Projects

In addition to providing research facilites for family historians, the East Gippsland Family History Group is engaged in many projects to which preserve the heritage and culture of East Gippsland and the wider Australian Community.

Their Duty Done

This project required thousands of hours by multiple members to bring the project to this stage and is complete.

In some instances the parents of a soldier who gave his life had also died before memorials were created. Families were destroyed and lost just as some of the names of those who served were likewise lost. This is our effort to find those lost names.

As a result of the work done to identify those who paid the supreme sacrifice we have collated thousands of names of those who served and returned. We hope, in due course, to create biographies, with images, of these individuals as well. Their names too, will be added to the website as a permanent legacy of their efforts. 

The result is a collection of multiple resources for future generations of East Gippsland and the wider Australian Community.

A permanent website with the names, biographies and photographs (where possible) of every East Gippsland soldier who lost their life as a result of their participation in the First World War.

Do you have family with a connection to East Gippsland who served?

If so, please contact our Group. We ask anyone with a personal story of family members who served in World War One, whether they lived or died, to contact us. You may have the photograph we are looking for, or letters that will give much more insight into their war experience, or simply a contact for someone else who might be able to help us. You may be able to help with our goal of sharing information and having complete individual stories for future generations.

Bairnsdale Cemetery Project

Our goal: To transcribe, index, photograph and publish a databaseof all burials at the Bairnsdale Cemetery

This project commenced many years ago and invovled the photographing of every headstone and plaque in the Bairnsdale Cemetery.

This, together with the sextons records, registers and maps created by the group provide the most complete record possible of those buried in the Bairnsdale cemetery.