Family and local history

Ancestry.com (Library edition)    -  Access requires a current library card and PIN

Ancestry Library Edition brings the world’s most popular consumer online genealogy resource to your library If you haven’t used Ancestry before you’ll be surprised at how many original records are available for you to print and save. Here, you can unlock the story of you with sources like censuses, immigration records, military records, court and legal documents, directories and more.

Ancestry Library Edition is different to the Home Edition of Ancestry. You can't access the family tree builder software but there more international records on Ancestry Library Edition than in the standard Australia UK package in the Home Edition including records from: Asia, Africa, Europe and New Zealand.

For tutorials see the  Ancestry Library Edition youtube channel.

 Find My Past.com.au

Access is available at the library.

Through the library you can access the entire Find My Past collection which includes access to records from Australia, United Kingdom, Ireland and United State. Findmypast specializes in providing records for the UK and Ireland. While you will find a very good number of records from the US and Canada, you will benefit most from using this site if some of your ancestors come from England, Scotland, Wales or Ireland.

Among the useful records sets are the England & Wales, Marriage Index, 1837-2005.

For tutorials see the Find My Past youtube channel.

British Newspaper Archive

Perhaps your ancestors wrote an enraged letter to the editor or where involved in a scandalous court cases. The British Newspaper Archive can help you trace the lives of your United Kingdom and Irish ancestors. This valuable resource has helped me to break down many brick walls. It contains newspapers from 1603 to the present day and you can search articles by keyword, name, location, date or title.

Please note: While the library provides access to BNA (British Newspaper Archive), you will need to register with an email address and password, and to sign in to view search results. You will be able to save personal searches, bookmark and print articles

For tutorials see the British Newspaper Archive youtube channel.

Local newspapers

The Melton Express (1915-1954) and Sunbury News and Bulla and Melton Advertiser (1892-1900) are available to search online.

Community Heritage Collection

Hundreds of photos, pamphlets and maps are available from the Community  Heritage Collection in the library catalogue.

Information about adopted persons in Australia and overseas.

Australia

• Public Records Office Victoria Adoptions Guide
• Department of Human Services Victoria Adoptions
• Care Leavers Australia Network
• Vanish

Overseas

• Adoption.com Reunion Registry
• General Register Office - UK

Birth, deaths & marriages - Australia

• Tasmania - Department of Justice
• Victoria - Births, Deaths and Marriages
• New South Wales - Attorney General and Justice NSW
• Australian Capital Territory - Access Canberra
• Queensland - Department of Justice and Attorney-General
• Northern Territory - Department of Attorney General and Justice
• South Australia - State Records Office
• West Australia - Department of the Attorney-General

Birth, deaths & marriages - Overseas

General Register Offices

• England and Wales
• Scotland
• Northern Ireland

Other UK Links

• BMD Registers
• FreeBMD
• FreeREG
• UK BMD
• Scotlands People
• Statutory Registers of Births, Deaths and Marriages - Scotland

New Zealand

• BD&M Online

India

• Families in British India Society
• India Office Family History

Parish Records Collections

• English Parish Registers
• Durham Records Online
• Essex Archives Online

Irish Church Records

• Irish Genealogy

Parish Records Collections

• English Parish Registers
• Durham Records Online
• Essex Archives Online

Irish Church Records

• Irish Genealogy
• Irish Ancestors

• Census Finder
• British Census Index
• FreeCEN - UK Census Online
• Family Search - Census collections
• Online International Census Indexes & Records
• The National Archives (UK)
• The National Archives of Ireland

Criminals and Convicts

• Irish Convicts to NSW 1788 - 1849
• Ireland Transportation Records
• Descendants of Convicts Group
• Indexes of Tasmanian Convicts
• Tasmania GenWeb Convicts Index
• State Records NSW Convict Records
• Cascades Female Factory
• Blacksheep Ancestors
• The Proceedings of the Old Bailey

Australia

• National Archives of Australia
• Public Record Office Victoria
• Tasmania Records
• New South Wales Government State Records
• Australian Capital Territory Records
• Queensland Records
• Northern Territory Records
• South Australia Records
• Western Australia Records

