FRIDAY FOSSICKING 10th Nov 2023

 

GENERAL

GSQ Blog  

The Next Genealogy Journey – Finding a Jones in Wales Ross Hansen

Australian War Memorial newsletter incl. Remembrance Day

Peacekeeping Woven into History  plus a lot more..

Judy Webster Identifying the biological father of an illegitimate child

* Earl Grey’s Irish Famine Orphans (96): early draft (2)? | trevo's Irish famine orphans     Trevor McClaughlin

* The 60th Issue (Summer 2023) of Irish Lives Remembered is now available    click here

Outback Family History

Malcolm Cemetery – the legion of the lost     

Robert Arthur Yeo – grave tales 

The Story of Honest Ed Turnbull –         A Lynching for Kitty –

Irish Genealogy

Embracing your Irish roots: Journey from Cheshire to Emerald Isle - Nantwich News 

These uncommon Irish names are "great" options in the US, experts say 

Sheep's Head – a tranquil paradise in West Cork - IrishCentral

Irish Family History Forum - Long Island Events 

JSTOR Daily

Lines of Poetry, Rows of Trees   Introducing the JSTOR Daily Sleuth   Keep Portland Yearbook Photos Weird   Cyanea Pohaku: The Plant Discovered Right Before Extinction       Boom, Bust, and the “World's Littlest Skyscraper”     Class and Superstition in Britain     Identity and Violence in Manipur, India

Atlas Obscura

The United States of Cryptids  Haunting Places in Literature       Viking Runes at Hagia Sophia Can You Manufacture Ghosts?

Neskowin Ghost Forest  A New Crossword   The Smallest Window in the World Manna of St. Nicholas of Bari    A Haunted Dollhouse   

A Vintage Ice Cream   The Science of Fear  Puente Laguna Garzón 

Uganda’s Real-World Quidditch Scene  An Ancient Religious Site 

The Ancient World's Hallucinogenic Center  Greece

Michelangelo's Hidden Drawings The Graves of the Jewett City Vampires  PODCAST Visit the Atomic Clock 

PODCAST The Ark of Citrus  PODCAST Animal Encounters

PODCAST The Art of Orienteering  A Tour of Poe’s Life

Geographic Center of the Contiguous United States 

The Promise That Sealed These Scottish Gates 

What’s Up With the ‘Crispy R’?   The Cutest Bad Omen

Plant-Based West African Food       Symbolic Sweets

Gastro Obscura’s Guide to the Northern Kentucky Bourbon Tour 

A Haunted Hotel Once Home to Hitchcock  Yosemite’s First Lookout  

A Museum of Bobblehead Dolls   Is That an Imp, Or An Owl?

World History in Miniature   That Time a Continent Went Missing

6 Unexpected Election Day Stories  The Heroine Who Stopped Time

The World’s Oldest Trees, and More  The World’s Oldest Trees, and More  A 5,000-Year-Old Mesopotamian Menu  The House with Two Numbers  Carriage Driving Competitions The ‘Silent People’

Is North Carolina the Most Linguistically Diverse U.S. State? 

Nori the Dragon   Monk-Made Sacred Sweets  A Mixer’s Space Makeover

Always Interesting

Tracking Down The Family Steerage Folk

The Legal Genealogist  Choosing number 39

Branches On Our Haimowitz Family Tree  Daisy Fairchild’s Story

Stair na hÉireann | History of Ireland #OTD in Irish History | 6 November:

GeniAus  Limping along

Humoring the Goddess  Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Yves Lecoq  Computer Hoarder or Zen Master? (repost)  Jon Ching

How’s Your Creativity Doing These Days?   Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Jon Juarez   

Pauline Conolly SUZANNE – THE BEAUTY CONTESTANT WHO BECAME A LADY

Brotmanblog: A Family Journey Friederike Blumenfeld Schoen, Part IV: Her Children in Shanghai

Reviews

Better Reading

Book of the Week: Vendetta by Sarah Barrie      READ MORE

The Drowning by Bryan Brown      Yes, it is the actor..         READ MORE

Podcast: Tea Cooper on Uncovering the History of Mrs Greenway

Podcast: Katrina Strickland on The Good Weekend and the Power of Memoirs

Penguin Books Australia

The Year of the Locust    Terry Hayes     START READING

Murtagh  Christopher Paolini's  FIND OUT MORE

Good Material    Dolly Alderton    READ A SNIPPET

My Name Is Barbra   Barbra Streisand  CHECK IT OUT

Until August   Gabriel Garcia Marquez       PRE-ORDER NOW

Big Mouth  Matt Preston    READ AN EXTRACT

None of This is True   Lisa Jewell  GET THE AUDIOBOOK

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That Moment in Time

FRIDAY FOSSICKING  3rd Nov 2023, how to sell a haunted house, great genealogy tips & indexes, interesting blogs, unusual headstones. bridge to nowhere, a teahouse bothy, Irish marriage license bonds, book reviews, bride of Frankenstein, surprising valuable collections and so very much more..

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Headlines of Old

MISSING PERSONS    Trove Tuesday 7th Nov 2023, range from 1930-1938, what could be more painful than longing to find a 'missing' loved one.. These notices cover several states…Many regional papers posted these notices.. if you have ‘lost’ someone, it could well be worth looking in local papers as well as the major papers. 

