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Maxi database for genealogists

People compiling family trees or curious about their ancestors will now have easier access to information with a new Internet service at Victoria’s Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages.

For the first time in Australia, more than four million records of births, deaths and marriages from 1836 to 1920 are available to people tracing their family heritage through maxi, the new interactive face of the Victorian Government.

There are two databases available on the Historical Records Search Service. The first is the traditional index of births, deaths and marriages and the second is the family-group database, which links parents who began having families up to 1860.

The family-group database contains information on marriages and children born to those marriages up to the 1880s. It also contains information about marriages of couples that took place prior to their arrival in Victoria from either overseas or interstate. Information on the births of children born either overseas or en route to Victoria is also available.

Family historians can search the records for as little as 50c a search.

This service is only available on the Victorian Government’s maxi online transaction network. The service can be found at www.maxi.com.au.

(News Release, Office of the Attorney-General, June 16, 1999)