FRIDAY FOSSICKING 10th May 2024

 GSQ Blog   

Serendipity and Genealogy. Marg Doherty

National Archives of Australia..   N.A.A.      includes...

Get ready to shake things up! 'Disrupt, persist, invent' exhibition is now open in Adelaide

Read more         Frozen in time 

 Have you visited, or intend to visit a National Archives office?

Take the survey now.

Australian War Memorial

E-Memorial May 2024   incl.   View photos from Anzac Day 2024

'Tears of Hope’, narrated by David Wenham, is a moving documentary that shares the stories of Australian veterans and their families. Watch now   International Nurses Day 12th May

Smithsonian

Behold 15 Beautiful Photos of Cherry Blossoms in Bloom 

Climbing Malawi’s Island in the Sky 

The Royal Family Is Opening Balmoral Castle to the Public For the First Time in History

For A Cultural Journey Like No Other, Only Paradise Will Do 

The English Farmers Who Harvest Rhubarb by Candlelight 

The Town That Kept Its Nuclear Bunker a Secret for Three Decades

12 Mesmerizing Places to Watch Flowers Bloom 

Take a Trip to Thailand With These Smithsonian Photo Contest Images

Why Do Some People Always Get Lost?

You Can Visit the World's Largest Continuous Dinosaur Trackway, Now on Protected Public Land 

Puerto Rico's Bioluminescent Bays Are Brighter Than Ever

How Museums in Central and Eastern Europe Tell the Complicated Story of Life Behind the Iron Curtain 

An American-Made Sake Movement Is Underway

Rare Eyewitness Sketch of American Revolutionaries Found Hanging in a Collector's Bedroom 

Always Interesting

Brotmanblog: A Family Journey   Passover 2024: Our Seder

Anne's Family History  V is for views of Whitmore

and from my blogs...

AS THEY WERE

IGP ARCHIVES   May 2024, Carlow, Cavan, Clare, Donegal, Kerry, Kilkenny, Tyrone, Wexford, Wicklow... additions to 9 counties .. including headstones, church records, interior memorials..

Many thanks to Christina Hunt and all the volunteers…

https://astheywere.blogspot.com/2024/05/igp-archives-may-2024.html

THAT MOMENT IN TIME

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 3rd May 2024, with a difference, selection of most popular blogs. Feel free to share 

Back to normal next week...

https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2024/05/friday-fossicking-3rd-may-2024.html

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 3rd May 2024

Apologies, but due to personal commitments and technical problems, I haven't had the time to compile the usual Friday Fossicking.

The following are some of the most popular past blogs..

FF 15th Sept 2023

https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2023/09/friday-fossicking-15th-sept-2023.html

FF 18th Aug 2023

https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2023/08/friday-fossicking-18th-august-2023.html

FF. 28th Apr 2023

https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2023/04/friday-fossicking-28th-april-2023.html

FF  26th Aug 2022

https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2022/08/friday-fossicking-26th-aug-2022.html

FF 12th Aug 2022

https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2022/08/friday-fossicking-12th-august-2022.html

FF 8th Jul 2022

https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2022/07/friday-fossicking-8th-jul-2022.html

Please feel free to share.. thank you.

AS THEY WERE

IGP ARCHIVES   May 2024, Carlow, Cavan, Clare, Donegal, Kerry, Kilkenny, Tyrone, Wexford, Wicklow... additions to 9 counties .. including headstones, church records, interior memorials..

Many thanks to Christina Hunt and all the volunteers…

https://astheywere.blogspot.com/2024/05/igp-archives-may-2024.html

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 26th Apr 2024

 

GENERAL

GSQ Blog   ‘An ordinary man’ Linda Kuhn

State Library of Qld

Portrait of an Artist 

D Harding in conversation on their life and work

Working Country

Outback Family History

My Country by Dorothy MacKellar   Dewsnap Family Bakery – Coolgardie  Early Mining and a Modern Problem by Doug Dawes   When the Law Came to Niagara –

genealogy Ireland

POIGNANT PILGRIMAGE: Walk from Ireland to England will trace steps of Irish migrants ... 

