Find My Past (FMP) is sometimes considered the "little cousin" to Ancestry and is among the Genealogy Giants in the Family History World. YPRL members have access to both resources in the form of the Library Editions, both of which provide access to world wide collections.
Visit the library to explore. Use one of our PCs or bring your own laptop and access via our wi-fi. Be sure to bring your names and dates and a research goal for your research session.
What can you find on Find My Past? Record collection examples include:
- Australian Births and Baptisms, 1792-1982
- Australian Marriages, 1916-1980
- Australian Deaths and Burials, 1916-1980
- Victoria Funeral Notices, 1981-1997
- Victoria Petty Session Registers
- Victoria Police Gazettes
- Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1879
- Names in Government Gazettes 1848-1900
- New Zealand Electoral Rolls 1853-1864
With over 900 million names, FMP has one of the most complete records of civil registration records for the United Kingdom. There are also records covering, New Zealand, Ireland and the United States.
View transcripts and original digitised collections. Download or print items of interest.
Please note you will not be able to start a tree or access a personal tree on the library account, nor can you access newspaper articles.
Historical Newspapers for the United Kingdom can be accessed via British Newspapers Archive and Gale Primary Sources.
Yarra Plenty Regional Library is a FamilySearch Affiliated library. Logging in to your free account in the library allows you access to additonal restricted records from all over the world including Victorian cemetery records.
Gather your family stories and explore family history resources today.
Check out these family history themed titles from our collection:
Labor: One Woman's Work by Mary Fariba Afsari, 2026 (eAudio)
How to research your Second World War ancestors by Simon Fowler, 2025
Telling her story: a guide to researching and writing about women of the past by Sharon DeBartolo Carmack, 2024