PROV Wiki - Home

Getting started

• What is the PROV Wiki for?
• How does the PROV Wiki differ from Wikipedia?
• Creating a user account

What can I do on the PROV Wiki?

• How can I contribute to the PROV Wiki?
• Posting etiquette
• What if I'm wrong?

Creating or editing a page

• Creating a new page
• Creating a new page using the Transcribed Record Form
  
• Editing existing pages (or adding text to the page you just created)
• Adding images to pages
• Linking to the PROV catalogue

PROVLAB: tools in development

Search the PROV wiki by

• Date

• Currency

• Weight

• Distance

Explore and Contribute

• Our January Record of the Month pays homage to Sir Ernest Edward “Weary” Dunlop – Australian of the Year, 1976.

• Find details of women who signed the 1891 Women's Suffrage Petition
• Update captions to the 1956 Melbourne Olympics Photographic Collection
• Explore Victorian Railways Photographs
• Find resources on Edward "Ned" Kelly

Browse Research Topics

• By place...see in a larger map

• By category...Adoption Birth Cemeteries Chinese language records Convicts Courts Death Divorce Education Employment Family History Immigration Inquests Koorie Heritage Land Marriage Mental Health Mining Photographic Collections Police Prisons Probates Property Schools Ships Transport Wardship Wills Women

• By theme e.g. People, Place, Date, Event, Record, Tag

If you get stuck

these FAQ pages may help...Births, Deaths and Marriages...Court Records...Divorce...Education...Immigration...Inquests and Body Cards...Insolvency Records...Koorie Records...Mental Health...Mining...Photographic Collections...FAQ - Police Records...Prison records...Property records...Railways...Wills and Probate records