Moonee Valley Family & Local History Blog

Moonee Valley Libraries now has access to the full range of magazines offered online by RB Digital. This means even if you don’t consider yourself to be much of a magazine reader there’s there’s likely something you’d enjoy. For library members they are free to read on your own smart phone, computer or tablet. For history enthusiasts there are 92 history titles to explore from around the World. English language history titles include National Geographic History , American History from the USA, All About History , Archaeology and various BBC history titles such as History Magazine , World Histories and History Revealed from the UK, and from Australia there is Traces (formerly Inside History ).  Two of the history magazine available via RB Digital Recent issues are brimming with great reads. Traces has articles on Paul Brickhill (the Melbourne-born author of the Great Escape and the Dam Busters ), Australia’s oldest synagogue (in Hobart, and celebrating its 175th anniversary t...

The Moonee Valley Library subscribes to the Family Tree magazine, with every issue they provide free access to a vast range of family history records online: Surrey, Windlesham Parish Registers Nottinghamshire 1891 Census Middlesex 1891 Census Volunteer Index Back issues of Family Tree magazine from April, 1991 Software demos An example in the recent Family History magazine is a search for Jane Bowdry's burial searching the Surrey, Windlesham Parish Registers for her burial on 14th July, 1746. For more information about registering visit FTMdata.com Windlesham comes under the West Surrey Family History Society.