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South Australia
Catalogue of Fiche, Film and CDs
Note that the spelling of place names may have changed over the years so remember to check all variations.
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HOSPITALS,  ASYLUMS  &  INSTITUTIONS
Adelaide Hospital Admission Register   1840-1853
fiche
Destitute Asylum admissions register   1851-1896
fiche
Destitute Asylum Infants Register  1888-1930
Index to Register of Infants born in the Destitute Asylum [GRG 29/15] - 2 volumes; 1888 to 1930.
Shows Infant's Name; Mother's Name; Birthdate; and Ref. No. in the microfilm at the SA State Archives.
fiche
Foster Mothers & Wet Nurses  1881-91, 1898-99, 1901-02, 1908-09
Index to Reports by the Inspectress of Licensed Foster Mothers & Wet Nurses
1  Vols 1 to 8 [GRG 27/19] - 1881 to 1891, 1898 to 1899, 1901 to 1902, and 1908 to 1909.
    Shows  Name; Date; and Vol in the microfilm at the SA State Archives.
    The full report contains: Personal details of licensee, Names & ages of children, Names of parents,
    Cause & date of death of child, Adoption & adoptive parents, Amount paid in maintenance,
    Condition of children & home of licensee.
    [Note: some names in the index, marked *, are children]
2  Vol 8 index. Shows Child; Carer; Residence and Page in the microfilm at the SA State Archives.
3  The following list not labelled is probably Carers removed from the books.
4  The further Vol 8 index. 
    Shows Child; Foster mother; Date and Page in the microfilm at the SA State Archives
    [Note: not in alphabetical order]
fiche
Lying-in Homes Licenses  1900-1910
Index to Register of Applications & Licenses issued to keep Lying-in Homes [GRG 27/14] - 1900 to 1910.
     Shows Name; Date; Number: and Location
     The microfilm of the Register at the SA State Archives gives the date, the name of the
     applicant, address of the premises  and whether or not the license was renewed annually.
     [Note: '+' after the name denotes license granted, '- ' denotes refusal]
fiche

IMMIGRATION
Arrivals index Part 1
fiche
Assisted passengers, agricultural labourers  1921-1924
fiche
Assisted passengers, boy migrants  1927-1929
fiche
Assisted passengers, domestic helpers 1921-1930 & 1938-1939
fiche
Assisted passengers, farm apprentices 'Barwell Boys'   1922-1924
fiche
Australian Shipping Arrivals & Departures [see Australia General]
CD
Boarding Officers reports on visiting ships  1847
fiche
Bound for South Australia: Passenger Lists  1836-1851
CD
Deaths on Emigrant Vessels  1849 -1865
CD
Free Passage to South Australia - Applicants  1876 -1879
3 fiche
Free Passage to South Australia - Certificates
3 fiche
Free Passage to South Australia - Nominators
2 fiche
Free Passage to South Australia - Nominees
3 fiche
Hodge Index [Index of passenger arrivals from Interstate & NZ in newspapers]  1837-1859
fiche
Hodge Index [Index of passenger departures to Interstate & NZ in newspapers] 1837-1859
fiche
Horner Index [Index to passenger departures for overseas] 1836-1887
fiche
Immigrant labourers applying for free passage to SA  1836-1841
52 fiche
Film
Immigrants arriving in SA [assisted] passenger lists and index  1847-1886
fiche
Inwards assisted passengers 1845-1886
Film
Naturalisation index for SA  [pre 1904]
fiche
Naturalization records, special lists  1853, 1854, 1856-1864
fiche
Newspaper index to persons arriving in South Australia  from overseas [including NZ] 1846-1887
fiche
Newspaper index: KEY - Newspaper date & ship's name  1846-1887
fiche
Passenger Lists, Bound for South Australia 1836-1851
CD
Passenger lists, arrivals and departures [see  Hodge Index]
Passenger lists, departures for overseas [see  Horner Index]
Passenger lists, incoming  1888-1908
fiche
Passengers departing from Hamburg to South Australia 1851-1886
fiche
Pioneers arriving in SA 1836-1845
Film
Pioneers & Settlers bound for SA
CD
Register of Emigrant Labourers Applying for a Free Passage to SA 1836-1838 [AJCP 874]
SA Film IMM 3
Register of Emigrant Labourers Applying for a Free Passage to SA 1838-1841 [AJCP 875]
SA Film IMM 4
Returns of aliens [see Naturalization records]
Shipping departing from Port Adelaide, crew and passengers  1841-1844
fiche
Ships deserters [from Adelaide]  1910-1952
fiche
Ships deserters [mainly Spencer Gulf ports]  1891-1921
fiche
Ships deserters register  1852-1952
fiche
Shipwrecks in SA waters [Temme Collection]  1836-1850
fiche
Sick and destitute emigrants who received relief  1840
fiche
Sources for SA Shipping Records 1836-1842
  CD
South Australian records prior to 1841 by E.A.D. Opie  [to 1841]
fiche
Temme Collection  [see Shipwrecks]

INQUESTS
Inquests index  1877-1945
fiche
Inquests:  Returns and Depositions  1839-1856, 1849 & 1869-1876
fiche

