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Christine Harris

@christineharris.bsky.social
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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 · 31/12/2025
#history #western_Australia #ghost_towns #gold_rush #genealogy My latest blog for the @ghostswa.bsky.social project ghostswa.au/2025/12/31/s...
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The Sacred Nugget
In the late 1890s, Kanowna experienced a gold rush frenzy culminating in the hoax of the “Sacred Nugget.” A fake gold find, manipulated by pranksters using scrap iron and gold paint, in…
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Christine Harris @christineharris.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Meanwhile in Venice... #travel #photography #Italy #Venice #Venezia #Europe
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Christine Harris @christineharris.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Eastern Water Dragon #Australia #fauna #NewSouthWales #nature #photography
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Christine Harris @christineharris.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
#flora #flower #photography Snake Vine
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Christine Harris @christineharris.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
#Sydney #travel #photography
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Christine Harris @christineharris.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Tulip time here in Perth #flowers #tulips #red #photography #flora
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Christine Harris @christineharris.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
#travel #Sydney #SydneyOperaHouse #SydneyHarbourBridge #SydneyHarbour #photography
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Ghosts WA @ghostswa.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Did he or didn't he? #history #genealogy #familyhistory #WesternAustralia #ghosttowns #trial #burglary ghostswa.au/2025/09/05/h...
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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 · 30/08/2025
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
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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 · 25/08/2025
I have always loved this photo! Looking at it makes me forget that today's weather is atrocious! 🙂 #tulip #flower #pink
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Christine Harris @christineharris.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
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. ghostswa.au/2025/08/23/p... #genealogy #familyhistory #ghost-towns
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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 · 14/07/2025
Sunset in Geraldton, Western Australia #photography #skyscape #sunset #seascape #travel
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Christine Harris @christineharris.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Visited the Terracotta Warriors exhibition today. Extraordinary!
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Christine Harris @christineharris.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Port Douglas, Queensland #photography #travel #Australia
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Christine Harris @christineharris.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Fountains Abbey #travel #photography #England #Yorkshire
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Christine Harris @christineharris.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Winchester Cathedral #photography #travel
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Ghosts WA @ghostswa.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
ON THIS DAY - Cossack 12 Jun 1897 😀 #cricket #cossackwa #Genealogy #history #FamilyHistory #ghosttowns ghostswa.au/2025/06/12/o...
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Cossack – 12 June 1897
On this day in 1897, Roebourne defeated Cossack in a close match.
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Ghosts WA @ghostswa.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
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...
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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 · 09/06/2025
The Homebush Brickworks was where my grandfather, Ted Hamilton, worked for most of his adult life. #genealogy #familyhistory #blog app.weare.xyz/blog/our-fam....
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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.eurosky.social · 08/06/2025
20:59 #sunset of today #Nature #stunday
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Christine Harris @christineharris.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
We are fundraising for the People of Western Australia’s Ghost Towns project. Please help us to keep this project sustainable. www.mycause.com.au/page/372166/...
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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 · 31/05/2025
#travel #photography #clouds #skyscape
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Christine Harris @christineharris.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Today in Perth, Western Australia. #travel #PerthWA #WesternAustralia
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Christine Harris @christineharris.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Margaret River, Western Australia
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Louise V Durham, stained glass and driftwood sculpture, Shoreham by Sea, UK #WomensArt
Photo of a slim rectangular wooden sculpture with central stained glass in rainbow colours the artwork is on a beach with wet sand and under a blue sky
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Ghosts WA @ghostswa.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Did you know that the Yalgoo Post Office was originally in Nannine? #ghostswa #familyhistory #genealogy #history #westernaustralia #familyhistoryWA ghostswa.au/nannineps
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Nannine Police Station
The Nannine Police Station was built in 1896 and in 1922 it was uplifted and moved to Yalgoo.
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Ghosts WA @ghostswa.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
There's murder afoot ghostswa.au/2025/03/30/b... #genealogy #familyhistory #ghosttowns #murder
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Crime in Bowgada
Murder in Bowgada
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Bluesky @bsky.app · 10/03/2025
Every few years, we sign up for yet another platform just to keep in touch with our friends. Private platforms have locked users in for too long, causing a lack of innovation & competition in social media. Bluesky aims to fundamentally change this. Live in 20 min with @jay.bsky.team:
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Bluesky's CEO on the Future of Social Media | SXSW LIVE
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Christine Harris @christineharris.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
#history #genealogy #oneplace #WesternAustralia #ghosttowns
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Currently appearing at UK bus-stops. More of this pointed ridicule, please.
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Christine Harris @christineharris.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
#genealogy #ghostswa #westernaustralia
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Christine Harris @christineharris.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Port Douglas, Far North Queensland #photography #travel #Australia #landscape
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Christine Harris @christineharris.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Salzberg, Austria #AdoorableThursday #photography #travel #Europe #Austria
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Michael Norton @bluestarphoto.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Sunset at Mourne Mountains, Co Down, N Ireland (my favourite headspace area) Image taken with iPhone 11 Pro #photographersofbluesky #photographersunited #mountains #sunset #mournes #shotoniphone #iphonephotography #northernireland #landscape #hiking #ireland
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Christine Harris @christineharris.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
The thing you find in the bottom of an old box!! #genealogy #photography
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Christine Harris @christineharris.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Burano, Italy #AdoorableThursday #photography #travel #Europe #Italy #Venice #Burano #cats
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Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Was a set of triplets really born in @yhoitink.bsky.social Yvette Hoitink’s #FamilyTree (and her #OnePlaceStudy, of #Winterswijk) in 1702, and was one of the girls really named Gemma? Find out in Yvette’s blog post “Using Occam’s Razor in Genealogy.” #OnePlaceWednesday
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Using Occam’s Razor in Genealogy
Occam's Razor is a philosphical tool that helps you zoom in on the most likely explanation. A lot has been written about Occam's Razor, but it boils down to the simpler explanation is usually correct.
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Christine Harris @christineharris.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Punting on the River Cam in Cambridge, England #photography #travelontuesday #travel #England #UK
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Christine Harris @christineharris.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
That is Rottnest on the horizon and the sky if full of smoke from many bushfires. #photography #sunset #seascape
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Christine Harris @christineharris.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Experiment? #photography #streetscape #urban #perspective
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Christine Harris @christineharris.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Now where does this lead? #AdoorableThursday #photography #travel #AlnwickGardens #Northumberland #England
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Christine Harris @christineharris.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
The things you see around the neighbourhood. #photography #streetscape
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Christine Harris @christineharris.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Lindisfarne Castle from Lindisfarne Abbey #TravelonTuesday #photography #travel #England #Northumberland #HolyIsland #Lindisfarne #castle #abbey #graves
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Christine Harris @christineharris.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Visiting the hibiscus. #photography #flora #fauna #bees #flowers #hibiscus
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Christine Harris @christineharris.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
I'm not sure that need to put a caption on this! #photography #nature #flora #fauna #tulip #butterfly
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Christine Harris @christineharris.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Had to be quick to catch him! #photography #fauna #squirrel
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Christine Harris @christineharris.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Totally random #photography #patterns #geometric
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Christine Harris @christineharris.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Enhanced by the sun #photography #nature #flowers #tulip #pink #translucent
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Christine Harris @christineharris.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
A more sobering topic than usual for #AdoorableThursday Dachau Concentration Camp #photography #travel #Germany #Munich
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