A collection of Victorian online local history resources including online collections of the RHSV
RHSV Collections
RHSV Catalogue
The first
stage of a project to publish the catalogues of the RHSV online includes
a selection of records from the RHSV Library as well as records from the
Images collection and the Manuscripts collection. The RHSV Catalogue currently contains 39,500
records.
A grant from The Ian Potter Foundation has enabled the RHSV to begin digitising a selection of items from the image collection, some of which will be made available online as Treasures of the RHSV.
RHSV Podcasts
A grant from the Telematics Trust has enabled the RHSV to begin recording a selection of lectures held throughout the year as well as other audio files to make available online as RHSV Podcasts.
Local History Resources
RHSV Affiliated Societies Database
Search the database for the name of a specific society or for societies containing records relating to a specific locality in Victoria.
A number
of organisations in Victoria already publish local history databases
on the Internet. (The following links will open the page in
a new browser window.)
Increasingly blogs are being used to provide local history information - A list of Victorian local history related blogs
1891 Woman's Suffrage Petition
As part of the celebrations of 150 years of Parliament in Victoria, members of the RHSV and the Genealogical Society of Victoria transcribed more than 28,000 names and addresses of women who signed a petition in 1891 requesting the right to have the vote in Victoria.
Index to VPRS19 Inward Correspondence Port Phillip 1839-1851
An index to the papers of the Superindent of the Port Phillip District Inward Correspondence Files between 1839 and July 1851 held at the Public Records Office of Victoria. The index was prepared by Jack McRae
