FRIDAY FOSSICKING 15th Sept 2023

GENERAL

BSQ Blog   The Agony and the Ecstasy of Family History Research. Shauna Hicks

Queensland State Archives newsletter incl.... 

Queensland's x-files Watch now   

QSA Talk Japanese War Brides – a Queensland story Watch now

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Despatch September 2023  Public Record Office Victoria - Grants, awards and creative in residence program news       also...

Moorabbin Hospital records dating back to 1948

Happy anniversary V/Line    Digitised photographs ready to explore

National Library of Australia

Grit and Gold: Tales from a Sporting Nation enters extra time

Plan your visit

Recording the reactions to the death of Queen Elizabeth II 

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Events happening at the Library  Learn more

The National Archives UK  newsletter incl.

Open House Festival

Australian War Memorial newsletter incl.

Learn about the OV-10A Bronco restoration  Big Things in Store event

Orange City Council newsletter incl. What is happening around Orange?

Outback Family History

Life in the Australian Backblocks  A Dastardly Deed in Lefroy Street –          Yuin Reef Mine Cemetery –     The Donkey Man

Tinteán Magazine

John Corbett’s Reminiscence of Edmund Curtis   The Lundy Principle in Northern Ireland     England’s Difficulty, Ireland’s Opportunity: 

A Platinum Anniversary: Seventy Years of teaching Irish Dance in Australia  On Rereading The Country Girls   The Irish Travellers

Four new Irish novels  What’s On 1 What's On 2

JStor Daily   Who and What Was a Knocker-Upper?  Sport in America: A Reading List  Cochabamba People's Agreement: Annotated   EV Cars: Can We Electrify Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis?

Atlas Obscura

The Mystery of a Lost Wedding Dress  Norwegian Cheese in South Korea  Peculiar School Traditions  Washington D.C.

Take an Auditory Escape Through Maine  An Early Women’s Labor Movement  West Bell Street Car Park Dundee, Scotland

Why Do Fantasy Novels Have So Much Food? 

'Saved by a Whale’s Tail'   Creating Crossword Puzzles 

The Real-Life Location of Rivendell Familiar? Think Lord of the Rings  A Victorian Sea Fort’s Second Life  Forging Italian Cuisine

A Sculpture on the Moon  Monk-Brewed Wine

This Sea Has No Land Boundary A Historic Pigeon Tower

Preserving a Mother’s Sweet Tradition Psychic Chicken of Seattle

A Rare Medieval Fortification   World’s Largest Quilting Needle

The Part of Michigan That's Surrounded by Ohio 

Computer History  The First Actual ‘Bug’  The Artisan Family That Made Bells For 1,000 Years  This Is Sealand    Unusual Pizza Spots 

Women In Wartime  A Unique Suspended Lake 

The Bloody Secret Of This Pink House Step Inside the Waffle House Museum  A Subterranean Shopping Street  Early Female Hunters

Living, Breathing Brooches (Bugs)  J.R.R. Tolkien's Grave

A Time-Inspired Specialty Shop Southern Florida’s Notorious Pirate

Edinburgh’s Hidden History A Bookseller Revolt, and More

Roast Eggs In Ash Haunted Stays and Autumn Days in Colorado

Why Is This Car Encased in Concrete? Behold, a 1,200-Year-Old Tree

Haunting Legends In The Witch’s Castle 

Chow Down on Cheese Zombies The Apartments Making Waves

A Strange Chicken-Themed Portrait 

Irish Genealogy

How to find out if there's an Irish language version of your surname - IrishCentral

LISTEN: DNA tests that exposed life changing stories - IrishCentral 

Irish Citizenship Made Easy – Exploring The Benefits And Path To Irish Citizenship Through Ancestry 

Ryedale Family History Group to welcome genealogist to next meeting - Gazette & Herald

Buffalo man attacked in Ireland now home and sharing his story | wgrz.com

New research and genealogy resources added to Clare Local Studies Centre | Council 

