South Australia Family History
State Library of South
Australia
https://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/collections/family-history
What’s Inside - SLSA Family
History (Home page)
Explore
the Collection and Overview section
This is the page to begin your search on. There are 15 sections
with links to the most popular Family History Resources at the State Library.
Many are the TOP 10….
General information about getting started in family history
research like family history tips.
Links to popular websites like TROVE,
Genealogy SA, Family History SA, Saville
Index (Advertiser funeral notices from 1971 – 2025. (over 500,000 entries
in the Saville index).
Birth, Deaths and Marriages links and resources – reference to
district registers, early church records, information about interstate BDMs
records
Passengers
in History page– information about early
settlers and when they arrived.
Almanacs
& Directories –
search who lived at your address in the years between 1864 up to 1973.
Links to popular websites Adelaide
Cemeteries Authority, Centennial Park, Ryerson index
Links to Electoral Rolls, almanacs and directories and a digitized
version of 1936 Gregory’s Street Directory.
This page contains links and general overview of information
related to family history including links to “Research Guides”.
Grave Secrets
https://www.headstones.weebly.com
Great resource if looking for the names of people buried in
country cemeteries.
Excellent
site to find information about early settlers: includes how long person has
been in the colony, birthplace, ship they arrived on, residence, religion.
https://www.archives.sa.gov.au/finding-information/family-history-research
Contains records from many different government institutions as
well as links and information on finding historical house information via
SALIS.
https://lutheranarchives.lca.org.au/
Researching German or Polish ancestors: Located 27 Fourth Street
Brompton T:8340 4009
Australian Family History resources
National Archives
Holds
some naturalization documents and military record information
National Library of
Australia
https://www.nla.gov.au/research-guides/family-history
Lots
of links to Family history sites within Australia.
Trove
Search over 6 million records online including images, books, manuscripts, maps, newspapers and photography collections from the National Library and from State Collections around Australia.
Search for images of your suburb using the image search TAB in TROVE.
State BDMs
Most
states have placed their historical BDM information online for people to search
for free. Not SA.
Listed
on your notes sheet is a list of weblinks to State BDMs. The same list can be
found on Malcolm’s Blog page at: https://searchmenow.blogspot.com/
The
Tasmanian Archives is a great BDM resource
as they have scanned many original documents that you can view online for free.
Australian and Overseas Family History Resources
Ancestry
Library Edition
Ancestry
Library Edition is available via the library catalogue and is available to be
searched for FREE in the library
Ancestry Library Edition contains thousands of online genealogy
databases that you can search for FREE (need to be in the library).
Search for what is available via the “New Collection” TAB, then filter your search by country and type of
resource. This is a great way to see what is available in a specific country.
Overseas Family History resources
Family
Search
www.familysearch.org (Note: You need to create an
account to access)
List of thousands of genealogy links from overseas. Good site to
look at if you want to search for records from a specific country.
Genuki
Maps – broken down by counties (click on map) -http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/
Click on the map they click on the “county” to view what family
history resources there are for the specific county.
Free
BMD
Indexes of Births, Marriages and Deaths in the UK. Searchable database of UK where you can search for births, deaths and marriages information.
Cornish
records
https://www.cornwall-opc-database.org/
Excellent website with online births, deaths marriages and
baptisms
Newspapers
Trove
newspapers
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/
Search Australian newspapers from 1803 – 1954. Some newspapers
have been indexed up to 2000 (where the publication has given the National
Library access to their paper.
Papers
Past (NZ)
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/
National Library of New Zealand that also has a FREE searchable
database of newspapers here.
British
Newspaper Archive
https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
Search database of British newspapers but note, you must pay to
view. Do get 3 Free searches but need to register with your email address.
Military Records
Australian
War Memorial
Searching for Australian military records? This is a great site to
search.
Use people search at: https://www.awm.gov.au/advanced-search/people.
Commonwealth
War Graves
Search for information on soldiers killed in battle, including information
about their location (cemetery oversees) and view original documents show the
location of the soldier’s burial.
Find
War Dead at: https://www.cwgc.org/find/find-war-dead/
Find information such as Service number, Regiment, Date of death,
Burial location, Country of Service and Additional information (That can
include “Next of Kin” information).
AIF
project
https://aif.adfa.edu.au/index.html
Contains a lot of information about soldiers that served in WW1 –
information is taken from various sources and is a great overview of a
soldier’s history of involvement in the war.
Department
of Veteran Affairs Records
https://www.dva.gov.au/recognition/commemorating-all-who-served/records-and-military-history
Search for military records of solders that fought in wars that
Australian has been involved in including Korean, Vietnam and Gulf wars.
South
Australian Red Cross Information Bureau
https://sarcib.ww1.collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/
Records of the South Australian Red Cross Information Bureau held
in the collection of the State Library of South Australia (SLSA). From 1916
until 1919. This includes letters of enquiry from people in Australia about
soldiers fighting overseas.
Search ME Now at: http://searchmenow.blogspot.com/search/label/Family%20History
Malcolm’s Blog
has lists and links to many of the family genealogy websites that we are
looking at today.
