Family history & genealogy

Want to research your family tree, or trace the history of your house?

The Local Studies Room at Footscray Library has a number of print, microfiche, microfilm and online resources to help you conduct historical research. 

You can access:

• Birth, death and marriage indexes
• Sands and McDougal directories, and other postal directories
• Local newspaper archives
• Cemetery records

Online help

Ancestry.com and Find my Past are both accessible for free from the public access PC's at all library branches.