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Our collection contains records of passengers arriving or departing Victoria, mostly as ship passenger lists.
They are divided into:
1. inward bound passengers
- “assisted” (subsidised)
- “unassisted” (paying their own way), or
- “coastal” (travelling to Victoria from an Australian port), and
2. outward bound passengers, regardless of destination.
What do I need to know before I start?
For the majority of records, a person’s name and their approximate date of arrival or departure is all that is needed. Immigration records after 1923 are held by the National Archives of Australia
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