Electronic resources beginning with ‘S’

This site provides biographical information on more than 28 000 people from ancient times to the present day.

Official Australian website of the Salvation Army. Includes publications and fact sheets on social issues such as homelessness, gambling and suicide.

(SANE Australia, Australia)

Provides fact sheets on mental illness and related issues, some in languages other than English. Includes guides for carers and relatives of the mentally ill as well as for those with mental illness.

The State Reference Library catalogue covering up to 1980.

This site from the Commonwealth Department of Education, Science & Training provides details of school term dates for all Australian states and territories.

A gateway to major scientific research news sources, including New Scientist, Nature, Science Daily magazine and others.

Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net) is a free access website funded by UK Department for International Development (DFID) Swedish International Development Co-operation Agency (SIDA) International Development Research Centre (IDRC) in Canada and the Rockefeller Foundation and supported by the scientific journals Nature and Science. It provides news, views and information on science, technology and the developing world. Includes book reviews,regional gateways and comprehensive guides to topical issues.

This Australian Government website provides a starting point to access science and industry links, directories and databases, and information on funding, assistance programs, services and policies for business, investment and research.

Science Reference Center contains full text of science encyclopedias, reference books, journals, magazines, biographies, scientific images and videos.

Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife.

Science Resource Center is an in-depth, curriculum-oriented science database that provides a one-stop resource for all science-related research needs. it comprehensively covers earth, life and physical sciences using Gale's user friendly interface.

A science-specific search engine launched by publisher Elsevier Science. In addition to web pages, Scirus indexes some full-text journal sources.

ScotlandsPeople holds digital images of Scottish records of births (1855-2006), deaths (1855-2006) and marriages (1855-1933), the open census records from 1841 to 1901, wills and testaments from 1513 to 1901 and Coats of Arms from 1672 to 1907.

ScotlandsPeople also contains the Old Parish Registers of Scotland (OPRs) entries for births/baptisms, banns/marriages and deaths/ burials for 1538-1854.

The index is free to search but costs to download and view images.

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The Scottish Archive Network (SCAN) provides an electronic catalogue of the holdings of more than 50 Scottish archives, and access to digitised historical records such as court records, tax records, emigration records, and poor relief records. Also provides family history guides and research tools.

The National Library of Scotland's digital collection of over 1,900 sheets of surveys covering 62 towns surveyed between 1847 and 1895.

This site provides access to ScreenSound's database which lists more than 360 000 items spanning 100 years. It covers Australian film, television, radio and recorded sound. The site also provides a simple and advanced search facility.

Seniors Information Service is a New South Wales Government initiative which provides online information on a range of issues for seniors. It seems to have a lot of handy information and contacts for seniors. It is well set out and encouraging for older people to use online resources.

The Sentencing Bench Book is published by the Judicial Commission of New South Wales.

SETIS provides access to a large number of networked and in-house full text databases, primarily but not exclusively, source texts within the humanities. In addition to these literary, philosophical and religious texts the service is engaged in a number of text and image creation projects.

The official site for the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the South Pacific, which looks after the regions of Australia, New Zealand and the surrounding islands. Includes a directory, beliefs and perspectives on current issues, bible studies on prophecy, and the Church's news from around the South Pacific.

Use The Shakespeare Collection to access and study an extensive collection of authoritative materials supporting literary, textual, historical, and performance studies. Resources include the complete works, as well as editions and adaptations of Shakespeare's works, other works published during Shakespeare's time, prompt books, the Gordon Crosse Theatrical Diaries, criticism, reviews, images, and reference.

This site allows you to compare early editions of Shakespeare's plays. Also includes background information on Shakespeare's life and work.

Brief introduction to Shinto. Includes information on the four main forms of Shinto as well as information on rituals, festivals and shrines. From the Shinto Online Network Association, Japan.

This site provides a picture and information on each ship that sailed with the First Fleet. Images have been constructed from written descriptions of the ships. Produced by the First Fleet Fellowship.

This site provides a picture and information on each ship that sailed with the First Fleet. Images have been constructed from written descriptions of the ships. Produced by the First Fleet Fellowship.

Aiming to make learning and writing more fun and relevant for students in the digital age, Shmoop is produced by leading US educators and prvides study guides on major works of English Literature.

An online catalogue of publications offered by the NSW Government for purchase or free download.

