Online Catalogue – Ordering Inquest Records

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This guide outlines step by step how to request and order Inquest records on PROV's Online Catalogue for viewing in PROV’s North Melbourne Reading Room at the Victorian Archives Centre. Wherever you go on PROV’s Online Catalogue, you can click on the Help icon to see detailed information relating to the page that you are currently using.

PROV holds records for inquests held in Victoria from 1841 to 1995. To locate records created from 1996 onwards researchers are advised to contact the Coronial Services Centre:

Coronial Services Centre

57 Kavanagh Street,

Southbank VIC 3006

(03) 9684 4444 or 1800 136 852 (for regional or interstate callers)

www.coronerscourt.vic.gov.au

The Ordering Inquests page on PROV’s online catalogue looks for records in the Inquest Deposition Files Series (VPRS 24). You will need to consult the Index to Victorian Inquests available in PROV’s Reading Rooms to find the year and inquest number that corresponds to the person or people whose inquest records you are looking for. The Index to Victorian Inquests is also available at the Coronial Services Centre, the State Library of Victoria, or genealogical research centres and some local libraries.

Once you have found the number you require from the Index to Victorian Inquests you can find and order the inquest records that are held by PROV using the Ordering Inquests page on PROV’s online catalogue.

Step 1: Log in to PROV's Online Catalogue. See PROVguide 19 for information on registering a Public User Account if you do not already have one.

Step 2: Select Inquests from the Ordering menu. The Ordering Inquests page will be displayed.

Step 3: Enter the year and inquest number from the Index to Inquests, as in the example above. Up to 4 inquests can be searched for at a time. Click on the Search button.

Step 4: If results are found, the Search Results page will be displayed, listing the matching inquest records.

Step 5: In the Search Results page tick the check box next to the Inquest records you wish to order and click on the Order selected entries button to process the order. If they are not on order to another researcher the selected records will be ordered and appear in your My Orders: Current page.

More Information

See PROVguide 21 for information about ordering records in PROV’s collection, including how to place an Alert on a record that has been ordered by another researcher.

See PROVguide 71 for information about Inquest records.

For help with ordering Inquest records contact PROV’s Help Desk

Tel: 1800 657 452 (toll free in Australia)

Email: ask.prov@dvc.vic.gov.au