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Ernest Giles and the 1875 Expedition Across Australia

Ghosts WA @ghostswa.bsky.social · Aug 30

One of Australia's lesser known explorers. #ghostswa #FamilyHistoryWA #genealogy #familyhistory @christineharris.bsky.social @oneplacestudies.bsky.social
ghostswa.au/2025/08/30/u... #UlarringWA #UllaringWA @familyhistorywa.bsky.social

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…

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

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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

Captured Records at 31 May 2025

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
ghostswa.au/2025/06/07/2...

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…

“The only man who ever made Coolgardie blossom like a rose” Something rarely mentioned about the Eastern Goldfields is – how did people get fresh veggies? It’s hard to imagi…

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Ghosts WA @ghostswa.bsky.social · May 21

The story of Old John Hunter
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#genealogy #history #familyhistory #ghostswa #ghosttowns #westernaustralia

Old John Hunter

The Nannine Police Station was built in 1896 and in 1922 it was uplifted and moved to Yalgoo.

Ghosts WA @ghostswa.bsky.social · Apr 15

Did you know that the Yalgoo Post Office was originally in Nannine? #ghostswa #familyhistory #genealogy #history #westernaustralia #familyhistoryWA
ghostswa.au/nannineps

Nannine Police Station

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Ghosts WA @ghostswa.bsky.social · Mar 30

There's murder afoot
ghostswa.au/2025/03/30/b... #genealogy #familyhistory #ghosttowns #murder

Crime in Bowgada

Murder in Bowgada

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Ghosts WA @ghostswa.bsky.social · Mar 11

Kundip Dreaming

Kundip

Ghosts WA @ghostswa.bsky.social · Feb 21

To quote genealogist Paul Chiddicks (bsky.app/profile/chid...) "history is about people. It’s about how and where they lived, the challenges they faced, the triumphs they celebrated, and the legacies they left behind."
And we couldn't agree more! There are thousands of stories waiting to be told.

bsky.app

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Ghosts WA @ghostswa.bsky.social · Feb 21

Congratulations to the magnificent team of Volunteers working on the People of Western Australia's Ghost Towns Project. They have hit a magical milestone of collecting 50,000 records of people who lived in our many ghost communities around the state.

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Develations @develations.bsky.social · Dec 29

I see your Texas and raise you one Western Australia

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Two Centuries of Chinese Heritage in Western Australia @chinesewa.bsky.social · Dec 5

The Two Centuries of Chinese Heritage in Western Australia podcast series is officially live! 🎙✨ Based on original research, these podcasts shed light on the often less-told stories of Chinese heritage in our State.

Listen now 👉 linktr.ee/chinesewa 🎧

The Pearl Fisheries at Tien-Tsin, North-West Australia

Ghosts WA @ghostswa.bsky.social · Dec 29

Cossack, originally called Tien-Tsin, was a major port critical to the development of the pastoral industry in the north west. The story of its establishment, written at the time, makes for fascinating reading.
ghostswa.au/2024/12/29/t...
#WesternAustralia #history #FamilyHistoryWA

A contemporary account of the establishment of Cossack.

I just came across this article in the Sunday Chronicle of 12 Dec 18971. It struck my funny bone and so I wanted to share it with you!! Perhaps, given the sombre nature of the background to the art…

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Ghosts WA @ghostswa.bsky.social · Nov 28

The Lynton Convict Hiring Depot near Port Gregory in the Shire of Northampton, Western Australia. The site was only active for a very few years and there's not a great deal left, but what is there is very special.
#genealogy #familyhistory #history #convicts #ghosttowns #ghostswa

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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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Ghosts WA @ghostswa.bsky.social · Nov 19

Whatever happened to John M'Innes?
#history #familyhistory #genealogy #ghosttowns #WesternAustralia
ghostswa.au/2024/02/17/s...

Search Party

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…

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

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Ghosts WA @ghostswa.bsky.social · Nov 15

"In the Field's Find district there are not more than 20 men all told. It would be unwise for prospectors to take horses at the present time, as there is absolutely no feed in the district, but there is plenty of fresh water." Sunday Times 1922
#fieldsfindwa #ghostswa #genealogy #history #ghosttown

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:&…

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

Using Bluesky for #Genealogy (and in general!)

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Daniel Loftus @danielloftus.projectinfant.ie · Nov 12

Here we go! A tutorial video for any new #Bluesky users, (whether you do #Genealogy or not) is out now. Hope people find this useful. 🙂

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b2T...

YouTube video by Daniel Loftus Genealogy

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Ghosts WA @ghostswa.bsky.social · Nov 12

As we move towards the end of another school year in Western Australia, we can reflect on what life was like for the teachers and students in the hundreds of tiny schools that serviced the old ghost towns.
#genealogy #familyhistory #ghostswa #history

Ghost town schools

What was school like for the children and teachers of Western Australia’s Ghost Towns? In the years of rapid growth of mining communities, timber camps and the railways, (which encouraged the open…

Mr Stanley’s Opera Troupe

Ghosts WA @ghostswa.bsky.social · Nov 12

It's 1886 and Mr Stanley's Opera Troupe is bringing Gilbert and Sullivan to the far north west of Australia.
#ghostswa #history #CossackWA #genealogy #familyhistory #culture
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Cossack in 1886 was a frontier town in one of the most isolated colonies in the world. It was a centre for pearling and pearl shell fishing and the entry point for pastoralists who establishe…

In 1872, the government offered a reward of £5,000 for the discovery of the first payable goldfield in the colony of Western Australia1. In 1879, Alexander Forrest explored the Fitzroy and Ord Rive…

Ghosts WA @ghostswa.bsky.social · Nov 11

The first gold discoveries in Western Australia started in the late 1870s. Here's a bit about the first WA goldrush...
#ghostswa #fhwa #familyhistorywa #genealogy #history

The first rush

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Christine Harris @christineharris.bsky.social · Nov 10

Upcoming speaking engagement! #ghostswa #FHWA #familyhistory #genealogy

Tough Conditions and Complicated Lives

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Christine Harris @christineharris.bsky.social · Nov 10

A story from one of Western Australia’s ghost town. #ghostswa #genealogy #familyhistory #FHWA #FamilyHistoryWA

Around 1900, regular information came filtering through on the Ularring District and its goldfields, claiming that they were likely to be ‘second to none’ in mining outcomes. Ularring was…