This database indexes short stories published in more than 4,200 collections and anthologies, as well as stories in periodicals. It also contains full text of more than 4,000 short stories. Search this database by author, title, subject (i.e. theme, locale, narrative technique and genre), keyword, date, literary technique, source, or any combination.

This database contains bibliographic entries on more than 150,000 short stories published from the 1830s to the 1980s. Use this database to find stories by author, by topics/themes (e.g. mothers and daughters), by genre (e.g. science fiction), by locales where the story takes place (e.g. India, Rocky Mountains) and by names of individuals, peoples, and professions that the stories are about (e.g. Leonardo da Vinci, Apache Indians, dentists).

Lists over 7000 international institutions with material relating to the performing arts, including theatre, opera, music, ballet, film, circus, radio, television, cabaret, pantomime.

Introduction to the philosophies, scriptures, practices of the world's 5th largest religion. Includes information about gurus and temples.

A comprehensive resource on the Holocaust and World War II, including a glossary, timeline, bibliographies, questions and answers about the Holocaust, and curricular resources for teachers. Online versions of past exhibitions from the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Museum of Tolerance are also featured.

A critical survey and more than 400 definitions and essays on occult, paranormal and pseudoscientific ideas and practices as well as a survey of the philosophy of atheism and skepticism.

Contains drawings, photographs and information on major tall buildings throughout the world. Includes many skyscrapers in Australian cities and towns.

Scanned copies of small American town newspapers. Includes archived papers back to the nineteenth century.

A website dedicated to promoting safe and enjoyable sports experiences for children. Includes sports medicine and fitness fact sheets, fair play policies and issues in sport such as drugs, safety and attitudes to sport.

The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade offers advice to Australians travelling to overseas destinations on all aspects of travel including passports, visas, insurance, embassy and consulate listings, travel tips and safety warnings.

Robert H. Smith's annotated listing of maritime museums worldwide which have websites. Searchable by region.

Robert H. Smith's annotated listing of maritime museums worldwide which have websites. Searchable by region.

Robert H. Smith's annotated listing of maritime museums worldwide which have websites. Searchable by region.

SNIPER, produced by the Library at IP Australia, is a bibliographic database of journal articles, conference papers, and other documents about issues in intellectual property. It provides a knowledge base to support policy, awareness and research in intellectual property matters.

The Official site of the 2014 Winter Games to be in the Russian Black Sea port City of Sochi, from 7-23 February 2014.

SIRC is an independent, non-profit organisation founded to conduct research on social and lifestyle issues, monitor and assess global socio-cultural trends. Free access to their articles and publications online.

This database from Wilson abstracts and indexes over 500 English language periodicals

This database abstracts and indexes over 500 English language periodicals. Topics include anthropology, community health and medical care, criminal justice and criminology, economics, family studies, geography, gerontology, international relations, law, minority studies, political science, psychiatry, psychology, urban studies, women's studies and related subjects.

Full text of selected journals begins in 1995.

A guide to high quality Internet information in the social sciences, business and law.

Established in 1932, the Society of Australian Genealogists is the oldest society of its kind in Australia. SAG is a non-profit company, has over 6,500 members throughout the world, produces a quarterly journal titled 'Descent' and has a library at 2/379 Kent Street, Sydney, 2000. The library is open 10am-4pm Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday. PH: (02) 9299 5151.

SAG offers Family History seminars, has a Research Service and runs a Diploma in Family Historical Studies Course (Dip FHS). There is an online list of theses & essays submitted for this Dip FHS.

The SAG website has an online database to SAG Members' Research Interests and SAG members have formed Special Interest Groups for : Family Tree Maker Users; Irish ; London & Home Counties; Scottish; South Asia; the Sydney Dead Persons Society (computers & Internet); and The Master Genealogist (TMG).

SAG has also produced the following online indexes : Soldiers & Marines 1787-1830, NSW Ships' Musters 1816-1825, NSW Tickets of Leave 1810-1875 and Sydney Streets & Electoral Rolls 1903-1984. The SAG website has an online Library Catalogue to its family history resources and is currently working on a Primary Records Index for its manuscripts (original materials) collection, which is housed at Richmond Villa, 120 Kent Street, Sydney, 2000. Richmond Villa is open 10am-4pm Thursday and Saturday and pre-booking is recommended. PH: (02) 9247 3953.

