Provenance

Family trees created in conversation with MDL Family Historians in the late 1990s, related to most Wandin families they were researching at the time.

Purpose/Function

This archival collection was created to record the family histories of the first white settler families in Wandin Yallock, and organise these records into family folders easily accessible by family history researchers and the public. The Victorian Collections page contains a limited amount of information on each document: if you are a researcher wanting to find out more, please feel free to reach out to the museum and we will give you further information.

Arrangement

The documents within this series have been digitised onto a family history database, accessible in-person at the Mont de Lancey Library. This database is organised into 1000+ family folders, containing all relevant documents to certain families. They are also all OCR scanned, so a user can instead search a name or type of document into the database, and browse every document related to that name. Every document is tagged with its document type, relevant people (with first, last, and previous family names), date, and location. These digital copies are now being uploaded to Victorian Collections, so as to further increase their accessibility. Most of these family trees are quite large, so for Victorian Collections, the first page has been included as an image, and then the entire PDF attached and available for download. As well as being accessible digitally, these items are also (largely) available physically, in organised family binders.

Content

These are the most comprehensive family trees MDL currently has for the main Wandin families. This said, more recent research since has necessitated the updating of many of these. Therein, while many of these trees are a lovely starting point for research, it would be useful to view them in combination with the other relevant family documents and trees we have.