ON-LINE
INFORMATION
- Records /
Cemetery Contact : Check the details in this column as
well as external links under On-Line Indexes
- Geelong
& District Consolidated Book Index : for references to
People, Places or subjects in the region.
- Bellarine
Peninsula Consolidated Names Index : for references to
People on the Bellarine Peninsula.
- Geelong
& District Research Centres : for contact details of
local Family History Societies, Historical Societies and other
relevant organisations. Please remember that although many
of these groups have web sites and/or email addresses, it is
unfair to email them asking for information - if details for
procedures and cost of Research Requests are not on their web
site, then you should always ask them what the cost is and how you
submit your Research Request. And don't be surprised at the
wealth of information that some of these groups may be able to
provide.
- Geelong
& District Surnames of Interest : check to see if
someone else is researching your Surname of Interest.
OFF-LINE INFORMATION
- Geelong Advertiser : index
and newspaper available at the Geelong Heritage Centre. If
you are unable to do this yourself it is recommended that you make
use of the Research Service available from the Geelong
Family History Group or the Geelong
Heritage Centre.
- Microfiche (Geelong Cemeteries
Trust Cemeteries) : These cover the period up to July 1996 and
are available at many Genealogy libraries around Victoria and
larger centres interstate. Columns of information that might
be available include:
- Register Number - computer
reference number, not Burial Register number
- Deceased Name - Surname, First
Name
- Age
- Service Date - usually refers to
the date of BURIAL but with older burials it can be the date
of death taken from headstone transcriptions. Service
date 1/1/1800 means date and year of death / burial not
known. Service date of 1/1/1853 (example) and remarks
"Died 1853" means date of death / burial unknown but
year is known.
- Location - Section / Plot No.
(includes religious section)
- Depth Remarks - depth or R/O
indicating that the plot was re-opened and this was not the
first burial in this location.
- Name of originator (person who
paid for the plot, sometimes includes
address)
- Comments - could include spouse,
parents, family history info - or nothing!
- Geelong
& District Research Centres : for contact details of
local Family History Societies, Historical Societies and other
relevant organisations that don't have a web site or email
address.
- Records /
Cemetery Contact : Check the details in this column on the
Cemeteries page.
- Geelong Cemeteries Trust :
Write to them at : Geelong Cemeteries Trust, Administration
Office, 141 Ormond Road, Geelong East, Vic 3219. Enclose
$5.50 and business sized SSAE - they will provide a printout and
highlighted plan of location for the cemeteries they
administer. If it is a surname that has a large number of
entries, you need to narrow down the research request criteria or
negotiate a special price.
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