Retracing the Steps of My Ancestors, the Wild Scots of Galloway - Condé Nast Traveler

Smithsonian 

This 8,000-Year-Old Village on Stilts May Be the Oldest of Its Kind in Europe

How a Victorian Dinosaur Park Became a Time Capsule of Early Paleontology

See When Brilliant Fall Foliage Will Peak With This Interactive Map

You Can Rent an Entire Baseball Stadium on Airbnb

From Fabled Palaces to Ancient Medinas, a Journey Through Spain's Islamic History

Five Places Worth Traveling to This Fall

The Nectar of the Gods Is Coming to a Bar Near You 

Ruins of 2,000-Year-Old Roman Walls Unearthed in Swiss Alps 

Parisian Booksellers Have Lined the Seine for Centuries. Now, They're Fighting to Stay

Austria Offers Free Rail Travel in Exchange for Getting a Tattoo

See the Whimsical Trolls Taking Over the Pacific Northwest

Always Interesting

Brotmanblog: A Family Journey Guest Post: My Cousin Miki Katzenstein’s Trip to Jesberg and Munich—Retrieving History and Honoring the Past

Lenore Frost Private Yeats and the attack at Polygon Wood

Humoring the Goddess Sunday Evening Art Gallery — NeSpoon  Arno Rafael Minkkinen  Full Time Art Gallery? Randall Rosenthal

Weird Haired Old Lady  Faerie Paths — Crazy

allenrizzi  The Iron-y  My Favorite Photo  Tuscany’s Hidden Secret

Another Fish Story Riding With Private Malone

Pauline Conolly SISTERS…THE SAME BUT SO DIFFERENT  

AIR RAID ACTION IN ULVERSTONE

Dreams and Adventures at Cosy Cottage Tribute to Matilda

The Legal Genealogist  More to the story Year 22… never forget…

Stair na hÉireann | History of Ireland  #OTD in Irish History | 11 September:

Textile Ranger  Nature Photo Challenge #27: Ladybugs

Reviews

Better Reading

Book of the Week: One Day We’re All Going to Die by Elise Esther Hearst READ MORE

Everyone and Everything by Nadine J. Cohen  READ MORE

The Love Contract by Steph Vizard READ MORE

Penguin Books Australia

Fearless  Jelena Dokic's  START READING

The Last Devil To Die        Richard Osman's   READ A SNIPPET

The Fraud    Zadie Smith   SEE THE BOOK

As The River Rises   Fiona McArthur   CHECK IT OUT

Honest Chat  Dylan Buckley    TAKE ME THERE

Question 7   Richard Flanagan  EVENT INFO

The Dictionary People    Sarah Ogilvie     FIND OUT MORE

and from my blogs..

That Moment in Time

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 8th Sept. 2023, A circus full of maps, ghost airline, no gender identification, NEW: various items re cemeteries. Great blogs, book reviews, some Irish surnames..Viking ancestry?, 

Bridge to nowhere, Queen of scandal, Vienna Central cemetery, common genealogy errors..and a whole lot more…

Feel free to share, the title is the link…

https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2023/09/friday-fossicking-8th-sept-2023.html

Headlines of Old

CONVICT PARDONS  Trove Tuesday 12th Sept 2023,  descriptions, rewards offered, conditional pardons.. some notices include  more details than others.. all interesting reading.

Feel free to share, the title is the link…

https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2023/09/convict-pardons-trove-tuesday-12th-sept.html

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 28th April 2023

 

GSQ Blog   An Irish Lass: Catherine Hawe/Howe (1802- 1862).   Yvonne Tunny

National Archives UK  newsletter incl. Spirit of Invention Festival Day, Sunday 4th Jun 2023

Free Stuff | Lonetester HQ well worth reading..

