The Colac Cemetery Trust has offered to open the Colac Cemetery on the weekend of the launch of "Pioneers and Suffragists" August 18 and 19, and to have staff on hand to assist descendants to find the gravesites of the women.
This is a generous gesture and a great opportunity.
We will prepare a list of our women who are buried in the cemetery and the Trust is going to do their best to locate the gravesites prior to the weekend.
Another good reason to come along to the launch and perhaps spend the weekend in Colac, renewing relationships, finding new connections and collecting other family tree information.
PIONEERS and SUFFRAGISTS aims to identify 360 women who lived in Colac and the surrounding districts in 1891. These pioneers and suffragists were among the 30,000 women who signed the Monster Petition in support of Victorian women being granted the vote.
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