St Vincent: 'I recently did an ancestry.com thing, and it was all Irish Catholics. That's my rascal side'

Atlas Obscura

Digging a Hole Through Earth’s Center Sends You Where? Coleman Mine  The Sorcerer's Tower  Why Do We Fear ‘Evil’ Twins? The Misshapen Heads Vikings Used as Status Symbols    6 Badass Librarians Who Changed History   Recreate a Rush-Era Mailman’s 100-Mile Route Conservation Success on an Island Paradise 

Saving a Small Town’s Czech Legacy  Step Inside the Atalaya Castle  A Canyon With a Mythological Past   An African Countryside Tour Aboard a Steam Locomotive  Fish and Cults Flock to This Watery Cave of Unknown Depth  The Elaborate One-Man Jail Cell for Atlanta’s Prisoners  A Bridge Built to Ferry the Dead Over the River Dulnain  A Former Church Peaks Above the Waters That Claimed It  A Sanctuary Decorated With Despair  An Island Fort That Never Housed Troops or Saw Combat  100 Empty Bunkers Are All That’s Left of a Village the U.S. Seized  Buried in a Glass Coffin, an Anonymous Lady in Red  Descend Into the Deepest Cave Drop in the United States    Walks in Woods You’ll Never Forget  A Village Built on Stilts in a Lake That Never Freezes   A Gruesome Tower Built With the Skulls of Vanquished Foes    A Confederate Spy Rests Beside Her Union Husband  Where Giants Lived and King Arthur Is Said to Have Fought   The Story of a Doomed Mouse Utopia  Dutch Whalers Traveled With Burial Kits  How Did Chess Pieces Get Their Names?  8-Feet Giant Kangaroos Once Roamed Oceania   The Grand Canyon's Original Airport A Graffiti-Covered Building Guarded by a Metal Troll A Boar That Named a Town and Saved a Prince  Two 'Pals' Rest Easy

Podcasts

How To with John Wilson  The Mystery of Dyatlov Pass 

The Guard Bats of a Library

JSTOR Daily

I Hear America Singing   The Industrial Revolution and the Rise of Policing   Who Can Just Stop Oil?Charles Darwin and His Correspondents: A Lifetime of Letters  Colorful Lights to Cure What Ails You  A People's Bank at the Post Office   Culinary Fusion in the Ancient World

* The latest Federation of Australian Historical Societies eBulletin is now available, online at https://www.history.org.au/ebulletin/.

Always Interesting

Anne's Family History Q is for Queen Victoria jubilee – church clock tower  R is for rectors  S is for schools  T is for tithes U is for Poor Law Union 

Geniaus   A Wish CameTrue  

Humoring the Goddess A Message We Need To Hear Again 

Victor Ekpuk   Jennifer Latour  Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Paula Rego  Can Sun Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Odd Shaped Houses

Walkers Beware! Yves Lecoq weird 

allenrizzi Who Gets Your Stuff?   An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge   RU Miseducated? – LOL   The Invisible Geezer

Dreams and Adventures at Cosy Cottage Our World: Earth Day 2024 – plastic pollution   A walk from Clumber Park to Welbeck Abbey

Pauline Conolly JUMBO – HOBART’S VICTIM OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION

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

Tracking Down The Family 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Step

The Legal Genealogist   The passing of time

Reviews

Theresa Smith 

Book Review: Seven Summers by Paige Toon

Book Review: Appreciation by Liam Pieper

Better Reading

Sanctuary by Garry Disher   READ MORE

Read an Extract from Funny Story by Emily Henry  READ MORE

Reading Group Notes: The Engraver’s Secret by Lisa Medved READ MORE

Podcast

Podcast: Sarah Bailey on Her Love of Writing    LISTEN NOW

Penguin Books Australia

Show Up   Tammy Hembrow     START READING

The Sweet Blue Distance   Sara Donati     READ A SNIPPET

The Hunter  Tana French    CHECK IT OUT

Lies and Weddings Kevin Kwan

and my blog...

