Supreme Court of Victoria Probate Applications - up to very recently. Very useful for those deaths after 1985. http://scvprobate.com.au/probate/Search/ApplicationIndex.aspx Dawn Cowley's cheap spare BDMs http://home.vicnet.net.au/~mgfhs/dawncowleysbdm.htm<http://home.vicnet.net.au/%7Emgfhs/dawncowleysbdm.htm> What information you might expect to find on a certificate http://www.jaunay.com/bdm.html Google news archive search - good for newspapers not on Trove e.g. The Age in Victoria and many New Zealand newspapers. http://news.google.com.au/archivesearch Victorian probate records online to 1925 http://www.prov.vic.gov.au/indexes/index_search.asp?searchid=54 British surname distribution from 1881 census http://gbnames.publicprofiler.org/ Jenny Coates www.jcch.com.au