PROV Victoria Collection API (Australia)

connected, not yet live

What it holds

Wills and probate, inquests, land, immigration indexes — keyless JSON API works

Who runs it, and on what terms

Provider

Public Record Office Victoria

Licence for use here

UNCONFIRMED for paid use

Attribution

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Cost to search

free

Terms read

2026-09-06

Official documentation

https://api.prov.vic.gov.au/search/query?q=wills&rows=1&wt=json

Status: API is open but PROV's reuse licence could not be read (site blocks bots) — owner emails PROV before we display records. Until it is live, Provara tells you when this archive is where to look and you bring the record in yourself.

How to search it in Provara

1. Wills and probate: ask Provara whether an ancestor left a will.
2. Inquests: ask Provara whether an unexplained death left an inquest.
3. Immigration and passenger lists: ask Provara when and where an ancestor arrived.
4. Provara searches this archive alongside every other live one, ranks what comes back by how many of the person's recorded facts each hit contains, and shows you the record with a ready citation. Nothing is added to your tree until you confirm it.

Record types here

• Wills and probate — A will or an estate file names heirs, spouses and property, and fixes a death to a court date.
• Inquests — Coroners' inquiries into sudden deaths: cause, witnesses, circumstances.
• Immigration and passenger lists — Arrivals by ship or border: name, age, origin, destination, sometimes the relative they were joining. The bridge between the old country and the new.

Every licence on these pages was read from the archive's own terms on the date shown. Provara proposes only what a record it has read supports, shows the record beside the claim, and marks anything unsourced as a hypothesis. Nothing on this page states a fact about any person.