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Christine Harris

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Australian Grandmother. Family Historian. Researcher. Project manager (retired). Love photography and travel. Vice President and IT Manager of FamilyHistoryWA Currently working on the People of Western Australia's Ghost Towns project

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Christine Harris @christineharris.bsky.social · 12d

I visited the Cathedral last September completely unaware that Jane Austen was buried there. How could that be? I have read her work all my life, but somehow had assumed that she was buried either in Chawton or in Westminster Abbey. They sit on her during services!

Christine Harris @christineharris.bsky.social · 26d

#flora #flower #photography
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Christine Harris @christineharris.bsky.social · 28d

#Sydney #travel #photography

Christine Harris @christineharris.bsky.social · Sep 20

Tulip time here in Perth #flowers #tulips #red #photography #flora

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Christine Harris @christineharris.bsky.social · Sep 6

#travel #Sydney #SydneyOperaHouse #SydneyHarbourBridge #SydneyHarbour #photography

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Ghosts WA @ghostswa.bsky.social · Sep 6

Did he or didn't he? #history #genealogy #familyhistory #WesternAustralia #ghosttowns #trial #burglary
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Burglary or Misstep?

A Curious Case in Higginsville, 1907 In the early days of January 1907, the quiet mining town of Higginsville, Western Australia, found itself at the centre of a curious legal drama. Nestled in the…

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Ghosts WA @ghostswa.bsky.social · Aug 30

One of Australia's lesser known explorers. #ghostswa #FamilyHistoryWA #genealogy #familyhistory @christineharris.bsky.social @oneplacestudies.bsky.social
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Ernest Giles and the 1875 Expedition Across Australia

Map of Giles’s Route (Surveyor General’s Office, 1875) – Reproduced courtesy of the National Library of Australia. Digitized and available via the National Library of Australia; this work is out of…

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Christine Harris @christineharris.bsky.social · Aug 25

I have always loved this photo! Looking at it makes me forget that today's weather is atrocious! 🙂 #tulip #flower #pink

Christine Harris @christineharris.bsky.social · Aug 25

I know of your society, but up til now the project has been so huge that we have looked at it holistically. Now that we have processes in place, it becomes easier to step back and look at the individual communities. I know @simondmd.bsky.social has been watching with interest.

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Christine Harris @christineharris.bsky.social · Aug 25

We have a number of teams working on different aspects. Places look at whether the place really is abandoned. Research looks at potential sources. Indexers capture references to individuals. Writers prepare community profiles.

Christine Harris @christineharris.bsky.social · Aug 25

At our last Project Board meeting, we accepted a further 16 places to be added to our master list. There are now 555 places making up our project with a further 450-odd alternative names for many of the original 555!!

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Christine Harris @christineharris.bsky.social · Aug 25

@janejanealogy.bsky.social The primary goal of the People of Western Australia's Ghost Towns project is to create an index of all the people associated with those towns, but the second goal is to document everything we can find about those towns/communities/places. So I agree. :-)

Christine Harris @christineharris.bsky.social · Aug 25

PHASE 4 OF THE GHOSTS TOWNS OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA PROJECT IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER
Check out the names of the 16 new communities that will be added to the project this coming Friday, August 29.
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#genealogy #familyhistory #ghost-towns

Phase 4 is on its way!

On Friday 29 August, 2025, we will move into Phase 4 of our project and that adds 16 new communities to the list of communities on which we are already working. The biggest community in this phase …

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Christine Harris @christineharris.bsky.social · Jul 14

Sunset in Geraldton, Western Australia
#photography #skyscape #sunset #seascape #travel

Christine Harris @christineharris.bsky.social · Jul 11

Visited the Terracotta Warriors exhibition today. Extraordinary!

Christine Harris @christineharris.bsky.social · Jul 6

Port Douglas, Queensland
#photography #travel #Australia

Christine Harris @christineharris.bsky.social · Jul 2

Fountains Abbey
#travel #photography #England #Yorkshire

Christine Harris @christineharris.bsky.social · Jun 15

Winchester Cathedral #photography #travel

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Ghosts WA @ghostswa.bsky.social · Jun 12

ON THIS DAY - Cossack 12 Jun 1897 😀
#cricket #cossackwa #Genealogy #history #FamilyHistory #ghosttowns
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Cossack – 12 June 1897

On this day in 1897, Roebourne defeated Cossack in a close match.

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Christine Harris @christineharris.bsky.social · Jun 11

Totally agree @genealogymum.bsky.social. I am loving weare.xyz and am using it to write about anything and everything - family history or not! Love it.

We Are a genealogy, family history and ancestry archive website builder

WeAre.xyz: a genealogy, family history and ancestry archive website builder

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Ghosts WA @ghostswa.bsky.social · Jun 11

To keep everyone up to date with the progress being made on the project, we will be posting a monthly update to our blog. Here is the first of these posts. 👍
#genealogy #familyhistory #ghosttowns #westernaustralia #history
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Captured Records at 31 May 2025

Our project team are working hard to capture as many records as possible of the people in WA’s ghost communities. Once our website and search engine is fully operational you will be able to a…

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Christine Harris @christineharris.bsky.social · Jun 9

The Homebush Brickworks was where my grandfather, Ted Hamilton, worked for most of his adult life. #genealogy #familyhistory #blog
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The State Brickworks

Early in the 20th century, the price of bricks became higher. In order to stop the price of bricks getting too high, the Government built a Brickworks at Homebush in 1911. In 1936, it was sold to priv...

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Oberursheena @twitterrefugerin.bsky.social · Jun 8

20:59 #sunset of today
#Nature #stunday

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Christine Harris @christineharris.bsky.social · Jun 4

We are fundraising for the People of Western Australia’s Ghost Towns project. Please help us to keep this project sustainable.
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The People of Western Australia's Ghost Towns project

FamilyHistoryWA has launched a project to create a digital index of all the people associated with the hundreds of ghost towns in Western Australia. We will also be creating a digital archive telling ...

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Christine Harris @christineharris.bsky.social · May 31

#travel #photography #clouds #skyscape