The Victorian Gold Rush in Australia generally refers to that period from 1851 through to early 1860s, although gold was found earlier & is still being sought now
- ANU Gold Documents – http://www.anu.edu.au/ANDC/res/aus_words/gold/index.php (Documents from Vic newspapers relating to gold)
- Australian Institute of Genealogical Studies – http://www.aigs.org.au (Melbourne)
- Australian Newspapers – http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/home (digitised Australian newspapers 1803-1954)
- Aus-Vic-Goldfields – http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/AUS/AUS-VIC-GOLDFIELDS.html (Rootsweb mailing list)
- Ballarat & District Genealogical Society Inc – http://www.ballaratgenealogy.org.au (genealogy links)
- Bendigo Goldfields Petition 1853 – http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/collections/treasures/bendigopetition/ (includes index of names)
- Documenting a Democracy – http://www.foundingdocs.gov.au/area.asp?aID=8 (digitized key documents in Victorian history)
- eGold Electronic Encyclopedia of Gold in Australia – http://www.egold.net.au (articles, images, people, places)
- eMelbourne Gold – http://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM00652b.htm (article, impact of gold discoveries on Melbourne)
- Eureka Centre, Ballarat – http://www.eurekaballarat.com/
- Eureka diary online ("Lazarus Diary") – http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/about/news/latest/031006.html (first person account of Eureka uprising)
- Eureka Sydney – http://eurekasydney.com/links.html
- Eureka! The Rush for Gold – http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/discover_collections/history_nation/gold/index.html (articles, images, documents)
- Genealogical Society of Victoria – http://www.gsv.org.au (contains links, research guides, VicFamilies search)
- Helen Doxford Harris website – http://members.ozemail.com.au/~hdharris/ (site contains various indexes)
- Heritage Council, Golden Heritage – http://www.heritage.vic.gov.au/Learning-education/Victorian-Goldfields.aspx (links to films, podtours, articles)
- Ian Potter Museum – http://www.art-museum.unimelb.edu.au/victorian_gold/ (articles)
- National Library of Australia Digital Collections – http://www.nla.gov.au/digicoll/ (pictures, maps, books - Search Digital Collections for 'gold')
- Public Record Office of Victoria – http://www.access.prov.vic.gov.au/public/PROVguides/PROVguide023/PROVguide023.jsp (digitised records & online indexes)
- Royal Historical Society of Victoria – http://www.historyvictoria.org.au/ (contains databases, podcasts, online indexes)
- SBS GOLD! – http://www.sbs.com.au/gold/ (articles, maps, images, links)
- Society of Australian Genealogists – http://www.sag.org.au (Sydney)
- Sebastopol, Ballarat, Victoria – http://www.bdgs.org.au/old/sebastopol/index.html
- Tarnagulla (formerly Sandy Creek) – http://home.vicnet.net.au/~tarnagul/
- Times (London) – http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/databases/athome.cfm (for NSW residents - see contemporary articles about the gold rush)
- Treasures of the Victorian Collection – http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/collections/treasures/index.html (treasures of the State Library of Victoria)
- Victoria Government Gazettes (1836 to present) – http://gazette.slv.vic.gov.au/ (includes NSW Government Gazettes 1836-1851)
- Victorian Births, Deaths & Marriages – http://www.bdm.vic.gov.au/ (search BDM indexes &/or order certificates - online indexes cost, use CD indexes if possible)
- Victorian Cemeteries online – http://www.australiancemeteries.com/vic/index.htm (links to cemeteries, many can be searched online)
- Victorian Collection of Historical Photographs – http://www.nre.vic.gov.au/virtualexhibition/Mines/Index.htm (photographs & articles, mines & diggers)
- Victorian Divorce Index 1861-1900 – http://www.macbeth.com.au/indexes/divsearch.html
- Victorian Index to Divorce Cause Books 1861-1924 – http://www.prov.vic.gov.au/publications/documents/05335-P0.asp
- Victorian Place Names Index – http://www.australiagenweb.org/archive/vicplacenames.php (useful for interpreting abbreviations in BDM indexes)
- Victorian Rural Cemetery records (1836-1988) on Ancestry.com – http://www.ancestry.com.au/search/db.aspx?dbid=1266 (costs)
- Victorian State Library – http://www.slv.vic.gov.au
- Victorian State Library electronic genealogy resources – http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/about/using/guides/resources/by_collection/genealogy/genie3.html (hotels & German sick)
- Victorian Wills – http://proarchives.imagineering.com.au/index_search.asp?searchid=54