Here you'll find our most popular research topics and their related records. Underneath each topic is a drop down menu for specific record collections, in most cases you can search directly on those pages. This is our new website. Please help us improve it by sending your feedback to feedback@prov.vic.gov.au
Most Popular Topics
Family history
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- 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
- Births, deaths and marriages
- Inquests into deaths (deposition files 1840-1985)
- Register of Male and Female Prisoners (1855-1947)
- Aboriginal mission stations and reserves
Researching land and property
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- Researching your house
- Historic plans collection
- Parish and township plans
- Public building plans and files
- Public Works Department plans
- Planning schemes 1946-2007
- Soldier Settlement Scheme
- Pastoral runs
- Melbourne Metropolitan Board of Works plans 1889-1970
- Public Works Department plans microfilm
- City of Melbourne early building records (1850-1915)
- City of Melbourne building plans and permits (1916-1960)
- Rate records
- Valuation registers
- Non-government school building records
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Other Topics A-Z
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
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
- Apprenticeship records
Ned Kelly historical collection
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- Kelly Historical Collection Pt 1 - Police Branch
- Kelly Historical Collection Pt 2 - Crown Law Department
- Kelly Historical Collection Pt 3: Chief Secretary’s Dept.
- Kelly Collection Pt 5 - Miscellaneous records (1869-1881)
- Kelly Historical Collection pt 4: Reward Board (1879-1881)
- Kelly: Minutes of Exec. Council & Capital Case File
- Other Kelly records of note
