Victorian Genealogy
Finding People and Places in Victoria, Australia.
Also see Gazetteers.
Also see Directories and Handbooks.
Also see Plans.
Also see Land Records.
The National Library of Australia and the State Library of Victoria have map collections; many of these have been digitized and may be seen online. Local libraries also hold maps. See Libraries.
TROVE - IMAGES, MAPS AND ARTEFACTS
This includes
To find these using keywords: use the pulldown menu to do a specific search for "Images, Maps and Artefacts".
NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA - MAP COLLECTION
The map collection includes over 800,000 maps, from early European charts to current mapping of Australia, in print and digital form. All online maps are freely available for download, in high resolution.
https://www.nla.gov.au/what-we-collect/maps
STATE LIBRARY OF VICTORIA - MAP COLLECTION
Australian maps, especially those covering Victoria, are the main focus of this collection, though the Library also has many maps from overseas. As well as over 110,000 maps the collection includes geographical and cartographic reference books and atlases. Over 25,000 maps and plans have been digitised and made available online through the catalogue including the majority of their historical Victorian county and parish maps, MMBW, auction and fire insurance plans.
http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/search-discover/explore-collections-format/maps
STATE LIBRARY OF VICTORIA - MAPS FOR FAMILY HISTORY
https://guides.slv.vic.gov.au/mapsforfamilyhistory
STATE LIBRARY OF VICTORIA - MAPS FOR LOCAL HISTORY
https://guides.slv.vic.gov.au/mapsforlocalhistory
STATE LIBRARY OF VICTORIA - MAP OF VICTORIA SHOWING PARISHES
This has been digitized.
https://viewer.slv.vic.gov.au/?entity=IE9535218&mode=browse
STATE LIBRARY OF VICTORIA - ISOMETRICAL PLAN OF MELBOURNE AND SUBURBS 1866
This map shows a point-in-time (1866) layout of Melbourne streets, the Yarra, Port Phillip Bay in the distance, and parts of Collingwood and East Melbourne. A closer examination reveals some of the fledgling city's most important social, economic and civic locations and buildings, as well as parks and reserves, many of which remain today.
UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE, UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, MAP COLLECTIONS
http://hdl.handle.net/11343/298064
UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE - ARROWSMITH'S AUSTRALIAN MAPS
John Arrowsmith produced the largest scale maps, constructed mostly from official government sources, of the British colonies during the early to mid nineteenth century period.
http://www.asmp.esrc.unimelb.edu.au/
VICTORIAN STATE GOVERNMENT, DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE ACTION - MAPS, DATA AND MORE
Maps, spatial data and web services provided by the Victorian Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action and other Victorian Government departments. Included is their premium web mapping application MapShareVic.
https://www.deeca.vic.gov.au/maps/home
OLD MAPS ONLINE
This is a gateway to historical maps in libraries around the world.
https://www.oldmapsonline.org/
BENDIGO REGIONAL ARCHIVES CENTRE - CITY OF SANDHURST-BENDIGO MAPS PLANS INDEX
https://www.brac.vic.gov.au/_files/ugd/cdba08_92d246b15cba4ea9b099a5f5dfa32f51.pdf
UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE - GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF VICTORIA GEOLOGICAL QUARTER SHEETS
https://digitised-collections.unimelb.edu.au/handle/11343/23981
GEOVIC - EARTH RESOURCES
GeoVic is a free online mapping application that enables you to build your own earth resource related maps, perform searches and access data, using a huge range of data sources.
https://earthresources.vic.gov.au/geology-exploration/maps-reports-data/geovic
GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA - MAPS OF AUSTRALIA
https://www.ga.gov.au/data-pubs/maps
VICTORIAN RAILWAYS RESOURCES
This website contains information about the history of the Victorian Railways, the state railways of Victoria, Australia. The focus is on the infrastructure of the railways, with a particular emphasis on signalling. This website includes detailed histories of individual stations and Victorian railway maps.
