "Princess Centipede" Is Buried   Can You Find All 1,000 Ghosts Lurking at the York Ghost Merchants?   The Hotel Housing Hollywood, Politicians, and Ghosts   Surreal Teahouses Rise Out Of The Trees  Remember the Fight Over ‘Haunted Lane’?   Here Lies The Man Who Invented the Ouija Board   Guess How Many Mannequins Make Up This Mountain?

 JStor Daily

The Genocide Before the Shoah  Zelda Fitzgerald on F. Scott's Writing   Archimedes Rediscovered: Technology and Ancient History     When “Traditional” Religion Shakes Up Gender Roles   Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Lust  Carry On, Karaoke   Celebrating Indigenous Peoples and Cultures 

Trove Treasures

To read full issue here  e.g. First Australian Maps Explore the collection     Haunted Buildings    Here Comes the Brides

Genealogy Ireland

 GEORGE MEMORIAL LIBRARY TO HOST GENEALOGY LOCK-IN FOR FAMILY-HISTORY MONTH 

Find your family history online - Ireland's 1926 Census is being digitized - PressReader

DNA Journey With Ancestry Sarah Parish and James Nesbitt - Love Ballymena 

Homecoming celebrations create great excitement | KillarneyToday.com 

Smithsonian Magazine

This Russian Family Lived Alone in the Siberian Wilderness for 40 Years, Unaware of World War II or the Moon Landing    

A Secret Sculpture Built for John F. Kennedy's Grave Vanished in the 1970s. Half a Century Later, the Mystery Has Been Solved

The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis Triggered the Worst Shark Attack in History 

Inside Disney's Controversial Plan to Open a Theme Park Inspired by American History

The Real Story Behind 'Saturday Night,' the Movie About the Television Show That Changed Comedy Forever

Archaeologists Discover Intricately Decorated Coffins Belonging to the Only Daughter of an Ancient Egyptian Governor 

How Captain George Vancouver Mapped and Shaped the Modern Pacific Northwest 

Why a Minnesota Man Walked Around the World, Traversing 13 Countries and 14,450 Miles in Four Years

Students Stumble Upon a Message in a Bottle Written by a French Archaeologist 200 Years Ago 

This Defeated Presidential Candidate, Once the 'Best-Known Man in America,' Died in a Sanatorium Less Than a Month After Losing the Election

How Artists, Writers and Scientists of the Past Documented Climate Change

See a Newly Uncovered Throne Room in Peru That May Have Belonged to an Ancient Queen

Van Gogh Painted Some of His Most Breathtaking Works During His Two Years in the South of France

What It's Like to Experience Polar Night in the World's Northernmost Town 

Archaeologists Discover Mysterious Jade Dragon Artifact at a 5,000-Year-Old Tomb in China 

This Park Recreates Vincent van Gogh's 'The Starry Night' With a Dazzling Display of Plants, Trees and Winding Pathways 

Meet the Italian 'Fruit Detective' Who Investigates Centuries-Old Paintings for Clues About Produce That Has Disappeared From the Kitchen Table 

See the Vatican's Magnificent Marble Statue of the Greek God Apollo Restored to Its Former Glory 

This Savvy Librarian Was the True Force Behind New York’s Iconic Morgan Library 

Archaeologists in Petra Discover Secret Tomb Hiding Beneath a Mysterious Structure Featured in 'Indiana Jones' 

How Captain George Vancouver Mapped and Shaped the Modern Pacific Northwest 

This Russian Family Lived Alone in the Siberian Wilderness for 40 Years, Unaware of World War II or the Moon Landing 

A Secret Sculpture Built for John F. Kennedy's Grave Vanished in the 1970s. Half a Century Later, the Mystery Has Been Solved 

The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis Triggered the Worst Shark Attack in History

Inside Disney's Controversial Plan to Open a Theme Park Inspired by American History 

The Real Story Behind 'Saturday Night,' the Movie About the Television Show That Changed Comedy Forever

Archaeologists Discover Intricately Decorated Coffins Belonging to the Only Daughter of an Ancient Egyptian Governor

Interesting Libraries

University Libraries Unveils Special Collections Item of the Month - SM2      The New Jersey Literary Road Trip Leads to 7 Incredible Bookstores and Libraries   New Castle representative resigns from Garfield County library board - Post Independent  It is intended to establish 12 mini-libraries in 12 neighborhoods of Pristina - Telegrafi

