State Library Victoria in Melbourne, Australia has many helpful online collections for family history and genealogy.
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Australia Family History Research Guides
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Australia Digital Image Pool 200,000 historical images of Victoria’s history, all out of copyright or available to use
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Australian History
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Melbourne Street Directories 1912-1952
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Port Phillip papers, Early European settlement records and journals including life among Aboriginal people
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State Library Victoria Full Image Collection
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Australiana Index “The Australiana Index has been compiled by Library staff over a number of years. It contains references to published material, such as newspapers, journals and books, as well as references to in-house files of various types. It contains references to material about people, organisations, places and things.”
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Manuscripts, letters & diaries collection
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Map collection
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Mufti “The official journal of the RSL Victorian Branch from 1934 to 2000. Includes accounts of battles, feature articles, honour rolls, commentary on political news and obituaries of members.”
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, the official publication of the Royal Society of Victoria with historical topics since 1854
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Victorian Historical Journal (1911-2012) Digitized copies of this historical journal with photos, maps, obituaries, and more
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World War I unit histories, “descriptions of battles, unit movements and operations…diary extracts and letters of servicemen”
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The State Library Victoria and all branches have on-site access to many research databases including Ancestry Library Edition, Discovery (National Archives UK), Family history and biography CD Roms and websites, FindMyPast, FindMyPast Ireland, ProQuest, and JSTOR.
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