It has been a week since the book "Pioneers & Suffragists" was launched and the first edition is almost sold out. Letters and emails have been arriving all week from descendants who travelled to Colac to be part of the celebrations. Thankyou for all of the positive feedback.
So many people have discovered that they are actually related to more than one of the women featured in the book and have new information to add to their family research. Many are seeing a photograph of their ancestor for the first time.
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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