The collection of over a million books, in the most modern library in the world  'The library needs to become even more of a student's building' | DUB    Life from the Stacks: Dive into Autumn Fun at the Garberville Library - Redheaded Blackbelt

Cemeteries

Volunteer at VA National Cemeteries      OPINION | BCM's repetitive response to state of cemeteries disgraceful - Daily Dispatch   Tusten cemeteries: Who's buried there? - The River Reporter     Kāpiti council plans for future cemetery space - Inside Government NZ     “We're All Dead!” - Danny Trejo on Seven Cemeteries - CBR   Accused firebug Tianna Addison Diodato Day refused bail over arson attacks | The West Australian   How Modern Technology Is Helping to Locate Long-Forgotten Graves   The Death Issue: Stories of Pets Memorialized in Pet Cemeteries Across Greater Cincinnati  'Spirits of the Silent City' brings the dead to life at Milwaukee's Forest Home Cemetery  10 historic graveyards to visit - PressReader   Franklin community removes historical dividing fence at Owensville Cemetery - KXXV   Weymouth: Grieving relatives 'angry' over graveyard grass - BBC   Calvary Cemetery an honorable resting place for fetal remains - Catholic Star Herald    Pinch of Salt: Long Beach cemeteries come to life for annual day of stories - Press Telegram   As taxes spread thin, Michigan communities get creative with cemeteries    Bruno Zappavigna | Catholic Cemeteries & Funeral Services - Archdiocese of Toronto   This Denver area was once a Freemason cemetery, so why was it abandoned? - KDVR   St. Louis County cemetery to honor the long forgotten by finding graves with radar - STLPR  A Window on the Past: Old Settlers Cemetery history, and lecture Tuesday about gravestone    Interview With John Gulager, Director Of 'Seven Cemeteries' - PopHorror   Trenton's Mercer Cemetery To Hold Free Training Workshop on Gravestone Repair  Some cemeteries damaged, flooded due ahead of Undas | GMA News Online    Could old graves be reused to make up for burial space shortages? - BBC News Mansfield cemeteries join forces for cleanup   Grandma's birthplace was Australia, yet she was a Louisiana native. Was Australia in La.? Westlock County has sufficient cemetery capacity for 30 years - Athabasca Advocate  Deep Cleaning Project Reveals Hidden Treasures of History at Kolkata's South Park Street Cemetery  Is this really London's most haunted borough? - TimeOut Lifelines: The remaining question after death | Michigan | cnhinews.com  People get the chance to tour the oldest established cemetery in Beaumont - YouTube   Cemetery explorer and filmmaker has a new take on graves - The Huntington News   Cemeteries are hallowed ground—until RAGBRAI comes to town - Bleeding Heartland  SPOOKY SEASON: Alabama's oldest cemeteries (+ their most famous decendants!)

Interesting Blogs

Pauline Conolly     Flora Drennan; the Sydney Sprinter.

Anne Young  Serendipity

Humoring the Goddess  Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Richard Mayhew   Michael Boroniec  Being Bored is Never a Problem — 24 Hours Is   Faerie Paths — Lost    Otto Dix  Things I Learned Hanging With “the Guys”  Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Dale Dunning

Faerie Paths — Paintings  Bubun   Going With the Guys   Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Holly Coulis

Elizabeth Gauffreau  A Noble Bargain by Jan Sikes: Blog Tour Stop #3 :  #historicalfiction #sawmill #smalltown #moonshine #abuse #baseball #woodywagon #arkansas #missouri

TextileRanger  ScrapHappy October 2024 — A Quick and Easy Group Quilt Project

Brotmanblog: A Family Journey Albert Rothschild’s Family 1915-1920: Loss and Survival

Better Reading

Head for the Hills by Tricia Stringer     READ MORE

The Booklover’s Library by Madeline Martin   READ MORE

Christmas at Hogwarts by J.K. Rowling, Illustrated by Ziyi Gao    READ MORE

I Was Anastasia by Ariel Lawhon  READ MORE

PODCAST: Nick Bryant on The Complex Interplay Between Politics and Society In The U.S.A.

