South Australian Family History Directory

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
  • Australia [pdf]
  • South Australia [pdf]
• South Australian Museum - Aboriginal Culture
• State Library of South Australia - Aboriginal Family History
• University of Adelaide - Aboriginal Studies

Births, baptisms, marriages, deaths & burials

• Birth, baptism, marriage, death & burial resource directory [comprehensive]
  • Search our early SA marriages including those prior to civil registration & others not submitted to the registrar

Cemeteries

• Cemetery resource directory [comprehensive]
  • Search our South Australian cemeteries database

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
  • Family History Centres in SA
  • FamilySearch
• 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

• Australian Electoral Commission - state offices
• State Electoral Office

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
• 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

• Family tree directory [comprehensive]
  • Leadbeater family history

Government archives

• Adelaide City Council Archives
• National Archives of Australia - state offices
• State Records of South Australia
  • Family history
  • Name search

Land

• Counties and Hundreds of South Australia
• Land purchase by credit selection in South Australia 1869-90
  • Search our database of land purchases by credit selection
• Lands Titles Office and General Registry Office

Libraries

• Flinders University Library
• Libraries Australia [combined catalogue of major Australian public libraries with online ordering]
• Public Libraries in South Australia
• State Library of South Australia
  • Family History Service and Collection
  • Library Catalogues
  • Manning newspaper index of South Australian history
    • Search the Manning index

Local history

• Local history group directory [comprehensive]

Maps and place names

• Comprehensive maps of South Australia [present day - searchable, zoomable and scrollable]
• 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

Shipping, immigration & passenger lists

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

War deaths

• Army Museum of South Australia
• South Australian War Memorials
• State Records of SA - Search WW1 Photos
• WWI South Australian servicemen deaths
• see also: Australian war deaths including South Australians

Uncategorised resources

• 19th century South Australian history timeline
• Adelaide Co-operative History articles on South Australia's early days
  • Gold [including Assay Office employees]
    • Search our gold diggers database
  • Naturalization
    • South Australian naturalizations database
  • Water
  • Whaling [including names of 400 whalers]
• Adelaide panorama 1865 by Duryea [requires Shockwave browser plug-in]
• Adoption and Family Information Service of South Australia
• Bank SA Library [contact information]
  • 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
  • Hours: Wednesday only, 9 am to 12 noon
• German History in South Australia
• Gould Genealogy [books, CDs, fiche, maps, software]
• History Trust of South Australia
• Liquor licensees 1837-8
• Local governments [Councils]
• Mailing lists
  • AUS-SAGEN Mailing List
  • AUS-SA-YORKE Mailing List
• Oral History Association of Australia - South Australia Branch
• Persons lost & found [searchable database of deserters, the deserted & missing persons]
• SAGenWeb
  • South Australian Liquor Licences granted before 1839
• South Australia 1841 Census name index [the only SA census with surviving details]
• South Australia Police Historical Society
• South Australian Government Gazette - 1999 to present
• South Australian Teachers 1851-1962
• Timeline of 19th century South Australian history
• What's on [SA family history events directory]