Victoria Research Tips and Strategies

Victoria Wiki Topics

Beginning Research
Getting Started Guided Research Research Strategies Record Finder
Record Types
Biographies Business and Occupation Records Cemeteries Census Church Records Civil Registration Convict Records Court & Criminal Records Directories Emigration & Immigration Genealogies Land and Property	Medical Records Military Records Naturalization & Citizenship Newspapers Obituaries Orphans & Orphanages Online Records Periodicals Probate Records Schools and Education Records Taxation Voting Records
Victoria Background
Cultural Groups	History Maps
Local Research Resources
Archives & Libraries Societies FamilySearch Centers

Purpose of Research Tips and Strategies Wiki Page
The Victoria Research Tips and Strategies page consists of links to specific research strategies for Victoria. It also contains general tips and other resources for finding your ancestors in this locality.

Victoria Research Strategies[edit | edit source]

Finding Victoria Birth, Marriage or Death Records[edit | edit source]

Victoria Guided Research - find birth, marriage, and death records

Finding Victoria Records[edit | edit source]

Record Finder - gives suggestions for records to search

Victoria Provincewide Databases[edit | edit source]

Online Genealogy Records

Victoria Research Process[edit | edit source]

Finding Town of Origin - locating the town your ancestor was from
Researching your Victorian ancestors at State Library of Victoria

Victoria Online Learning[edit | edit source]

Research from 1825-1851[edit | edit source]

See New South Wales Getting Started for more resources.

Australia Research Strategies[edit | edit source]

Australia Finding Town of Origin
See Australia Research Tips and Strategies for more resources.

Australia Online Learning[edit | edit source]

Online Learning - Video Classes

Victoria Research Tips[edit | edit source]

Civil Registrations. Civil registration (vital) records were created by the government and include births, marriages, and deaths. They are commonly referred to as vital records because they pertain to critical events in a person’s life. Victoria Civil Registrations

Census. The first country-wide census was taken in 1881. National censuses have been regularly taken by the Australian government since 1911. Victoria Census

Further Victoria Resources[edit | edit source]