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Welcome to the Ballarat & District Genealogical Society in the Goldfields Region of Central Victoria, Australia.

Use the Main Menu or the onsite search engine (above) to explore our website. Articles, links, etc., email Daryl, for membership queries or newsletter items visit our contacts page. Use our Research Service, Help Wanted or Names pages for research queries. Links to Ballarat visitor information, travel, etc can be found at the bottom of this page.
The umbrella organisation for Genealogy & History groups in the Central Highlands region is the C.H.H.A. whereas the W.V.A.H.S. covers the Western District of Victoria. View a Ballarat Timeline or read some advice on getting started in family history or find a map on Google Maps.
New!!! The Ballarat and District Genealogical Society's entire library collection catalogue is now accessible and searchable on-line on the Central Highlands Regional Library Corporation site from the following link - B&DGS Library Collection

Notice Board
  • B&DGS Next Meeting (25th March, 2008)
  • Ballarat Petitions CD Order Form (Aug 2007)
  • Ballarat East Petty Sessions Index (Microfiche)
  • Mining Accidents Index (Dave Evans)
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    Cemeteries
  • Ballarat Cemeteries CD (29th Oct 2006)
  • Linton Cemetery 1860-1880 (thanks to Di Hughes)
  • Pitfield Cemetery (Cape Clear) 1856-1871 (thanks to Di Hughes)
  • Ballarat OLD Cemetery Weekly Tours, 2007 will be held every Sunday at 1:30pm. Tours start from the cemetery gates, corner Creswick Road & Macarthur Street and take ~1 hour. Adults $10.00, Chn/Concession $7.00.
  • Old Cemetery Tour Brochure (DOC file). Bookings at the Ballarat Visitor Information Centre, now at the Eureka Centre, ph 1800 44 66 33 or go to...
  • Ballarat Tourism Information
  • Ballarat Map Link (Wilmaps)
  • Ballarat Map Link (Ballarat.com)
  • Victorian Goldfields Regional Map
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    Newsletters & files (for downloading)
  • Feb 2007
  • Nov 2006, Aug 2006, May 2006, Feb 2006
  • Nov 2005, Aug 2005, May 2005, Feb 2005, Nov 2004
  • Ballarat Banking Company 1921-1924
  • Ballarat Courier BDMs 1976
  • Ballarat Courier Personal Notices 1878-9
  • Ballarat District Telephone Exchanges 1940

    • Societies & Groups
  • Ararat & District Historical Society
  • Avoca & District Historical Society
  • Ballarat Historical Society
  • Bellarine Peninsula (Geelong District)
  • Buninyong & District Historical Society
  • Casterton & District Historical Society
  • Central Highlands Historical Association (CHHA)
  • Daylesford & District Historical Society
  • Dimboola & District Historical Society
  • Geelong & District
  • Geelong & District Historical Association
  • Geelong Family History Group
  • Geelong Heritage Centre
  • Hamilton History Centre
  • Horsham Historical Society
  • Inglewood Historical Society
  • Maryborough-Midlands Historical Society
  • Mildura & District Genealogical Society
  • Mount Rouse & District Historical Society (Penshurst)
  • Ouyen Local History Resource Centre
  • Port Fairy Historical Society
  • Royal Historical Society of Victoria
  • Public Record Office of Victoria (PROV)
  • Public Record Office of Victoria (Online Records)
  • Stawell Historical Society
  • Swan Hill Genealogical & Historical Society
  • Tarnagulla (was Sandy Creek)
  • The Genealogical Society of Victoria (GSV)
  • Woady Yaloak Historical Society
  • Western Victorian Association of Historical Societies (WVAHS)
  • Wimmera Association for Genealogy
  • Other Societies & Groups (contact info)
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    Featured Links
  • Advice on Getting Stated in Family History
  • 1853 Petition (Bendigo Goldfields)
  • 1891 Petition (Women's Suffrage)
  • Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial (Ballarat)
  • Avenue of Honour (Ballarat, WW1)
  • Ballarat Heritage Services
  • Ballarat Historic Timeline
  • Ballarat Mechanics' Institute "Twilight Talks"
  • Ballarat Sturt Street Statues & Coffee Walk
  • BDMs Spare Ballarat Certificates "Spares"
  • Eureka Rebellion Links
  • Maps & Map Links
  • Other Useful Links
  • Planet Mars - Rover Missions 2004...
  • Planet Saturn - Cassini Mission 2004...
  • P.R.O.V. Wills & Probate Changes
  • Sebastopol History
  • South-West Victoria's War Heritage 1899-1999
  • Tasmanian Archives Office Name indexes
  • "Your Treasures" at the State Library of Victoria
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    South-West VICTORIA
    South-West VIC History
    South-West VIC Contents
    Bahgallah WW1 Roll
    Byaduk History
    Byaduk Pioneers
    Carapook-Muntham History
    Carapook-Muntham Pioneers
    Casterton History
    Casterton Historical Society
    Casterton War Memorial
    Coleraine History
    Condah History
    Dartmoor History
    Dartmoor Pioneers
    Digby History
    Digby Pioneers
    Digby WW1 Avenue
    Glenelg-Wannon Pastoral Runs
    Heywood History
    Hotspur History
    Hotspur Pioneers
    Hotspur WW1 Avenue
    Langkoop Soldier Settlers
    Merino-Henty History
    Merino-Henty Pioneers
    Merino WW1 Memorial
    Sandford History
    Sandford Pioneers
    Sandford WW1 Memorial
    Strathdownie History
    Strathdownie Pioneers
    Strathdownie Honour Rolls
    Wando Vale History
    Wando Vale Pioneers
    Wando Vale WW1
    Geelong Cemeteries
    Geelong Cemeteries Trust
    Geelong & District
    History - Dimboola
    History - Goroke-Natimuk
    History - Hamilton
    History - Horsham
    History - Penshurst
    History - Port Fairy
    History - Stawell
    Maps & Map links
    Vern McCallum Photo's
    War Memorials (Deakin)
    West Vic. Cemeteries
    West Wimmera Mail
    Wimmera Assoc. Genealogy

