FRIDAY FOSSICKING 19th July 2024

 

GENERAL

GSQ Blog 

The Neville family myth. False, true or maybe?   Bobbie Edes

Always Interesting

The ScriBbler Stella Budrikis

Historical records / other genealogy sources: Judy Webster's indexes

My Unconquerable Soul — Details | • Allyson Jeleyne 

These are the 9 places we can't wait to go eat Gastro Obscura

Century-old gramophone used by Queensland's first radio station returns to the ABC

*August is Family History Month

State Library Qld.. Family research resources at your fingertips

See all events

ATLAS OBSCURA

Meet 5 animals you’ve likely never heard of... View this email in your browser  Necropants and Other Tales of 17th-Century Icelandic Sorcery Wondrous Festivals  The Strangeness of Borders  Vermont’s ‘Snowflake Man’  An Insider’s Guide to the Wonders of Peru   Grave of Hattori Hanzō A Salt Flat Dating Back To the 19th Century Spain

This Island Fort Is Only Protecting its Ghosts Have Some Color With Your Hot Spring Water  A Skateboarding Park With Ocean Views  Indulge in the Flavors of Morocco How to Survive Without a Cell Phone Signal Inside the International Astronomical Youth Camp

Holyoke’s Frog Circus  In the Middle of Cityscapes & Forestscapes The Survival of the World’s Rarest Raptor   Relics of the USS Arizona Immerse Yourself In a Mongolian Summer Festival Hawai‘i’s Breeziest Shirt History  Bella the Beithir 21 Airport Attractions For Your Next Layover  The World’s First ‘Cold-Storage Banquet’   Benjamin the Library Cat  The Carousel of Love    9 Music Venues in Austin to Live Out Your Music Dreams  The Secret Past of Highway 42

Smithsonian

A Buried Ancient Egyptian Port Reveals the Hidden Connections Between Distant Civilizations     Meet Vivian Maier, the Reclusive Nanny Who Secretly Became One of the Best Street Photographers of the 20th Century    How Coffee Helped the Union Caffeinate Their Way to Victory in the Civil War    There’s Nowhere Better Than Southeast Montana to See History up Close   How All-Female 'Juries of Matrons' Shaped Legal History Why Ernest Hemingway's Younger Brother Established a Floating Republic in the Caribbean Meet the Forgotten Woman Who Revolutionized Microbiology With a Simple Kitchen Staple  The History of Presidential Assassination Attempts, From Andrew Jackson to Teddy Roosevelt    How the Rise of the Camera Launched a Fight to Protect Gilded Age Americans' Privacy Nine Things You Didn't Know About the Ancient Olympic Games  

Amateur Historians Unearth a Long-Lost Tudor Palace Visited by Henry VIII and Elizabeth I   The Forgotten Black Explorers Who Transformed Americans' Understanding of the Wilderness 'The Crime of the Century,' a Century Later

genealogy Ireland

 Country music legend Shania Twain presented with bespoke guitar which reveals her Irish roots 

JSTOR Daily

Building the Olympic Games The “Mexican-Hindus” of Rural California   The Stickiness of Teflon  Real Estate and the Revolution

Legal Personhood: Extending Rights to Nature?   The French Historian Who Invented the Olympics  The Barrier-Breaking Ozark Club of Great Falls, Montana

Interesting Blogs

THE BURNIE POST OFFICE ROBBERY  Pauline Conolly

AMBERGRIS – A TASMANIAN TALE   Pauline Conolly

Norman Lindsay & the Joseph Conrad  Pauline Conolly

CareyBay2283  GenieAus

Enameled and Gilded Glass from Islamic Lands 

humouringthegoddess

My First Story Empire Post!  Liz Gauffreau

and my blog...

That Moment in Time

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 19th Jul 2024, 2023 penguin Literary Prize Winner,  great blogs, August Family History Month, world wide feast, frog circus, Shania Twain discovers her Irish heritage, sneaky decoy spiders, doomed Dino museum, macabre secret of Poor Clares convent cemetery, building the Olympic Games, interesting blogs, book reviews and much more…Feel free to share..

https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2024/07/friday-fossicking-19th-jul-2024.html

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Smithsonian

A Buried Ancient Egyptian Port Reveals the Hidden Connections Between Distant Civilizations  Meet Vivian Maier, the Reclusive Nanny Who Secretly Became One of the Best Street Photographers of the 20th Century  How Coffee Helped the Union Caffeinate Their Way to Victory in the Civil War  There’s Nowhere Better Than Southeast Montana to See History up Close    How All-Female 'Juries of Matrons' Shaped Legal History   Why Ernest Hemingway's Younger Brother Established a Floating Republic in the Caribbean  Meet the Forgotten Woman Who Revolutionized Microbiology With a Simple Kitchen Staple  The History of Presidential Assassination Attempts, From Andrew Jackson to Teddy Roosevelt  How the Rise of the Camera Launched a Fight to Protect Gilded Age Americans' Privacy

