My Top 5 Websites for Victorian research in Australia
Shauna Hicks
Content
Welcome
1:01
Introduction
0:54
Public Record Office
8:53
State Library Victoria
11:12
Registry Births Deaths & Marriages
6:04
Genealogical Society of Victoria
6:04
Bendigo Regional Archives Centre
3:57
Announcements / prizes
0:41
Questions / answers
7:04
About this webinar
Victoria was the colony that experienced the gold rushes of the 1850s. This presentation looks at websites that assist anyone trying to find relatives in Victoria in the 19th century into the 20th century.
About the speaker
Shauna Hicks has been tracing her own family history since 1977 and worked in government for over 35 years in Australian libraries and archives in Brisbane, Canberra and Melbourne. Since retiring from...
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Comments (13)
Great presentation, many thanks
Very interesting, lots of information.
Shauna has covered the topic extremely well, and her top five are very well chosen. Her tip to revisit the sites is extremely good advice, because there are many improvements and indexing projects being conducted by most if not all the repositories Shauna has described. Thank you Shauna.This was a valuable contribution to all genealogists with any family connections to Victoria. Given the gold rushes brought people from all over the world to Victoria, the records may be of immense value to international researchers.
Excellent as always!!
Thank you
Brilliant - Very informative
Excellent talk
Lots of information.