That Moment in Time

 

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 19th April 2024, book reviews, interesting blogs, myth of chastity belts, ghost of a mansion, a sunken slave ship, genealogists to learn about Irish immigration, newsletters, a rotting recording studio, book reviews..podcasts and much more..

https://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com/2024/04/friday-fossicking-19th-april-2024.html

Times Gone By

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 19th April 2024

 

GENERAL

    GSQ Blog  Elizabeth Readford, lost to history.  Janice Cooper

   The National Archives UK blog incl

• Join award-winning journalist Sathnam Sanghera discussing the legacies of the British empire from Barbados and Mauritius to India, Nigeria and beyond

• Chart the turbulent course of the seventeenth century with Jonathan Healey

• Step into the sixteenth century with Alison Weir's spellbinding story of Mary I

• Then return to Africa with award-winning broadcaster Zeinab Badawi as she sets the record straight, unearthing buried histories from across the continent to give Africa its rightful place in our global story, told through the voices of Africans themselves

  
  

  genealogy Ireland

  
  

  160-acre Wicklow dairy farm with rich family history to be sold at auction | Irish Independent 

  Genealogists to learn about Irish immigration | Family | northwestsignal.net

  US actor Walton Goggins discovers he is descendant of Irish royalty

  
  

  Cairns Family History

  newsletter incl. 

  The Men of the 2/26 Battalion - Presentation Sat. April 20th 2pm

  
  
  Outback Family History
  The I.O.U – Bulong Cemetery   Murder or Suicide – that is the question
  The Death of Father Long –     Human Gold by N E Gledhill
  
  
  
  
  Atlas Obscura
  What It Means to ‘Read the Riot Act’ to Someone     
  Why Jesus Never Ate a Banana The ‘Immortal’ Bristlecone Pines
  San Nicolas’ 'Island of the Blue Dolphins'   Protecting Japan’s Sacred Sika Deer  A Ghost of a Mansion Amid the New
  A Grinning Ghoul Greets Guests of This Grave. France
  1,000 Clocks Keep Time, Including One Set to Run Until 9999
  Only Shoppers Now Pass Through This Former Prison Gate 
  A Tiny Island’s Claim to Fame Is What Passes Through It
  A Picturesque House That Belies the Cosmic Horrors It Inspired
  The Alchemist Whose Legacy Lives on in Your Kitchen
  Remembering Ancient Nubia’s Fierce Queens  The Fairytale Dress With a Sharp Twist  From Destruction Comes Art A Tomb Built for One of History’s Greatest Travelers  This Statue Points Viewers to an Oft-Ignored Companion  Playful, Hand-Carved Statues Greet Hikers Along This Trail Dine Where Walt and His Disney ‘Imagineers’ Regularly Ate Relive the Awe of the Eclipse from Across the Continent  What Does Our Fascination with Death Reveal About Us?  Tour the Milky Way and Understand Space Through Folklore   Almost Overnight, This Once Populous Island Was Empty  A Fairytale Hotel Tinged With Sadness  Dine Over, Under, or In the Water at These Eight Restaurants  This U.S. Ferry Has Been Shuttling Passengers Since 1655  A Ghost Ship Washes Ashore, Gutted by Fire and Missing Its Crew  Bluish-Green Sloping Hills Built 'Like a Brain' on the Edge of a Forest  When Urban Planning Fails to Go as Planned    A Palatial Underground Metro Designed as Nuclear Shelter  A Peaceful Park Built Atop Thousands of Graves  A Russian Mystic’s Indian Memorial in a Buddhist Monastery  Sled Down 500 Feet (152m) of Fine Sand Along the Coast  The Myth of Chastity Belts  Hunting for a Sunken Slave Ship  A Rotting Recording Studio  100s of Statues Scattered Across the Middle of Nowhere   Ruins Caused by Something More Sinister Than Neglect  Here a ‘Queen’ Ruled Over Soldiers Refusing to Believe WWII Ended   Be Like Batman and Get Close to These Nighttime Flyers   Is Anywhere Safe from Earthquakes? The Curse of the Viking Sally Salzwelten Altaussee  The History and Conspiracies of Star-Shaped Forts  To Taste Venezuelan History  Our Earliest Muse: a Warty Pig   A Lethal Selfie    The World Isn’t Wide Enough   An Ode to a Murderous Cat   Only People Travel This Roller Coaster of a Path    A Church Dedicated to the Patron Saint of Teleporting    The House, Not the Sewer, That Birthed Mutant Turtles   Light and a Dreamy Panorama at the End of This Tunnel   Remnants of Rio’s Colonial Past Tucked in a Neighborhood  
  