Highlights of SAG's manuscript collection are: (1) Photographs from the 1840s onwards, including the Houison collection; (2) the Australian Biographical and Genealogical Record archive; (3) St Joseph's Building Society material, primarily for 1880 to 1940; (4) Monumental masons' ledgers of both Andrews and Larcombe; (5) The Gordon Dennes collection, focusing on Manning River settlers; (6) John Arthur Perkins Papers' collection on the social history of Eden-Monaro, Tumut and Adelong from 1823 to 1948; (7) The Valerie Ross collection, focussing on the Everingham family; (8) Sydney sewerage plans from 1856 and 1867 & Percy Dove's 1880 survey plans of Sydney; (9) Papers of the Beale family, which was involved in piano manufacture and running music shops; (10) Papers of 19th century Sydney merchant Quong Tart; and (11) Camperdown Cemetery Plans.

The website also provides online Research Guides for : Adoptions in NSW; Australasian Genealogical Computer Index (AGCI); Australian Biographical and Genealogical Record (ABGR); Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP); Bankruptcy records (NSW); Biographies and family histories; Births, Deaths and Marriages (Australia and New Zealand); Births, Deaths and Marriages (England and Wales); Cemeteries; Census - UK; Chapman County Codes; Church records (Australia); Colonial Secretary's Correspondence (NSW); Convict Hulks; Convicts to NSW; Directories; Divorce; Education records; Electoral Milestones (Australia); Electoral Rolls (Australia); Electoral Rolls (Sydney); Hospital and asylum records (Australia); Houison collection of photographs; Huguenots; Inquests (Australia); Land records in NSW; Land tenure in NSW (history); Military and Naval ancestors; Musters and Censuses - Australia; Naturalisation records; Newspapers; Occupations, trades and apprenticeships; Parish Registers (England and Wales); Perkins Papers; Photographs; Placenames, gazetteers and maps; Probate records; Pubs and publicans (Australia); St Joseph's Building Society records; Shipping records; and Ships and voyages.

A Society of Australian Genealogists index to musters and pay lists of British soldiers and marines in the early colonial period of 1788 to 1830. The SAG index includes: name, rank, regiment, pay list/muster roll, PRO Reel/source and notes. This index largely refers to PRO (UK Public Records Office) microfilm reels of the Australian Joint Copying Project which was a national/state libraries project to copy UK records relevant to Australia. AJCP reels are available in all state libraries (including the Mitchell Library) and the National Library.

The original material for the later regiments is to be found in The National Archives, Kew, London and forms part of the War Office records which are identified as series WO12. The sources of some of the earlier quarterly regimental pay lists and muster rolls have been very difficult to determine and users may come across the annotation 'source unknown' for this early material. This relates to the 1787 Muster Roll and some entries for the 1788 Muster Roll.

From the beginning of the Colony of New South Wales in 1788 until 1870 various British Military Regiments including the Marines arrived on this continent. Their role was to protect the inhabitants by acting as a police force and to keep law and order, especially when it came to bushrangers. The 3rd Regiment was the first to provide men for the Mounted Police.

It was not only New South Wales which felt the military presence, as their command spread over the other colonies - Van Diemen's Land, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia and Moreton Bay (now Brisbane). In 1860 the 40th Regiment saw service in one of the Maori Wars in New Zealand.

At the end of their term in the colony the Regiments usually travelled on to the various British India establishments such as Madras and Calcutta. A soldier was usually given the option of staying on in the colony if he wished to settle here. Thus there are many Australians who have British Military ancestors.

The following is a listing of the pay lists and muster rolls included in the index and notes about their sources:

* Regiment/Pay List/Muster Roll - Date of List - Source

(1) Listed Officer of Marines - 1 Jul 1788 - 30 Sep 1788 - HRNSW, Volume 2, pp. 415-419

(2) 1787 Muster Roll - Source unknown

(3) 1788 Muster Roll - PRO Reel 412

(4) 1788 Muster Roll - Source unknown for some entries

(5) 1789 Muster Roll -5 Jun 1789 - 24 Dec 1789 -Historical Records of NSW (HRNSW), Vol. 2, pp. 432-435

(6) 1798 Pay List - PRO Reel 412

(7) 1799 Pay List - PRO Reel 412

(8) 73rd Regiment of Foot, 1st Battalion - 25 Jun 1812 - 24 Sep 1812 - PRO Reel 3869

