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Showing posts with label great book reviews. Show all posts

Friday, April 7, 2023

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 7th April 2023




Panning S.T.Gill

* GENERAL 

GSQ Blog    ‘Grave Journeys’  Jill Ball  aka GeniAus

*National Library welcomes announcement of ongoing Trove funding  National Library of Australia

Queensland State Archives newsletter Expo-sed: 35 years since Expo '88     See the album on Flickr

National Archives of Australia  newsletter incl.

The Captain’s treasures (Matthew Flinders)    Stories from the archives

Plus many more...

Newsletter of Public Record Office Victoria, April 2023

Celebrating 50 years    PROV and the Public Records Act



Wunderlust Twins   Entryway, Lazio, Italy

Outback Family History

Northey and Mullins Families      The Ghost of Goya River –

The Death of ‘Dutch’ Clark – grave tales    

The Mysterious Case of the Missing Doctor –

JSTOR Daily

What it Sounds Like When Doves Cry

Early Doctors Diagnosed Disease by Looking at Urine

Mindful March: The Unexpected Benefits of Mindfulness

Luna Park and the Amusement Park Boom

Dummy Boards: the Fun Figures of the 1600s

How to Interpret the Meaning of an Image

Ousmane Sembène: Feminism in African Francophone Cinema

Atlas Obscura

A Drowned Medieval Spice Cabinet     ‘Red Passovers’      

Cedar Bridge Tavern New Jersey    Get Curious in the Queen City    

Odd and Amazing Public Art Podcast    Lady Buddha Vietnam

106-Year-Old Fruitcake   Grace Hopper's Bug  Hidden Caravaggio Art 

Luna Luna      Rube Waddell's Grave        Writing the Food Memoir

Fortune Cookies are Japanese  Hang Li Poh’s Well (Perigi Raja)

A Delicious Mission with Cheuk Kwan  A Rock That’s Alive

The World’s Best Hometown Monsters The “Huk Amazons”

The Trees That Escaped Destruction  Librería CONARTE

A 500-Year-Old Mystery Manuscript very interesting..

Corkscrew and Vineyard Museum  Sour Orange Pie Ponyhenge

The Artisans Building Root Bridges  Minnesota’s “Lost Forty”

George Washington University's River Horse That’s the Spirit! puzzle 

The Surprising Pairing of Olive Oil and Coffee  Silly Walks Tunnel

Museum of Clean podcast  The Miseducation of John Muir

Elliðaey Island Lodge Iceland 14 Unusual Tunnels 

How Chinese Food Won Over the World Portland Troll Bridge

Presidential Relics to Orchids  Arrows Across America

Last Supper Museum Art & Music Center  Giant Pink Slugs     

Idiom Installation 

Genealogy Ireland

Historic agreements between publicans and whiskey producers reveal 'vanished Ireland' 

A small town on Ireland's coast is eagerly preparing for a Biden visit - CBS News 

Learn some basic Irish with these ten useful words and phrases 

The top ten Irish outlaws and gangsters - IrishCentral 

Ken Furr writes book about Furr family history - | The Stanly News & Press 

Biden's five-day visit to island of Ireland to begin north of the border - Breaking News

Joe Biden's Irish ancestry explained: US President's links to Ballina and Louth - Dublin Live

A Canadian's view of the Emerald Isle | The Irish Post

The history of Irish blessings and why they're so popular around the world - IrishCentral 

Genealogy Today: Irish women helped shape America - Green Valley News

Irish family name variations - a challenge to genealogists - IrishCentral 

ALWAYS INTERESTING

Judith Salecich Easter in Germany:Bavaria

Dreams and Adventures at Cosy Cottage   Eggs galore

All aboard The Flying Scotsman      

Pauline MEAD; A GREAT TASSIE DROP A BRUNY ISLAND MYSTERY

The Legal Genealogist   Obeying the rule   Revisiting the storms of spring  Coming up: April-May 2023   Fixing a mess

Tales from the Grave  98 year-old letter finally delivered

Amy  Hilde Blumenfeld Meinrath: A Strong and Determined Woman

Anne's Family History    A is for Agra   B is for Buntingdale 

C is for Ceylonese coffee  D is for doleful death in distant dusty Dacca

E is for emigration

Jenny MacKay     Chapter Three – Rebel Hearts  

Chapter Four – A Tale of Education and Consequence

allenrizzi   Of Horse Whisperers And Men   The Big Fat Train To Georgia   Once Upon A Time In Northridge

Humoring the Goddess  Fibonacci Sequence    Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Dain Yoon  Goin’ Forward John Paul Miller

