Find your ancestors who migrated to Victoria
Our new online guide to Victorian migration records is now available. Many family historians ask the question “When did my ancestors arrive in Victoria?” This new guide is designed to help you find the...
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A new research guide, Tracing a person in Australia can help you find your relatives. The guide is the latest in a growing collection of family history guides published by the State Library that...
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A soldier in the family?
The State Library can help you can find out about your ancestor who served in World War 1. Over 330,000 Australians served overseas in the Great War and their personnel files and other records give a...
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Finding early Australian census records
A common lament among genealogists is that ‘no Australian census records have survived’. Well, I’m happy to report that the death of our historic census records has been exaggerated! While frustrating...
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Finding your ancestors…talk at AIGS Blackburn Sunday 29 May 2011
Newspapers, manuscripts, pictures, maps and so much more… Find out about the diversity of State Library of Victoria collections that can be used for family history research at a talk I am giving on...
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Save your census!
Historic census records include a bounty of genealogical details which bring family histories to life. Census records can illuminate where people lived and who they lived with, what kind of work they...
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When Briseis won the Cup…
and who was his jockey known as Peter St Albans? Briseis, Melbourne, Hugh George for Wilson and Mackinnon, 25 November 1876, wood engraving A/S25/11/76/136 Briseis is regarded as one of the...
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A ship and its voyage
So you’ve trailed through immigration indexes and passenger lists and found your ancestor arriving into Australia. You may have discovered their age, their occupation, their nationality and possibly...
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Inventive ancestors
Do you have an inventor in your family tree? If so, they may have registered a Victorian or Australian patent for their ‘bright idea’. There are two major online sources, both freely available, for...
View ArticleForgotten Australians and former child migrants
Tomorrow marks the third anniversary of the National apology to Forgotten Australians and former child migrants. ‘Forgotten Australians’ is a term the Australian Senate has used to describe children...
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Using the State Library of Victoria From Afar!
I am very pleased to welcome Shauna Hicks as our guest blogger. Shauna has been tracing her own family history since 1977 and worked in government for over 35 years primarily in libraries and archives...
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Did your ancestor work for the Government?
Many of us have forebears who worked for the Victorian Government in some capacity. This may not always be obvious though, as records like electoral rolls, directories and birth, death and marriage...
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Researching your military ancestors
In the lead-up to the centenary of the start of the First World War, there has been a proliferation of commemoration plans and projects including online record releases, digitising projects, new books,...
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