Victoria, Australia, Historical Societies etc
Victoria
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The Genealogical Society of Victoria (GSV) (Melbourne)
Australian Institute of Genealogical Studies (AIGS) (Melbourne)
Royal Historical Society of Victoria
Chinese Australian Family Historians of Victoria
Cornish Association of Victoria This group is holding its 25th Anniversary at 1.30pm Saturday 16tb April 2011
The Anglesea and District Historical Society
Ararat and District Historical Society
Avoca & District Historical Society
Ballarat & District Genealogical Society
Bellarine Historical Society (Drysdale)
Benalla & District Family History Group
Bendigo Regional Genealogical Society
Bendigo Area Branch of the Australian Institute of Genealogical Studies.
Bendigo Historical Society each of the three Bendigo websites have different types of information available.
Bright & District Historical Society
Buninyong & District Historical Society
Camperdown & District Historical Society
Casterton & District Historical Society
Castlemaine Historical Society
Central Highlands Historical Association list of member groups.
Chelsea and District Historical Society
Cohuna & District Historical Society
Daylesford & District Historical Society
Dimboola and District Historical Society
Doncaster-Templestowe Historical Society
Dromana and District Historical Society
Association of Eastern Historical Societies list of member societies.
Echuca-Moama Family History Group
Flinders District Historical Society
The Geelong Family History Group
Mid-Gippsland Family History Society serves the towns of Boolarra, Cowwarr, Churchill, Glengarry, Moe, Morwell, Toongabbie, Trafalgar, Traralgon, Walhalla, Willow Grove and Yallourn North.
The Goulburn & Murray Association of Local and Family History Groups covers the North East & Goulburn Valley areas of Victoria and the Riverina areas of New South Wales.
Hamilton History Centre - Genealogy and Local History.
Hastings-Western Port Historical Society
Healesville and District Historical Society
Jamieson & District Historical Society
Koroit and District Historical Society
Lakes Entrance Family History Resource Centre
Lang Lang and District Historical Society
Lilydale & District Historical Society
Maffra & District Historical Society
Maryborough-Midlands Historical Society
Mildura District Genealogical Society
Historical Society of Mooroopna
Mornington Peninsula Family History Society (Frankston)
Mt Rouse & District Historical Society (Penshurst)
Narre Warren & District Family History Group
Nepean Historical Society (Sorrento)
Newstead & District Historical Society
Oakleigh & District Historical Society
Ouyen Local History Resource Centre
Port Melbourne Historical and Preservation Society
Port Phillip Pioneers Group (Melbourne) The State of Victoria in Australia was known as the Port Phillip District of New South Wales prior to separation on 1 July 1851. Settlement at Melbourne, on the northern shore of Port Phillip Bay, commenced in 1835.
Pyramid Hill Historical Society
Sebastopol Historical Society The main battle of the Crimean War was the 11 month siege of the Russian city of Sevastopol on the Black Sea in 1854-'55.
Sebastopol, south of Ballarat in the state of Victoria, Australia was named at this time because the blasting in the rock to access the gold bearing leads under the basalt plateau south west of Ballarat was said to be like the guns at the seige of Sevastopol.
Shepparton Family History Group
Somerville, Tyabb and District Heritage Society
Stawell Biarri Group for Genealogy
Stawell Historical Society Stawell is located on the Western Highway approximately 240 km north-west of Melbourne (the Capital of Victoria, Australia). It is the western-most part of the Victorian Goldfields, alluvial gold having been discovered there, at 'Pleasant Creek', in 1853 and quartz gold, at 'The Reefs', in about 1856.
Steiglitz Historical Society Steiglitz is an old Gold mining town that nestles within the Brisbane Ranges National Park approximately an hours drive North West from the city of Melbourne.
St Andrews/Queenstown Historical Society
St Kilda Historical Society Established early in the 19th Century, St Kilda is the historic seaside resort of Melbourne, Australia
Swan Hill Genealogical & Historical Society
Traralgon & District Historical Society
Toora and District Family History Group
Wangaratta Family History Society
Warrnambool Family History Group
Western Victorian Association of Historical Societies. Includes contact details for the fifty plus societies belonging to the Association.
West Gippsland Genealogical Society (Warragul)
Whitehorse Historical Society (formerly Nunawading & District Historical Society.)
Winchelsea and District Historical Society
Wodonga Family History Society
Woodend & District Heritage Society
Yarra Glen and District Historical Society
