Family History South Australia
Did your ancestors arrive in South Australia's early days? Find out by searching our shipping passenger list and marriage databases. Did they head off to the gold fields in the early 1850s and return a little better off? Or perhaps they didn't return and left their families destitute? Find out with the Adelaide Co-op's gold diggers, and persons lost & found databases. Maybe your forebears purchased South Australian land in the 1870s or 80s? These and your other questions may be answered by our free searchable databases, informative articles, and numerous local and worldwide genealogy resources.
Barry Leadbeater
Find your ancestors in our free online records of SA pioneers and build your family tree.
Family History Records
South Australian pioneer families
(arrivals, births, marriages & deaths)
Ship & passenger arrivals
(early immigration)
Births 1836 to 1860
Marriages 1836 to 1856
Deaths 1836 to 1855
Cemeteries & burials
Articles & Databases
SA History
Counties, hundreds, sections
Land credit selectors
Naturalizations
Persons lost & found (deserters)
Police & district constables
Returned SA servicemen deaths
WWI servicemen deaths
South Australian history timeline
Resource Directories
South Australia (SA)
Births, deaths, marriages (BDM)
Cemeteries
Church archives
Courts
Family trees
Leadbeater family
Government archives
Land, maps & placenames
Libraries & newspapers
Local history groups & genealogy societies
Occupations
Ships, passengers, migration
Wars & military history
Australia
(ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, Tas, Vic, WA)
Britain (UK) and Ireland
New Zealand
Italian countries
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. The site is fully accessible to everyone with a recent web browser that has javascript enabled including tablets and mobile smartphones. There are no membership or subscription requirements.
The present domain name, FamilyHistorySA.info, dates from 14 September 2003. The site is also accessible via the .com and .org variants.
In the early years, information comprised:—
Timeline of early South Australian history, now considerably expanded,
South Australian family tree website directory including the Leadbeater family, and
South Australian and other regional genealogy resource directories including local & family history groups.
More recently, several articles have been added, including:—
Accuracy of family history sources, and
Genealogy database design and its genetic basis.
Most importantly, free searchable databases under constant revision and expansion are:—
Early shipping arrivals in South Australia & their passenger lists, together with a directory of other SA shipping and migration resources,
South Australian cemeteries and burials, accompanied by a directory of other SA cemetery resources,
Early SA births, marriages, and deaths including those prior to civil registration, plus a directory of other SA vital records, and most recently,
South Australian pioneer families, a combined database of arrivals, births, marriages, deaths and burials.
A number of our volunteers have contributed information to these databases, especially cemetery memorial inscriptions, headstone photographs and pioneer arrivals. Gratefull thanks to all!
Fees and advertising
All of the information and services we provide are completely free of charge. The website is also entirely free of pay-per-click and banner advertising to ensure that users are not distracted from their research.
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.
We do, however, host (under the same conditions) the SA History site, the content of which complements our own.
We fully respect your privacy while using our web site. We do not collect any information that could personally identify you.
Our databases do not contain the details of any living persons.
This site contains links to other web sites. We are not responsible for their privacy practices or content.
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.