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Ravenswood Cemetery Inscriptions Ravenswood Cemetery Headstones Index, on CD-ROM with QFHSdatasearch ver.1.7 Published by the Queensland Family History Society Incorporated, February 2006. ISBN 1 921171 02 2 Just $25.50 (incl. GST and certified Australia Post postage and handling to anywhere in Australia). THIS CD-ROM resource indexes all 196 names mentioned on the monumental (headstone) inscriptions ("MIs") to be found in one of North Queensland's oldest goldfield cemeteries, at Ravenswood, 120 kilometres south-west of Townsville. The work also contains photographs of 145 headstones as at November 2003. The index can be searched on name and year with QFHSdatasearch, with research results linked to the corresponding photographs for display via a button on the result panel. Ravenswood was founded in 1868 following the discovery of gold and was an extremely prosperous mining centre. Its population grew to as many as 5,000 souls, a large proportion of whom 'wet their whistle' at the 50 hotels and grog shanties that dotted the diggings by the 1870s. Today the place is all but a ghost town, with a swag of reminders of the past all around - from mullock heaps, to tall chimneys, discarded machinery and, of course, the cemetery. Remaining headstones - as noted by QFHS volunteers in 2003 - recorded the details of former residents interred between 1872 and 2001. While, of course, many Ravenswood pioneers sleep in unmarked graves, the photographs on this disk provide a valuable insight into the life and times of the people who once called this legendary frontier settlement 'home'. As well as confirming or showing possible errors in the burial register, MIs often show family relationships for three or four generations, including the names for people not buried in the specific plot. Details can include parents, birthplace and date of birth, marriage information, titles and honours. Neighbouring plots can include related families. As well as searches by name, QFHSdatasearch allows searching on many of the details (for example, birthplace), so the researcher can quickly and easily follow interesting leads. QFHSdatasearch is a generic interface designed to search genealogy databases and developed by QFHS. This version features field-orientated and keyword searches, Boolean selection, sorting, wildcard searches and links between search results and images in PDF files. Please note: This resource will not work on an Apple® Mac® system, although certain Windows® emulation software might prove successful.