Archival Access

Can't get to the PROV? I do it for you! Research and digitisation of Victoria's archival records...

[Archival Access @archivalaccess]

@PRO_Vic Thanks - I'll check back in later :)

[Archival Access @archivalaccess]

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...

[PRO Victoria @PRO_Vic]

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: https://t.co/BZarFRPb0W

[Archival Access @archivalaccess]

@PRO_Vic Good to know - I'll keep at it!

[Archival Access @archivalaccess]

@PRO_Vic - word on the street is there are plenty more digitised records to come to your new platform...is there a list?! Or will there be a regular blog post or notification when new material becomes available online? 🤓

[Archival Access @archivalaccess]

@PRO_Vic Great! Looking forward to it 😃 Will any school/pupil registers be going up?

[Archival Access @archivalaccess]

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! https://t.co/XeInHiFGMN

[Archival Access @archivalaccess]

@loveleekristy @PRO_Vic Some of the volunteers have found relatives in pupil registers they'd never expected to! Really highlights the value in having these records more accessible :)

[Archival Access @archivalaccess]

@PRO_Vic - loving the new website, finding lots of wonderful things! I thought I'd share some other wonderful work volunteers have been doing, indexing your pupil registers! 70,000+ names and counting, online for everyone https://t.co/TOgFX5qfwZ

[Liz Pidgeon @Infolass]

Seeking advice from Aus #twitterstorians Group on unknown pedestrian bridge, probably in Victoria. Where could this be? #unidentified https://t.co/GH4JzClnaA

[Old Treasury Building @OldTreasuryMelb]

#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

[PRO Victoria @PRO_Vic]

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'! https://t.co/gkAwivoLXc

[Archival Access @archivalaccess]

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 https://t.co/MkhFOJeqw9

[PRO Victoria @PRO_Vic]

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. https://t.co/aK0YjYx3v2

[Liz Pidgeon @Infolass]

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 https://t.co/1V0YRJiSXV

[Archival Access @archivalaccess]

Hi @PRO_Vic - @Library_Vic is opening again soon, any news on when we can pay you a visit?! Having withdrawals here 😂

[PRO Victoria @PRO_Vic]

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...

[PRO Victoria @PRO_Vic]

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! https://t.co/JDyjuWCKVA #Archive30

[State Library Vic @Library_Vic]

#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 )

[Archival Access @archivalaccess]

Interested in 'Old Talllangatta'?

Here is an index of names appearing on the certificate of title from properties that now lay below Lake Hume.

https://t.co/8QttFVesrw

It includes the owner's name, the year they took ownership and the volume and folio number from the title.