Here is your opportunity to have that puzzle answered by an expert so go through the death certificates in your collection and bring along any you have where the cause of death remains a mystery to you. We will hear about the Nosological Index of 1863, which gave guidelines for the Registrar-General and Deputy Registrars in Victoria for the classification of causes of death. Lis, a trained nurse, is well-known for her work indexing hospital records and is a member of the council of the Genealogical Society of Victoria. The P tanque Festival will take place at Avoca on 27th and 28th November. We have been asked to be part of this Festival and the Court House will be open on both days from 10 am, with our display based on the theme Historic Homes and Gardens.
Admission is a gold coin.
We will conduct tours of the Avoca Cemetery on the Sunday at 11 am and 2 pm. Those wishing to participate should meet our Society representative at the cemetery gates. P tanque is the name given in the south of France to the game which is actually of Provincial origin and was devised in 1910. Steel balls are rolled along rough ground towards a wooden marker ball. In other areas of France, the game is known as boules.