South Australian Family History Directory
Genealogy resources by category
This comprehensive directory of South Australian genealogy and family history resources includes links to more detailed subdirectories on the important topics of shipping & immigration, births, marriages & deaths, cemeteries, family trees, local history, and to our own wide range of searchable databases. It also points to many useful external family history and genealogy sites and gives contact information for archives and other organisations without web sites.
Aboriginal people
- Aboriginal Australia Map
- South Australian Museum - Aboriginal Culture
- State Library of South Australia - Aboriginal Family History
- University of Adelaide - Aboriginal Studies
Births, baptisms, marriages, deaths & burials
Cemeteries
Church archives
- Adelaide Catholic Archives
- Adelaide Hebrew Congregation [contact information]
- Archivist, PO Box 320, Glenside SA 5065, Australia
- Anglican Church of Australia - Anglican Archives
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Lutheran Church of Australia - Lutheran Archives
- The Salvation Army - SA Division - Heritage Centre Museum & Archive
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
Family history and genealogy groups
- Adelaide Co-operative History
- Adelaide Northern Districts Family History Group
- Barossa Family History Group [contact information]
- PO Box 6, Lyndoch SA 5351, Australia
- Telephone: +618 8524 5002
- Fleurieu Peninsula Family History Group
- German Descendants Group
- Pioneers Association of South Australia
- Port Augusta Family History Group [contact information]
- 1 Scharenberg Court, Pt Augusta SA 5700, Australia
- Telephone: +618 8642 5305
- Port Pirie District Family History Group
- Riverton Local History, Family Research & Information Centre [contact information]
- 21 Torrens Rd, Riverton SA 5412, Australia
- Telephone: +618 8847 2705
- Email: famhist@rbe.net.au
- South Australian Genealogy & Heraldry Society [SAGHS]
- South East Family History Group
- Two Wells & District Family History Group
- Whyalla Family History Group [contact information]
- PO Box 2190, Whyalla Norrie SA 5608, Australia
- Yorke Peninsula Family History Group
Family trees
Government archives
- Adelaide City Council Archives
- National Archives of Australia - state offices
- State Records of South Australia
Land
- Counties and Hundreds of South Australia
- Land purchase by credit selection in South Australia 1869-90
- Lands Titles Office and General Registry Office
Libraries
- Flinders University Library
- Libraries Australia [combined catalogue of major Australian public libraries with online ordering]
- NLA - Australian Newspapers - The South Australian Advertiser 1858-61 [digitised, searchable]
- Public Libraries in South Australia
- State Library of South Australia
Local history
Maps and place names
- Comprehensive map of South Australia [present day - searchable and interactive]
- 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
- 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
- Liquor licensees 1837-8
- South Australia Police Historical Society
- South Australian Teachers 1851-1962
- South Australia's British Farm Apprentices 1913-14
Professional family history researcher
Shipping, immigration & passenger lists
War deaths & military history
- Army Museum of South Australia
- Australians serving in the Boer War - South Australian Contingents
- 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
- War Memorials in Australia - South Australia
- see also: Australian military service & war deaths for more SA information
Uncategorised resources
- 19th century South Australian history timeline
- Adoption and Family Information Service of South Australia
- AUS-SAGEN Mailing List
- Bank SA Library [contact information - open Wednesday mornings only]
- 97 King William Street, Adelaide SA 5000, Australia
- GPO Box 344, Adelaide SA 5001, Australia
- Telephone: +618 8210 4348 & +618 8210 4691, Fax: +618 8210 5417
- Colonial South Australians - combined database of early passenger arrivals, early marriages & burials
- German History in South Australia
- Gould Genealogy [books, CDs, fiche, maps, software for sale]
- History of Disability in South Australia
- History SA [previously the History Trust of South Australia]
- Local governments [Councils]
- Naturalization in SA's early days [article]
- Oral History Association of Australia - South Australia Branch
- Persons lost & found [searchable database of deserters, the deserted & missing persons]
- SAGenWeb
- South Australia 1841 Census name index [the only SA census with surviving details]
- South Australian Government Gazette - 1999 to present
- South Australian Government Gazette index [19th century - selected items]
- Timeline of 19th century South Australian history