Genealogical & Historical SocietiesContact details for Societies located in Northern & Western Victoria, Australia compiled by the Ballarat & District Genealogical Society
PO Box 288, ALEXANDRA VIC 3714 Tel: 015 509 988 Fax: 03 5772 1798 Altona
Web: www.livingmuseum.org.au/altona/index.html Anglesea
6/1 Noble Street, Anglesea, Victoria 3230, Australia. Email : valamery@tpg.com.au Web: www.vicnet.net.au/~angen/ Arapiles
Secretary: Ann Lowe, P.O. Box 60, Natimuk, Vic 3409, Australia Tel: 03-5387 1482 Ararat
16 Hurley Street, Ballarat, Vic 3350 Tel: 03-5331 5794
48 Queen Street, Ararat, Vic 3377 Secretary: Dorothy Konig, P.O. BOX 551, Ararat, Vic 3377, Australia Tel: 03-5352 1862 Web: http://home.vicnet.net.au/~langimor
P.O. Box 361, Ararat, Vic 3377 Tel: 03-53 521711
P.O. Box 113, Ararat, Vic 3377 Tel: 03-5352 3557 Avoca
Mail: PO Box 24 Avoca, Victoria 3467 Tel: 03-5465 3744 Email : tonyoshea@iinet.net.au Web Site: home.vicnet.net.au/~adhs/ADHSMain.htm Bacchus Marsh
P.O. Box 223, Bacchus Marsh, Vic 3340 Tel: 03-5367 5527
27 Lerderderg St, Bacchus Marsh, Vic 3340 Tel: 03-5367 1342 Ballan
PO Box 130 Ballan 3342 Tel: 03-5368 1293
P.O. Box 137, Ballan, Vic 3342
P.O. Box 1809, Ballarat Mail Centre, Vic 3354, Australia Web: www.ballaratgenealogy.org.au
PO Box 1139 Ballarat Mail Centre, Vic 3354 Tel: 03-5368 1293
Web : www.ballarathistoricalsociety.com
Sturt Street, Ballarat, Vic 3350
Public Record Office Victoria, State Government Offices, Cnr Mair & Doveton Sts, Ballarat, 3350 Tel: 03 5333 6611 Web: www.prov.vic.gov.au Balmoral
President: Judy Brown, 27 Urquhart Street, Balmoral, 3407, Australia Tel: Barham / Koondrook
Secretary: Helen Campbell, PO Box 130, Victoria Street, Kerang, VIC 3579, Australia Tel:
Contact Address: 15 Murray Street, Barham NSW 2732, Australia Email: palbre@bigpond.com Bealiba
Secretary: Joyce Chivers, RMB 414, Bealiba, Vic 3475, Australia Tel: 03-5469 1285 Beaufort
RMB Box 770, Beaufort, Vic 3370 Tel: 03-5349 7313 Bellarine
P.O. Box 53, Drysdale, Vic, 3222, Australia Web Site - www.zades.com.au/bellhs/bellhs.html Email - szada@zades.com.au Benalla
P.O. Box 268, Benalla, Vic 3672 Email - bdfhg@hotmail.com Web Site - home.vicnet.net.au/~bfamhist/
Benalla Costume and Pioneer Museum 14 Mair Street, BENALLA VIC 3672 PO Box 201, BENALLA VIC 3672 Phone/Fax 03 5762 1749 Bendigo
P.O. Box 2309, Mail Centre, Bendigo, Vic 3550 Email - jimevans@bigpond.com Web Site - www.bendigohistory.com Bendigo Regional Genealogical Society Bendigo Area AIGS Birchip
Secretary: Dorothy Reid, P.O. BOX 35, Birchip, Vic 3483, Australia Tel: 03-5399 0564 Blackwood
c/- Post Office, Blackwood, Vic 3458 Boort
P.O. Box 144, Boort, Vic 3537, Australia Bright
Mrs G. Millar, 43 Bakers Gully Rd, PO Box 265, BRIGHT, VIC 3741 Bungaree
Post Office, Bungaree, Vic 3352 Tel: 03-5331 1077 Buninyong
P.O. Box 98, Buninyong, Vic 3357 Tel: 03-5341 7618 Web: home.vicnet.net.au/~buninhis/ Camperdown
The Secretary, Mary Hay, 240 Wiridgil Lane, CAMPERDOWN, VIC 3260 Tel: 03-5594 7263 Cape Clear
