Victoria, Australia, Historical Societies etc

Victoria 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&#160;April 2011 The Anglesea and District Historical Society Ararat and District Historical Society Avoca &amp; District Historical Society Ballarat &amp; District Genealogical Society </a> Ballarat Historical Society</a> Bellarine Historical Society</a> (Drysdale) Benalla &amp; District Family History Group</a> Bendigo Regional Genealogical Society</a> Bendigo Area Branch of the Australian Institute of Genealogical Studies.</a> Bendigo Historical Society</a> each of the three Bendigo websites have different types of information available. Box Hill Historical Society</a> Bright &amp; District Historical Society</a> Buninyong &amp; District Historical Society</a> Camperdown &amp; District Historical Society</a> Casterton &amp; District Historical Society</a> Castlemaine Historical Society</a> Central Highlands Historical Association</a> list of member groups. Chelsea and District Historical Society</a> Cobram Genealogical Group</a> <a href="http://members.cybanet.net.au/cdhs/">Cohuna &amp; District Historical Society</a> <a href="http://www.daylesfordhistory.com.au/">Daylesford &amp; District Historical Society</a> <a href="http://home.vicnet.net.au/~dimhist/">Dimboola and District Historical Society</a> <a href="http://home.vicnet.net.au/~dthsoc/">Doncaster-Templestowe Historical Society</a> <a href="http://home.vicnet.net.au/~dromana/">Dromana and District Historical Society</a> Association of Eastern Historical Societies list of member societies. <a href="http://home.vicnet.net.au/~emhist/">Echuca-Moama Family History Group</a> <a href="http://home.vicnet.net.au/~ehs/">Echuca Historical Society</a> <a href="http://home.vicnet.net.au/~ess/">Essendon Historical Society</a> <a href="http://home.vicnet.net.au/~dromana/flinders.htm">Flinders District Historical Society</a> <a href="http://home.vicnet.net.au/~foothist/">Footscray Historical Society</a> <a href="http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vicfhs/ballampark.html">Frankston Historical Society</a> <a href="http://home.vicnet.net.au/~gfamhist/">The Geelong Family History Group</a> <a href="http://bit.ly/e8Mz7G">Geelong Historical Society</a> <a href="http://home.vicnet.net.au/~mgfhs/">Mid-Gippsland Family History Society </a>serves the towns of Boolarra, Cowwarr, Churchill, Glengarry, Moe, Morwell, Toongabbie, Trafalgar, Traralgon, Walhalla, Willow Grove and Yallourn North. <a href="http://home.vicnet.net.au/~gmags/">The Goulburn &amp; Murray Association of Local and Family History Groups</a> covers the North East &amp; Goulburn Valley areas of Victoria and the Riverina areas of New South Wales. <a href="http://home.vicnet.net.au/~hamhist/">Hamilton History Centre</a> - Genealogy and Local History. <a href="http://home.vicnet.net.au/~dromana/hastings.htm">Hastings-Western Port Historical Society</a> <a href="http://www.healesvillehistorical.websyte.com.au/">Healesville and District Historical Society</a> <a href="http://heidelberg.50webs.com/">Heidelberg Historical Society</a> <a href="http://www.heyfield.net/pages/history/history.htm">Heyfield Family History Group</a> <a href="http://home.vicnet.net.au/~hhs/">Horsham Historical Society</a> <a href="http://bit.ly/eCEWRF">Inglewood Historical Society</a> <a href="http://home.vicnet.net.au/~jdhs/">Jamieson &amp; District Historical Society</a> <a href="http://www.kilmorehistory.info/">Kilmore Historical Society</a> <a href="http://bit.ly/fBm5RM">Koroit and District Historical Society</a> <a href="http://home.vicnet.net.au/~khsinc/">Knox Historical Society</a> <a href="http://home.vicnet.net.au/~lefhrc/Index.html">Lakes Entrance Family History Resource Centre</a> <a href="http://www.langlang.net/historical.html">Lang Lang and District Historical Society</a> <a href="http://www.lilydalehistorical.com.au/">Lilydale &amp; District Historical Society</a> <a href="http://home.vicnet.net.au/~lornhist/">Lorne Historical Society</a> <a href="http://www.maffra.net.au/heritage/maffsoc.htm">Maffra &amp; District Historical Society</a> <a href="http://home.vicnet.net.au/~manshs/">Mansfield Historical Society</a> <a href="http://home.vicnet.net.au/~manshs/">Maryborough-Midlands Historical Society</a> <a