DISCOVER YOUR FAMILY HISTORY
Port Adelaide has always been a place where lives began anew — migrants arriving by ship, workers building trades and families, communities putting down roots along the waterfront. If your family tree has branches that reach into South Australia, there’s a good chance Port Adelaide is part of your story. This page brings together some of the most useful resources for family history research, from digitised newspapers and shipping records to cemetery databases and land title searches, to help you find the people and places that shaped who you are.
DISCOVER NEWSPAPER ARTICLES REGARDING YOUR FAMILY
TROVE newspapers online is an initiative of the National Library of Australia and each States State Library to digitise Australian Newspapers up until 1954. You can search TROVE to find articles, family notices, obituaries, information on your property. A phrase search is best if you can do it. You can restrict by date, State and to illustrated articles.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/
SANDS & McDOUGALL ALMANACS
Sands and McDougall Directories are what post offices used to deliver mail. The book is divided into two sections. The first half of a book is organised by street and can help you to locate who was living in your house. The second half of a book is an alphabetical listing similar to today’s telephone directory which can help you to locate where a relative was living. You can search Sands and McDougall Directories online from 1864 to 1973 at:
http://guides.slsa.sa.gov.au/c.php?g=410329&p=2794474
SHIPPING RECORDS
IMMIGRANTS TO SOUTH AUSTRALIA ASSISTED PASSAGE
http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/australia/SAassistedindex.shtml
PASSENGERS IN HISTORY
http://passengersinhistory.sa.gov.au/
BEGINNING YOUR JOURNEY
https://bound-for-south-australia.collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/BeginningYourJourney.htm
BIRTH DEATH AND MARRIAGE INFORMATION
SAVILLE INDEX
- DEATH NOTICES FROM 1971 – 2016
http://www.slsa.ha.sa.gov.au/fh/savill/savill-A.html
SOUTH AUSTRALIAN GENEALOGY & HERALDRY SOCIETY INC
https://www.genealogysa.org.au
GOVERNMENT RESOURCES
GOVERNMENT GAZETTES
ONLINE AT:
1839 – 1999 http://www5.austlii.edu.au/au/other/sa_gazette/
1999 – http://www.governmentgazette.sa.gov.au/
HERITAGE PLACES DATABASE
http://maps.sa.gov.au/heritagesearch/HeritageSearchLocation.aspx
AUSTRALIA HERITAGE DATABASE
http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/ahdb/search.pl
CERTIFICATE OF TITLE
https://sailis.lssa.com.au There is an online video tutorial to show you how to search for Title information in the bottom right hand corner. If you would like assistance please ask staff in the Local History room at Port Adelaide Library.
CEMETERIES
ADELAIDE CEMETERY AUTHORITY
- CHELTENHAM, WEST TERRACE, ENFIELD & SMITHFIELD CEMETERIES – http://www.aca.sa.gov.au/Records
- CENTENNIAL PARK – https://www.centennialpark.org/memorial-search/
CITY OF PORT ADELAIDE ENFIELD RESOURCES
- PAE Local History FLICKR Page – https://www.flickr.com/photos/paelocalhistory/sets/
- PAE Aerial Mapping – https://mapping.portenf.sa.gov.au/history/