Victorian Genealogy
Finding People and Places in Victoria, Australia.
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE VICTORIA - COURTS OF PETTY SESSIONS RECORDS HELD BY BALLARAT ARCHIVES CENTRE
Public Record Office Victoria has released many digitized courts of petty sessions records held by Ballarat Archives Centre. See Courts.
FINDMYPAST - VICTORIA BIRTHS 1836-1920
Births from 1918 to 1920 added.
https://search.findmypast.com.au/search-world-Records/victoria-births
NEW SOUTH WALES STATE ARCHIVES AND RECORDS - INTESTATE ESTATES INDEX 1821-1913 (NRS 13538)
Victorian intestate estates case papers are included with those of New South Wales from 1836 to 1841.
BALLARAT HISTORICAL SOCIETY - BALLARAT BENEVOLENT ASYLUM CONSOLIDATED REGISTERS 1860-1928
These have been transcribed and can be seen online. They include Register of Inmates 1860-1915 (missing 1912-1913), Registers of Inmates Lying-In Wards 1892-1922 (missing 1917-1920), Registers of Inmates Insane Hospital 1910-1928, Registers of Maternity Wards 1922 -1925 and Registers of Inmates Old Age Pensioners 1911-1921.
http://www.ballarathistoricalsociety.com/index.php/the-collection/bbsr
AUSTRALIAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY - AUSTRALIAN JEWISH MARRIAGE INDEX 1832-1940
These include the congregation where the marriage took place and full date of marriage.
https://www.ajhs.com.au/marriages-up-to-1940/
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE VICTORIA - NOTIFICATIONS OF PARDON OF EXILES (VPRS 89)
This series consists of notifications to the Governor of New South Wales, the Governor of Van Dieman's Land and the Superintendent of the Port Phillip District of prisoners under the sentence of transportation who were to be pardoned from their arrival in the colony on the condition that they were conveyed to and remained in the Port Phillip District for the duration of their original sentence. Details given are the name of the prisoner and the date and place of conviction. These records have been digitized.
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE VICTORIA - REGISTER OF CONVICTS 1842-1854 (VPRS 110)
The register has been digitized.
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE VICTORIA - REGISTER OF SPECIAL CASE FILES 1852-1977 (VPRS 5676)
This series was created to register the special case files (VPRS 892) created by the Education Department and its predecessors and to record the registration numbers of correspondence items placed on the files. At the front there is an index. The register has been digitized.
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE VICTORIA - INDEX TO SPECIAL CASE FILES 1862-1977 (VPRS 5675)
This series was created in about 1882 to index the Special Case Files (VPRS 892) created by the Education Department and its predecessors.The index has been digitized.
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE VICTORIA - NON-GOVERNMENT SCHOOL RECORDS 1906-1996 (VPRS 10300)
This is a finding aid for non-government schools, most of which are ones that have closed. The records are not online.
https://prov.vic.gov.au/explore-collection/explore-topic/education/non-government-school-records
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE VICTORIA - TEACHER RECORD BOOKS 1863-1959 (VPRS 13579 P1)
These are indexed through the catalogue at the Public Record Office Victoria website. A teacher ID number is required to access the teacher record books at Public Record Office Victoria or the Ancestry website (see below).
https://prov.vic.gov.au/explore-collection/explore-topic/education/teacher-records-1863-1959
ANCESTRY - VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA, SELECTED TRIAL BRIEF AND CORRESPONDENCE REGISTERS AND OTHER IMAGES, 1837-1993
These are provided by Public Record Office Victoria. These records are not indexed but can be browsed by description and range. They include:
Despite being labelled Eildon Teacher Record Books these are the teacher record books for Victoria from 1863 to 1959. To access them the teacher ID number from Public Record Office Victoria catalogue is required.
https://search.ancestry.com.au/search/db.aspx?dbid=60672
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE VICTORIA - PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT SUMMARY CONTRACT BOOKS 1856-1935 (VPRS 972)
Details included were: year, contract number, amount, locality, brief description of work, and name of contractor.
