Hi all mum just got back from the display at Christhcurch. Had i known what resources would be available I would have tried to make it myself. What i'm curious about is the marriage certificates they had available for people to photocopy, are they available at any time? And if so how would I get access? I won't be able to make it to it for the rest of the weekend as i'll be down on the coast, cheers, Ainslee ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- List Administrator of Aus-german-l & hooper-ons-l www.ainsleehooper.com GOONS #3895 Hooper, worldwide. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Listerman" <nanknoo@hotmail.com> To: <AUS-VIC-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 7:46 PM Subject: Re: [AUS-VIC] Bendigo Cemetery > Hello Elizabeth, > The URL for the Bendigo Cemeteries is http://www.bencemtrust.com.au/. I > don't know if they're open on Saturdays. You could try phoning. There are > several major cemeteries for the Bendigo/Sandhurst area, with the office > being at the Eaglehawk one in the north west of the city, off the road to > Kerang. > > If you find you can't get information from them, the next best bet is to be > at the City Library next to the Town Hall in Hargreaves St., where the > A.I.G.S volunteers are on duty upstairs from 10am to 12.30pm or so. The > Library closes at 1 pm and isn't open on Sundays. There are some computer > records and some microfilm records of who was buried in which Cemetery, but > I don't know if they will give you enough information as to where in the > cemetery they were buried. All four main cemeteries are very old, and still > being used, so there are thousands of marked and unmarked graves, and you'd > have to be very lucky in an uninformed search to find who you were looking > for, if all you knew was which was the relevant cemetery. > > Good luck with getting the information you need. As with all old cemeteries > with high headstones, you need to beware their stability, and seeing the > bluetongue lizards are already out, meaning the snakes will be too, it would > be an idea to keep an eye out in any particularly overgrown areas! > > Tom > > _________________________________________________________________ > Hot chart ringtones and polyphonics. Go to > http://ninemsn.com.au/mobilemania/default.asp > > > ==== AUS-VIC Mailing List ==== > AUS-VIC Mailing List - > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~michmar/AUS-VICmailList.html > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >