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Top 5 Technology Skills for Family History Andrew Redfern
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State Library of Queensland
Heritage Talks: Houses and homes
10:30 am – 12:30 pm, Mon 25 Nov | slq Auditorium 1, level 2 | Free, booking required
Our Heritage talks series offers a unique opportunity to explore Queensland's rich history through engaging presentations by expert speakers. Each session delves into fascinating topics relating to the state's heritage, providing fresh insights and perspectives.
In our final Heritage talk of the year, experts will cover subjects such as exploring the concepts of Queensland’s heritage homes, including the iconic Queenslander style, through to the workings of the Queensland heritage register.After the talks, we'll take a walk through our architectural history with a hands-on, curated experience looking at a selection of original materials from State Library’s collections.
Interesting Libraries
Library Corner: Discover Distant Destinations - The Stettler Independent Commitment to community makes Canton Public Library a top workplace Caught on camera: all books taken from free little libraries in Buchanan - MSN OU celebrates National Library Week with book exhibition - The Hans India King Library celebrates Miami authors Residents getting money's worth with King's libraries - King Weekly Sentinel The AI Conundrum: Libraries and Ethics in the Modern Age! - elblog.pl - Decoding AI What is Oakville planning for parks, libraries and rec centres? Four things you should know Interesting items on show at Warwickshire Libraries' local studies collections Hidden libraries from around the world - Classic City News There's something far more interesting, and potentially worrying, about that rumour that Sony ...
General News
Fremantle Prison History I Convict DatabaseFremantle Prisonhttps://fremantleprison.com.au › research › convict-datab...
Western AustraliaCoraweb.com.auhttps://coraweb.com.au › Websites › Convicts
Wade, Mary - The Dictionary of SydneyThe Dictionary of Sydneyhttps://dictionaryofsydney.org › person › wade_mary
Indexes to Passenger ListsState Records of South Australiahttps://www.archives.sa.gov.au › migration-and-crew › i...
Indexes to Passenger ListsState Records of South Australiahttps://www.archives.sa.gov.au › migration-and-crew › i...
Arrivals, immigration, and departuresLibraries Tasmaniahttps://libraries.tas.gov.au › family-history › arrivals-im...
Free immigration to Tasmania 1803-1946 - IntroductionLibraries Tasmaniahttps://libraries.tas.gov.au › family-history › introduction
Victoria | History, Map, Flag, Population, Capital, & FactsBritannicahttps://www.britannica.com › Victoria-state-Australia
genealogy Ireland
Library hosts free genealogy event - What's on - Western People Nanton flags are at half-mast to honour late councillor - OkotoksOnline.com Did Harris' Irish Ancestor Own Slaves in Jamaica? Here's What We Know | Snopes.com Irish Famine orphan girls - stepping from the shadows of history - IrishCentral Five countries helping you reconnect you with your roots - BBC From Connecticut to Cael Uisce - American man finds his Fermanagh family - IrishCentral
Atlas Obscura
these 11 graves get a little interactive. The Secret Ingredient to Edison’s Lightbulb: Bamboo Does This Italian Church Have a Gate to Heaven? All That's Left Of This Massive International Glass Masterpiece Is Ruins This Statue May Commemorate A Spanish Literature Icon ‘Baby Bread’ Celebrates Both Life and Death
In author Bryan Ford’s second cookbook, The 400-Year-Old Noodle Spot Frequented By a Fox-Turned Monk Have You Seen A Small Green Archer? Watch Out For the Arrows A Hindu Goddess Is Said To Have Been Born Here This Grave Hatched a Movement That Changed Lives Trixie Motel a lost city that once housed 20,000 people. serving as living remnants of a bygone era. Sacred Native Plants Are Spotlighted In This Oasis This Toilet Mini Museum Is Flush With History Step Inside An Intact Windmill Built By the Knights of St. John The Birthplace of Thailand’s Version of Hainanese Chicken Rice Welcome to the Sunfish Capital of the World
This Golden Dove Is Good Luck For Lovebirds One of the World’s Oldest Suspension Bridges Is In A Castle Take a Walk Along America’s Oldest Spanish Aqueduct Where Book Lovers Shop in Ann Arbor
The National Archives UK
New records on the transatlantic slave trade added to our catalogue
Disability History Month.. incl. Virginia Hall Sir John Fielding Members of the National League of the Blind Stories Unboxed
Smithsonian
The Feminist Who Inspired the Witches of Oz Father and Son Discover Rare Trove of 16th- and 17th-Century Silver Coins While Metal Detecting in a Polish Forest When White Supremacists Staged the Only Successful Coup in U.S. History DNA Evidence Is Rewriting the Stories of Victims Who Perished in Pompeii Nearly 2,000 Years Ago Archaeologists Discover Ancient Egyptian Family Tomb Full of Necklaces, Bracelets and Rings The Hidden History of Bermuda Is Reshaping the Way We Think About Colonial America Visions of Nuclear-Powered Cars Captivated Cold War America, but the Technology Never Really Worked The Surprising Artwork That Inspired Netflix's 'The Piano Lesson,' a New Movie Based on August Wilson's Award-Winning Play When a Search Party Discovered the Frozen Body of a British Explorer Who Raced to the South Pole—and Lost
