Below is a list of digitising projects we are working on at the moment. Our catalogue ‘Access the Collection’ has more information on the records and any images that we have published to date.

VPRS 515 Central Register of Male Prisoners(1850 – 1948) Underway. Images from completed volumes are listed under the Central Register of Male Prisoners entry in our online catalogue.Detailed information and photographs of ‘clients’ of the prison system, 100 volumes. Records created within the last 75 years are closed to protect personal privacy.

VPRS 19 Inward Registered Correspondence, Superintendent Port Phillip District (1839 – 1851) Underway, expect completion in 2012.Partnership with the C J La Trobe Society supported by a grant from the R E Ross Trust. Records are inward registered correspondence to La Trobe in his role as the Superintendent of Port Phillip District.

VPRS 8168 Historic Plan Collection(1802 – 1963) Underway. Completed categories can be browsed through the Historic Plans Collection entry in our online catalogue. Approximately 9,000 plans are arranged in categories and will be published progressively.

VPRS 3654 Registers of Vaccination, Registrar General (1857 – 1932) Underway, expect completion early 2012. 71 volumes that show names of children and their parents and where and when the children were vaccinated.

VPRS 9553/P1 Rate Records, Box Hill City Council (1863-1994) Underway, expect completion early 2012. A partnership with the Box Hill Historical Society to digitise records made between 1937 and 1947 that are not available on microfilm.

VPRS 3457/P0 Photographs, Borough of Stawell (1909-c1970) Underway, expect completion mid 2012. Images of Stawell and district transferred from Borough of Stawell records.

VPRS 519/P0 Prisoners Sentenced to Hard Labour, Superintendent Port Phillip District (1847-1853) Underway, expect completion mid 2012. A very early register listing prisoners, sentences and conditions.

VPRS 1/P0 Outward Letter Books, Police Magistrate (1836-1840) Underway, expect completion mid 2012. Copies of the letters of William Lonsdale, first Police Magistrate in the Port Phillip District.

VPRS 4/P0 Inward Registered Correspondence, Police Magistrate (1836-1839) Underway, expect completion mid 2012. The corresponding letters to Lonsdale.

VPRS 5/P0 Outward Registered Correspondence to Surveyor General, (1836-1848) Underway, expect completion mid 2012. Correspondence from the Sureveyor-General’s Department in Melbourne to the Surveyor-General in Sydney, from before the formation of Victoria as a separate colony.

VPRS 20/P0 Inward Confidential Correspondence, Superintendent Port Phillip District (1842-1843) Underway, expect completion mid 2012. Confidential correspondence primarily had to do with the sale of Crown lands and the appointment of a resident judge for the District.

VPRS 24/P0 Inquests, Supreme Court of Victoria (1840-1925) Volunteers for FamilySearch digitised our collection of pre-1925 inquest records.  We anticipate that we will begin publishing these through our catalogue in the second half of 2012.

VPRS 95/P0 Inward Correspondence, Commissioner of Crown Lands Westernport (1841-1856) Underway, expect completion mid 2012. This correspondence covers the granting and settling of Crown lands around the new colony.

VPRS 117/P0 Outwards Letter Books, Immigration Branch (1849-1851) Underway, expect completion mid 2012. These letters cover the arrival and settling of early immigrants to the colony.

VPRS 4771/P0 Ballarat and Ballarat East Town Allotment Survey Plans, Department of Crown Lands and Survey, Ballarat Division (1858-1938) Underway, expect completion end 2012. Nearly 400 plans showing the early layout and inhabitants of Ballarat.

VPRS 5517/P0 Duplicate Returns and Requisitions, Police Magistrate (1841-1856) Underway, expect completion mid 2012. Details of the daily operations of the Police Magistrate and his staff.

VPRS 5519/P0 Day Book of the Native Police Corps, Narre Warren, Police Magistrate (1845-1853) Underway, expect completion mid 2012. Records the troop movements, provisions, and daily activities of Native Police stationed at the Depot.