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Ballarat Cemeteries & Crematorium-Indexed transcripts of memorials in the Old & New Cemeteries and burial & cremation registers

CD Contents

• A brief introduction to the contents of the CD
• Transcripts of memorials in the Old and New Cemeteries, and on the Wall erected in memory of babies. Transcripts of the Old Cemetery include the surnames of the owners of the graves
• An index of names on the above memorials and of grave owners. Each name is hyperlinked to the page of transcripts that contains the relevant information. This alphabetical index is searchable using the Adobe Reader search option
• Two sets of indexes of registers with the kind permission of the Ballarat General Cemeteries Trust
• A single alphabetical index of the burial registers of the Old and New Cemeteries, and the Cremations, from their inception to May 2005. Searchable using the Search function in the Adobe Reader; and
• three separate indexes of the Old and New Cemeteries, and the Cremations, from their inception to 1989. These have more detail than the set described above. They are in alphabetical order of name and were formerly published on microfiche
• Maps of the Old and New Cemeteries
• A detailed background to the transcriptions of the memorials and surnames of grave owners in the Old Cemetery, and some history of the cemeteries and crematorium