Are you researching your family history?

A range of Victorian resources are available including births, death and marriage records. Please phone 8325 1950 for bookings.

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

Detailed Local History Holdings List: Fiche and CD-Rom (pdf, 133KB) 

Find My Past: Australia & UK editions.
Search millions of family history records including Birth, Death and Marriage records, census data, migration and immigration records, and parish records (and much more).  Access is available within the library only; contact any of our library branches to book a computer.

Ancestry
The Ancestry database has major genealogical resources from the UK, Europe and the USA. To access Ancestry, book some computer time at any of our libraries; we do not have remote access from home for this database.

Other helpful links:

• Adoptive Families Association of Victoria
• Australian Cemeteries
• Australian Institute of Genealogical Studies
• Australian War Memorial
• Census of Ireland, Dublin 1911
• Essendon Historical Society
• Genealogical Society of Victoria
• Family Search
• The Immigration Museum
• Geni - Chart your Family Tree Online
• Living Museum of the West
• National Archives of Australia
• National Archives of Ireland
• Public Record Office Victoria
• Royal Historical Society of Victoria
• RootsWeb.com
• The Ryerson Index
• State Library of Victoria - Genealogy