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE VICTORIA - BALLARAT AND BALLARAT EAST TOWN ALLOTMENT SURVEY PLANS (VPRS 4771 P2)
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE VICTORIA - EARLY COLONIAL ADMINISTRATION RECORDS
Public Record Office Victoria has released many digitized records of the Port Phillip District Government. See Governments.
OLD MELBOURNE CEMETERY PLAN 1873 - PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE VICTORIA (VPRS 9582 P3)
This has been digitised and is online at the Public Record Office Victoria; this cemetery is no longer extant.
GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF VICTORIA - MILESTONES AND GENEALOGICAL INDEX OF NAMES (GIN)
Many new cemetery records have been added to Milestones.
Also included is:
The Genealogical Index of Names now includes the following schools:
Also included are the following electoral and voter rolls:
https://www.gsv.org.au/article/our-collection
GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF VICTORIA - GENEALOGICAL INDEX OF NAMES (GIN) - PEOPLE IN "THE LIST OF NUGGETS FOUND IN VICTORIA"
Report published by the Department of Mines, Victoria, 1912. Series: Memoirs of the geological survey of Victoria no. 12.
https://www.gsv.org.au/article/our-collection
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE VICTORIA - RATE RECORDS HELD BY BALLARAT ARCHIVES CENTRE
Public Record Office Victoria has released many digitized rate records held by Ballarat Archives Centre. See Rate Records.
ANCESTRY - AUSTRALIA, ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE PERSONNEL FILES, 1921-1948 (A9300, A9301)
These records were provided by the National Archives of Australia. Each airman or airwoman has multiple pages of information relating to their service, and files may include casualty files, accident reports, and unit records.The files may be browsed and are searchable.
https://www.ancestry.com.au/search/collections/61989/
GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF VICTORIA - MILESTONES AND GENEALOGICAL INDEX OF NAMES (GIN)
Many new cemetery records as well as the Ballarat Crematorium Register 1956-1987 have been added to Milestones.
Also included is:
The Genealogical Index of Names now includes the following schools:
https://www.gsv.org.au/article/our-collection
FINDMYPAST - LONDON GAZETTES 1665-2018
https://search.findmypast.com.au/search-world-Records/london-gazette-1665-2018
GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF VICTORIA GENEALOGICAL INDEX OF NAMES - MINERS IN THE BOOK "MEMORIES OF STANLEY MORNING"
List of names of many of the miners who worked on the Stanley and Hurdle Flat goldfields between the period of late 1855 to 1868. The names were extracted from the Mining Claims registers, held at the Archives of the Burke Museum, Beechworth.
https://www.gsv.org.au/article/our-collection
ANCESTRY - VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA, BATTLE TO FARM, 1919-1935
Soldier settlements were land settlement schemes where soldiers who had returned from World War 1 were able to lease or buy land. They are searchable.
https://www.ancestry.com.au/search/collections/61864/
ANCESTRY - AUSTRALIA, VICTORIA, DIVORCE RECORDS 1860-1940 (VPRS 283 AND 552)
Divorce records sourced from Public Record Office Victoria.
https://www.ancestry.com.au/search/collections/61565/
ANCESTRY - VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA, CORONER INQUEST DEPOSITION FILES, 1840-1925
Inquest Deposition Files created by the Coroners Court of Victoria. The original records are located in Public Record Office Victoria.
https://www.ancestry.com.au/search/collections/61863/
FAMILYSEARCH - CONVICT TICKETS OF LEAVE 1824-1874
https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/3499251
NEW SOUTH WALES STATE RECORDS - CREW AND PASSENGERS INDEX 1828-1841 (NRS 905)
This index was developed from Joan Reese's NSW Colonial Secretary's In Letters Index 1826-1895. It is not a complete list of crew.
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