Moonee Valley Family & Local History Blog

The July/August, 2011 History News is now available online.  The Sam Merrifield Library has the latest edition of the Victorian Historical Journal for June, 2011 and available in the Local History Room. Some of the articles in the journal include the following - Community Cookbooks: Women's Words and Hospitality at Bayswater Church of Christ 1962-1990 by Kerrie Handasyde. The Arrival and Settlement of Macedonians in the Inner Western Suburbs of Melbourne by Nick Anastasovski.  Singing in 'a sort of musical chaos': Dame Nellie Melba and the campaign to Lower the Pitch of the Grand Organ in the Melbourne Town Hall by Simon Purtell. 

The State Library of Victoria Genealogy Centre is now subscribing to the journal Comunes of Italy (devoted to Italian genealogy and all things Italian). The first issued for March/April, 2008 has just arrived. It is in English and published in the US six times a year. Each issue give information pertaining to a province, including addresses and websites. Useful for anyone research Italian ancestry.