Databases and Indexes

Further details of many of these database indexes may be available through the Geelong Family History Group.

Make sure you look at the two Research Options on their website and most importantly follow the link to the GFHG Research Files Catalogue List to check for these or many more indexes and documents.

• Geelong Advertiser 1840-1851
• Geelong Family History Group document [B/NEW/18] - index and summaries of advertisements and/or articles.  The details are available from the Geelong Family History Group or can be viewed in person in the GFHG library at the Bellarine Historical Society.

OR

• Geelong Advertiser is online at TROVE Digitised Newspapers
• Geelong Advertiser available at Geelong Heritage Centre, Geelong
• Deakin University, Alfred Deakin Prime Ministerial Library, Waterfront Campus, Geelong
• State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
  and various other locations on microfilm

NOTE: The entries reference a page number in the GFHG document, and NOT the date or page in the Geelong Advertiser.  If you use the microfilms of the Geelong Advertiser, you will need to search eleven years of issues for the individual entry in advertisements or articles.  At a later stage the full references may be transcribed into this database but at this stage the priority is a basic index.

• NAME: Name of person or business
• DATE: Year of publication
• OTHER NAMES: Alternative names / business names
• COMMENT: Occupation or comment
• REFERENCE: Page number in the Geelong Family History Group transcription document [46 pages]

• 2,154 entries

• Geelong Advertiser commenced 21 November 1840
• The references to Trades and/or Businesses [GFHG B/NEW/18] have been extracted by the Geelong Family History Group from the Geelong Advertiser for the years 1840-1851