Moonee Valley Family & Local History Blog

At Moonee Valley Library branches you can now access British Newspaper Archive , an online resource which allows you to view millions of pages of British historical newspapers published since 1800. As well as searching news articles and advertisements, you can also search family notices, letters and obituaries– which makes this an extremely useful resource for researching British ancestors. British Newspaper Archive is not available to access from home, but it is so easy to use and fascinating to view that it is well worth paying us a visit to try it out.

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.

This is a new online search catalogue from the National Library of Australia may assist with searches for local history, biographies of local identities, MMBW maps, family diaries and letters . A search for Moonee Ponds and Melbourne into TROVE as Keywords and turned up 22 results for Books, Journals, Magazines etc, 1,021 results for Pictures and Photos, 63,969 results for Australian Newspapers (1803-1954), 3 results for Music, Sound, Video, 42 results for Maps, 588 sites for Archived Websites (1996-now) and 17 results in About People and Organisations.