Local and Family History

The Local and Family History collection at Sam Merrifield Library contains valuable resources in book, fiche/film, photograph and CD-ROM format to help you with your research.
Contact the library on 8325 1950 to book a PC or fiche reader.

Start your research with some of these online resources:

• Local and Family History: Start here @ your library (pdf, 834KB)

Local History Resources 

• Detailed Local History Holdings List: Fiche and CD-Rom (pdf, 133KB)
• Search the Local History database to find newspaper articles, maps and archived material.
• View some historic photographs in our Local History collection on Flickr.
  
• What House is That? A Guide to Victoria's Housing Styles by Heritage Victoria.
• A walking guide to Flemington. This brochure highlights key heritage features of Flemington, including Newmarket and Travancore.

Family History (Genealogy) Resources

• Search millions of family history records with Find My Past: Australia and Find My Past: UK. Records include Birth, Death and Marriage records, census data, migration and immigration records, and parish records.
• The Ancestry database has major genealogical resources from the UK, Europe and the USA.

Access to Find my Past and Ancestry is only available within the library; contact any of our library branches to book a PC.

• Australian Historical Newspapers (Beta Service). A list of the titles and date ranges scanned is available from the Selected Newspapers page.

For more online resources, news of upcoming events and recent acquisitions, visit our Moonee Valley Family and Local History Blog.