href="http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ausmfhg/">Melton Family History Group</a> <a href="http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ausmdgs/">Mildura &amp; District Genealogical Society</a> <a href="http://www.hsm.org.au/">Historical Society of Mooroopna</a> <a href="http://www.mpfhs.org/">Mornington Peninsula Family History Society</a> (Frankston) <a href="http://home.vicnet.net.au/~penshist/">Mt Rouse &amp; District Historical Society</a> (Penshurst) <a href="http://www.nwfhg.org.au/index.html">Narre Warren &amp; District Family History Group</a> <a href="http://home.vicnet.net.au/~dromana/sorrento.htm">Nepean Historical Society </a>(Sorrento) <a href="http://home.vicnet.net.au/~newdhs/">Newstead &amp; District Historical Society</a> <a href="http://home.vicnet.net.au/~nhcs/">Northcote History Group</a> <a href="http://www.monlib.vic.gov.au/odhs/oakhist.html">Oakleigh &amp; District Historical Society</a> <a href="http://www.omeo.org.au/index.html">Omeo Historical Society</a> <a href="http://ouyen.vic.au/history">Ouyen Local History Resource Centre</a> <a href="http://historicalsociety.port-fairy.com/">Port Fairy Historical Society</a> <a href="http://home.vicnet.net.au/~pmhps/">Port Melbourne Historical and Preservation Society</a> <a href="http://home.vicnet.net.au/~pioneers/">Port Phillip Pioneers Group</a> (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. <a href="http://www.pyramidhill.net.au/">Pyramid Hill Historical Society</a> <a href="http://www.rhs.org.au/">Ringwood Historical Society</a> <a href="http://bit.ly/gZsBSH">Sebastopol Historical Society </a>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. <a href="http://home.vicnet.net.au/~shepfh/">Shepparton Family History Group</a> <a href="http://home.vicnet.net.au/~stdhs/">Somerville, Tyabb and District Heritage Society</a> <a href="http://home.vicnet.net.au/~stawgeny/">Stawell Biarri Group for Genealogy</a> <a href="http://home.vicnet.net.au/~shsinc/">Stawell Historical Society</a> 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. <a href="http://www.steiglitz.com.au/">Steiglitz Historical Society</a> 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. <a href="http://www.saqhs.websyte.com.au/">St Andrews/Queenstown Historical Society</a> <a href="http://home.vicnet.net.au/~hsosk/home.html">St Kilda Historical Society&#160;</a>Established early in the 19th Century, St Kilda is the historic seaside resort of Melbourne, Australia <a href="http://home.vicnet.net.au/~shghs/">Swan Hill Genealogical &amp; Historical Society</a> <a href="http://www.traralgonhistory.asn.au/">Traralgon &amp; District Historical Society</a> <a href="http://mc2.vicnet.net.au/home/tdfhg/web/index.html">Toora and District Family History Group</a> <a href="http://www.wfhs.org.au/">Wangaratta Family History Society</a> <a href="http://home.vicnet.net.au/~whsoc/">Warrandyte Historical Society</a> <a href="http://www.aigs.org.au/warrnamb.htm">Warrnambool Family History Group</a> <a href="http://home.vicnet.net.au/~whsvic/">Waverley Historical Society</a> <a href="http://home.vicnet.net.au/~wvahs/">Western Victorian Association of Historical Societies</a>. Includes contact details for the fifty plus societies belonging to the Association. <a href="http://westgippslandgenealogy.com/">West Gippsland Genealogical Society </a>(Warragul) Celebrating our 30th Anniversary 5th & 6th October 2013 - 2 day Seminar brilliant speakers, also "We Saw The Queen"PROV travelling exhibition all of October <a href="http://home.vicnet.net.au/~ndhsinc/">Whitehorse Historical Society</a> (formerly Nunawading &amp; District Historical Society.) <a href="http://home.vicnet.net.au/~winchsoc/">Winchelsea and District Historical Society</a> <a href="http://wodongafamilyhistory.org/">Wodonga Family History Society</a> <a href="http://home.vicnet.net.au/~wdhs/">Woodend &amp; District Heritage Society</a> <a href="http://www.yarraglenhistorical.websyte.com.au/">Yarra Glen and District Historical Society</a> <a href="http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ausygs/">Yarram Genealogy Group</a> <a href="http://home.vicnet.net.au/~ydhs/">Yarram &amp; District Historical Society</a> <a href="http://bit.ly/gKeQGW">Yarrawonga Family History Group </a>

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