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Is this your family’s wedding photo?
10 Dec 2017

Is this your family’s wedding photo?

by admin | posted in: Family history, Photographs | 6

I do love things that turn up out of the blue!  There I was quietly sitting at the keyboard this afternoon when an email arrived with this photo attached. The email said: I found the attached photo in the back of … Continued

colac, John Mond ARNEST, photographer, Wedding Photograph
Latest additions to database
10 Nov 2013

Latest additions to database

by admin | posted in: GandD Web, New Indexes and content | 0

The latest additions to the Geelong and District database and web site include the index to the Investigator journals for the years 2010-2012. It also includes the index to the next part to the book – Pioneering Days: a woman’s life compiled by … Continued

colac, Geelong district, Geelong Historical Society, Indexes, Investigator journal, women
Latest additions to database
23 Jun 2013

Latest additions to database

by admin | posted in: GandD Web, New Indexes and content | 0

The latest additions to the Geelong and District database and web site include the first part of the index to a new book – Pioneering Days: a woman’s life compiled by the Colac & District Family History Group.  The group … Continued

colac, Geelong district, Indexes, Midwives, women
Latest additions to database
7 May 2013

Latest additions to database

by admin | posted in: GandD Web, New Indexes and content | 0

The latest additions to the Geelong and District database and web site include a very special file donated by Thelma Birrell.  It is from the diaries of Augusta BOSTOCK [1833-1920].  The diaries have not yet been indexed in the Geelong … Continued

Birregurra, colac, Geelong district, Indexes, Midwives, surnames
Geelong District – Honour Boards plus more
20 May 2012

Geelong District – Honour Boards plus more

by admin | posted in: New Indexes and content | 0

The featured index in the latest bundle of additions to the Geelong & District Database is for names on numerous Honour Boards in the Geelong district.  These Honour Boards include those commemorating servicemen in the region but they also include other … Continued

colac, database, Geelong district, Geelong Golf Club, Indexes, Seamen
Colac Cemetery burials
29 May 2011

Colac Cemetery burials

by Susie Zada | posted in: New Indexes and content | 0

We have just added 12,211 entries to the Geelong & District Database – these are burials in Colac Cemetery [extracted from the headstones]. We have to thank Ian Marr for permission to include these entries in the Geelong & District … Continued

Cemeteries, colac
Colac in North Carolina!
22 May 2011

Colac in North Carolina!

by Susie Zada | posted in: Society News | 0

It was an exciting time for our region last Thursday [19th May] … Colac & District Historical Society were joint winners in their category in the Sir Rupert Hamer Records Management Awards! Not only was it exciting for them to … Continued

1849, Awards, colac, court records
Colac Court of Petty Sessions 1860- [VPRS 301]
20 Mar 2011

Colac Court of Petty Sessions 1860- [VPRS 301]

by Susie Zada | posted in: New Indexes and content | 0

The Colac Court of Petty Sessions [VPRS 301] is being indexed by our Geelong & District volunteers. Currently 1483 entries have been added to the Geelong & District Database. This is an ongoing project – the following entries have been … Continued

colac, Court of Petty Sessions
Year of Hope: 1857 in the Colac district
14 Mar 2011

Year of Hope: 1857 in the Colac district

by Susie Zada | posted in: New Indexes and content | 0

New book index added to Geelong & District Database. Year of Hope: 1857 in the Colac district written by Dawn Peel.  The index added to the database includes 1300 Colac residents of 1857 from the appendices in this book. From … Continued

1857, colac, history, index
The History of Colac and District
23 Jan 2011

The History of Colac and District

by Susie Zada | posted in: New Indexes and content | 0

New book index added to Geelong & District Database. The History of Colac and District was compiled by Isaac Hebb in 1970.  This was a limited edition publication which has been out-of-print for some years.  This history was originally printed … Continued

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