VICTORIA GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

Currie · Post by **Currie** » Mon May 25, 2009 12:36 pm

Victoria Government Gazette – Historic Gazettes 1836 – 1997. http://gazette.slv.vic.gov.au/

Gazettes for the Australian State of Victoria are now on-line and searchable from official settlement to the present day. This database includes the NSW Government Gazette 1836 – 1851. This may be useful for anyone who has or suspects an Australian connection.

You can find information about land transactions, court notices, government appointments, bankruptcies, proclamation of acts, deregistration of medical practitioners, statistics, tenders, unclaimed letters and monies, reward notices, and more.

Hot off the press from the Society of Australian Genealogists newsletter. http://www.sag.org.au/index.php?option= ... Itemid=104

Hope it’s as useful as it looks,
Alan

trish1 · Post by **trish1** » Tue May 26, 2009 5:02 am

WOW - thanks Alan - I get more amazed with the internet every day - my folks had mainly left Victoria by 1920 but that leaves alot of gazettes prior to that time

Trish

Edit - I can't get the images to view online, am I doing something wrong? - I can download the pdf of a complete gazette - being the first one 1836 NSW has the land purchase of my ggg grandfather who recently arrived from Scotland!

Currie · Post by **Currie** » Tue May 26, 2009 5:49 am

Hello Trish,

Last night the images were loading in the viewer fairly quickly and I could zoom using the bottom slider, but the zoom wasn’t very fine tuneable and was pretty awful.

When the image appeared I could right-click and ‘save as’ and what was saved was a full resolution gif image of the single page.

Today the image just keeps loading, so maybe the site is overloaded.

Alan

Currie · Post by **Currie** » Tue May 26, 2009 9:24 am

Hello Trish,

It looks like it’s another one of those sites designed to run on the non-standard idiosyncrasies of products sold by Bill Gates. If it doesn’t work properly for you, and you’re using Firefox, you may need to use the IE Tab add-on. When installed go to the Gazette site, right-click the toolbar icon and add it to the filter. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419

Now works for me and zooms okay,
Alan

trish1 · Post by **trish1** » Tue May 26, 2009 9:28 am

Guess that is what comes of spreading the word

The pdf files download quite quickly & the pages are numbered so it is relatively easy to find the searched item.

I'll try the page views again later

many thanks

Trish

RichardHayward · Post by **RichardHayward** » Thu May 28, 2009 7:59 am

Hi Trish and Alan,

Its great to see your interest in the Victoria Government Gazette – Historic Gazettes 1836 – 1997. http://gazette.slv.vic.gov.au/ I've been a project manager working on the delivery of this website. Its been a collaboration between the State Library of Victoria, Land Victoria and the Office of the Chief Parliamentary Counsel (State Government of Victoria).

On Tuesday we experienced a lot of interest in this website, and this explains why you noticed things were not working as fast as you'd expect. The website team implemented some improvements on Tuesday morning so that the website could handle the additional attention. Now I believe things are working very smoothly.

The site is developed to work equally well in both major web browsers, so I hope you find the experience in either works well for you.

If you do have any questions or feedback about this project please visit http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/about/site/feedback.html

Best wishes with your research, Richard Hayward.

Currie · Post by **Currie** » Thu May 28, 2009 9:27 am

Hello Richard and welcome to TalkingScot.

I just gave it another try and it’s working almost perfectly using Firefox with or without IE tab. The only thing that isn’t perfect about it is that almost all of my relatives are in other States.

I hope you shame NSW into doing the same thing with their Gazettes seeing that you’ve given them a bit of a help along by making theirs available up to 1851.

But seriously, I’ll give the site top marks.

Thanks very much to everyone involved in the project.

All the best,
Alan

scooter · Post by **scooter** » Thu May 28, 2009 12:23 pm

Hello Richard,

Nice site, but wanted to ask, are the NSW directories included when performing a search? I've tried a couple of names that I've found through browsing, but which don't come up in a search.

Back to the browsing......

Scott

Post by **joette** » Thu May 28, 2009 1:02 pm

Yes Richard Welcome to TalkingScot.What a fabulous resource.I have been having a look around & as always going off into different tangents.
Do you have any Scottish connections?
Thanks Alan as always for sharing your finds.
Hi Scooter how are the "gang" doing? Must be at interesting stages! Any recent snaps?

trish1 · Post by **trish1** » Sat May 30, 2009 1:16 pm

Scooter wrote:Hello Richard,

Nice site, but wanted to ask, are the NSW directories included when performing a search? I've tried a couple of names that I've found through browsing, but which don't come up in a search.

Back to the browsing......

Scott

Hi Scott

I found a couple of my folks in the early NSW gazettes that are available only until 1851 - if you can't find any names you can browse by date - but that would be a lengthy process

Hi Richard

Many thanks for your information - with the Victorian wills online and now the gazettes, my Victorian families are coming to the forefront of my research at the minute - I doubt I will ever finish finding all that is to be found.

Trish