JStor Daily
Portico's Part in Telling the Story of Emmett Till Becoming Beatrice JSTOR Daily: What I Learned Chimney Sweeps and the Turn Against Child Labor The Treaty of Paris 1783: Annotated Could “Rosie the Riveter” Be Chinese American? High-Flying Geology
Cemeteries
The pope's cemeteries - Catholic Outlook A star tries to take his dog to the grave: What you don't know about pet cemeteries - Audacy From Clowns to Chimps, Circus Communities Bury Their Dead Here - Fodors Travel Guide Helping out the local cemeteries - YouTube Over two-dozen 'forgotten' graves found in historic cemetery - FOX 35 Orlando Upgrades continue at Columbus Catholic cemeteries Greek government funds for cemeteries - Telegraph - Telegrafi Cemetery Sleuths Uncovering History one Tombstone at a time - WMUR Damage to Jewish cemeteries is severely condemned - Telegraph - Telegrafi After institutions for people with disabilities close, graves are at risk of being forgotten Korean War hero's remains return home to Grafton - WDTV Improvements to cemeteries in St Albans District are approved Places of reflection and remembrance - Geelong Independent Jo-Ann Prescott: Fall cleanup of cemeteries - Greenfield Recorder Learn about island history as a Cemetery Commissioner - theOrcasonian.com Sleuthing in the cemetery | Culture - Illinois Times Lost ones, easily found - Sauk Centre Herald A history of overwriting : Jewish cemeteries in postwar Poland, Ukraine and Belarus Cemeteries in Poland as Built Structures and Their Impact on Shaping the Social ... - CEEOL Patrols to increase at Roselawn crematorium after paramilitary displays - BBC Two more mass graves are discovered in Bosnia - Telegrafi Regular patrols to be held at cemetery after paramilitary displays - Yahoo News Canada Visiting Beethoven's final resting place in Vienna | The Star Is This the Funniest Tombstone in All of Iowa? - ESPN Sioux Falls Meet the Metal Characters Living in Québec's Forest The Big Story Behind Atlanta's Collection of Tiny Doors How Did Live Animals and Political Artwork End Up in a Shoe Store? Is This the World's Most Delicious Museum? Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Petr Axenoff Dubbo cemeteries modernise with community input | Daily Liberal Loved ones gone but not forgotten - The SE Voice Confederate flag not welcome in Oregon historic cemeteries South Surrey organizations oppose proposed cemetery expansion - CTV News Vancouver LOCAL LIFE: An extension for the Cul-de-Sac cemetery | Faxinfo Jharkhand cemetery remembers forgotten Chinese soldiers of World War II - Telegraph India Family frustrated by restricted access to cemetery on private property - Herald Ledger Jo Hayes: A picnic in the dead centre of town - The Catholic Weekly Cemetery Tour keeps history alive | Article | The United States Army Cemetery is 'disrespecting the dead' due to 'failed experiment' - Yahoo News UK The time of the dead: anthropological research in a Latvian cemetery 31 additional graves found at historic Melbourne cemetery - Spectrum News 13 Cemetery under fire for 'disrespecting the dead' after 'failed experiment' leads to 'wholesale neglect' A Voice at the Table: Highways, Higher Pay, Historic Cemeteries, and a YRI 2024 Recap Sebastopol's historic cemetery is up for sale High winds in Paris: parks, gardens and cemeteries closed this Tuesday - Sortiraparis.com
Interesting Blogs
humoringthegoddess A Fun Way to Tap Into Your Creativity!
I’m Okay Fountains Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Otherworld Faerie Paths — Dinosaurs Freya Jobbins
Anne's Family History Looking after Whitmore in the twentieth century
Dreams and Adventures at Cosy Cottage A Worm Request
Pauline Conolly Mining for Gold – Damper, Spuds, & Mutton Birds
Beatrix Potter – Remembered Pleasures
Brotmanblog: A Family Journey Moses Rothschild’s Three Oldest Children and Their Families in the 1930s: Samuel, Rudolph, and Albert
Theresa Smith Writes..
Book Review: Love Objects by Emily Maguire
Book Review: Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors
Allen & Unwin
The Battle of the Generals Roland Perry
Buckham's Bombers Mark Baker
Stories My Grandmothers Didn't Tell Me. Andra Putnis
Magnificent Obsession David Dufty
Australia's Greatest Stories Graham Seal
Better Reading
Book of the Week: The Golden Thread by Tea Cooper READ MORE
Preview: One Dark Night by Hannah Richell
Penguin Books
The City and its Uncertain Walls Haruki Murakami ABOUT THE BOOK
Pictures of You Emma Grey START READING
The Place of Tides James Rebanks TAKE ME THERE
Birdle (100 puzzles all about Australian birds.) Liam Runnalls
Gliff Ali Smith CHECK IT OUT
Desolation Code Clive Cussler HAVE A LOOK
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That Moment in Time
FRIDAY FOSSICKING 15th Nov 2024 The Widow Who Sued – a breach of promise , Famine Era Paintings, Ice cave, Spain's submerged cemeteries, interesting blogs, book reviews, metal thieves target flower vases from cemetery, USA’s first Dunkin’ Donuts, pyramid mausoleum, Japan’s Tallest Statue of Liberty, celebrate zombies, escaped Nun provokes sectarian outrage..
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