MORE reasons to celebrate: 900,000+ entries in our database!

Yippeeeeeeeeeeee!!  We now have more than 900,000 entries in our database and heading in the right direction to reach that magic 1,000,000 mark.

It’s amazing what you can get done when you have a few days off – like sort out some of the indexes done by our terrific volunteers and manipulate them to import into the Geelong & District Database.

Since the last blog – and that was only one and a half days ago – this is what’s been added:

• Portarlington: Mechanic’s Institute petition in 1860 [VPRS 5357]
• Murroon: names on Parish plan
• Geelong Times: Deaths at Geelong Hospital 1882-83 – there aren’t heaps but what’s there is pure quality – wish they were my ancestors!  Details include age; date of admission; date of death; cause of death; former abode; native place; arrival date and ship
• Drysdale: Police receipt book
• Victoria: Geelong Advertiser list of Ayrshire emigrants of 1854
• Colac Shire: Rate Books 1863-64
• Barrabool Shire: Obituary Book 1972-77
• Drysdale: Racing Club Minute Book 1874-1895
• Drysdale: Court Suitors Book 1862-1864
• Geelong City Council: WWII Servicemen and women enlistments
• Geelong Decorating Company: employees at William Nash’s Paint and Paper Store
• Geelong Branch Australian Womens National League: members in 1906
• Additions to Geelong Court of Insolvency records

Details on these indexes can be found in the Geelong & District Potpourri pages.

Updating those stats from the last blog – as most of these indexes were done in 2011 – they just had to wait until I had a bit more free time to work on them and get them in the database!

• 9th January 2011 – 785,753 entries
• 2nd January 2012 – 901,013 entries
• 115,260 entries added to the Geelong & District Database in 2011

I think we can all celebrate that sort of effort.  I hope you find YOUR ancestors in this great collection.

What a wonderful team of volunteers – THANK YOU!

Reasons to celebrate: more indexes added!

To celebrate the New Year, more indexes have been added to the Geelong & District Database.

Recent indexes added:

• Murroon State School No. 940: students [VPRS 4123]
• Travancore passengers: Geelong Advertiser 1849
• Duneed / Mt Moriac Police Occurences Book [Police Department Geelong District]
• Geelong & District Surnames of Interest
• Remembering our Anzacs [publication]
• The Queenscliffe Lifeboat : Wreck and Rescue at Port Phillip Heads [publication]
• St Mary’s, Geelong (RC) baptisms 1867-1872
• Leigh Shire Voters Roll 1872

Details on most of these indexes can be found in the Geelong & District Potpourri pages.

Looking back at what our local volunteers have achieved in 2011:

• 9th January 2011 – 785,753 entries
• 1st January 2012 – 890,126 entries
• 104,373 entries added to the Geelong & District Database in 2011

If we managed the same number of entries in 2012, we would end up with 994,499 entries by 1st January 2013 – that’s rather scary!

Mind you, 2011 was an amazingly productive year so we should probably set out target at 950,000 entries by the start of 2013.

Then again we could be really rash and aim for 1,000,000 or is that just plain silly?

Oh who cares – our team of volunteers have been absolutely amazing and simply deserve a huge THANK YOU and WELL DONE!