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As They Were

IGP Archives October 2023,  Cavan, Cork, Donegal, Kildare, Kilkenny, Leitrim, Donegal, Sligo, Longford, Tyrone.. assorted records.. headstones, church records.  Many thanks to Christina Hunt and all the volunteers…

https://astheywere.blogspot.com/2023/11/igp-archives-october-2023.html

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 3rd Nov 2023

 

GENERAL

GSQ Blog

National Archives Australia    newsletter includes numerous events along with.. Focus: Australian government photographers  opens Fri. 17 Nov. 2023

Judy Webster Genealogy tips for Queensland, the UK etc 

Interim Index: Names from various sources (useful for genealogy)

Historical records / other genealogy sources:

Women's applications to protect their earnings (Qld)

Despatch November 2023 - Local history grants applications now open (Public Record Office Victoria)   Learn more and apply here.

Bendigo rates collection digitised   Eaglehawk records start in 1864 

Marong records start in 1864     Learn more about 'Lost Jobs' here.

Surprising Collectors Items That Are Worth A Fortune Today.JourneyRanger

British Army soldiers up to 1913 - The National Archives

Outback Family History

The Leading Ladies of the Goldfields –          

The Cemetery at Mt Margaret –       A Prospector Looks Back

Frank Henry Winfield – pioneer profile

The Legal Genealogist: Living legacy of Dred Scott    

Coming up: November-December 2023

JStor Daily

AI and the Creative Process: Part One      Bride of Frankenstein

Xerox and Roll: The Corporate Machine and the Making of Punk 

Why #StarringJohnCho Is Not Enough for Asian American Cinema

Autopsy of a Saint    Sex and the Single Witch

Atlas Obscura

The Mystery of Area 51      27 Unusual Headstones

Welcome to The Afterlife, You Will Now Be Judged

The Monks Who Turned Themselves Into Mummies

The Bird Cage Theater   Hitchcock’s Unusual Dinner Parties

The History of World’s End  This Water Tank Is Home to an Iconic “Phantom” Supernatural Wartime Menaces    A Creepy Fake Town

Poisonous Butterflies  Paris’s Catacomb Mushrooms

History of the Sutro Tunnel A Waterway Named For a Ghost

The Iconic Rocker Grandma  Europe’s Westernmost Point

The House Between Two Rocks  One Church, Divided Under God

Inside The Winchester Mystery House   The Warren's Occult Museum

A Viking Age Ritual  How to Sell a Haunted House   Spiced Mummies

The Tales In Our Stars  Haunted Stays and Autumn Days in Colorado

House of the ‘Blood Countess’   Manhattan’s Oldest House

The Paranormal Museum  Japan’s Deepest Train Station

Behold, 18 Death Dioramas  Beware Soap Sally  Hell on Earth

You’re Visiting the Wrong Salem   Tom Devlin’s Monster Museum

Kostel Svatého Jiří Ghost Church Meet the Snallygaster!  

Homey Gravestone Recipes    Our Photo Contest Winners

La Isla de las Muñecas (Island of the Dolls)   Witch Trial History

The Fight Over Paris’s Catacombs   Squash-Obsessed City

Meet the Penny Farthing A Bridge That Leads Nowhere   

Dive Into a Barracuda Lake   A Teahouse Bothy   ‘Fantasy Swan’

PODCAST Into the Twilight Zone   PODCAST The Art of the Heist

Irish Genealogy

Walking in the footsteps of Irish ancestors | The West Australian 

Expert genealogy tips: Irish marriage licence bonds - IrishCentral

Always Interesting 

Chris Wright  The Ancestor Digger  

Pauline Conolly  A HOLLYWOOD DREAM FOR TASMANIANS

Jennifer Jones  Wreck of the SS Cataraqui – English Newspaper Report

Dreams and Adventures at Cosy Cottage Ingleborough – 0ne of Yorkshire’s Three Peaks

Humoring the Goddess Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Diana Kersey  Molly Devlin  Bronzino — Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano Tori

David Zinn (so cute) Faerie Paths — Music

Tania Blanchard newsletter re latest book.. A Woman of Courage.. (love her books)

Textile Ranger  The Endeavourers’ Reveal Day — Circles and Squares

Reviews

Theresa Smith

The 20/40 Prize 2023: Reviewing the Winners   

Book Review: Lola in the Mirror by Trent Dalton

The Month That Was…

Better Reading

Book of the Week: A Woman of Courage by Tania Blanchard     READ MORE

Podcast: Melissa Ashley on Giving a Voice to Forgotten Women in History

Podcast: Tara Wigley on Simplifying Recipes for Everyday Cooks

BE Better Podcast: Esmé Louise James on Kinky History

Penguin Books Australia

Question 7     Richard Flanagan's   START READING

Dish   Rhys Nicholson   READ A SNIPPET 

Alex Cross Must Die  James Patterson's   CHECK IT OUT

Li Cunxin announces retirement after 11-year tenure at Queensland Ballet  Mao's Last Dancer   MARY'S LAST DANCE

You Said I Was Your Favorite  Monica Murphy  TAKE ME THERE

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Headlines of Old

PENSIONERS IN CONVICT SHIPS   Trove Tuesday. 24th Oct 2023, Western Australia, 1850.. Pensioner Guards were English military personnel who served on convict transportation ships en route to the Swan River Colony between 1850 and 1868, and were given employment and grants of land on arrival.

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https://headlinesofold.blogspot.com/2023/10/pensioners-in-convict-ships-trove.html

That Moment in Time

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 27th Oct 2023, Genealogy tips, before the druids, haunted grocery store, Here Be Dragons, reviews, podcasts, spooky Irish ghost town, after 50 years sister found,  haunted houses, 1890 ice-cream parlor/ parlour, secret Scottish shrine, great blogs and lots more…

Looking for a great book to read… see the reviews…

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