This document summarizes a presentation given to the East Gippsland Family History Group about resources available for family history research at the State Library of Victoria. It outlines unique materials only available onsite, including rare books, manuscripts, photographs, maps, and newspapers not digitized. It provides examples of specific rare books, diaries, photographs, and maps held in the collection. It also describes family history books and resources, as well as databases and finding aids only available at the physical library.
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Family History Research at the State Library of Victoria
1. 23 October 2015
Family History Resources at the State Library of Victoria
Tim Hogan
Presentation for East Gippsland Family History Group.
Bairnsdale, Victoria, Australia.
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Overview
Making the most of your visit to the State Library
Unique and rare material
Onsite only resources
Examples
A presentation made at the Bridging Generations, History Week Lecture
series, for the East Gippsland Family History Group, Bairnsdale,
Victoria, Australia.
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Making the most of your visit
Identify unique or rare resources ahead of your visit
Use library catalogue, and website, Ask a Librarian service:
www.slv.vic.gov.au/ask-librarian
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Unique and Rare Material at
the State Library of Victoria
Part I
Rare books, pamphlets, journals
Newspapers – microfilm and printed
copies
Manuscripts – diaries, letters, non-
government organisational records
Pictures - pictures not digitised
Maps - Maps not digitised
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Rare books, State Library of Victoria
Published 1921.
Recollections of life
in 19th century
Gippsland.
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Diaries & Family Histories,
Alfred Charles Broome,
MS 10774
Australian Manuscripts Collection
State Library of Victoria.
Alfred Broome, Diary entries,
March-April 1896
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Unique and Rare Material at
the State Library of Victoria
Part II
Family History (Genealogy) Books
Collection
Onsite Databases
Card Indexes and other Finding Aids
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Onsite Library Databases – Search and Discover – Explore Free Databases –
Databases, Journals and Ebooks – Family History and Biography – More eresources
on this subject – CD ROMs Available in the Library (State Library of Victoria)
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Index cards for Melbourne
Herald newspaper. 1929-1970.
Family History and Newspaper
Room, State Library of Victoria
25. 23 October 2015
This slide show at: slideshare.net and
librarytreasures.weebly.com
Family history databases
Hard copy or microfilm newspapers and card indexes
Wide range of Family history books, obscure titles etc.
Victorian Manuscripts and Pictures not yet digitised
Australian and international rare books, pamphlets, journals
Conclusion
Stuff only at the Library
Thank You
Tim Hogan - State Library of Victoria
Editor's Notes
Fiction, inspired by the White Woman of Gippsland?
Bark House Days. Published 1921. Mary Fullerton grew up around Glenmaggie, near Maffra.
Historical Maps and Plans Collection. Set of microfiche contains the earliest maps available for many areas of Victoria. It covers the first 60 years of European settlement in Victoria. A wide variety of types of maps, including parish plans, coastal surveys, pastoral run plans, mining department maps, maps of roads, trainlines, cemeteries or goldfields, geological and topographical surveys, and many others.
Citation:
Victoria. Division of Survey Mapping. (1858). Historical maps and plans. Goldfields. GF1, Ararat goldfields [microform]. (Historical plan (Victoria. Dept. of Crown Lands and Survey) ; GF1).