WIKIPEDIA - MAP OF VICTORIAN ABORIGINAL LANGUAGE TERRITORIES
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aboriginal_Victorians
NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA - MAP SHOWING APPROXIMATELY SOME OF THE AREAS OCCUPIED BY THE ABORIGINAL TRIBES OF VICTORIA COMPILED BY R. BROUGH SMYTH
https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-231570037/view
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE VICTORIA - MAP OF VICTORIAN ABORIGINAL MISSION STATIONS RESERVES AND SETTLEMENTS
This is not currently operational.
https://prov.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/files/In%20The%20Community/Mission%20Map.jpg
AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING COMMISSION AND FIRST LANGUAGES AUSTRALIA - GAMBAY: A MAP OF AUSTRALIA'S FIRST LANGUAGES
https://www.abc.net.au/indigenous/gambay-languages-map
AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER STUDIES - MAP OF INDIGNEOUS AUSTRALIA
This map attempts to represent the language, social or nation groups of Aboriginal Australia. It shows only the general locations of larger groupings of people which may include clans, dialects or individual languages in a group. It used published resources from the eighteenth century to 1994 and is not intended to be exact, nor the boundaries fixed. It is not suitable for native title or other land claims.
https://aiatsis.gov.au/explore/map-indigenous-australia
NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA - MAP SHOWING THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE ABORIGINAL TRIBES OF AUSTRALIA BY NORMAN B. TINDALE
https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-230054338/view
VICTORIAN COLLECTIONS - MASSACRE MAP
This map shows the locations of known killings of Aborigines by Europeans for the 18 years between 1836 and 1853.The deaths of several thousand people are represented. Many thousands more died beyond prying eyes. This map was compiled for the Koorie Heritage Trust’s publication ‘Koorie’ in 1991.
https://victoriancollections.net.au/stories/indigenous-stories-about-war-and-invasion
UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE - COLONIAL FRONTIER MASSACRES IN AUSTRALIA, 1788-1930
This website has the following aims:
https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/
VICNAMES - THE REGISTER OF GEOGRAPHIC NAMES
This allows you to search all registered and recorded place names in Victoria; it holds approximately 200,000 road names and approximately 45,000 place names.
https://maps.land.vic.gov.au/lassi/VicnamesUI.jsp
GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA - PLACE NAME SEARCH
The Gazetteer provides information on the location and spelling of more than 370,000 geographical names across Australia and its external Territories as at January 2012. The supply of data is coordinated by the Intergovernmental Committee on Surveying and Mapping and is derived from State, Territory and Commonwealth Government agencies.
http://www.ga.gov.au/placename
FAMILYSEARCH - PLACE SEARCH
This provides various locations for a given name as well as alternate names. It provides the exact location, historical information and research links.
https://www.familysearch.org/research/places/
THE GETTY RESEARCH INSTITUTE - GETTY THESAURUS OF GEOGRAPHIC NAMES ONLINE
http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/tgn/index.html
Victorian Birth, Death and Marriage Indexes have place name abbreviations which may be difficult to correctly interpret.
Adding to the difficulty there were many place name changes over the years.
STEVE PARKER - VICTORIAN BDM PLACE NAME ABBREVIATIONS LIST
https://bdmabbreviations.steveparker.id.au/
INTERNET ARCHIVE WAYBACK MACHINE, VICTORIAN PLACE NAME ABBREVIATIONS AND ALTERNATIVE NAMES - A GENEALOGY RESEARCH AID
This was provided by Kathleen M Fanning. This screenshot is dated 16 May 2022.
TALL TREES FAMILY HISTORY - VICTORIAN PLACE NAME ABBREVIATIONS
http://myweb.westnet.com.au/talltrees/services4.html
SUSIE ZADES - PLACE NAMES IN VICTORIAN BDM INDEXES
http://zades.com.au/gandd/index.php/thisthat/vicbdmind
WIKIPEDIA
Places may be found on Wikipedia.
VICTORIAN PLACES
This includes 1600 destinations throughout Victoria, Australia. It looks at the history of every town, city, suburb, village and settlement with a population of over 200 people.
https://www.victorianplaces.com.au/
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