RSD W607, Illabarook, Vic 3351 Tel: 03-5342 2223 Carisbrook
29 Smith Street, Carisbrook, Vic 3464 Secretary: Judith Healey, 20 McNeil Street, Carisbrook, Vic 3464, Australia Tel: 03-5464 2601 Casterton
Website: www.ballaratgenealogy.org.au/casterton/historicalsociety.htm Castlemaine Historical Society
PO Box 655, Castlemaine, Vic 3450, Australia Tel: (03) 5472 1425 Email: chsi@castlemainehistoricalsociety.com Web: www.castlemainehistoricalsociety.com Central Highlands Historical Association
Website: www.ballaratgenealogy.org.au/chha/chha.htm Charlton
Secretary: Bill Larmour, R.M.B. 515, Charlton, VIC 3525, Australia Tel: 03-5492 7551 Clunes
Fraser Street, Clunes, Vic 3370 Tel: Museum 03-5345 3592 or 03-5345 3020 Cobden
Secretary: Elizabeth Wilson, P.O. Box 57., COBDEN, VIC, 3266 Tel: 03-5595 1162 Cobram
P.O. Box 75, Cobram, Vic 3644 Email : closeup@cnl.com.au WEB Site: home.vicnet.net.au/~cobgenie/ Cohuna
Secretary: Yvonne Church, PO Box 9, Leitchville, Vic 3567, Australia Tel: 03-3464 2601 WEB Site: www.cybanet.net.au/~cdhs/ Colac
Secretary: Kate Gatty P.O. Box 219 Colac, VIC 3250 Tel: 03-5231 3904 EMAIL: cdfhgroup@hotmail.com
Secretary: Gladys Hester P.O. Box 154 Colac, VIC 3250 Tel: 03-5231 4831 Coleraine
EMAIL Secretary - Ken Fitzgerald: kafitzgerald@ansonic.com.au Creswick
10, South Street, Creswick, Vic 3363 Tel: 03-5345 1310
70 Albert St, Creswick, Victoria 3363, Australia P.O. Box 312, Creswick VIC 3363, Australia Tel: 03-5345 2845 Daylesford
P.O. Box 93 Daylesford, Vic 3460 Tel: 03-5348 3927 or Railway Sation [Sunday] 03-5348 3503
100 Vincent Street, Daylesford, Vic 3460 Tel: Museum 03-5348 1453 WEB Site: www.daylesfordhistory.com.au Dimboola
Secretary: Evelyn King, 5 Malvern Road, Dimboola, Vic 3414, Australia Tel: 03-5389 1358 Web: home.vicnet.net.au/~dimhist/ Donald
Secretary: Secretary: Brian Brasier, 9 Sedgmen Court, Donald VIC 3480, Australia Tel: 03-5497 1019 EMAIL: dhnhg@westnet.com.au Dunkeld
Secretary: Wendy Williams, "The Four Mile" Dunkeld VIC 3294 Tel: 03-5577 2386 Dunolly
Secretary: Joyce Chivers, RMB 464, Bealiba, Vic 3475, Australia Tel: 03-5469 1285 East Loddon (Serpentine)
Secretary: Keith Perry, 1074 Old Boort Road, Bears Lagoon, VIC 3517, Australia Tel: 03-5437 9220 Echuca
P.O. Box 707, Echuca, Vic 3564 Web: home.vicnet.net.au/~emhist/ Echuca Historical Society Geelong & District
P.O. Box 1187, Geelong, Vic 3213, Australia Web Site - home.vicnet.net.au/~gfamhist
PO Box 104, Geelong, Vic 3213, Australia 51 Little Malop Street, Geelong, Vic 3220, Australia Phone : (03) 5221 7007 - Fax : (03) 5221 1328 Web Site - www.zades.com.au/geelong/ghrc.html
PO Box 104, Geelong, Vic 3213, Australia Web Site - www.zades.com.au/geelong/ghs.html Email : nhoughton@geelongcity.vic.gov.au Gisborn
Secretary : P.O. Box , New Gisborn, VIC 3438, Australia Email : Glenthompson
Heather Lynch P.O. Box 38, Maroona Road, Glenthompson, VIC 3293, Australia Tel: 03-5577 4283 Grampians
Secretary: Kathy McDonald, PO Box 59, Halls Gap, Vic 3381, Australia Tel: 03-5356 4679 Hamilton