Overseas

• Library and Archives Canada
• The National Archives (UK)
• National Archives of France
• National Archives of Germany
• National Archives of India
• National Archives of Ireland
• Archives of the Netherlands
• Archives New Zealand
• Public Record Office of Northern Ireland
• National Archives of Norway
• The National Records of Scotland
• National Archives of South Africa
• United States Archives

• PROV - Koorie Records Unit
• Aboriginal People and Family History
• Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

Eynesbury Heritage Group
Email: gregheafield@bigpond.com
Phone: 0417 356 691

Melton District Historical Society Inc
Address: Nixon Street, Melton Vic  3337
Post: PO BOX  58, Melton Vic  3337
Phone:  0409306640 or 0490173423 or 0412853918
Email: meltonhistoricalsocietyinc@gmail.com

Melton Family History Group Inc
Website: Melton Family History Group Inc
Email: sec.meltonfhg@outlook.com  

Australia

• National Library of Australia - Maps
• History of Places in Australia
• GeoScience Australia - Place Name Search
• NSW Geographical Names Board
• ACT Planning and Land Authority
• NT Place Names Register

Overseas

• Ordnance Survey
• A Vision of Britain
• Maps of Scotland
• Global Gazetteer
• Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
• Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
• Cassini Historical Maps

Australia

• Australian War Memorial
• Australian War Memorial - Search for a Person
• National Archives of Australia - Australian Defence Records
• Office of Australian War Graves
• Naval Historical Society of Australia
• Returned and Services League
• Pre First World War Conflicts Nominal Roll
• World War 1 Nominal Roll
• Gallipoli and the ANZACs
• World War Two Nominal Roll
• Korean War Nominal Roll
• Vietnam War Nominal Roll
• Australian Defence Force

Overseas

• Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• National Army Museum New Zealand
• Imperial War Museums
• The National Archives (UK)
• National Museum of the Royal Navy
• Royal Air Force Museum

Australia

• Trove - National Library of Australia
• Historic Australian Newspapers
• The Ryerson Index

Overseas

• Newspapers - USA and worldwide
• Online Newspapers.com
• Historical Newspapers - USA
• Nineteenth Century Serials Edition (UK)
• The British Newspaper Archive

• DigitalPasifik.org
• BMD Resgisters (For records of birth, baptism, marriage, death and burial taken from non-parish sources)
• Familyrelatives.com
• FamilySearch
• FreeBMD UK
• India Office Family History Search
• Society of Genealogists
• The Genealogist
• UK births, marriages, deaths and censuses
• The Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery

Parish records collections

• www.durhamrecordsonline.com
• http://seax.essexcc.gov.uk

General Register Offices

• www.gro.gov.uk (for England and Wales)
• www.groireland.ie (for Ireland)
• www.nidirect.gov.uk  (for Northern Ireland)
• www.gro-scotland.gov.uk (for Scotland)

Australia

• Emigrants Passenger Lists
• Ozships
• Immigration Museum
• National Archives of Australia
• Queensland State Archives - Immigration Records Guide
• NSW State Records - Immigration records and Shipping Lists

Overseas

• Ellis Island New York
• Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
• National Maritime Museum
• The Ships List

National

• Australasian Association of Genealogists and Record Agents Inc
• The Australasian Federation of Family History Organisations Inc.

Victoria

• Genealogical Society of Victoria
• Family History Connections
• Port Phillip Pioneers Group
• Royal Historical Society of Victoria

Tasmania

• Tasmanian Family History Society

New South Wales

• Society of Australian Genealogists

Australian Capital Territory

• Canberra & District Historical Society
• Family History ACT

Queensland

• Queensland Family History Society Inc
• Genealogical Society of Queensland

South Australia

• The Pioneers Association of South Australia Inc
• Genealogy SA

Western Australia

• Western Australian Genealogical Society Inc

Australia

• Australian Wills
• Public Records Office of Victoria (PROV) - Wills 1853-1992

Overseas

• Scottish Documents.com
• Public Record Office of Northern Ireland