Research

Available Resources:

The society has an extensive collection of material available to the community. These include:

• Extensive family and township files.
• Vast Melba files.
• Our Behind the Bench Library specialising in local and family histories.
• Photographic collection of more than 4000 photos
• Photographic collection of Jack Lundy-Clark
• Changing theme-based displays
• Microfilm copies of the Lilydale Express newspaper from 1886 to 1960
• Bound copies of the Lilydale Express from 1961 to the present time
• Microfilm copies of the Evelyn Observer 1882 to 1888
• Microfilm copies of the Lilydale Mail 1929
• Digital copies of the Lilydale Express 1886 to 1960
• Copy of the Lilydale Cemetery Burial Registers
• Photographs of the headstones at Lilydale Cemetery from 1864- 1931
• Selection of births, deaths and marriages on microfiche
• Lilydale RSL Minute books now indexed
• World War I scrapbook of local newspaper articles now indexed
• Microfiche reader
• Microfilm reader and printer
• Digital scanner
• Digital camera
• Photocopier