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Our volunteers and contributors are amazing!
To say we are blessed with our wonderful volunteers and contributors would be an understatement – they really are amazing and such an asset to anyone researching in the Geelong & District region....
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Mount Moriac – Duneed baptisms plus more
The featured index in the latest bundle of additions to the Geelong & District Database is for baptisms at St Patrick’s Roman Catholic church at Mount Moriac – also referred to as the Duneed...
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Latest additions to database
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...
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Latest additions to database
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...
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Shelford School No. 379 and lots more!
The school register for Shelford State School No. 379 features in the latest group of updates to the Geelong & District database. From Vision and Realisation, published by the Education Department...
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Ocean Grove land titles
Some things are worth waiting for! Just over 10 years ago – 10 May 2004 – I purchased and downloaded a digital copy of a Certificate of Title Vol 1946 Fol 389059. This was the largest of several...
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Nurses, WWI, Infirmary and Books
Additions to the Geelong and District database are quite a mixture but it would be hard to go past the story of one of our local nurses who served during WWI – Sr Olive Laura THOMAS. Looking at the...
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When did they die?
Sometimes we take things for granted and don’t realise how many people are not aware of the myriad of different places they can find a person’s date of death – cemetery records and newspaper notices to...
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Chooks or students?
The Geelong Infirmary & Benevolent Asylum Annual Reports never cease to amaze me – this time for two reasons. The number of “employees” listed by company / employer. Even if the company or...
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Geelong database – latest additions
I love original documents and there is nothing better than Victorian Certificates of Title – a real work of art and so full of information. Sometimes people are dazzled by the front page and miss the...
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Amazing Treasure Trove of Records
The foundation stone of the Geelong Infirmary and Benevolent Asylum was laid in 1850 and officially opened on 23 April 1852. The records for both the Infirmary (Hospital) and Benevolent Asylum contain...
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