Thanks Suzie I had discovered your website and was able to find the burial records of Geelong Eastern Cemetery for some of my lot. I was hoping there may be some Directories I could access on line here from NZ. I shall keep looking. Thanks, Deb, Wellington NZ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Susie Zada" <szada@zades.com.au> To: <aus-vic-geelong-district@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, September 07, 2009 11:53 AM Subject: Re: [GEELONG] Finnie/Paterson/Venters Hi Deb, The bottom of every message to the mailing list includes links - there are more than 500,000 entries on our Geelong & District web site. Start here ............... http://zades.com.au/gandd/index.php/databases Regards .................... Susie Z ----- Original Message ----- From: "Deb Beban" <dode.beban@xtra.co.nz> To: <AUS-VIC-GEELONG-DISTRICT@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, September 07, 2009 8:27 AM Subject: [GEELONG] Finnie/Paterson/Venters >I have several PATERSON family that went to the Geelong area in the 1850s >from Edinburgh. They were Jane/Jean PATERSON (1820-1910) who emigrated >with her husband Peter FINNIE (1819-1894), not sure when. > Both are buried in Geelong Eastern Cemetery. They had 2 children, Margaret > Jane and John Lawson ......... bits snipped > I would like know if there is any way I can find these people in local > Geelong directories and also any information I can find to add "flesh to > bones " of these families and any available shipping records I can access > to find when the PATERSONS emigrated to Australia. > Thanks > Deb ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ For on-line indexes and information on Geelong and District http://zades.com.au ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AUS-VIC-GEELONG-DISTRICT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 6 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 139268 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message