Outback Family History

The Passing of Jones      He Had So Much Work To Do –     

The O’Dwyer Wager –     Paynes Find Cemetery

JSTOR Daily  

Uncle Sam Wants You to Donate Books! A Cancelation in 1934

14 Poems from Little Magazines    Pieces and Bits  

Working Against the Clock: Time Colonialism and Lakota Resistance

How René Magritte Became the Grudging Father of Pop Art

Atlas Obscura

Ram Skulls and a Cold War Mystery   Unusual Pizza Places  

'Magic Mushrooms' Denmark Jersey Shore Hauntings

Spaceship House Tennessee Pack Your Bag(pipes) podcast

Thailand’s Cannabis Cuisine AIR Studio Ruins   

Northern Italy’s Culinary Treasures     Stories about Stories

Saving Papua New Guinea’s Bats    Meet India’s ‘Mango Man’

Colin's Barn based on Lord of the Rings?    Fairy Circles Podcast

The Archduke of Austria's Michigan Grave About Marie Curie

A Perfume Discovered Underwater  World’s Most Expensive Melon

Greece: Ancient Ruins to Modern Culture The Hatfield Moose Family

The Cult Roots of Health Food in America Ascend Ascend in Seattle

'Kindred Spirits' Sculpture Cork Ireland  Rock Garden Calhoun

Malaga Island’s Tragic History  For Keeps Books podcast

The Infamous Billy Swan  Lemonade History  Norway’s Demon Wall

Fairy Castles video Paris's Medieval Wall  Remembering Pre

Hans Christian Andersen, Submerged  Tallest Freestanding Body Slide 

Boston's Inside-Out Glass Globe Delicious Space Mocktails

William Shakespeare Statue Hungary John Brown’s Farm podcast

Sri Lanka’s Musical, Mobile Bakeries The Case of the Blue Ink

The Uncertain Future of Mitchell Park Domes

Southdale Center Shopping Mall Minnesota

The Man Driving the World’s Biggest Train

How Two Seemingly Opposite Italian Food Staples Share Similar Roots

Irish Genealogy

Looking for a CF genetic link | Digging through my Irish ancestry to look for clues of cystic fibrosis

A review of the Irish province's URC season | MNR - YouTube

Fionn Folklore Database: Tales of Irish heroes more accessible - IrishCentral 

The 1916 Easter Rising - How Irish America and Ireland saw it very differently 

Inside the Irish Sun's new podcast The Kinahans which lays bare gangland family's history ... 

Smithsonian

Why Lake Tahoe Is the Clearest It's Been in 40 Years 

230 Rare Classic Cars Are Going Up for Auction in the Netherlands

What Centuries-Old Indian Court Paintings Tell Us About Climate Change 

How You Can See Tens of Thousands of Fireflies Flash in Unison 

French Monks Are Driving the Chartreuse Shortage 

Italian Artist Uses Tractor to Create World's Largest Picasso Portrait

What I Learned Biking the 10,000-Mile Migration Route of Monarch Butterflies 

How Alberghi Diffusi Turn Villages Into Hotels

High-Speed Train Will Connect Rome to Pompeii 

See Inside the World’s Longest Purpose-Built Cycling Tunnel 

Ten of the World's Rarest Foods, and Where to Find Them 

Texas-Born Italian Noble Evicted From Her 16th-Century Villa

This Hong Kong Museum Is Giving Away 10,000 Tickets to Yayoi Kusama Show 

Roman Mosaic Revealed at Shopping Mall in England 

Always Interesting

Lonetester More Australian Archives to get much needed funding

Anne's Family History R is for railway accident 

S is for saving the language      T is for twin 

U is for unlucky in Argentina  V is for Vitoria and for Van Diemen’s Land W is for the wrath of Wellington

Textile Ranger Trips I Wish I Had Been On 

Humoring the Goddess Faerie Paths — Poppies  Thomas Joynes

High recognitions . . . The Little Flower Fairies   Shadow Art

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Raymond Logan  Tables

Nothing Melts a Heart Faster Than …     Cubism and Discovery

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Guy Buffet

Family history across the seas (cassmob) R is for Rocky, Roma and Rushden   S is for Scotland and Sandon, Herts      T is for Townsville and Toowoomba   U is for Urana and the Widdup family

