Why can’t I find my ancestor?
When searching for family history records it’s not unusual to encounter ‘brick walls’ or barriers. Learn strategies for dealing with some of the common obstacles you may face when researching Victorian records.
Archive for August, 2018
Are you being served?
August 8, 2018
Step back in time to the old-fashioned servo, where consumer choice was de rigueur, and service was king.
Popular Posts
- Slums of Melbourne
- 550+ aerial photographs go online
- 8 women from Australia’s history you should know
- Using the Victorian Police Gazette to research your ancestors
- Melbourne’s lost department stores
- European labour stamps on Australian furniture
- The erasure of Melbourne’s wetlands
- Bendigo or Sandhurst? History through newspapers
- The great flood of 1891
- WWI posters from the Library’s collection