43 Gray Street, Hamilton, Vic 3300 P.O. Box 816, Hamilton, Vic 3300 Tel: (03) 5572-4933 Email: hamiltonhistory@ansonic.com.au Web : home.vicnet.net.au/~hamhist [NEW July 2003] Web : South West Victoria's War History Webpage Harrow
Secretary, Marj Quigley, P.O. Box 58, Harrow, Vic 3317, Australia Tel: 03-5588 0257 Hawkesdale
Secretary, Tim King, "Willawa", Caramut VIC 3274 Tel: 035576 6231 Heytesbury
Secretary: Edna Worrall, Elisabeth LeCouteur, 63 Curdievale Road, 3268, Australia Tel: 03-5598 3103 Hopetoun
Secretary, Ron Wiseman, 33 Toole Street, Hopetoun, VIC 3393, Australia Tel: 03-5083 3240 Horsham
The Secretary, P.O. Box 1113, Horsham, VIC 3402 Email: suesmith@netconnect.com.au Web: www.vicnet.net.au/~hhs
P.O. Box 880, Horsham, Vic 3402 Inglewood
Lynette Rose PO Box 1, Inglewood, VIC 3517, Australia Tel : 03-5438 3169 Website: communitysites.impulse.net.au/inglewood Jamieson
Cnr Nash & Perkins Street, Jamieson, Vic 3723 P.O. Box 26, Jamieson, Vic 3723 Tel: (03) 5777-0690 Email: jdhs@mansfield.net.au Website: www.vicnet.net.au/~jdhs Jeparit
Secretary: Alice McDonald, 15 Hindmarsh Street, Jeparit, VIC 3423, Australia Tel: 03-5397 2337 Kaniva
Secretary: Fran McDonald, 113 Comercial St., Kaniva, Vic 3419, Australia Tel: 03-5392 2693 Kerang
P.O. Box 325, Kerang, Vic 3579 Margaret Bradley, 52a Scoresby street, Kerang, 3579 Tel: 03-5352 1585
Secretary: Pat Jane, "Summerhill" Kerang VIC 3579, Australia Tel: 03 5452 2655 Kilmore
Website : www.kilmorehistory.info Koroit
Secretary: Barbara Price, P.O. Box 118, Koroit, Vic 3282, Australia Tel: 03-5565 8721 Korong (Wedderburn)
Secretary: Campbell Holmes, 26 High St., Wedderburn, Vic 3518, Australia Tel: 03-5494 3454 Kyneton
Secretary: Colin SMITH, P.O. Box 466, Kyneton, VIC 3444, Australia Email: kynetonhs@hotmail.com Lake Bolac
P.O. Box 12, Lake Bolac, Vic 3464 Tel: 03-5352 5736 Lake Goldsmith
P.O. Box 21, Beaufort, Vic 3373 Tel: 03-5349 5512 or 03-9315 0999 Email: mjsheedy@bigpond.com Web: lakegoldsmithsteamrally.homestead.com Landsborough
Secretary: Tim Western, P.O. Landsborough, Vic 3384, Australia Tel: 03-5356 9288 Email: tdwestrn@netconnect.com.au Web: home.vicnet.net.au/~ldhg/ Learmonth
C/- Post Office, Learmonth, Vic 3352 Tel: 03-5334 6330 Lockington
Market Street (PO Box 150), Lockington, Vic 3563, Australia Website: home.vicnet.net.au/~ldlhc/ Email: ldlhc@origin.net.au Linton
C/- Post Office, Linton, Vic 3360 Tel: 03-5344 7430 Lorne
Website: home.vicnet.net.au/~lornhist/ Macarthur
Secretary: Tel: Maldon
P.O. Box 235, Maldon, Vic 3463 Tel: (03) 5475 1633 or (03) 5475 2992 Email - oldsdyle@origin.net.au Mallee
P.O. Box 131, Ouyen, Vic 3940 Maryborough
Web Site - users.river.net.au/~marylib P.O. Box 59, Maryborough, Vic 3465
Secretary: Address: P.O. Box 265, Maryborough, VIC 3465, Australia Email - worscott@iinet.net.au Web Site - vicnet.net.au/~mbhs/ Melbourne