X is for crosses and memorials

allenrizzi The Town That Was Yogurt  Tony’s At 5 AM Vienna

historicalragbag    Tae Rak: Budj Bim World heritage landscape

Pauline Conolly   CORONATION 1953     THE PINKSTONE BOYS AT LONE PINE

The Ancestor Digger (Chris Wright) Honouring the WWI ANZACS in our family, and the (at least) 10 who lost their lives serving - "Lest We Forget

The Empire Called and I Answered (Lenore Frost) Pattie Deakin and the Anzac Buffet

Tales from the Grave He survived both world wars with a Victoria Cross

Tracking Down The Family (Lenore Frost) Ellen Calnan. Bangka Island Massace WW2 #Anzacday

Hapgoods from Marksbury (Karen Hapgood) Stella Hapgood and the Women’s Land Army in WW2

Brotmanblog: A Family Journey (Amy) Did Jenny Blumenfeld marry Siegmund Warburg? A Brick Wall Tumbles

Diary of A Young Genealogist  Letters from the Suitcase Part 11

Judith Salecich  My father’s World War II army service: Completing the puzzle

Stair na hÉireann | History of Ireland #OTD in Irish History | 24 April:

The ScriBbler Stella Budrikis newsletter always interesting..re Boer War history

REVIEWS

Theresa Smith

Book Review: The Lipstick Bureau by Michelle Gable

Better Reading

Book of the Week: Sunrise Over Mercy Court by Fiona McCallum

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Under a Cerulean Sky by Jane Coverdale  READ MORE

Lady MacBethad by Isabelle Schuler  READ MORE

Atalanta by Jennifer Saint READ MORE

What is Left Over After by Natasha Lester  READ MORE

Book Event: When Love Comes to... Tamworth!  RSVP HERE

BE Better Podcast: Kath Koschel on Kindness    LISTEN HERE

Podcast: Nicci French on Balancing Writing as Husband and Wife

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Podcast: Samantha Shannon on the Intricacies of Modern Fantasy

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Allen & Unwin newsletter

Penguin Books Australia newsletter

...from my blogs

Confessions of a Bibliophile

"RACHEL" Jeff McGill   “Brumby hunter, inspiring read..

medicine woman, bushranger’s ally and troublemaker for good”…the remarkable pioneering life of RACHEL KENNEDY..brilliant”.

This is one of the best stories I’ve read in awhile.. and one I will read again. Rachel, the great great grandmother of the author was an amazing woman, who will long be remembered for her passion and love of the Warrumbungle mountains, NSW. Nothing seemed to faze her, she ignored the male/female tags of the time that was expected .. she rounded up brumbies as good as any man, riding a man’s saddle. Her work effort, her belief in right against wrong and generous nature led her along so many paths, expecting nothing in return.. a must read.

https://crissoulisbookspot.blogspot.com/2023/04/rachel-jeff-mcgill.html

That Moment in Time

FRIDAY FOSSICKING  21st April 2023, Anzac Day, writer's festival,  shortlist book awards, Suffragette Questions, marriage of a medium,

boys in dresses, monster building, trucks-nomads-diaspora, giant sun mirrors, Indonesia’s Chicken Church, massacre after surrender, great blogs, book reviews, Time Thief steals 106 rare clocks.. and so much more..

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https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2023/04/friday-fossicking-21st-april-2023.html

HEADLINES OF OLD

IN HONOUR OF ALL ANZACS.. Trove Tuesday 25th April 2023, some of our ANZACS.. as well as stories and thoughts via verse…with thanks to my cousin Robyn for her stories she wrote for our page SWADLINGS SNIPPETS…

https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2023/04/in-honour-of-all-anzacs-trove-tuesday.html

Just have to smile..