G'day Penny, Before you get too far trying to reconstruct the information, have you been in touch with the Society of Australian Genealogists in Sydney? According to the book "Cemeteries In Australia", SAG have the Monumental Inscriptions for the Tooleybuc Cemetery. Regards ...... Susie Z ----- Original Message ----- From: "Penny Mercer" <penny.mercer@rmit.edu.au> To: <AUS-VIC-WESTERN-DISTRICT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 12:00 PM Subject: [AUS-VIC-West] Re: Tooleybuc records lost to a mouse plague > In July I posted a question on the soc.genealogy.aus+nz newsgroup about the Tooleybuc Cemetery records. > > I've been trying to locate them for some time so that I could arrange a headstone for my ancestors buried there. I just learnt that in the last eight or ten years these records were totally destroyed during a plague of mice. I can't tell you how disappointed I am that these records were available ten years ago when my mother visited the area, and are now > gone forever. > > To all those people out there in country districts, please ensure that there is more than one copy of your precious records - preferably placed in a local library or society for safe-keeping. It is sad that so many years after photocopiers were invented no-one (not even the nearest historical society or family history society) seems to have made a copy. > > In the meantime, I now have a map of the Tooleybuc Cemetery. If you have a relative buried in an unmarked grave at Tooleybuc, and you know the location, I'd be grateful if you would email me directly. Perhaps a partial reconstruction of the records is possible. I'll donate any info I get to the Swan Hill Family History Society and other appropriate groups. > > Penny > > > ==== AUS-VIC-WESTERN-DISTRICT Mailing List ==== > Western Victoria Association of Historical Societies > http://home.vicnet.net.au/~wvahs/welcome.htm > > ============================== > Visit ROOTS-L, the Internet's oldest and largest genealogical > mailing list: > http://www.rootsweb.com/roots-l/ > >