About Us
The Family History South Australia website (also known as FamilyHistorySA) was launched on 1 January 1996 after its creation, development and testing in late 1995. The aim was, and still is, to provide free resources and data for family history and genealogy research on South Australians and their ancestors at home and abroad.
Its present domain name, familyhistorysa.info, dates from 14 September 2003.
In the early years, information included:- A timeline of early South Australian history,
- South Australian family tree resource directory including the Leadbeater family,
- South Australian genealogy resource directory including family history and local history groups
- Australian genealogy resource directory by state,
- Worldwide genealogy resource directory by country, including the British Isles (UK), New Zealand and Germany,
- Family tree software resource directory.
- Starting your family tree,
- Accuracy of family history sources,
- Advanced searching of our databases,
- Genealogy database design and its genetic basis;
And maps of the world, the UK, New Zealand, Germany, Australia, South Australia and Adelaide.
Most importantly, the following free searchable databases have been added:- Early shipping arrivals in South Australia & their passenger lists (1st listings by the year 2000, searchable in 2002) together with a directory of other SA shipping and migration resources,
- South Australian cemeteries and burials together with a directory of other SA cemetery resources,
- Early SA births, marriages, and deaths including those prior to civil registration, together with a directory of other SA birth, baptism, marriage, death & burial resources,
- The 1841 census of South Australia, and
- A combined database of passenger arrivals, births, baptisms, marriages, deaths and burials in South Australia.
Affiliations
This site is entirely non-commercial and has no affiliation, formal or informal, with any genealogy society or other commercial or non-commercial organization.
In particular, there is no affiliation of any kind with the familyhistorysa dot com website created on or after 12 February 2009.
We do, however, host the Adelaide Cooperative History site, the content of which complements our own.
Disclaimer
Use of this site and its data and information is entirely at the user's risk. Any data required for a critical application should be thoroughly checked by the user for accuracy and suitability to that application.
Barry Leadbeater
Site Owner
Email address: leadbeater@ozemail.com.au
Your emailed enquiries, suggestions and criticisms are very welcome.
About Adelaide Cooperative History
The Adelaide Cooperative History website is hosted by Family History South Australia. It was created in March 2006 to assist with South Australian history research including local and family history. The Co-op is a small, informal group that uses the resources of the State Library of South Australia, State Records of SA, National Archives of Australia and other repositories to provide readily available free databases and informative history articles.
The conditions of use, disclaimer, specifications and privacy policy are identical to those for Family History South Australia.