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Tracing family cemetery records

The complicated issue of people’s cremated remains and the maintenance of records has flared again in Victoria following an article in Fifty-Plus News and more detail has been supplied in the February edition of the paper.

Wal Maguire, chief executive officer of the Lilydale Cemeteries Trust, has listed the full details required in respect to burials or internment of cremated remains. They include the full name of the deceased, date of burial/internment, date of birth and death, and a description of the type of place of burial/internment and location.

If applicable information should be supplied of the number of burials/internments in that location, if remains have been exhumed from the site, the date of exhumation, and how the remains were disposed. The cemetery trust is required to keep this specific information which can be both written and electronically maintained.

Mr Maguire wrote that larger cemetery trusts had websites where families could undertake a search and that further information should be gained through direct contact with the cemetery where people believed their family members were buried.

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