Victoria, Australia, Historical Societies etc

Victoria
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

The Anglesea and District Historical Society

Ararat and District Historical Society

Avoca & District Historical Society

Ballarat & District Genealogical Society

Ballarat Historical Society

Bellarine Historical Society (Drysdale)

Benalla Family History Research Group, Inc.

Bendigo Regional Genealogical Society

Bendigo Area Branch of the Australian Institute of Genealogical Studies (AIGS).

Bendigo Historical Society each of the three Bendigo websites have different types of information available.

Box Hill Historical Society

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

Cobram Genealogical Group

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

Echuca Historical Society

Essendon Historical Society

Flinders District Historical Society

Footscray Historical Society

Frankston Historical Society

The Geelong Family History Group

Geelong Historical Society

Mid-Gippsland Family History Societyserves 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 &amp; 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

Heidelberg Historical Society

Heyfield Family History Group

Horsham Historical Society

Inglewood Historical Society, Facebook

Jamieson & District Historical Society

Kilmore Historical Society

Koroit and District Historical Society, Facebook

Knox Historical Society

Lakes Entrance Family History Resource Centre

Lang Lang and District Historical Society

Lilydale & District Historical Society

Lorne Historical Society, Facebook

Maffra & District Historical Society

Mansfield Historical Society

Maryborough-Midlands Historical Society

Melton Family History Group

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

Northcote History Group

Oakleigh & District Historical Society

Omeo Historical Society

Ouyen Local History Resource Centre

Port Fairy Historical Society

Port Melbourne Historical and Preservation Society, Facebook

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

Ringwood 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 siege of Sevastopol.

Shepparton Family History Group

Somerville, Tyabb and District Heritage Society

Stawell Biarri Group for Genealogy, Facebook

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

Warrandyte Historical Society

Warrnambool Family History Group

Waverley Historical Society

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 &amp; District Historical Society.)

Winchelsea and District Historical Society

Wodonga Family History Society

Woodend & District Heritage Society

Yarra Glen and District Historical Society

Yarram Genealogy Group

Yarram & District Historical Society

Yarrawonga Family History Group