Family History Resources

Where to start

Check the internet to see if your family's history has been published.

Write down what you know about yourself:

• Birth day
• Birth place
• Occupation
• Education
• Where your family lived
• Marriage - date, place spouse's name
• Children's names, date, and place of birth
• Parent's names, date, and place of birth, occupation, hobbies, etc.
• Grandparents' names, date and place of birth, occupation, hobbies, etc.
• Collect any supporting documentation.

Talk with/interview family or friends:

• Start with the oldest person in your family
• Explain what you are doing and why
• Record the talk for future reference
• Get as much information on family members as you can
• Ask about certificates and photographs and seek permission to make copies
• Construct a questionnaire to contact interstate and overseas family members.

Tips on keeping and collecting information:

• Genealogy recording sheets can be downloaded from the internet
• Try creating your own recording sheet from samples found in our family history books located in Dewey number 929 or on the internet
• Check all possible spellings of the name

Resources to support genealogical and historical research:

Ancestry Library Edition (powered by Ancestry.com) – available on computers at Salisbury library branches.

General sites

• Cyndi's List of genealogy sites on the Internet

• Trove access books, digitised newspapers, photos and more

• RootsWeb free genealogical community

Births, Deaths and Marriages

• Family Search

• New South Wales Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriage

• Victorian Births, Deaths and Marriages

• Tasmania Births, Deaths and Marriages

• South Australia Office of Consumer and Business Services - Births, Deaths and Marriages

• Western Australia Department of the Attorney General - Births, Deaths and Marriages

• Northern Territory Births, Deaths and Marriages

• Queensland Births, Deaths and Marriages

• ACT Registrar-General's Office Births, Deaths and Marriages

Military

• Australian War Memorial

• Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC)

• State Library of SA > South Australians at war

Archives and societies

• State Library SA

• State Records of South Australia

• Genealogy SA

• Society of Australian Genealogists

• National Archives of Australia
• Internet Library of Early Journals (UK): A digital library of 18th and 19th Century journals