local and family history
Regular and special events in our region
Sometimes it is so frustrating – a person filled out the Contact form on the Geelong & District [and Bellarine] web site asking if the Bellarine Historical Society had a photo of the Drysdale Blacksmith shop and also where they … Continued
This doesn’t happen very often so you need to make the most of this opportunity. The Geelong Heritge Centre is holding a Pop-up book shop sale: One week only 12 noon to 4.00 pm Monday May 25th to Friday May … Continued
I do love it when groups in our region progress to having a real web and blog site. We have an addition to this category in the last month. Geelong & South Western Rail Heritage Society Obviously they still want … Continued
The Bellarine Historical Society presents Our Boys at War – a tribute to the local lads and indeed all soldiers that served in the First World War. The Society has prepared a display in the Old Court House Museum to … Continued
OK – I’m not proud and when you’re unemployed you have to try to reduce costs any way you can. Please follow this link to get a chance to win some great prizes – as well as increasing my chance … Continued
The Geelong Football Club needs your help … I’m sure there are many people who don’t realise that their ancestor or relative played for the Geelong Football Club but you could just be the person that the club wants to … Continued
Well, this is definitely an experiment – my first POLL and I have no idea what it will look like or how it will work! So forgive me if I get it all wrong. More and more people are trying … Continued
Got home from work late – tired, exhausted, wet & hungry … but that all vanished when I had a quick check of my emails. That magic email notification I’ve been waiting more than a year to spot! Notification from … Continued
What ties all of these together? They all spent some time in Geelong AND they all come together in the 2014 Heritage Week seminar at the Genealogical Society of Victoria. Not only is the seminar worth attending, non-members of the … Continued
This afternoon I was at the Victorian Community History Awards for 2013 … lots and lots of people to catch up with … Weston & Janice Bate and heaps of others. Just as we were being mustered towards the seats … Continued