A.I.G.S. Library, Suite 1, 41 Railway Road, BLACKBURN VIC 3130 Web Site - www.alphalink.com.au/~aigs The Genealogical Society of Victoria Descendants of Convicts Group First Fleet Fellowship Vic International Settlers Group Irish Ancestors Group Italian Historical Society The Jewish Museum of Australia Light Railway Research Society of Australia The Military Historical Society of Australia (Victoria Branch) Port Melbourne Historical and Preservation Society Port Phillip Pioneers Group Royal Historical Society of Victoria Scottish Ancestry Group Victorian G.U.M. (Genealogists Using Microcomputers) 1850s Group of Victorian Colonists Melton
Secretary, P.O. Box 2094, Melton, Vic 3338, Aus. Ph : (03) 9747 3478 Email: mdhs@westconnect.Com.au Web Site - users.westconnect.Com.au/~mdhs/ Melton & District Historical Society Mildura
P.O. Box 2895, Mildura, Vic 3502 Email: genealogy@ncable.com.au Web Site - www.rootsweb.com/~ausmdgs/ Minyip
Secretary: Shirley Smith, 54 Foundry St, Minyip, Vic 3392, Australia Tel: 03-5385 7491 Email - smithsa@netconnect.com.au Mooroopna
Web: www.hsm.org.au/ Mortlake
Secretary: Craige Proctor PO Box 116, Mortlake, VIC 3272, Australia Web Page: - mc2.vicnet.net.au/home/mdhs/web Email - mortlakedhs@yahoo.com.au Mount Rouse (Penshurst)
Secretary: Brian O'Brien, 73 Watton St., Penshurst, Vic 3289, Australia Tel: 03-5576 5366 Web: www.vicnet.net.au/~penshist Murtoa
Secretary: Val Gregory, P.O. Box 62, Murtoa, VIC 3390, Australia Tel: 03-5385 2582 Email : doggone@iinet.net.au Napoleons
RSD 368 Colac Rd, Napoleons, Vic 3352 Tel: 03-5342 0777 Nathalia
RMB 1003, Picola, Vic 3639 Email : joybell@hdc.com.au Newstead
Post Office, Newstead, Vic 3462 Nhill
P.O. Box 170, Nhill, Vic 3418, Australia Email : President Email : Secretary Nullawil
Secretary: Lois Bartram, PO Box 26, Nullawil, Vic 3529, Australia Tel: 03-5493 5313 Ouyen
Oke Street, Ouyen, Vic 3490 Secretary: P.O. Box 131, Ouyen, VIC 3490, Australia Email: ouyenlhc@telstra.com Web: www.vicnet.net.au/~ouyenlhc Port Fairy
28 Gipps Street, Port Fairy, Vic 3284 Secretary: Bena Lange, P.O. Box 152, Port Fairy, Vic 3284, Australia Tel: 03-5568 2492 Web: home.vicnet.net.au/~pfhs/ Port Fairy Genealogical Society Portland
P.O. Box 152, Portland, Vic 3305 Tel: (03) 5522-2266 Email: historyhouse@glenelg.vic.gov.au Web: www.standard.net.au/~jwilliams/portland.htm Portland Family History Group Inc. Portland Historical Society Pyramid Hill
Secretary: Ern Ferris, 34 Barber St., Pyramid Hill, Vic 3575 Tel: 03-5455 7090
P.O. Box 135 Queenscliffe, VIC 3225, Australia Hesse Street, Queenscliff, Vic 3225, Australia Tel: (03) 5258 2511 Email: jimth@tpgi.com.au (Contact only not research requests) Web: www.zades.com.au/qcliffhs/default.htm Rainbow
Secretary: Dawn Petschel, 36 King St., Rainbow, Vic 3424, Australia Tel: 03-5395 1382 Rochester
111 High Street, Rochester, Vic, 3561. Tel: 03 5484 1759. Email: sharon@restdown.com Web: Rochester Family History Group Rupanyup
Secretary: Michael Woods, PO Box 47, Rupanyup, Vic 3388, Australia Tel: 03-5385 5036 Rushworth
P.O. Box 102, Rushworth, 3612 Tel: 03 5856 1505 Web: Sebastopol
34 Charlotte Street, Sebastopol, Vic 3356 Tel: 03-5335 9207 Shepparton
