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Find your past, explore history and biography.

Some databases require a login with a username and/or password.
This is usually your library card number. Please contact library staff if you are having trouble accessing a database.

ancestry.com
Genealogy database with a huge collection of census data, shipping and migration records and much more. It is invaluable for family researchers. This service is only available in the library.
Find your nearest Moonee Valley library.
australian dictionary of biography
Contains over 10,000 detailed biographies of famous Australians.
gale biography in context
Contains 440,000 biographies of over 340,000 people. Search for a specific person or browse by occupation, gender, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death year and birth/death place. Includes over 2000 Australian biographies.

Australian edition.
  Search 50 million Australian and New Zealand family history records.  This service is only available in the library.  Find your nearest Moonee Valley branch.

UK edition.
  Search 750 million UK family history records.  This service is only available in the library. Find your nearest Moonee Valley branch.

Offers full-text searching of historic Australian newspapers published in each state and territory from the 1800s to the mid-1950s.
 

 


An online image database with historic and current photos. Search or add your own!

The Times Digital Archive
Complete digitised version of the famous London newspaper from 1785-1985. Every page of every issue is included, giving you insight into world events as they happened and were understood in their time.


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