Your Family History
Ancestry (Library edition) offers significantly more records than the Australia + UK home version, including records from other countries such as New Zealand, US and Canada. Discover your family history and start your family tree. Access billions of genealogy records including Census, BDM & Military records. This resource is only available in your branch library.
Search the National Archives of Australia for records related to Citizenship, Defence and war service, First Nations peoples and Passenger arrivals (1898 – 1972).
Search the AIF Project database to investigate Defence and war service
Searching the burial, cremation and memorial records for Enfield Memorial Park, Cheltenham Cemetery, Smithfield Memorial Park and West Terrace Cemetery here.
The Cemetery Index Page links to incomplete index lists of a cemeteries across South Australia.
If your family member owned property in South Australia, you will need to search through the previous titles to the property, many of which can be found via the South Australian Integrated Land Information System (SAILIS).
If you have an address for the family member, you may search through digitised copies of the Sands & McDougall postal directories online at The State Library of South Australia to identify the period they resided at the property.
Search for your family member’s name in Trove via digitised newspapers (to 1955) for articles, notices or advertisements related to your family member.
Contact Births, Deaths and Marriages to apply for a digital image of a historical certificate which may help you research your family history.
Search the Gerald A. Savill Index of The Advertiser Funeral Notices (1971 – current day)
The Passengers in History website is developed by the South Australian Maritime Museum. It includes entries for 328,000 passengers arriving in South Australia between 1836 and 1964.
Those Who Served 1853 - 2014 is a list of the Elected Members and Town Clerks who served what is now the community of Port Adelaide Enfield.