Faerie Paths — Gold n’ Glitter Bonsai Trees

cassmob My A to Z theme 2023: Cemetery Searching

Cemetery Searching: Albury and Albany Creek  

B is for Branxton and Broadford  C is for Charters Towers and Cairns

D is for Dutton Park, Dalby, Dunwich and Dungog

E is for Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park

Janet Maher A Talk in April! – Journey Home

Stair na hÉireann | History of Ireland  

#OTD in Irish History | 3 April:


Reviews

Theresa Smith

The Month That Was…

Better Reading

Book of the Week: Prettier if She Smiled More by Toni Jordan   READ MORE

The London Séance Society by Sarah Penner   READ MORE

The Half Brother by Christine Keighery     READ MORE

Inconceivable by Alexandra Collier     READ MORE

Podcast: Louise Candlish on the Evolution of Her Writing  LISTEN HERE

Podcast: Toni Jordan on the Popularity of Women’s Fiction LISTEN HERE

Penguin Books Australia

Fire With Fire Candice Fox READ A PREVIEW

Dirty Laundry  @adhd_love    (re understanding ADHD)   FIND OUT MORE

So Close Sylvia Day   CHECK IT OUT

Clytemnestra  Costanza Casati READ A SNIPPET

The Summer I Turned Pretty Jenny Han  CHECK IT OUT

and from my blogs...

That Moment in Time


FRIDAY FOSSICKING 31st Mar 2023, newsletters, genealogy tips, women aquanauts, girls gone Greek, newsletters, most successful pirate, wild chocolate, ghost cats of the East, ballad of Railroad Bill, informative blogs, Irish archives & their websites, last Irish witch trial, book reviews and such more…

Feel free to share, the title is the link..


https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2023/03/friday-fossicking-31st-mar-2023.html



As They Were


IGP ARCHIVES March 2023, Cork, Derry/Londonderry, Dublin,  Fermanagh, Monaghan, Westmeath.. church records, headstones..

Many thanks to Christina and all volunteers..


https://astheywere.blogspot.com/2023/04/igp-archives-march-2023.html



HEADLINES OF OLD


CERTIFICATES OF NATURALISATION  TROVE TUESDAY  4th Apr 2023,  certificates awarded November/December 1967, 

Selection of certificates from South Australia and New South Wales.

Addresses listed are where the individuals were living at the time.  


https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2023/04/certificates-of-naturalisation-trove.html




Friday, January 14, 2022

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 14th Jan 2022

 

Panning by S.T. Gill


I hope you all had a great Festive Season..let's hope that this year is kinder to us all.. Welcome back.

* GENERAL INTEREST


AMONG THE TOMBS  Windsor & Richmond Gazette 26 Sep 1930. Interesting Reading

Queenslander House | House Histories | Queensland

13 Sep 1934 - "DIFFICULT" BEQUESTS - Trove Thanks to Noelene Harris
DESPATCH  newsletter of Public Record Office Victoria incl. 


The 2021 issue of Provenance is now online


Seven new research articles available. full list of records, here.


Local History Grants Program ext. to Feb 7th apply now & lots more..



COVID-19 measures at Queensland State Archives. 

 

Reading Room closed to the public from 10 – 21 January 2022. 


You can still access all our online services:
The ScriBbler    Stella Budrikis. Always interesting..

TROVE additions to newspapers plus coming soon...

Irish genealogical association's new president is long-term Who Do You Think You Are? advisor 


IrishGenealogyNews: Irish genealogy, history and heritage events, January 2022 Claire Santry



The latest articles at Tinteán Magazine...


A Tale of Two Malahides   Keneally, A Man for the Ages


Paul Strzelecki, Hero in Australia and Ireland


Sunburnt Irish A-Z and more....


The Treaty Debates: December 14 1921- January 7 1922   The Irish Story


Outback Family History


Employees on Tramways – 1908 to 1960   


Gus Thorn – pioneer profile           The Heat Wave – a verse


Atlas Obscura


New Year, New Places    'Svampen'  Sweden  Pirate Women


The Unclaimed Baggage Center podcast  Abandoned Fairy Village


Rescue Within a Rescue    Eduard Bohlen Shipwreck   Nambia    


Snake Rock Connecticut        Japan’s ‘Ghost Houses’  


Hidden Beach Mexico   17th-Century Dating Practices


Long-Lived Memorial Flowers    The Gates of Hell Turkmenistan         


A Bananas Quest  Cheapside Plane Tree The World’s Youngest Desert


The Woman Preserving Baltimore’s Black History Rait Castle


25 Places Reborn Through Graffiti  Kaliningrad Oblast


The Original McDonald’s French Fry   A Fairy Tale Ghost Town


Fishy Bunkers The Old Gibson Guitar Factory


JSTOR Daily


50 Years Later: The Evolution of Prison Policy   


Eight Women Astronomers You Should Know 


“Where There's Drink, There's Danger”   How the Maya Kept Time


A Weed is But an Unloved Flower 


Anglo-Celtic Connections


The Ontario Ancestors  (OGS) Virtual Conference to be held June 24- 26, 2022

Annual Update to Scotland's BMD Records   Sunday Sundries



Always Interesting

Please note - as there are so many great posts written by so many great bloggers, I will only be posting one per author per week. Do wander through others written by these authors as they are well worth reading/following.


