What is Genseek... ?

Genseek Genealogy is a website devoted to locating and promoting
articles and information in relation to genealogy and history.

Genseek was created with the intent to bring to the attention of
genealogist and historians, the extensive scope of records available
for use in tracing family history and recording local history.
The nature of the availability of these records was not readily
available before the advent of the internet. There are a multitude
of Jenny's databases available on the site, and they are accompanied
by useful links to further sources.

Jenny has been collating information on colonial discovery and 
settlement of Tower hill for over ten years, and is currently
occupied writing a history of that region which will rewrite
local history. Her work  will also be accompanied by a biographical 
dictionary of the pioneer families and the european discovery of 
Port Fairy,includind the previously unrecorded ten years of initial 
settlement at that place.
If your family was resident in the Tower Hill region Jenny would be 
happy to hear from you. The following is an extract from the 
her forthcoming publication 'Pioneer Speak'


The white settlement of Port Fairy and Tower Hill provides a 
fascinating example of colonial  settlement of Victoria. The  
history of the arrival of europeans to  both places is inextricably 
linked with the settlements at Portland Bay and Melbourne,at a time 
when these places were in their infancy, and all were little more 
than suburbs of Launceston.
Pioneer Speake is a record of the settlement of Tower Hill and it 
is essential that the discovery of nearby Port Fairy be included 
as both were settled by those pioneers who first establised a 
whaling station at the latter place. The history of settlement 
at these places, along with Melbourne and Portland,  is usually 
attributed to emigrant squatters and merchants who arrived in the 
1830's but  nearly all ports of Victoria were visited by seafarers 
well before formal settlement,  and it was often these men who 
brought to the attention of investors the nature of the region 
surrounding the bays and coves they had visited. 
Pioneer Speake is the story of  the european settlement of the Tower 
Hill region, and in particular, the Farnham Survey and surrounds. 
It is the result of over ten years self funded research by the author 
into the history of the region, and many of the issues and accounts 
raised in the volume can justly be entitled to further research and 
publication.  Enhanced by private journals, and personal letters and 
aided by official government records and contemporary newspaper 
reports, it reveals the story of a region rich in historical content,
and is written to  honour those pioneering women, children and men who 
turned to this region for  their livelihoods and homes.


Jenny has an extensive collection of records in relation
to the Port Fairy -Tower Hill-Warrnambool region:


	The J.Williams Fawcett collection includes:
	~ Births,Deaths,Marriages,
	~ Burial Records and Instructions
	~ Newspaper Indexes [ongoing]
	~ Voters Lists
	~ Rate Books 
	~ Card Files [ongoing]
	*People * Places * Events
	*Businesses
	* Industry 

	~ Local Biographies 
	~ Local History 

Jenny's work includes the history of the Farnham Survey, Illowa,
Koroit, Killarney, Crossley, Kirstall, and the early settlements
of Dairy Town, Pleasant Creek, Barkly's farm etc. Many of the 
early places were known by their farm names, such as Fairy Hill,
Belfast,Bannuke,Banyule,etc. Jenny has documented the names of the 
early farms, as well as the emergence of the towns, and those residents 
therein.