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FamilyHistoryWA @familyhistorywa.bsky.social · Nov 22

Driving down the road and you spy what looks like a grave in the middle of a park? Take the next right to circle back and check it out and discover the Apex Geraldton Pioneer Memorial Park. #taphophilia #gravestones #cemetery #memorials #familyhistory #genealogy

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Ghosts WA @ghostswa.bsky.social · Nov 22

The GhostsWA team are in Geraldton this weekend to meet with the people in the Mid West region and talk about all things "ghost town".

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FamilyHistoryWA @familyhistorywa.bsky.social · Nov 19

Irish help please! In this snip, from a Catholic Parish Register for the Parish of Freshford in Kilkenny, can someone please tell me what the last word says? The entry is for Nicholas Coogan. Thank you!
#genealogy #familyhistory #Irish #parishregister

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Ghosts WA @ghostswa.bsky.social · Nov 18

Heading out on Thursday morning for a research trip to the Mid West region of Western Australia. Want to know what ghost towns are in our list for the Mid West? Here's the list. 😘
#ghosttowns #familyhistory #genealogy
ghostswa.au/town-list/re...

Mid West

The Mid West is one of the nine region s of Western Australia. It stretches east and north from the west coast covering a area of more than 400,000km2. The capital of the Mid West is the City of Ge…

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Michelle Watson @michwatsonoz.bsky.social · Nov 18

“The National Archives of Australia has digitised over a million service records from World War II, many of which haven’t been seen for 80 years.

The project has given a new perspective on women’s service during the conflict.”

By James Vyver
#Genealogy #History #OzHistory

Merle was one of many who served in WWII. Aged 104, she's seeing her records for the first time

The National Archives of Australia has digitised over a million service records from World War II, many of which haven't been seen for 80 years.

www.abc.net.au

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FamilyHistoryWA @familyhistorywa.bsky.social · Nov 17

I was asked what is the one piece of advice I would give to someone just starting out. That's easy - it is that every fact you add to your family history must have a recorded source.
Family history without sources is family fiction.
#genealogy #familyhistory #tipsandtricks

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OldRailwayAccidents @rwldproject.bsky.social · Nov 16

Good morning to everyone!

First weekend on Bluesky for us, so a quick pointer to a bit about the Railway Work, Life & Death project for anyone who hasn't found us yet!

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OldRailwayAccidents (@rwldproject.bsky.social)

Welcome to the 'Railway Work, Life & Death' project BlueSky account! Check our expanding database of British & Irish railway worker accidents, covering the later 19th & early 20th centuries - all…

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FamilyHistoryWA @familyhistorywa.bsky.social · Nov 16

The Settlers’ Muster Book of 1800, a record of early European settlers in Australia in two handwritten volumes, has been digitised and is now accessible to the public for the first time.
#genealogy #familyhistory #MHNSW #history
mhnsw.au/guides/settl...

Settlers’ muster book, 1800

Museums of History NSW is pleased to be part of a collaboration with the NSW Parliamentary Library to digitise the Settlers’ Muster Book of 1800, an invaluable record which has been inscribed on the U...

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Ghosts WA @ghostswa.bsky.social · Nov 14

Have you ever heard of Field's Find?
#ghostswa #fhwa #familyhistorywa #history #genealogy #familyhistory #ghosttown #westernaustralia
ghostswa.au/fields-find/

Field’s Find

Grave marker in the Field’s Find Cemetery1 Region: Mid WestLGA: Shire of YalgooAKA: Fields FindIndustry: Gold MiningCoordinates: 29°02’20.0″S 117°14’30.0″EWhat3Words:&…

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Kate Jarman @ermerlindaj.bsky.social · Nov 11

Nooo! Stop colourising archive photos if you dont have actual evidence of original colours! (Or just stop altogether, actually...)
Sent this today - original not from our collections, but definitely London Hospital nurses. Uniforms colourised light blue, not the purple they would actually be wearing

Photograph of a page from The Sunday Times Magazine, 10/11/2024, with a colourised photo reproduced in a 'This week in 1918' feature.
The reproduced photo shows female nurses in uniform standing at the railings of The London Hospital in Whitechapel on Armistice Day 1918 waving flags and celebrating. They are wearing floor length dresses with aprons and caps, and the dresses have been colourised light blue. In fact, probationer and staff nurses at the hospital at this date wore a lilac coloured dress.

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FamilyHistoryWA @familyhistorywa.bsky.social · Nov 11

The 11th Battalion AIF project aimed at naming all the soldiers in the famous photograph of the troops on the Cheops pyramid.
The project website is 11btn.wags.org.au/index.php.
#history #WWI #FHWA #FamilyHistoryWA #genealogy
Lest we forget. ❤️

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FamilyHistoryWA @familyhistorywa.bsky.social · Nov 11

Come and visit FamilyHistoryWA at Have A Go Day this coming Wednesday, from 9:00 til 3:00, at Burswood Park, Great Eastern Highway.
#genealogy #familyhistory #fhwa #familyhistorywa #HAGD

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