P.O. Box 1529, Shepparton, Vic 3630 Web (Newsletter Online): www.vicnet.net.au/~shepfh
President, 154 Welsford Street, PO Box 137, Shepparton, VIC 3632 Tel: (03) 5831 2317 Skipton
32 Scott Street, Skipton, Vic 3361 Tel: 03-5340 2186 Snake Valley
C/- Post Office Snake Valley, Vic 3351 Tel: 03-5344 9440 Email: helen1940@hotkey.net.au St Arnaud
Secretary: Ella Ebery, PO Box 75, St Arnaud, Vic 3478 Tel: 03-5495 1163 Stawell
P.O. Box 417, Stawell, Vic 3380 Email: ellenino@netconnect.com.au Website: home.vicnet.net.au/~stawgeny/
Secretary: PO Box 133, Stawell, Vic 3380, Australia Tel: 03 5358 3789 Email: shsinc@netconnect.com.au Website: http://www.vicnet.net.au/~shsinc/ Sunbury
P.O. Box 601, Sunbury, Vic 3429 Website: www.sunburyfhs.org.au Swan Hill
Secretary: Jan Guse, P.O. Box 1232, Swan Hill, Victoria 3380 Tel: Web Site: home.vicnet.net.au/~shghs/ Talbot
Ballarat Road, Talbot, Vic 3371 Tel: 03-5463 2578 Tarnagulla
Contacts: President - Jennifer Scott. Secretary - Rosemarie Dunn. Tel: 03-5438 7307 Postal Address: 86-88 Commercial Road, Tarnagulla, Victoria 3551. Email: lochcarron4852@activ8.net.au Tarnagulla History Web Site: home.vicnet.net.au/~tarnagul/ Tatura
Secretary, PO Box 156, TATURA VIC 3616 Terang
Secretary: Margaret Parnell, 10 Wilson St., Terang, Vic 3264, Australia Tel: 03-55 921531 Email: historysociety04@hotmail.com Terang Genealogical Society Trentham
P.O. Box 52, Trentham, Vic 3458 Tel: 03-5424 1254 Tongala Wangaratta
P.O. Box 683, Wangaratta, Vic 3677 Web Site - home.netc.net.au/~wfhs/
P.O. Box 812, Wangaratta, Victoria 3676 Email - wanghistsoc@hotmail.com Web Site - wanghistsoc.org.au Warracknabeal
81 Scott Street, Warracknabeal, Vic 3393, Australia Tel: (03) 5398-2371
Secretary: Allan Avery, P.O. Box 355, Warracknabeal, 3393, Australia Tel: 03-55390 9203 Warrnambool
President: President Les O'Callaghan 1 Bates Road Warrnambool, VIC 3280, Australia Tel: 03-5562 6940
Contact: PO Box 607, Warrnambool, Vic 3280, Australia Web: home.vicnet.net.au/~aigswbl/ Werribee
Web Site: www.livingmuseum.org.au/werribee
Web Site: home.vicnet.net.au/~wfhg/ Western Victorian Association of Historical Societies
Web: avoca.vicnet.net.au/~wvahs/ Woady Yaloak
Post Office, Smythesdale, Vic 3351 Tel: 03-5342 8754 or 03-5342 5058 Web: wyhs.ballarat.vic.au Wodonga
P.O. Box 289, Wodonga, Vic 3689, Australia Ph : 0260 563220 Email - wcooksey@tpg.com.au Web Site - www.wodongafamilyhistory.org
Web Site - Moved ! Email - Woodend
Old Woodend Courthouse, Forest Street, Woodend 3442 VIC P.O. Box 124, Woodend 3442, VIC Email - janeth@vicnet.net.au Web Site - http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/asa/directory/data/399.htm Woolsthorpe
Sec: Glenyce McDowell 14 Station Street, Koroite, VIC 3282, Australia Tel: 03 5565 8133 Wycheproof
Secretary: Ainslie Pym, 29 Jolly St., Wycheproof, Vic 3527, Australia Tel: 03 5493 7380 Yackandandah
21 High Street, YACKANDANDAH VIC 3749 Yarrawonga
8 Witt Street, YARRAWONGA VIC 3730
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