Family History & Newspaper Room temporary closure
Find out which resources will be available while the Family History and Newspaper Reading Room is closed from Friday 24 August to Thursday 20 September.
Family matters
Bookings open for online family history course
Family history events, Family matters, Training:
Interested in researching your Victorian family history? Why not try our online family history course Branching out.
Branching out introduces the basic principles of family history research, and looks at the key resources available for researching Victorian family history.
Index to Victorian births, deaths and marriages updated
Family matters, Research tips & tricks, Websites:
We have some great news for family historians.
The Index to Victorian births, deaths and marriages has been updated and you can now search for marriages up to 1950! That’s 8 years of additional marriages!
I know their name, so why can’t I find them?
At some stage most people will come up against a barrier or dead end when undertaking family history research. But rather than giving up and moving on to a different… Read More ›
Digital Panopticon: Tracing London convicts in Britain and Australia, 1780-1925
Exiting news for those of us who have an interest in researching British convicts transported to Australia. The free website, Digital Panopticon, launched recently in the UK, allows searches of… Read More ›
Upcoming family history expos
Staff from the Family History team are delighted to be representing the State Library at two upcoming genealogy expos in Deniliquin and Colac.
New online family history course
Family history events, Family matters:
Interested in researching your Victorian family history? Why not try the Library’s new online family history course Branching out.
Family history as history
Welcome to our guest blogger – Walter Struve from the Information Services team. At what point do we see family histories as part of broader histories, both national and trans-national,… Read More ›
What’s new on Ancestry and Findmypast?
Family Historians will be delighted to hear that Ancestry Library Edition and Findmypast Australasia have recently added some important Victorian collections to their websites. Here are just a few of… Read More ›
Good morning boys and girls: a guide to finding teacher records at PROV
Events, Family History Feast 2016, Family matters:
Good morning boys and girls! This phrase is so familiar and reminiscent of our school years and it is an excellent beginning title for a talk about Victorian teacher records.… Read More ›