Nine Things You Didn't Know About the Ancient Olympic Games    Amateur Historians Unearth a Long-Lost Tudor Palace Visited by Henry VIII and Elizabeth I  The Forgotten Black Explorers Who Transformed Americans' Understanding of the Wilderness  'The Crime of the Century,' a Century Later   Explore the Great Outdoors With Photography From U.S. National Parks   Eight Weird and Wonderful Museums in Paris  Archaeologists Stumble Upon Marble Statue of Greek God in Ancient Sewer   The Surprising History of Pad Thai   The Island Known as the Birthplace of Apollo Is Sinking  Tourist Carves His Name Into Ancient House in Pompeii  The Forgotten Black Explorers Who Transformed Americans' Understanding of the Wilderness   Five Places Where You Can Still Find Gold in the United States  The 15 Best Small Towns to Visit in 2024  This Pathbreaking South African Horseman Hands a New Generation the Reins   Leftover Ramen Broth Is Causing Problems on South Korea's Mount Halla  Indonesian Cave Painting Is Oldest-Known Visual Storytelling

JSTOR Daily

Building the Olympic Games   The “Mexican-Hindus” of Rural California  The Stickiness of Teflon  Real Estate and the Revolution    Legal Personhood: Extending Rights to Nature?  The French Historian Who Invented the Olympics  The Barrier-Breaking Ozark Club of Great Falls, Montana   

Interesting Blogs

My First Story Empire Post!   Liz Gauffreau

CareyBay2283  Geniaus

THE BURNIE POST OFFICE ROBBERY  Pauline Conolly

Norman Lindsay & the Joseph Conrad   Pauline Conolly

AMBERGRIS – A TASMANIAN TALE    Pauline Conolly

Enameled and Gilded Glass from Islamic Lands     humoringthegoddess

Penguin Books

2023 Penguin Literary Prize Winner..

Jade and Emerald Michelle See-Tho        START READING

This Kingdom of Dust   David Dyer   READ A SNIPPET

The Bright Sword    Lev Grossman    READ AN EXTRACT

What Have You Done?   Shari Lapena     CHECK IT OUT

The Forever War  Nick Bryant     START READING

From my blogs...

Confessions of a Bibliophile

“The Girl With a Violin” Shelley Davidow

If ever a book got my whole attention from beginning to end, it was ‘The Girl With the Violin”.. I loved this story.  It begins with the ambition and the longing to visit Berlin to study with a renowned musician and to find more about the demise of her Jewish grandmother. As her dream starts to become fact, the story becomes far more involved.

The whole story develops like a perfect composition of music, of frustration, of love, of self awareness.. it entices the reader to want more. Definitely a book to be reread.

https://crissoulisbookspot.blogspot.com/2024/07/the-girl-with-violin-shelley-davidow.html

and my blog..

That Moment in Time

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 12th Jul 2024, A Soldier's Tale, Margaret River Nannas, playground in a cemetery, great blogs, book reviews,

Apollo Moonprints Immortalized,  flavours of Vietnam, old world charm in Boston’s Beacon Hill, In the mood for “Fake Music”?, The French Historian Who Invented the Olympics… and so much more… Feel free to share..

https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2024/07/friday-fossicking-12th-jul-2024.html

So many books, so little time...

EVER WANTED TO UNLOCK THE PAST?

Well you certainly can, 

with the help of some of the best in the business...

 Chris Paton 

and 

Dirk Weissleder

along with many others ..

The timing is perfect.. 

August is National Family History Month.

You can read the full information via the link below. Do book soon and then you can go into the draw for a great range of prizes...


GUESS WHO'S COMING TO BRISBANE and a lot of other places...? August 8-26th, 2017 

See you at Kedron-Wavell Services Club on the 8th and 9th of August... do come and say Hello. I am just one of the many proud AMBASSADORS and you can find us by looking for our badges...

Disclosure: 

As an AMBASSADOR,  Unlock the Past have provided me with a seminar pass as compensation for my time.

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 31st JULY, 2015

FRIDAY FOSSICKING

Walter Withers

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There are a plethora of items for you this week... is that the sound of the beginning of 

National Family History Month ...

 starting tomorrow? Look through the main page for all manner of items...

* National Family History Month

 * Fragments of colonial commerce

* Convict History

* Genealogy Special Offers and Discounts

* Restrictions lifted re Electoral Roll Access in Australia

* New season of Who Do You Think You Are?

* The Society of Australian Genealogists is waiving their Joining Fee for the month of August..

Subs will run through till 30 Jun 2016 all members benefits included.. application here

* Victorian Index to Wills, Probate and Administration Records 1841-2009

* Queensland indexes to wills 1857-1940

*  NSW deceased estates and related records  
   # now this is something you might not know about the above... 

 Use the State Records Archives Investigator 
to search for Probate Packets by entering a surname  and the word 'death'.

* Tasmanian Wills and letters of administration 1824-1989

* Ancestry Ireland Civil Registration Marriages Index 1845-1958  # Indexes only


* FIND MY PAST

* 50% discount offer on World Subscription expires Friday 31st at 11.59pm.

* Britain, School and University Register Books 1264-1930

* Treble Almanack and Dublin Directory  plus many more...see list via link 

*  PERiodical Source Index  what is that? Follow the link...

* Melbourne Directory 1854-1893 another link that leads to many more...

* July Irish Newspapers Roundup

* Browsable parish registers from Norfolk, England

* British Army schoolchildren and schoolmasters, 1803-1932

* Over 92,000 new Irish newspaper articles  

ALSO...

* Best sites for free online newspapers  thanks to The Ancestor Hunt

* "Waterbury Irish" coming soon  click for full details...

* Freebooksy Features offering free books...


Do check in a second time, as there could be more updates over the next couple of days...