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Genealogical Society of Victoria (GSV)

Level B1, 257 Collins St, Melbourne, 3000
Telephone: 9662 4455
Fax: 9670 4490
Email: gsv@gsv.org.au
Journal: Ancestor

Collection includes birth, death and marriage indexes and parish registers, passenger lists, census records, cemetery records, probate indexes, occupations, family histories, local histories, the International Genealogical Index (IGI) and much more.

Australian Institute of Genealogical Studies (AIGS)

1/41 Railway Road, Blackburn, 3130
Telephone: 9877 3789
Fax: 9877 9066
Home Page: http://www.aigs.org.au
Email: info@aigs.org.au
Journal: The Genealogist

Collection includes cemetery record; birth, death and marriage records for all Australian states and NZ; index to English and Welsh birth, death and marriage records; Victorian directories; IGI; Victorian land records; shipping records; probate index; census records and journals.

Royal Historical Society of Victoria (RHSV)

239 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne, 3000
Telephone: 9326 9288
Fax: 9326 9477
Home Page: http://historyvictoria.com.au
Email: office@historyvictoria.org.au
Journal: History News
Victorian Historical Journal

The RHSV collection,founded in 1909, is one of the oldest and most important historical collections in the state. All the material has been donated, with contributions coming from early settlers and their descendants, from professional and amateur historians, and from many other writers. The collection is thus of a diverse nature and includes social, economic, political, legal and cultural aspects of Victoria's history.

Public Record Office Victoria

Addresses:

PO Box 2100
North Melbourne 3051
Tel: 93485600
Fax: 92857953

Ballarat Archives
Level 1, State Public Offices
Cnr. Doveton & Mair Streets, Ballarat, 3350
Telephone: 03 5333 6611 Toll Free 1800 657 452

Holds records created by government departments and authorities, the State's courts, municipalities, schools, public hospitals and other public offices. Records date from settlement in the mid 1830s and include information relating to areas of activity managed or regulated by government such as health, education, justice, natural resources, environment, transport and the arts.

State Library of Victoria (SLV)

328 Swanston Street (cnr. La Trobe Street)
Melbourne, 3000
Telephone: 8664 7000

The Genealogy Centre of the State Library of Victoria houses records for Australian and overseas research and is the starting point for family history research; it will be necessary to visit other parts of the Library such as the Main Library, Map Collection, Newspaper Collection and the La Trobe Library during the course of research. Types of records held include indexes to Civil Registration for Australia, NZ and England and Wales; post office directories; electoral rolls; indexes to cemetery headstones and registers; convict records; census indexes; Tithe Applotments and Griffith's Valuations.

Family History Centres (run by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints)

285 Heidelberg Road, Northcote, 3070
Telephone: 9482 6906

Cnr. Cathies Lane & Pumps Road, Wantirna, 3152
Telephone: 9887 3786

Huge collection of microforms and other records due to their ongoing program of microfilming original documents in churches, courthouses and archives in many countries. Currently, their most popular research tool is FamilySearch, which is available on CDROM and on the Internet
This particular tool provides access to the International Genealogical Index (IGI), Ancestral File, Scottish Church Records, Family History Library Catalog, Social Security Death Index and the Military Index.

Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages

589 Collins Street, Melbourne, 3000
Telephone: 1300 369 367
Fax: 9603 5880
Email: vicbdm@justice.vic.gov.au