Penguin Books

Sonny Boy Al Pacino memoir  READ A SNIPPET

Your Celestial Compass  Natasha Weber START READING

What Does It Feel Like? Sophie Kinsella    CHECK IT OUT

Stories from the Otto Bin Empire   Judy Nunn

Theresa Smith Writes

Book Review: Sandwich by Catherine Newman

Book Review: Into the Storm by Cecelia Ahern

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Friday, October 18, 2024

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 18th Oct 2024

 



GENERAL

GSQ Blog
Broaden your horizons.   Pauleen Cass ( Always very informative )

Tinteán Magazine

Land Ownership in Ireland part 3              
Agallaimh le Scríbhneoirí Gaeilge/Interviews with Irish Language Writers
Secrets of the Daniel O’Connell Monument
On the Good Ship Ulysses
Creative Writing: poetry
Irish Film Festival Reviews: Tarrac & Dance First, That They May Face the Rising Sun, and more.
Mercurial Meditations on Life and Death and the Everyday
We are reading at the moment…
Halloween Oíche Shamhna Recipes
What’s on in October/November and beyond
What's On page for. Australian Irish Events

Outback Family History
The World Well Lost for Love     John Bain – grave tales   Widgiemooltha Cemetery –   The Niagara Football Club – a verse

Orange City Council eNews incl.

Catch The Rubens at Robertson Park for FREE during Zest Fest on Nov 2nd! Free entry, get your tickets now.


John Grenham

Western Australia Convict Links

Tasmania Convict Links
They challenge popular narratives of Australian history suggesting only convicts from Britain and Ireland were transported to Van Diemen's Land. The youngest prisoner, a boy called Joseph Levy, was just ten when transported for perjury. The oldest was a 75-year-old man who laboured on a road gang.

The National Archives UK incl.

 How to read illegible text  Highlights galleries... Postwar Caribbean migration

 Disability through the ages  700 years of the Thames at The National  Archives  Workshop: Migration family histories
 
JSTOR Daily
Lost Literacies Strips Down the Dawn of Comics  The Merchants of Venice—In Code    Francis Bacon's Fables of Life Extension   Bye-Bye, Russian Gas!  Gae Aulenti: An Independent, International Architect   What Is the Cost of Sustainability?

Atlas Obscura
The Evolution of the Vanishing Hitchhiker Legend  17 Poetic Places   Insidious Secrets  A Bun’s Devilish Origin The Enchanting World of Cephalopods—Online  This Swiss Waterfall Churns Inside a Mountain   The 200-Year-Old French Chocolatier Beloved By a Queen  Is This a Micronation, Fairy Garden, Or Museum? (Yes)   Dive Into the Terrifying World of Japanese Demons  Is This the Most High-Stakes Golf Tournament Ever?  Los Angeles, Now Playing  Scotland’s Spectral, Terrifying Dog  Beloved San Francisco Tradition Returns  A 300-Year-Old Cottage Decorated With Shells Ireland The Golf Is Mini, But the Stakes Are Huge  10 Places for Pancake-Lovers  Traditional Māori Sourdough Welcome to Scarfolk  Tokyo Night & Light Projections  Uncover the Magic of Colorado  Highgate Cemetery England  The 500 Year-Old Building That Curses Its Owners Italy    Explore the Chapel Built On 13th Century Bones  You Can't Live On This Island Unless You're Already Dead This Strange Grave Marks an Impossible Death  How Pharaohs Ensured Company In Death Haunting Lighthouses The Cemetery Where Dueling Magicians Once Clashed How Béla Lugosi’s Bust Snuck Onto a Budapest Castle An Immersive Look Inside the Abandoned City of Pripyat At This Century-Old Mill, You Get Really Hands-On Discover Los Cabos’ Magical Side 
Gastro Obscura Try a taste of Colorado How Colorado Cuisine Submits Itself to Nature  The 4 Colorado Ingredients Worth Travelling For  How about them apples  Mango House  Magic Meadows Yurt
Street Food Delight  ‘Dead Men’s Bones’ Meet the Chef Blending Global Cuisines with Colorado Flavors

Smithsonian Magazine
Divers in Mexico's Underwater Caves Get a Glimpse of Rarely Seen Artifacts, Fossils and Human Remains  Archaeologists Discover Intricately Decorated Coffins Belonging to the Only Daughter of an Ancient Egyptian Governor   Six Lodge-to-Lodge Hikes That Will Have You Falling in Love With Slow Travel   Explore Egypt’s New Grand Egyptian Museum in VIP Style on the Most Extraordinary Tour Ever   See a Newly Uncovered Throne Room in Peru That May Have Belonged to an Ancient Queen  An All-Female Crew Sailed 1,000 Miles in a Traditional Voyaging Canoe to Help Save Humpback Whales Desi Arnaz Is Getting a Much-Deserved Historical Marker in Miami Beach   See 24 Beautiful Photos of Fall Foliage in Its Most Vibrant Colors   Why a Minnesota Man Walked Around the World, Traversing 13 Countries and 14,450 Miles in Four Years   Halloween Is Spooky. But So Are These Eight Other Celebrations Around the World  The Netherlands Has Returned 288 Stolen Artifacts to Indonesia The Complicated History of Flamenco in Spain  Delight in These 15 Photos That Capture the Exotic Undersea Lives of Jellyfish
A Treasure Hunter Just Uncovered the $100,000 Prize Hidden in the Massachusetts Woods  

