South Australian Genealogy Directory

This directory of South Australian family history and genealogy resources includes more detailed subdirectories on shipping & immigration; births, marriages & deaths; cemeteries; family trees; genealogy & local history groups; and our searchable databases. It also points to external family history and genealogy sites and gives contact information for organisations without websites.

Aboriginal people

• State Library of South Australia - Indigenous collections
• University of Adelaide - Aboriginal Studies

Births, baptisms, marriages, deaths & burials

• Birth, baptism, marriage, death & burial resource directory [comprehensive]
  • Search our early SA births including those before civil registration
  • Search our early SA marriages including those before civil registration
  • Search our early SA deaths including those before civil registration

Cemeteries

• Cemetery resource directory [comprehensive]
  • Search our South Australian cemeteries & burials database
  • Help on searching for South Australian burials

Census

• Search our South Australian 1841 census database [the only SA census with surviving details]

Church archives

• Adelaide Catholic Archives & Records Services
• Adelaide Hebrew Congregation
  • Archivist, PO Box 320, Glenside SA 5065, Australia
• Anglican Church of Australia - Anglican Archives
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  • Family History Centres in SA
  • FamilySearch Australia: South Australia Community Trees
  • FamilySearch
• Lutheran Church of Australia - Lutheran Archives
• The Salvation Army - SA Division
• Uniting Church History Centre (SA Synod)

Courts

• Courts Administration Authority of South Australia
• Probate Registry [contact information for obtaining deceased estate wills & grants of probate]
  • Supreme Court Building, 1 Gouger Street, Adelaide SA 5000, Australia
  • Telephone: +618 8204 0505
• Supreme Court Registry [contact information]
  • 1 Gouger Street, Adelaide SA 5000, Australia
  • Telephone: +618 8204 0476 & +618 8204 0478

Electoral offices

• Australian Electoral Commission - state offices
• State Electoral Office

Family history and genealogy groups

• Genealogy society and family history group directory [comprehensive]

Family trees

• Family tree directory [comprehensive]
  • Leadbeater family history

Government

• Adelaide City Council Archives
• Local governments [Councils]
• National Archives of Australia - state offices
• South Australian Government Gazette - 1999 to present
• SA Government Gazette index [19th century - selected items only]
• State Records of South Australia
  • Family history
  • Name search

Land

• Counties and Hundreds of South Australia
• Land purchase by credit selection in South Australia [article]
  • Search our database of land purchases by credit selection
• Lands Titles Office and General Registry Office

Libraries

• Flinders University Library
• NLA - Digitised Newspapers [searchable]
  • Burra Record 1878-1954
  • South Australian Gazette & Colonial Register 1836-39
  • South Australian Register 1839-1900
  • The South Australian Advertiser 1858-89
  • The Advertiser 1889-1954
• Public Libraries in South Australia
• State Library of South Australia
  • Family History
  • Library Catalogue
  • Manning newspaper index of South Australian history
    • Search the Manning index

Local history

• Local history directory [comprehensive]

Maps, place names and photographs

• Comprehensive map of South Australia [present day - searchable, interactive, get driving directions]
  • Comprehensive map of Adelaide [present day - searchable, interactive, get driving directions]
• Counties and Hundreds of South Australia
• Frearson's Pocket Plan of the City of Adelaide c1880
• German place names in SA
• History of Adelaide through Street Names
• Local government boundaries maps
• Old Adelaide Photos
• Property Location Browser
• South Australia Atlas
• South Australia Place Names Online
• see also: Australian maps and place names

Occupations

• Adelaide Co-operative History articles & databases on South Australia's early days
  • Gold [including Assay Office employees]
    • Search our gold diggers database
  • South Australian District Constables 1853-1920 [searchable database]
  • South Australian Police 1838-1920 [searchable database]
  • Whaling [including names of 400 whalers]
• Liquor licensees 1837-8
• South Australian Police Historical Society
• South Australian Teachers 1851-1962
• South Australia's British Farm Apprentices 1913-14

Shipping, immigration & passenger lists

• Shipping and migration resource directory [comprehensive]
  • Search our passenger lists database of early South Australian shipping arrivals

War deaths & military history

• Army Museum of South Australia
• Australians serving in the Boer War - South Australian Contingents
• Blackwood Soldiers Project [WWI blog]
• SA & NT War Memorials
• Search our database of SA returned servicemen deaths
• Search our database of WWI South Australian servicemen deaths [comprehensive]
• State Library of SA - South Australians at War
• State Records of SA - Search WW1 Photos
  • WWI Photographs
• World War I Pictorial Honour Roll of South Australians
• see also: Australian military service & war deaths for more SA information

Uncategorised resources

• Adoption and Family Information Service of South Australia
• AUS-SAGEN Mailing List
• Colonial South Australian Pioneers [combined database of early arrivals, births, baptisms, marriages, deaths & burials]
• FamilySearch
• German History in South Australia
• History of Disability in South Australia
  • Destitute Asylum
  • Education
  • Estcourt House
  • Home for Incurables
  • Lunatic Asylum
  • Minda Home
  • Royal Society for the Blind
  • Sheltered Workshops
  • Townsend House
• History SA [previously the History Trust of South Australia]
• Naturalization in SA's early days [article]
  • South Australian naturalizations [searchable database]
• Oral History Association of Australia - South Australia Branch
  • Ethical Conduct in Human Research
• Persons lost & found [searchable database of deserters, the deserted & missing persons]
• SAGenWeb
• Timeline of South Australian history up to 1936