Family History South Australia

Were your ancestors pioneers of South Australia? Find out by searching our early shipping passenger lists, marriage and cemetery records. Use our free databases, informative articles and genealogy resources to build your family tree and to answer your family history questions.

Searchable Databases
Passenger lists of shipping arrivals in South Australia 1803-53⁺updated
Marriages in South Australia 1836-52
Cemeteries & burials in South Australia

History & Help Articles
Early South Australian history timeline
Accuracy of family history sources
Genealogy database design

13^th Australasian Congress
Genealogy & Heraldry
2012 Adelaide SA

Genealogy Resources
Worldwide by region & country Family tree software
Australia by state & territory Cemeteries & burials Military service & war deaths
South Australia by category Births, baptisms, marriages, deaths Cemeteries & burials Church archives Electoral offices Family history & genealogy groups Family trees Leadbeater family history Government archives Land owners Libraries Local history groups Maps & place names Interactive map of SA Passenger lists, shipping, migration War deaths & military history

Adelaide Co-op Databases
Gold diggers from SA 1852-53
Naturalizations in SA 1839-91
Persons lost & found 1838-90 [deserters, missing]
Land purchases by credit selection in SA 1869-90
SA District Constables 1853-90
South Australian Police 1838-1920
Gazetted deaths in SA 1845-1941
WWI deaths of South Australian servicemen
South Australian returned servicemen deathsupdated

Adelaide Co-operative History
Articles [some with name lists]