Useful Links
Source for some of these links:
Practical Genealogy.com au
- Australian Honours Database
- National Archives Australia Collection Search
- Picture Australia (National Library of Australia)
- Public Records Office of Victoria – Online Indexes
- Re-Member (Database and Biographies of former Members of the Victorian Parliament)
- State Library of Victoria – Family History Page
- Victorian Heritage Database
- Victorian Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages
- TROVE (Newspaper Archive National Library of Australia)
Link Pages
Online Indexes useful in Victoria
- Australian Medical Pioneers Index (AMPI)
- 1891 Womens Suffrage Petition
- Aboriginal Biographical Index
- AFL Players (Alltime) – Name Search – (afl.com)
- Australian Dictionary of Biography (ANU)
- Australian Honours Database
- Cricinfo’s Player Database (Including Victorian State Cricketers)
- Divorce Index. Victoria (1861-1900) – Free – Macbeth Genealogical Services
- HAT-History of Australian Theatre (includes Biographies)
- National Archives Australia Collection Search
- Re-Member (Database and Biographies of former Members of the Victorian Parliament)
- Ryerson Index (Index to death notices appearing in Australian newspapers)
- The Argus Index 1870-1879 (NLA)
- The Australian Womens Register
- The BD_BD – Jewish burials related to Australia – Australian Jewish Historical Society
- Victoria Telephone Directory 1939
- Victoria Telephone Directory 1944
- Victorian Government Gazette
- Victorian Heritage Database
- Victorian Mining Accident Index (Partial) – (B&DGS)
- AustralianCemeteries.com – Victoria
- Carol’s Headstone Photographs
- Australasian Genealogy Web (Active in 1990′s) – A few Indexes in Occupational area
- Obituaries Australia (National Centre of Biography at ANU)
- Victorian Public Service Board Return for 1884 – David and Barbara Kolle
- Helen Doxford Harris. (Note: Police & Women Indexes)
- Convicts to Australia (Some Convicts did come directly to Victoria)
- 1857 Colonial Directory – Victoria, Sydney and New Zealand (FamilyTreeOz) – Melbourne, Geelong – free Registtration Required
- Victorian Police and Business Directories at Findmypast.com.au (index only, view detail requires subscription)
- Guild of One Name Studies (International site – but for people after a single surname)
- Cornish Association of Victoria
Shipping and Immigration
- The Ships List
- Shipping Indexes 1839 – 1923 (PROV)
- Index to Unassisted Inward Passenger Lists to Victoria 1852-1923 (PROV)
- Index to Assisted British Immigration 1839-1871 (PROV)
- Index to Outward Passengers to Interstate, U.K. and Foreign Ports, 1852-1908 (PROV)
- Assisted Immigrants arriving in Sydney, Newcastle, Moreton Bay and Port Phillip (NSW State Records) pre 1853
- National Archives of Australia (Post 1923 Immigration)
Lists of Towns and Town Names
- Victorian Towns and Localities Home Page
- Victorian Place Names Abbreviations (Carolyn Harris)
- Victorian Place Name Abbreviations at australiagenweb.org (Sally Routledge)
- List of localities in Victoria (Australia) page on Wikipedia
- Dictionary of Aboriginal Placenames of Victoria
Regional Resources
Greater Melbourne
- The Genealogical Society of Victoria
- Victorian GUM Inc (An association of family history researchers using computers)
- Yarra Plenty Library Local History Blog
- Narre Warren & District Family History Group
- Dromana and District Historical Society
- Dead Persons Society Melbourne
- Mornington Peninsula Family History Society
- Sunbury Family History Society
- Collingwood Historical Society
- Keilor Indexes (Angela Evans)
- Deaths In The Melbourne Hospital, 1867 – 1880. (Terry Foenander)
- Richmond & Burnley Historical Society
- Port Melbourne Historical and Preservation Society
- Lilydale & District Historical Society
- The Greater Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust (Official Site)
- Southern Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust (Official Site)
- Monash Public Library Service Local History Portal (Local indexes around )
- The Empire Called and I Answered – the Volunteers of Essendon and Flemington (Lenore Frost)
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