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That’s right – 1,500,000 records in the Geelong and District database. There’s sure to be something there for your family! And yes, that WAS the target for December 2014 – now I’m going to have to come up with a … Continued
The Annual Reports of the Geelong Infirmary & Benevolent Asylum are an amazing source for locating those ordinary ancestors. Each report includes an extensive list of subscribers [an early version of Medicare for the use of the Infirmary]. They are … Continued
This update includes a mixture of items – some adding to existing ones and others new. Because this lot includes both Assisted and Unassisted Immigrants to Geelong [actually Point Henry] it seemed appropriate to include this photo of the Geelong … Continued
Finally I found the “missing” register of midwives for 1921 – this completes the set of Midwife Registers from 1916 to 1956 from the Victoria Government Gazette. In the process of indexing it I spotted a familiar name – Lily GRANT, … Continued
Geelong Hospital again features in the latest additions to the Geelong and District database with another index of an Annual Report – this time for 1910. I’d forgotten how much useful information was printed in these Annual Reports. They don’t include name … Continued
Most people would question why Portsea, Sorrento and parts of the Mornington Peninsula are included in “Geelong and District” and more particularly the Geelong & District Database. Perhaps we should look closer at the newspaper the Queenscliff Sentinel – which … Continued
Mack’s Hotel and Berry Bank Homestead are two names closely associated with Joseph Gardner MACK – a very early settler in Geelong. Chain of Ponds gives a wonderful insight into this early pioneer and his family – well worth indexing. … Continued
It’s almost the end of 2013 and time to set a new target for the number of entries in the Geelong and District database … 1.5 Million sounds like a nice round number – can we achieve that by December … Continued
Break O’Day, later called Corindhap, featured in Shot for Gold: the murder of Thomas Ulick Burke on the Woady Yaloak Goldfield – a fascinating reconstruction from many original records of this murder which resulted in two executions. Details are now part … Continued
Geelong Hospital features in the latest additions to the Geelong and District database with the index of the book Visions & Realities: a history of the Geelong Infirmary & Benevolent Asylum by Dr W R (Roy) Lang. It also includes … Continued