Research Societies and Libraries
Access local history information beyond YPRL's great resources.
Royal Historical Society of Victoria
239 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne, 3000
Phone: 9326 9288 | Fax: 9326 9477 | Email: office@historyvictoria.org.au
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. Journal publications: History News, Victorian Historical Journal
State Library of Victoria
328 Swanston Street (cnr. La Trobe Street)
Melbourne, 3000
Phone: 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
Public Record Office Victoria
Mailing Address:
PO Box 2100
North Melbourne 3051
Phone: 93485600 | Fax: 92857953 | Email: ask.prov@dpc.vic.gov.au
Physical Locations:
Victorian Archives Centre
99 Shiel Street
North Melbourne 3051
Ballarat Archives
Level 1, State Public Offices
Cnr. Doveton & Mair Streets, Ballarat, 3350
Telephone: 03 5333 6611 | Toll Free 1800 657 452
Collections 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.
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