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Comment by Shauna Hicks on August 14, 2012 at 1:42am

I'm starting to get excited about doing the Unlock the Past Queensland Coast expo in September, we're visiting Bundaberg, Rockhampton, Townsville, Mackay, Gladstone and the Sunshine Coast between 25 Sep and 6 Oct 2012 - details are on my Events page - hope to meet some other Genealogy members on the tour.

If you are not in Queensland, I'm speaking at SAG at the end of this month (August), Deniliquin in October at the inaugural Genie Muster and at the Cornish Cultural Celebration in Nowra at the end of October. All details on my Events page.

Comment by Carmel M Reynen on August 11, 2012 at 3:00am

the one with the fence is one that is going to be saved! We published a letter on the net and advertised it on twitter, 14000 hits in a few days

Comment by Co Ordinator on August 11, 2012 at 2:37am

Well done Carmel and The Society for standing up about this maybe if more people were informed of this the greater it would be as I for one, am a believe in people power. Just as well I am not living there as I would love to stand on toes so that they can notice what is going on around them, but it would be a massive task to find if there are living families that have their family buried there.

Yes when I visited there, there were head stones ready to fall, one had a protective fence around it so that visitors could keep away from it, that was down near the Rotunda if I recall.

Once again keep up the good volunteer work.

Wayne

Comment by Carmel M Reynen on August 11, 2012 at 2:09am

Hi Wayne

There are battles going on at the moment re the Ballarat Cemetery. They were about to destroy 3 graves and luckily through some thorough research the Society had a hand in saving these when one of our members joined a committee at the cemetery. However there are many graves marked as dangerous and possible removal. 

The Ballarat and District Genealogical Society does have a fund starting for this purpose. We do have plans to go in and photograph each grave and headstone, but the weather has not been kind to us of late but the plans are in place to do this. 

Comment by Co Ordinator on August 11, 2012 at 1:52am

Hello Carmel and Anne - as you know I am part of the Batten Family that set up the Mechanic's Institute. Well on a recent trip to Vic I made an appointment with the staff at the Institute Library to call in and see for ourselves what it was all about. The staff were very helpful in every way possible took us on a tour of the building and allowed us to take as many photo's as we could possibly get, which was very rewarding to say the least, then low and behold another historian turned up and we were introduced to him who we were, then said come with me and out of the blue he showed us old photo albums and photos that were donated after the Batten residence at 8 DANA St was auctioned off and what a bonus that was, my poor wife was nearly in tears as she remember the uncles and aunties and her father in all the photos and one special one with her as well.

We topped that day off by going to see the grave site of all the family very sad though as most of the wording etc had fallen off over the years.

The Cemetery itself is very old and it's a pity that the grave sites of others are deteriorating rapidly. This brings me to say that there could and should be committees through out Australia not just Ballarat that are funded by Government grants so that historical cemeteries such as these could be maintained and preserved and not left up to councils' that clearly donot have budgets to cater for their cemeteries in this manner.

Other than that our visit to Ballarat for this out standing information was very rewarding.

Wayne       

Comment by Anne Young on August 10, 2012 at 10:23pm

Hi Carmel - I am a member of the Ballarat and District Genealogical Society and enjoy the newsletter

Regards

Anne

Comment by Carmel M Reynen on August 10, 2012 at 10:18pm

Hello Anne, I am also in Ballarat Area and currently the editor of 'Ballarat Link' the newsletter for the Ballarat and District Genealogical Society. and Lyn I am visiting New Zealand in October, so looking forward to it.

Comment by Lyn Whelan on August 8, 2012 at 1:20am

Even though I'm in New Zealand, I'd like to think I can share with, or benefit from the knowledge other people with special interests have. I have been prompted to join groups that interest me as a result of assignments I have been carrying out on Social Networking for the wise genealogist. Some of your names are very familiar. I operate my own research business from Auckland. 

Comment by Anne Young on August 7, 2012 at 9:43pm

Hi - I have just joined genealogywise.com and am an Australian genealogist from Ballarat, Victoria.  I am a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists (APG) and the Australasian Association of Genealogists and Record Agents (AAGRA)

Comment by Co Ordinator on June 29, 2012 at 5:33am

 hello to all just backing up the National Family History Week starting on the 27th July through to the 5th August.

Every State in Australia will be show casing the event.

Well done Shauna and Liz who will be representing the Yarra Plenty Regional Library.

You can access the web site at

www.familyhistoryweek.org.au

Wayne

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