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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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That Moment in Time


FRIDAY FOSSICKING 18th Oct 2024, 10 places for pancake lovers, great blogs..., Japanese Demons,Tinteán Magazine, Legend of vanishing hitchhiker, Bye Bye Russian Gas, GSQ Blog, how to read illegible text, 300 year old cottage decorated with shells, Netherlands returned stolen artifacts to Indonesia, Russia running out of cemeteries, “Little Libraries” restocked, movie night at the cemetery, haunting lighthouses and so much more… 

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Friday, May 26, 2023

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 26th May 2023






GENERAL

GSQ Blog     The Next Genealogy Journey – Discovering an Adventurer.      Ross Hansen

Trove Treasures May 2023 newsletter incl. Aussie Volunteers

A Grassroots Community Mystery    Tagging Country

News from Ireland 

With Thanks to Larry Parks.. Clare Roots Society...

Clare Museum (in Ennis beside the Temple Gate hotel) has launched a new website today. 
https://claremuseum.ie/
When it first went online back in 2002, it was the first museum in Ireland to have an online presence. With funding from the Heritage Council, museum staff have upgraded the digitised collection to give users access to the items they have in storage as well as those physically on display in the Museum building at any given time.  
They aim to allow online access to their collection and tell the stories of the Clare people associated with the items. Lots of interesting material to be found on there ! 
(above information from Clare Herald  19 May 2023) 

The National Archives UK

Event: Spirit of Invention Festival Day   

Online Event: Small Inventions that made a big difference

Blog: Syrups and ships: Early sugar consumption in England

    20sStreets local history competition  

    Wanderlust Twins

    Autumn Rain, Chatsworth, Illinois  Book Exchange, London, England

    Distinctive blue streets of Chefchaouen, Morocco

    Women and children in front of one of the destroyed Buddhas of Bamiyan, Afghanistan

    Hiking trail in Mombacho Cloud Forest, Nicaragua

    Outback Family History

    Billy Frost – the seeker of shadows     The Norseman Hotels –  

    The Man Who Cheated The Hangman

     The Philippe family – grave tales

    Atlas Obscura

    Horse Diving  The History of Airline Food Orlando’s Wild Water Park

    The California Dream Art Show    Museum of Chinese in America

    England’s Oldest Rowboat Ferry     How to Feed an Army    

    Medieval Mead   Nashtifan Windmills Iran 

    Schrödinger's Cat  Going Below The Surface in Texas

    Discover Texas’ Subterranean Beauty  Spain’s Bull-Shaped Billboards

    Nick Offerman Gazebo Illinois The Waterfall of Kvarnbyn Mölndal

    25 Of Our Favorite Places    Mysterious Dodecahedrons 

    'Stoppenålen' ('The Darning Needle')  Military Food Inventions

    Thotlakonda  India A Plan to Bomb the Moon, and More

    Copper Peak Ski Jump  Green Vault Germany  Chasing Butterflies

    Red Velvet Cake’s Colorful History  Meet Monterey Bay's Aquarists

    Pneumonia Fronts   I-4 Dead Zone  General Grant The Witches’ Tree

     The Evolution of American Military Food   A Different View

    Won’t Someone Love This Creature?      Our Favorite Tales

    Pompeii’s Stone Phalluses  Art Nouveau McDonalds Serbia

    Who Was Juan de Pareja?  An Iron Age Mystery  Dracula’s Irish Roots

    Chinese Historical Society of America    Snake Island Brazil

     Paranormal Antique Shop and Museum  Space-Age Artistic Intrigue

     

      



    JSTOR Daily

    The Sonic Triumph of American Graffiti   Class Production

    Eastern Kentucky University American Slavery Collection

    Brown v. Board of Education: Annotated 

    Artificial Intelligence: An AI-Generated Reading List

    Irish Genealogy

    Facts about Kilkenny - IrishCentral   

    Breaking down Irish brick walls - Irish Echo

     Pioneers of surgery and anaesthesia - The Irish Times

    Irish Times apologizes after publishing hoax article generated by AI - IrishCentral

    Secrets of skeletal remains found under historic Irish pub revealed - IrishCentral  

    BBC confirms return of Who Do You Think You Are? with a list of star-studded guests 

    Famine orphans from Northern Ireland transported to Australia - IrishCentral 

    County Mayo: Basic information and fun facts - IrishCentral

    Newfoundland — a far-flung diaspora | The Irish Post 

    Irish hotel owner sells 10th-century Hebrew Bible for $38.1 million - IrishCentral

    Directions for Ireland, travel and Irish genealogy 

    Mum's the word for Bear Grylls as he shakes family tree | BelfastTelegraph.co.uk 

    Smithsonian

    Did George Washington Order Rebels to Burn New York City in 1776?

