Colonial South Australian Pioneers

Searching for Colonial SA Pioneers

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Notes

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We're working to ensure family groups are listed together for the convenience of researchers. Each group is based on the principal male of the family and is well advanced for arrivals, marriages and births of their children, but deaths and burials of wives and children are to be found alphabetically under their own names. At the same time, we're eliminating as many of the thousands of errors and inconsistencies in the source materials as we can. The work will take a considerable time to complete as it involves more than 80,000 persons in hundreds of thousands of records. Please contact us to report any remaining errors and omissions that you find, giving the sources of your information so that we can verify your claims.