    BALLARAT
    Ballarat.vic.au
    Accomodation & Tourism
    Ballarat C.A.F.S
    Ballarat Maps
    Ballarat Maps
    Ballarat Area Maps
    Ballarat Timeline
    Central Highlands Water
    City of Ballarat
    City Library
    Eureka Centre
    Ex-POW Memorial
    Fine Art Gallery
    GoldlinksWeb
    Mechanics' Institute
    MyBallarat.com
    Sebastopol History
    Sovereign Hill
    "The Courier"
    Visitor Information
    Wendouree Books

    EDUCATION
    Ballarat Deaf Facility
    EduM@il
    Forest St PS
    Heinemann Maths Zone
    Sebastopol College, Ballarat
    Uni Melbourne

    SCIENCE
    ABC Online Science
    How Stuff Works
    NASA
    Mars: Rovers
    Saturn: Cassini

    		 AUSTRALIA
    Archive CD Books
    Aust. National Archives
    Aust. Dict. Biography
    Aust. Explorers
    Aust. History
    Aust. History
    Aust. Cemeteries
    Aust. Documents
    Aust. Genforum
    Aust. Geoscience
    Aust. Government
    Aust. Heritage Magazine
    Aust. Honours
    Aust. Newspapers
    Aust. Place Names
    Bureau of Meteorology
    Dictionary of Biography
    Irish Convicts > Aust
    Libraries Australia
    Maps (N.L.A.)
    Maps (WhereIs)
    Maps (Wilkins)
    Maps (street-directory)
    Medical Pioneers
    Nuns' Database
    Picture Australia
    S.A.G.
    Seniors Information
    Shipping Lists
    'Vanish' (adopt, etc)

    VICTORIA
    1853 Bendigo Petition
    1891 Women's Petition
    1890s Unemployed
    A.I.G.S.
    "Argus" Index 1870-79
    BDM Certificates
    Cemeteries Bendigo
    C.of.E. 1847-1947
    C.F.A.
    D.V.C.
    Desc. of Convicts
    Gippsland Mailing List
    Gippsland Resources
    Gippsland Time Line
    Gippsland War Memorials
    G.S.V.
    High Country Heritage
    Land & Property
    MC2
    Melbourne Airport
    Museum Victoria
    NE Vic Newspapers
    Parliament of Victoria
    Parliament - MPs
    P.R.O.V.
    P.R.O.V. [FAQs]
    P.R.O.V. Publications
    P.R.O.V. Records Online
    Railways History
    R.H.S.V.
    Society Contacts
    S.L.V. Catalogues
    TimeBooksellers
    VicNet
    Vic History

    A.C.T.
    ACT BDMs
    ACT Deaths
    ACT Reg General
    Canberra Gene Soc

    NEW SOUTH WALES
    Claim a Convict
    NSW BDM Index
    NSW Cemeteries
    State Records
    1841 Census [online]
    Immigration [online]
    Convicts [online]
    Ryerson Death Index

    NORTH'N TERRITORY
    NT Gene Society
    NT Links
    NT Links Rootsweb

    		 QUEENSLAND
    Brisbane Cemeteries
    QLD BDM certs
    QLD Gene Society
    QLD Links
    QLD Links Rootsweb

    SOUTH AUSTRALIA
    Archives of SA
    Burra History
    Burra History Surnames
    Family History SA
    Family Trees
    Flinders ranges Research
    Hoffnungsthal
    Lyndoch History
    Mt Gambier Library
    Naracoorte Herald
    Penola Council
    Pioneers Assoc. of SA
    S.A.G.H.S.
    Shipping 1836-51
    Shipping 1852->
    Shipping 1836-45
    SE SA Fam Hist
    SE SA Photo's
    SA Lookups
    SA Teachers
    SA War Memorials

    TASMANIA
    Archives Office
    Archives Names indexes
    Archives Convict Index
    Archives Departures Index
    BDM Certificates
    Convicts
    eHeritage
    Female Factory Muster
    Graves of Tasmania
    History Indexes
    Launceston Album 1891
    Swing Riots
    Swing Rioters
    Tasmanian Genealogy
    Tasmania Online
    Tasmanian Pioneers

    WEST AUSTRALIA
    Busselton FHS
    Marriages 1906-20
    Pioneers' Index
    Perth Cemeteries
    WA Cemetery links
    Fremantle Prison
    Perth D.P.S.

