(Australia) Victoria State Library Digitized Sands and McDougall Directories

[Jan Meisels Allen janmallen@att.net]

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City directories are always genealogical treasure troves! The Victoria State
Library (Australia) has digitized 50,000 pages of the classic Sands &
McDougall directories which date from 1862-1974. It comprises 24-leather
bound volumes. The directories listed every property, householder, trade
and business in Melbourne and later all of Victoria State. It gives a
street by street listing of business and heads of households, and lists
businesses by type. About 7 million records will now go online.

To access the records go to the State Library of Victoria website at:
https://www.slv.vic.gov.au/ scroll down to "Our latest stories" and click
on "seven million insights into the past share a safer future for Victoria".
When the new window opens go to column "latest posts" and scroll down to the
"seven million insights. click on that hyperlink for more information on
the digitized Sands and McDougall Directories and to search them go to:
http://cedric.slv.vic.gov.au/R/?func=collections&collection_id=3907

For more information on the collections of the State Library of Victoria
see: https://www.slv.vic.gov.au/

Thank you to Bubbles Segall, Melbourne, Australia for sharing information
from the HeraldSun.com.au news article.

Jan Meisels Allen
Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
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