Cemeteries
Wollongong Cemetery to host special baby memorial service NSW    
Database helping identify and preserve Louisiana's historic cemeteries - WAFB  
Movie night at the cemetery - YouTube
Database helping identify and preserve Louisiana's historic cemeteries - WAFB 
Grave tale: History program tell story behind Atterbury Cemeteries - Daily Journal 
Cemeteries in Porto: a guide full of works of art and echoes of the past 
The Scenic History of Denver Cemeteries: From Cheesman Park to Riverside 
Council Plans For Future Cemetery Space In Kapiti | Scoop News 
Fallen magnolia trees by the dozen litter historic Augusta cemeteries 
Preservation Dallas Presents Tour of Historic Cemeteries and Dia de los Muertos Party 
Authorities: Man was stealing vases from cemeteries and selling them as scrap metal
Russia Is Running Out of Cemeteries - Newsweek 
NBC4 I-Team finds graves apparently vanished at nation's largest cemetery - NBC Los Angeles 
Meyers: Cemeteries 85-90% filled, urges govt. 'get ahead' of concern - The Daily Herald
Karrakatta Cemetery fire: Accused firebugs including Tianna Addison Diodato Day hit with ... 
Mandurah woman charged over fire at third cemetery - 97.3 Coast FM 
Grave tale: History program tell story behind Atterbury Cemeteries - The Republic News 
'Seven Cemeteries' Clip | Danny Trejo To The Rescue - YouTube 
All Souls Day Mass at 6 Bridgeport Diocese Cemeteries 
Communities reimagine how to use cemetery spaces - Spartan Newsroom 
Trick-or-treat in a cemetery? Cleveland's Buried History Days offer fun 
Pollution from cremations is set to double. Can saying goodbye be a greener process?
Croatia moves to protect 52 Jewish cemeteries after decades of neglect, destruction 
A century of the world's best pet cemeteries - NY Post 
Historic Atrocities | 60 Minutes Full Episodes - YouTube 
Sleeping with the fishes: The story behind Florida's underwater cemetery that ... - The Independent 
Jefferson County's Black cemeteries find new caretaker in Addison Reese - Real WV 
A home for wildlife or disrespectful? Views sought on overgrown cemeteries - Yahoo News UK 
A visit to "Author's Ridge" at the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery on WORLDS GREATEST ... - WOUB 
10 of the most historic graveyards in Scotland to visit this autumn | The Herald 
Peace Church Cemetery tour highlights centuries of local history | KSNF/KODE 
Manila LGU issues advisory for Undas 2024 | GMA News Online 
Langley Township sets up green burial plot in local cemetery
Proposed relocation of family cemeteries aims to preserve history - Chatham Star-Tribune 
Darwen Cemetery: Family's fight for headstone for baby in common grave - BBC 
Vienna Tourist Board celebrates the 150th anniversary of the Vienna Central Cemetery 

Interesting Libraries
 'Welcoming and cozy:' Vernon Township Public Library director reaching career goals in new position
Spookily good fun this October half term | Dudley Council News 
Two Interesting Events Taking Place At Cashel Library. - Thurles Information 
Tyler librarians restock 'Little Libraries' throughout city - KLTV 

Great Blogs
Brotmanblog: A Family Journey    Moses Rothschild’s Family: Where Was His Widow in 1920?
Humoring the Goddess  I Am a Fan of Top __ Lists Part 2 
Look Out Wassily Kandisky — Here I Come!    Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Unusual Jewelry  Don’t Let Your Mind Be a Garbage Dump

Anne's Family History ( Anne Young) Puritan Connections
All about those places: Whitmore and Homebush

JennyMacKay  Whispers from the Past: John Carson’s Brief but Impactful Life

Samantha Elley Celebrating 100th birthday with a smoke and a drink

Pauline Conolly  ODE TO BILLY TEA


REVIEWS

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Book Review: We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman


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