Here you'll find our most popular research topic guides and their related records. Underneath each topic is a drop down menu for specific record collections, in most cases you can search the collection directly on these pages.
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Most Popular Topics
Family history
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- Aboriginal Victorians (1830s – 1970s)
- Researching your house
- Researching land and property
- Passenger records and immigration
- Inquests and other coronial records
- Cemeteries
- Health and welfare
- Education
- Census records
- Justice, crime and law
- Wills and probates
- Divorce files and cause books
- Looking for historical records of births, deaths and marriages?
- Inquests into deaths (deposition files 1840-1985)
- Register of Male and Female Prisoners (1855-1948)
- Aboriginal Victorians (1830s – 1970s)
Researching land and property
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- Researching your house
- Historic plan collection (1836-1984)
- Parish and township plans
- Public building files and plans
- Public Works Department plans
- Planning schemes 1946-2007
- World War I Soldier Settlement Scheme
- Pastoral runs
- Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works plans (1891-1970)
- World War II Soldier Settlement and Land Settlement Scheme
- City of Melbourne early building records (1850-1915)
- City of Melbourne building plans and permits (1916-1960)
- Rate records
- Valuation registers (1930-1979)
- Non-government school building records
- Melbourne Harbour Trust Photographs 1870s-1983
- Government Building Photos 1926 to 1965
- Researching your house
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Aboriginal Victorians (1830s – 1970s)
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- Koorie index of names (1839-1946)
- Board for the Protection of Aborigines correspondence
- Superintendent correspondence, Aboriginal affairs
- Native Police Corps, Narre Warren
- Chief Protector of Aborigines records (1839-1851)
- Aboriginal Victorians family history
- Aboriginal mission stations and reserves
- DRAFT Aboriginal Protectorate and Guardian of Aborigines records
- Aboriginal Protectorate and Guardian of Aborigines records
- Koorie index of names (1839-1946)
City of Melbourne
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- Electoral and voter rolls
- Town Clerk’s subject index to correspondence (1840-1997)
- City of Melbourne early building records (1850-1915)
- City of Melbourne building plans and permits (1916-1960)
- Council minutes and correspondence
- Melbourne 1956 Olympics
- Rate records
- Alphabetical record of burials – Old Melbourne Cemetery (1866-1917)
- Electoral and voter rolls
Education
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- School photographs (1890-1993)
- Government school building and property records
- Non-Government School Records
- Government school and pupil records
- Teacher records (1863-1959)
- Non-government school building records
- Non-government school teacher records
- School Records after 1873
- School Records (1839-1873)
- Government Building Photos 1926 to 1965
- Publication Branch Photographs, Dept Education
- Apprenticeship records
- School photographs (1890-1993)
Ned Kelly historical collection
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- Kelly Historical Collection Part 1: Police Branch
- Kelly Historical Collection Part 2: Crown Law Department
- Kelly Historical Collection Part 3: Chief Secretary’s Department
- Kelly Historical Collection Part 5: Miscellaneous records (1869-1881)
- Kelly Historical Collection Part 4: Reward Board (1879-1881)
- Kelly: Minutes of Exec. Council & Capital Case File
- Kelly records not in the Kelly Historical Collection
- Kelly Historical Collection Part 1: Police Branch
