Membership Benefits
We will assist you in compiling a comprehensive and accurate family tree, or a family history with all the interesting stories, or something in between.
In our centrally located Melbourne library & research centre, you can work with an experienced volunteer research assistant. With their guidance you can efficiently organise and record the family information you already hold and then investigate our many resources and background information to confirm the facts and add more detail.
You'll be socialising with people who have like-minded interest in the people and circumstances in the past.
This includes
• Free access to our comprehensive Library collection of family history records not available in commercial databases.
• Includes indexes, books, maps, family histories, CD's and other published and unpublished material.
• Free access within our library to Ancestry™, findmypast™, TheGenealogist™, ScotlandsPlaces™, British Newspaper Archive™.
• Free training classes and talks.
• Free participation in special interest groups and discussion circles.
• Four issues per year of our award-winning journal Ancestor
• GSV@Home will demonstrate our online resources if you cannot visit the library and shows how to access the webcasts of many of our talks.
• Free quick lookups for members, plus one annual 2 hrs free research query for distant members. Also provide a fee-based service for extended research.
• Reciprocal rights with other major societies.