  
  
  
  JSTOR Daily
  Vulture Cultures   The Alpaca Racket     Ayahs Abroad: Colonial Nannies Cross The Empire
  Watching an Eclipse from Prison   Fencer, Violinist, Composer: The Life of Joseph Bologne
  Confucius in the European Enlightenment   
  
  
  Smithsonian Magazine
  See a Restored Ancient Roman Helmet—and Two Shiny New Replicas
  The Notorious Pirate King Who Vanished With the Riches of a Mughal Treasure Ship 
  Archaeologists Find 'Remarkable' Roman Villa Full of Coins, Jewelry and 'Curse Tablets' 
  Unlock Ancient Secrets and Learn About the Latest Discoveries With Influential Figures in Egyptology
  Eight Secret Societies You Probably Haven't Heard Of 
  The Real Story Behind 'Mary & George'
  
  
  Trove Australia
  newsletter incl. writing a book with Trove Read the interview
  In the trenches.... Read the blog  New in Trove.. Find out more
  
  
  
  
  Cemeteries
  Lawmakers advance proposal to help maintain neglected cemeteries - WAFB 
  Cemeteries and playparks prioritised as grass cutting model launched - Border Telegraph
  Historical cemeteries in RI can be found in the strangest places - The Providence Journal
  Unveiling the Serenity of St. Gertrude Cemetery: A Not-to-Be-Missed Open House Event - ABC27 
  
  
  Always Interesting
  
  
  Anne's Family History L is for London & NorthWestern Railway
  M is for manslaughter  N is for Newcastle‑under‑Lyme O is for occupations  P is for police
  
  
  allenrizzi The Tappeiner Hospital In Meran    Baby Blue    You Feel Old When….
  
  
  Dreams and Adventures at Cosy Cottage Tribute to Mabel the Brave
  
  
  Pauline Conolly   THE SIRIUS COVE SOVEREIGNS   
  SIRIUS COVE SOVEREIGNS PART II – HERMAN THIEL    
  HUON PINE- a coffin, a ketch and a classical grand piano.
  
  
  Humoring the Goddess Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Caroline Dewison  
  
  
  TIME GENTS The war years at Jack Ahern’s Hamilton Hotel
  
  
  Stair na hÉireann | History of Ireland  #OTD in Irish History | 15 April:
  
  
  Brotmanblog: A Family Journey
  Levi Rothschild and His Family: Only Six of Nine Children Survived Childhood
  
  
  humoringthegoddess
  I’m Back!
  
  
  
  
  
  
  REVIEWS
  
  
  Theresa Smith Writes
  Book Review: The Beauties by Lauren Chater
  
  
  Liz Gauffreau
  #bookreview: Trim Reckonings by DeWitt Henry
  
  
  Allen & Unwin  
  Fiction with Heart  Click here well worth reading
  
  
  Better Reading
  The Beauties by Lauren Chater   READ MORE
  My Favourite Mistake by Marian Keyes READ MORE
  The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo    READ MORE
  The Grazier's Son by Cathryn Hein   
  
  
  Podcast: Jackie French on Hearing What Wombats Have to Say
  LISTEN NOW
  BE Better Podcast: Simone Callahan on Growing with Grace
  LISTEN NOW
  
  
  Penguin Books Australia
  Show Up  Tammy Hembrow   START READING
  The Sweet Blue Distance  Sara Donati     READ A SNIPPET
  The Hunter Tana French  CHECK IT OUT
  The Cryptic Clue     Amanda Hampson   TAKE ME THERE
  Lies & Weddings     Kevin Kwan   
  The Talented Mr Ripley    Patricia Highsmith  FIND OUT MORE
  
  
  
  
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  That Moment in Time

  FRIDAY FOSSICKING  5th April 2024, great blogs, absurd English language, underwater blessing, 130 yr old tavern, story of St Brigid, book reviews, nuclear bunker made famous in film, fish market not made for humans, Japan’s abandoned ‘Westworld’, great molasses flood, plus so much more…

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