    Ancient DNA Reveals Who Wore This 20,000-Year-Old Pendant 

    With Their Knowledge Combined, Two Scholars Are Deciphering a Long-Lost Native Language 

    These Ninth-Century Coins Change Our Understanding of Alfred the Great 

    See Charles III's Official Coronation Portraits    

    The Woman Who Saved the Statue of Liberty

    Eight-Year-Old Norwegian Girl Discovers Neolithic Dagger at School Playground 

    What Happened to the Nazi Treasure Buried in This Dutch Village? 

    Anne Frank's Childhood Friend Recalls Their Years Before the Holocaust 

    You Could Own Nathaniel Hawthorne's Handwritten Notes on 'The Scarlet Letter' 

    These Are America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places 

    The Real History Behind 'Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story' 

    'A Small Light' Tells the Story of Miep Gies, Who Hid Anne Frank From the Nazis 

    Always Interesting

    Pauline Conolly THE DRESS BASKET   THE FLOWER ROOM  SCHOOL EXCURSIONS

    TRUFFLE OBSESSION  LETTERS OF LOVE & LEVITY   THIS BED MY CENTRE

    Geniaus (Jill Ball) Annie Moore

    TextileRanger 1930s Pattern Books  ScrapHappy May 2023 — Double Dipping     1930s Pattern Books for Home Goods

    Jenny MacKay  Extra! Extra! Read All About It 

    humoringthegoddess  Faerie Paths — Advice  Faerie Paths — Dogs

    Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Troy Emery (Australian)

    Love of the Craft  There are stars you haven’t seen (repost) Plan B

    Jennifer Jones Cornelius Jones and Mary Calnan – my great grandparents

    allenrizzi  I Remember Nonna   It’s A Family Thing   Buying Lye

    View From Santa Barbara  The K38 1/2 Story

    Tales from the Grave  (Samantha AlleyThey became Empire scapegoats

    Brotmanblog: A Family Journey Update on Jenny Blumenfeld Warburg from World Jewish Relief, A New (to Me) Research Tool

    Anne Young    Living statues  

    Tales from the Grave The apple of Granny Smith's eye

    Stair na hÉireann | History of Ireland #OTD in Irish History | 15 May:    #OTD in Irish History | 22 May:

    Reviews

    Theresa Smith

    Book Review: Only Love Can Hurt Like This by Paige Toon

    Book Review: Happy Place by Emily Henry

    Book Review: The Albatross by Nina Wan

    Book Review: Exiles by Jane Harper

    Better Reading

    Book of the Week: The Collected Regrets of Clover by Mikki Brammer       READ MORE

    Hotel 21 by Senta Rich           READ MORE

    The Magpie’s Sister by Kerri Turner      READ MORE

    The Signatory by Stuart Black     READ MORE

    Book of the Week: Where Light Meets Water by Susan Paterson   READ MORE

    The Rush by Michelle Prak READ MORE

    Life After Ted by R. D. Feneley      READ MORE

    The Secret Book of Flora Lea by Patti Callahan Henry     READ MORE

    Podcast: BE Better: Wim Hof on The Wim Hof Method

    Podcast: Jennifer Saint on Redefining Greek Mythology

    Podcast: Book Chat Episode #4, with Cheryl Akle and Caroline Overington

    .. and from my blogs


    That Moment in Time


    FRIDAY FOSSICKING 12th May 2023, Ancestry Buy & Genetic Information, Cork Genealogy 57,000 burial records, Ghostly town, vale Bob Maguire, great blogs... interesting reviews, Argentina’s “Loch Ness Monster”, gates of Hell, “Fairy Butter”, Greece beaches more accessible, genealogy tourism big business, interesting podcast, volunteers needed for transcription project.. and much more…

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    *PLEASE NOTE*  I' took a week off, with both "That Moment in Time" and "Headlines of Old".

    However, that gives you time to reread your favourite posts. 


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    Headlines of Old


    CONVICTS.. varied notices   Trove Tuesday 23rd May 2023, tickets of leave ..some cancelled with reason, costs to families wanting to be near loved ones... some with details of ships arrived on..


    https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2023/05/convicts-varied-notices-trove-tuesday.html


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