Can't get to the PROV? I do it for you! Research and digitisation of Victoria's archival records...
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Morning @PRO_Vic - is there an issue with your website at the moment? Search is working OK, but no information when you click on a record...
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The Victorian Archives Centre is reopening Monday 8 November 2021. In line with Vic Gov’s roadmap to Deliver the National Plan and to ensure we are continuing to keep everyone safe we have made some changes to our services. Visit our website for details: prov.vic.gov.au/victorian-ar…
ALT Victorian Archives Centre building frontage
I've taken @PRO_Vic information on female prisoners and created this visualisation to explore the data in a different way. A work in progress...some tweaks and cleaning up of data to come! datastudio.google.com/report…
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Seeking advice from Aus #twitterstorians Group on unknown pedestrian bridge, probably in Victoria. Where could this be? #unidentified buff.ly/3eKEnhG
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#DidYouKnow the first Exhibition Building in Melbourne was on the site of the Royal Mint! On opening day, a steam machine printed the very first edition of @theage!
#ISOMapMay
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Launched last year, the PROV Map Warper is a tool for digitally aligning historical maps and plans with maps of the present day. Thousands of plans from our Historic Plans Collection have now been added and are ready to be 'rectified'! prov.vic.gov.au/about-us/our…
Wrongly imprisoned, sent to the other side of the world, lived a solitary life on the craggy shoreline of Victoria's South Coast. This is the tale of William Archer facebook.com/notes/archival-…
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An elephant facing the paparazzi, and the offloading of a Dire Straits tour bus. All in a day's work for the Port of Melbourne in 1985! For more #AnimalsAtTheArchives, see our Flickr album below. flickr.com/photos/public-rec…
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Search your family history via Births Deaths and Marriages Victoria who are continuing to provide discounted certificates to validate your family stories and move forward with your research #genealogy #familyhistory buff.ly/2ZQQ27A
Hi @PRO_Vic - @Library_Vic is opening again soon, any news on when we can pay you a visit?! Having withdrawals here 😂
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We are updating our systems later this year to make searching and ordering records from the collection a whole lot easier!
In preparation for the change, we need you to ensure your account has a valid email address, so that your order history is maintained in the new system...
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Every year on the 1st of January, hundreds of state archives are made public as part of Public Record Office Victoria’s annual Section 9 openings providing #somethingnew for researchers to delve into! prov.vic.gov.au/about-us/our… #Archive30
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#DidYouKnow old books smell so good because over time the cellulose and lignin in their pages break down to form airborne compounds like toluene, vanillin, and furfural, which smell sweet, vanilla-like, and almond-like respectively - and nostalgia 😉
(Thanks @CSIRO )
Interested in 'Old Talllangatta'?
Here is an index of names appearing on the certificate of title from properties that now lay below Lake Hume.
tinyurl.com/OLDtallangatta
It includes the owner's name, the year they took ownership and the volume and folio number from the title.
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Smiling Victorians: why it's a myth that our ancestors didn't smile for pictures HistoryExtra
historyextra.com/period/vict…
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So Jas is short for James, Geo is short for George, Wm is short for William, but what is Mw short for? #TranscriptionTuesday help needed!
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Fancy some chocolate biscuits for 39 cents?
Who else is using this time to clean? We found this is the roof, The Sun from April 13, 1972!
What have you found?
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Here we are on a busy night at the archives, 2019, one of our favourite photos of the building and the perfect way to start #Archive30! Day 1 is #Yourarchive: as the Victorian Govt's archive we hold an extraordinary array of records from the mid-1830s on. prov.vic.gov.au
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#Twitterstorians RT @LiamD_23: Doing some home schooling. Couldn't be doing with any maths nonsense so talked about history. Here's my 6 year old's first essay https://xitter.cf/t.co/lDX0FynfR6 (via @JonPiccini)
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This photograph from our Country Roads Board collection is labeled "Calder Highway Section 3: Wycheproof Township showing train travelling along centre of plantation. 1940."
#TrainsPlanesAutomobiles
Search for more like this in the green search box here: prov.vic.gov.au/explore-coll…