    UNITED KINGDOM
    Ancestral Villages
    Archive CD Books
    Census 1901
    Clan McLea (Livingstone)
    County Codes [map]
    Family Records Centre
    Find a Church
    Gazettes Online
    Genealogy Guide UK
    Historic Pubs Index
    London Gazette
    London Map 1837
    National Archives
    Old Bailey Trials
    Old Maps, UK
    Old Towns, UK
    PRO Catalogue
    Scotland Digital Maps
    Scottish Documents
    Scotland Gazeteer
    Somerset Transcriptions
    Timelines 800-1499
    Treasure Maps
    UK Directories
    UK Documents
    UK Multimap.com
    UK Streetmap.co.uk

    IRELAND
    1911 Irish Census
    Convicts to Aust
    County Codes [map]
    Genealogy Links (CIGO)
    Gen. Society of IRL
    GENUKI: Ireland
    IRL History in Maps
    IRL Gen Forum
    IRL Gen Projects

    		 GENEALOGY
    Begin Family History
    British_Genealogy.com
    Cyndi's List
    Denmark Emigration
    FamilyHistory.com
    Family Search[IGI etc]
    FF 2001 (archived)
    FreeBMD [UK]
    FreeCEN [UK]
    FreeREG [UK]
    GenealogyPro
    GenCircles [Trees]
    Genforum [Messages]
    GENUKI [UK & IRL]
    GenWeb [Aus]
    GenWeb [Br.Is.]
    GenWeb [World]
    H.I.E.S.
    Legacy Software
    Macbeth CDs
    RootsWeb
    RootsWeb Mail Lists
    RootsWeb Messages
    RootsWeb Trees
    RootsWeb Websites
    Surname Profiler

    MILITARY
    Nom'l Roll (Sudan)
    Nom'l Roll (Boer)
    Nom'l Roll (Boxer)
    Nom'l Roll (WW1)
    Nom'l Roll (WW2)
    Nom'l Roll (Korea)
    Nom'l Roll (Vietnam)
    Nom'l Roll (Gulf)
    105th Battery RAA
    1st AIF Database
    1st AIF Emb'n Roll
    1st AIF Units
    39th Battalion AIF
    Anzacs.net
    Australian Honours
    Aust Defence Medals
    Aust Light Horse Assoc
    Australians at War
    Aust War Memorial
    Aust War Memorials
    Aust WW1 Records
    Avenues of Honour
    Boer War Graves
    Boer War Roll (Aus)
    Boer War Roll (NZ)
    C'wealth War Graves
    Defending Victoria
    Dept Veteran Affairs
    HMAS Sydney
    Militaria Direct
    "The Nashos"
    NZ WW1 Honour Roll
    Red Coat Settlers
    RSL Victoria
    SA War Memorials
    Shrine (Melb.)
    Trenches on the Web
    Vietnam Involvement
    Vietnam Vet's' Assoc
    Visit Gallipoli

    POLAND (Prussia)
    Genealogy & Poland
    Nekla Research
    Posen List Website
    Poznan Province
    Poznan Marriage Index

    GENERAL
    ABC Online
    Aus Geographic
    The Age
    auDA Domain Names
    BBC Online
    CNN
    Currency Converter
    Eudora Email
    Fastmail
    Fish Names (Aus)
    GMT
    LA Times
    Newspapers Online
    Pennworld SK1070
    Time & Date (World)
    World of Maps
    MVPS.org
    Povey List
    White Pages (AUS)
    WhereiS (Aus Maps)
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    Our Genealogical Resource Collection is housed in
    the "Australiana Room" of the Ballarat City Library
    Visit Library Website or View Genealogy Listing or View Local History Listing
    OR
    Search the Genealogy Library Collection

    The following websites may be of interest...

    Ballarat Archives Centre Reading Room (Map available)

    Ballarat Visitor Information

    Ballarat Accomodation & Tourism

    City of Ballarat

    Eureka Centre

    Sovereign Hill

    Transport Links
    V-Line Trains - VicLink Planner - Davis' Bus Services

    Ballarat & District Genealogical Society
    Mail: P.O. Box 1809, Ballarat Mail Centre, VIC 3354, Australia.
    Webpage: www.ballaratgenealogy.org.au
    Research Email: researchballarat@hotmail.com

    This site was last on 12th May 2008

    Daryl Povey