The State Library of South Australia is currently reviewing the way Family History services are represented on our website. Based upon customer requirements and licensing restrictions for our databases, the Library will be presenting a number of new guides over the next few months using the Libguides application available from Springshare.

New guides:

• Family History starter guide
• Births, Deaths and Marriages
• Australian Convict Records

If you have any comments about the new guides, or wish to contribute ideas, please email us at info@slsa.sa.gov.au with the words Family History guides in the header of the email.

Existing guides:

• Aboriginal Family History
• Adoption and fostering of children in South Australia
• Almanacs and directories
• Arrivals in South Australia
• Australian Joint Copying Project
• Cemetery records
• Census and muster records
• Church records in the State Library of South Australia
• Electoral rolls
• Emigrant labourers applying for a free passage to South Australia 1836 - 1841
• Family History electronic resources
• Harleian Collection
• Heraldry
• Hospital and Asylum Indexes
• Immigration to South Australia in the 19th century
• Irish Family History Resources
• Mapping sources for family history : England Ireland Scotland and Wales
• Mapping sources for family history : Prussia (Germany, Austria, Poland, Czechoslovakia)
• Military medals
• Military records
• Naturalisation
• Occupations
• Scottish family history resources
• Shipping and passenger records
• Sources for writing and publishing a family history
• Useful addresses
• War service records
• Welsh Family History Resources
• Wills

More fact sheets

• Aboriginal Australia
• Library collections
• Library exhibitions
• General information
• South Australiana