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Archives and Libraries

Public Record Office Victoria
Public Record Office Victoria holds Victorian government records dating back to the mid-1830s. Their website includes some useful digitised records and online indexes to passenger lists, teachers, hospital patients and more:

• PROV's Digitised Records and Online Indexes

National Archives of Australia - Melbourne reading room
The National Archives houses Commonwealth government records such as military, immigration and naturalisation papers. Records date from Federation in 1901 although, for some government departments, earlier material dating back to the mid-1850s is held. Over 18 million records have been digitised and are searchable by selecting RecordSearch from their home page. Other material can be viewed in their State and Territory reading rooms.

State Library of Victoria
The State Library of Victoria website includes the following of interest to family historians:

• Australiana Index (biographical and Victorian local history newspaper articles)
• Genealogy Information Guides

Societies

Australian Institute of Genealogical Studies Inc.
The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc.
Dead Persons Society, Melbourne

Journals

The following journals are available in the Genealogy Centre on the 1st floor:
Ancestor: quarterly journal of the Genealogical Society of Victoria
Victorian historical journal / Royal Historical Society of Victoria (Online)
Victorian historical journal  / Royal Historical Society of Victoria

Other Resources

To find other material at the State Library try searching our online catalogue using the keywords victoria + genealogy.

Websites

 Use the SLWA Genealogy Tags page on the social bookmarking site, Delicious, to find websites for Victoria recommended by the Family History Subject Specialists. Simply click on any heading of interest e.g. victoria-immigration to see a list of websites relating to this topic.