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:No: 38 |
April 2009
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News April seminars 5: Coming to grips with FamilySearch WEA Centre 10:00am May seminars 3: Coming to grips with FamilySearch WEA Centre 10:00am 5: Pitfalls in family history research Tea Tree Gully Library 10:00am 13: Introduction to FH research – over 7 weeks with sessions of 1.5 hrs WEA Centre 8:00pm 25: Historical snapshots of Marion Marion Cultural Centre 10:30am 27: SA resources for family historians Park Holme Library 10:30am 29: Tracing your Scottish ancestors WEA Centre 6:30pm 30: Tracing your English ancestors from afar Fleurieu Peninsula FHG 10:00am 31: Coming to grips with FamilySearch WEA Centre 10:00am See the seminar program for more details. West Torrens Library Computer PC12 now holds the following data files: • SA Births 1842–1928 • SA Marriages 1842–1937 * SA Deaths 1842–1915 • SA Pre-civil Registration Births • SA Pre-civil Registration Marriages • SA Pre-civil Registration Deaths • VIC BDM 1836–1913 • VIC Marine BDM 1853–1920 • QLD BDM 1829–1914 South Australian Landowners 1835–1841 This is the latest database produced by Adelaide Proformat and is designed to provide the researcher with a complete listing of all land purchasers in South Australian as extracted from a range of records held by the State Library and State Records of South Australia. Apart from the name of the purchaser, a range of information about the parcel of land is provided including the date of purchase and the price paid. The material is supported by heritage maps showing the location of each land purchase. As an added feature the database links references to the same person found in the other databases produced for the same era in South Australia. It is available from Gould Genealogy. |
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News April seminars May seminars West Torrens Library South Australian Landowners 1835-1841 Feature article Accessing State Records of South Australia |
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Accessing
State Records of South Australia State Records of South Australia is a government archive and as such the user needs some understanding of how an archive works to use it effectively. The role of an archive is to preserve the records and in the case of State Records of SA (hereafter SRSA) this is the records generated by the state government and its predecessor, the colonial government. Although in the latter case there are a few anomalies in regard to SA that will be addressed later. Archives store their records according to the group that generated the material and this can mean some problems for family history research that is focussed on people rather than departments. You need to put yourself in the shoes of your subject and consider which government agencies the person may have had dealings with and then search their records. Not all records are available—some were never deposited and considered lost,some are still active and with their department, some were purposely destroyed or have been subjected to sampling, and some have access embargoed for a range of reasons. ![]() Most government archives, and SRSA is no exception, are under funded and therefore locating the records can prove difficult if not time consuming as you will often find no specific indexing available and that means lengthy searching through material without any guarantee of a result. You will often find indexing available for the more popular series of records. At SRSA these are called Special Lists and can be located in the library area in large blue binders. The other problem is that each series has a description of its contents and users have to rely heavily on these in the absence of indexes. Many series descriptions lack expected detail simply because no one has trawled through the contents in sufficient detail to determine the material therein. I recall a researcher discovering a long lost SA colonial Electoral Roll stored within a series of records deposited many years previously by an agency. ![]() SRSA, like many other similar organisations, has published a useful guide for family historians, Ancestors in Archives, and beginners are urged to consult this book to plan their approach to researching the records. This reasonably priced book is a worthy addition to any SA researcher's library. The book covers the following topics and alerts users to the associated record series:
![]() A Readers Card is necessary to use the services provided by SRSA and on the first visit make sure you have photo ID. The duty archivist and other staff are available to assist users in a range of tasks from assisting researchers to locate and order records to offering search strategies and explaining how to use the finding aids available. ![]() Other records Readers are reminded that a number of records one would expect to find at SRSA are in fact held by the National Archives of Australia and need to be accessed by attending the Adelaide office at 78 Angas Street. These records relate to colonial government departments that transferred to the new Commonwealth Government in 1901:
An original land record relating to land within Kingscote on Kangaroo Island: ![]() |
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