Helen D Harris OAM, is a professional genealogist and historian who has been researching at PROV for more than thirty years. She specialises in police, court and criminal records and is the co-author of Cops and robbers: a guide to researching 19th century police and criminal records in Victoria (Harriland Press, 1990). She has a Master of Arts from Monash University and was awarded an Order of Australia Medal in 1993 for services to community history.
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