LAND   RECORDS
Land Tax Assessment  1885
3 fiche

MISCELLANEOUS
Aldine History of  SA 1890
fiche
Atlas of South Australia and Northern Territory  1876
fiche
Colonial residents of SA  1839-1848
fiche
Family History Name Index:
a Bibliography of Australian Family Histories & Genealogies No 1,  2010
CD
Missing Friends index  1880-1889
fiche
Pioneers of the North West of South Australia  1856 -1914
CD
Place Names of our Land, a South Australian Anthology  2010
CD
Remission of Court's Fees  1950 -1955
fiche
South African War Payments  1899 -1900
fiche
South Australian Goldseekers in Victoria  1851-1853
CD
South Australian records prior to 1841 [by EAD Opie]  to 1841
fiche
Visitors Books, Old Colonial Court  1887 -1888
fiche
Women's Suffrage Petition  1894
Index to Women's Suffrage Petition of 1894  [GRG 92/5]
[Shows Name, Address, and Page Reference in document at the SA State Archives]
fiche

NEWSPAPERS  &  MAGAZINES
Abbott index to births, deaths & marriages from SA newspapers 1836-1939
fiche
Alelaide Chronicle personal notices Index  1921 -1924
fiche
Advertiser birth notices index  1977 to 2000
fiche
Advertiser death notices index  1991 to 1996
fiche
Newspaper Obituaries  1836 -1900
CD
The South Australian Gazette & Colonial Register 18 June 1836 - 28 Dec 1839
Film
The South Australian Register 4 Jan 1840 - 30 June 1851
Film
 
South Australian Genealogist Journal [Vol 1 - 37]  1973 -2010
CD
South Australian Genealogy & Heraldry Society Members' Research Directory 1994
fiche
Torrens Valley Historical Journals Issues 1-78, 1977-2000
CD

OCCUPATIONS
Australian Squatting Directory [VIC, NSW, QLD, SA]  1871
Film
1883 -1915 Medical Directories of Australia, NZ, Fijii & the Orient - Compendium 1
1883,  1886,  1892,  1896
1900,  1903,  1911,  1915
CD

Railways - Index to Staff Registers  1853-1913
Index to Staff Registers, Vols 1 to 10 [GRG 42/131] - Apr 1853 to Jan 1913
4 fiche
Railways Index - Record of Appointment  1889-1920
3 fiche
Soldiers, Sailors & Nurses index to Photographic Portraits 1914-1919
fiche

POLICE,  CRIME  &  CRIMINALS
Adelaide Gaol prisoners' registers  1857-1889
fiche
Adelaide Gaol Prisoners Indexes 1838-1849, 1857-1889
1.  Index to Prisoners' Register [GRG 54/23] - May 1838 to Jul 1844
    Shows Name; Date of sentencing prisoner; and page in the microfilm at the SA State Archives.
         Note: * indicates a prisoner of aboriginal descent.
2.  Names of prisoners tried at General Quarter Session, 11 Apr 1838
3.  Warrants Executed
4.  Index to Prisoners' Register [GRG 54/24] - 1 Apr 1838 to 13 Nov 1848
     Shows  Name; and page in the microfilm at the SA State Archives.
         Note: * indicates a prisoner of aboriginal descent.
5.  Prisoners out on bail [Mar 1839]
6.  Prisoners escaped before trial [Mar 1839]
7.  Index to Prisoners' Register [GRG 54/24A] - 30 Mar 1839 to 20 Jan  1849
    Shows Name; and page in the microfilm at the SA State Archives.
fiche
Adelaide Gaol Punishment Index  1838-1975
Index to Corporal Punishment Register [GRS 2625/1/P] - 1838 to 1975
  Shows Name; Date of sentence; Page in microfilm at SA State Archives and References to
  other records [Vol or CD]  at the State Archives such as a prisoner register.
          Note: * indicates a prisoner of aboriginal descent.
fiche
City Coroner's Police Reports  1911 - 1924
fiche
Police Gazettes  1862 - 1905
CD
Supreme Court Indictments  1837-1850
fiche
Yatala Labour Prison: Prisoners   1851-1868, 1866-1931
Index to Description of Prisoners [GRG 54/39] - circa 1851 to 1868
Shows Name; and reference to the microfilm at the SA State Archives.
1.  Deserters'  Index
       Index to Prisoners' Register [GRG 54/41] - 1866 to 1931
       Shows Name; Volume; and reference in the microfilm at the SA State Archives.
          Note: * indicates a prisoner of aboriginal descent.
2. Alpabetical index
       Volume 1:  27 Nov 1866 to 25 Nov 1877
       Volume 1A:  4 Feb 1877 to 3 Apr 1883
       Volume 2:  1883 to 1893
       Volume 3:  1893 to 1904
       Volume 4:  1904 to 1915
       Volume 5:  1915 to 1921
       Volume 6:  1921 to 1924
       Volume 7:  28 Mar 1924 to 23 Nov 1926
       Volume 8:  27 Nov 1926 to 12 Nov 1928
       Volume 9:  1928 to 1930
       Volume 10:  1930 to 1931
fiche

SCHOOL  RECORDS
Schoolmasters' Returns  1847-1851
Index to Returns from Schoolmasters [GRG 42/6] - 1847 to 1851
These returns were forwarded to the Colonial Secretary and show names of pupils, parents or guardians, and teachers.   
fiche

WILLS  &  PROBATE
Probate index 1844-1997
fiche


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