Public Record Office Victoria provides a wide range of services to enable researchers to access the public records of Victoria. The following pages will help you search for, order and use records from our collection. While many initial research tasks can now be done over the Internet you will need to visit a Public Record Office Victoria reading room to view most of the records we hold.
| This is an index to Registers of Assisted British Immigrants 1839-1871 |
| This database is a searchable list of passengers travelling on ships leaving Victoria. |
| Use this index to find plans created and managed by the Building Services Agency (Series VPRS 3686, 3821 and 11519) between 1853 and 1998. |
| This is an index to Unassisted Inward Passenger Lists for British, Foreign and New Zealand Ports 1852-1923 |
| This database assists you in finding public building files (correspondence, plans and other material) at Public Record Office Victoria. |
| This databases gives access to files from 1906 to 1952 that were maintained by the Registered Schools Board to provide a history of all Non-Government schools in Victoria since registration. |
| A database of files relating to equity suits brought before the Master in Equity in the Supreme Court between 1884 and 1922. |
| A searchable transcription of a list of applicants for the old age pension (or their family members) in North Melbourne between 1902 and c. 1908. |
| This database gives access to records of teachers (for surnames beginning A–T only) employed between 1849 and 1881 by the Education Department. |
| This database gives access to the Treasurer’s inward correspondence (1838–1855) that details the names of pastoral run licensees. |
| This database gives access to the Treasurer’s inward correspondence (1838–1855) that details publicans’ names, hotel names, hotel addresses, and the names of persons to whom hotels were transferred (if applicable). |
| This index gives access to Melbourne Court of Insolvency records on the basis of company or personal name for the period 1848 to 1875. |
| This index gives partial access to Geelong Court of Insolvency records on the basis of an insolvent’s name or the year of the insolvency case. |
| This index allows you to locate photographs of individuals who worked at the 1888 International Exhibition in Melbourne. |
| This database gives access to examination reports on the basis of teachers’ names and school(s) where they worked. |
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| This database gives access to information on Port Phillip District citizens and their dwellings for the years 1848 to 1849. |
| This database searches descriptions of digitised negatives from the 1956 Melbourne Olympics Photograph Collection. |
| This database can be used to search descriptions for negatives from the former Public Transport Corporation Photographic Library, transferred to PROV. |
| This database gives access to Teacher Record Books available on microfilm in PROV reading rooms as VPRS 13718. |
| A selection of volumes (6, 9, 20, 48, 51, 55, 57, 61, 69 and 74) containing entries on Male prisoners in Victoria. |
| This database gives access to records of the Royal Melbourne Zoological Gardens and related organisations. |