Shauna Hicks History Enterprises

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Week 1 Foundations - Thomas Price - 


Black Raven Genealogy (Dara McGivern)

2021 in Review – Accentuate the Positive


Stair na hÉireann (History of Ireland)

#OTD in 1929 – Brian Friel, playwright and author of Dancing at Lughnasa, is born near Omagh, Co Tyrone.


GeniAus

Accentuate the Positive Geneameme 2021 - Responses


allenrizzi

Another Year read all the way through 


The Legal Genealogist 

Loving the bad boys…


Humoring the Goddess

Have You Started Being Creative Yet This Year?


The Gentle Author

Margaret Rope’s East End Saints


Genea-Musings

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Your Ancestor Score for 2022


Anne's Family History

Portmore Lodge, Cheltenham


The Frugal Family Historian

Help for Using the 1921 Census


Brotmanblog: A Family Journey

The Children and Grandchildren of Caroline Blumenfeld Hoxter: Leaving Germany


* IRISH CENTRAL


Ancestors in Cork? New online records lets you find their graves 


Heroic Irish father drowns after saving sons in Australia


More Irish family records become available online for free


The Irish who dug the tunnels for New York’s subway system


Search for Sir Ernest Shackleton's Endurance to begin next month


Irish-American woman reveals how Irish pub owner saved father's life


Watch: Celtic Woman's incredible rendition of "Wild Mountain Thyme"


The ancient stone circles and dolmens scattered across Ireland 


Donegal bar turns brilliant "COVID fine jar" into a charity fundraiser


1 million Irish infected with Covid since start of pandemic


The legendary Danny Moloney, philanthropist and founder of Liffey Van Lines, passes


Three Dublin pubs where you're sure to find authentic Irish trad music



* INTERESTING BLOGS


Ragbag on road- Maldon Historical Ragbag


An echo of Hitchcock’s ‘The Birds’!     Pauline Connolly 


More searching tips, RootsTech 2022 & Other News: My Week in Genealogy 1-7 January 2022    Diary of an Australian Genealogist


Following the Trail of An Old Ax-head TextileRanger


A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Cutting Cable Humoring the Goddess

Good friend to Australia died penniless Samantha Anne Elley


Family update 2022    In Days Gone By



Reviews

Theresa Smith


The Week That Was…


Book Review: Scary Monsters by Michelle de Kretser


Book Review: The Furies by Mandy Beaumont


The Week That Was…


Book Review: The Maid by Nita Prose



Better Reading


Book of the Week: Murder Most Fancy Kellie McCourt


The Last Beekeeper by Siya Turabi


Clouds on the Horizon by Penelope Janu


Podcast: Morris Gleitzman on Ending His Popular Once Series


Podcast: Fleur McDonald on Writing Rural Fiction


Books for Lazy Days at the Beach


Books to Get Swept Up In


Books that Tell Amazing True Stories


Books Full of Drama and Intrigue


The Long Weekend by Fiona Palmer


Beautiful Little Fools by Jillian Cantor


Since We Last Met by Bronwyn Sell


Podcast: Charlotte Wood on What Art and Artists Teach Us



and from my blogs..


AS THEY WERE


LAST IGP Archives UPDATE FOR 2021...... Jan 1 2022, Donegal, Dublin, Fermanagh, Meath, Monaghan…Please share, the title is the link.. 

Many thanks to all who volunteer to create this invaluable source of records… free to all..

https://astheywere.blogspot.com/2022/01/last-igp-archives-update-for-2021-jan-1.html


That Moment in Time


FRIDAY FOSSICKING 7th Jan 2022, something new, suggested pages, want your story told?.. You can be a guest blogger..

FF returns in full on Jan 14th… subscribe free.. 😄

Feel free to share, the title is the link…

https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2022/01/friday-fossicking-7th-jan-2022.html



Headlines of Old


TROVE TUESDAY 11th Jan 2022... MEMORIES   some more popular posts ... Trove Tuesday returns in full on 18th Jan 2022.. If you wish to subscribe you can do so via the Subscribe image in the side column.

Feel free to share, the title is the link..

https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2022/01/trove-tuesday-11th-jan-2022-memories.html



Keep safe and well.
This will pass.