(9) 73rd Regiment, Invalid Company - 25 Jun 1812 - 24 Sep 1812 - PRO Reel 3869

(10) 46th Regiment of Foot (South Devon) - 25 Mar 1815 - 25 Jun 1815 - PRO Reel 3795

(11) 48th Regiment of Foot - 25 Mar 1818 - 24 Jun 1818 - PRO Reel 3797

(12) 3rd Regiment of Foot (Buffs) - 25 Dec 1824 - 25 Mar 1825 - PRO Reel 3695

(13) 40th Regiment of Foot - 25 Sep 1827 - 24 Dec 1827 - PRO Reel 3774

(14) 39th Regiment of Foot - 25 Jun 1830 - 24 Sep 1830 - PRO Reel 3772

Published by Archive CD Books Australia in partnership with the South Australian Genealogy & Heraldry Society in 2005, this 2 CDROM set is a facsimile of the original 6-volume publication which is now out of print.

In 1980 the Society decided to publish a permanent record of people who lived in SA during the first 50 years of colonisation (1836-1885), to coincide with the State’s Jubilee 150 year in 1986. The result was the 1,958-page, 4-volume, Biographical Index of South Australians 1836-1885, edited by Jill Statton, with some 100,000 entries.

Material sources included Society members and individuals, archives and public records, church registers, ships’ passenger lists, burial records and private papers (ie: wills, family bibles, birthday books & letters of administrations).

Entries recorded basic biographical information about an individual such as parents, spouse and children, birth date, marriage date, death date and place, arrival in South Australia (including ship if known), plus residence, religion, occupation and more. A sample page can be seen at Sample Page.

A 2- volume, 1,069 page, supplement, entitled South Australians 1836-1885 and edited by Jan Thomas, was published in 1990. This set had:

* Over 7500 biographies of South Australian colonists. These listings concentrate on the male line with a detailed index of maiden or former surnames of spouses

* All the material included in the previous issued ‘Bicentennial Bulletins 1-8’ with updates,

* additional information added to a significant number of entries.

* New avenues of research as each entry lists the sources from which the data has been obtained and includes the name of the contributors, to enable contacts to be made.

* Additional information which complements that published in the ‘Biographical Index of South Australians’

A sample page can be seen at Sample Page.

The CD-ROM version allows full text searching and has the following advantages over the 6-volume print version:

* find many more names that can be found in the original alphabetical arrangement or printed index - especially the mother's maiden names and married names of daughters. For example there are 74 biographies of people with the surname 'Dawson' in the 2 sets, but a search for that name returns 294 occurrences.

* search by place and find all people associated with that place, a great local history resource. For example, a search for 'Gawler' returns 4,682 occurrences. No index to places is in the original.

* search for places of origin - how many and who are listed as coming from say Norfolk or Truro in Cornwall? For example, a search for Truro (Cornwall) returns 137 occurrences. No index to places of origin is in the original.

* find out who else is listed as coming on your ancestor's ship (same or another voyage)—just search by name of vessel. For example, a search for the Ship Trafalgar returns 347 occurrences. No index to ships is in the original.

* search by any other word for any other purpose of interest, e.g. occupation — how many are listed as solicitors (a search gives 205) or religion — all those identified as say Presbyterians (a search gives 2682).

* enlarge the image on screen to easily read what is very small type in the original.

The 6-volume print version is available in the Mitchell Library at REF 1/929.39423/1+3.

Produced by Di Cummings in 2005,this CD contains nearly every passenger list for the 3,000 overseas and local ships that came to South Australia between 1836-1851,creating a database of nearly 60,000 local and overseas families (including names,ages,occupations etc) .

Passengers came from England, Scotland, Ireland and Germany, as well as inter-colonial arrivals from Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart, Western Australia and New Zealand.

The newspaper 'South Australian Register' (located at RAV/FM4/1110) sent a special reporter to each ship arriving in SA, to list the passengers on board that ship from the passenger list held by the Captain.The reporter's list was published in the next publication of the newspaper.

These published lists are often the only source available of a passenger list for a particular ship. Where possible, the compilers have compared these lists with photocopies of the actual passenger list(many of which are difficult to read).As a result, the information on some images may not be 100% accurate.

The CD also has some shipping reports from newspapers of the day,including published reports of pioneers interviewed about their journeys to SA, photographs of some early pioneers and over 20 ship diaries.

Further information at We're Bound for SA.

Published by Gould Genealogy in 2004 and authored by Robin Haines,Judith Jeffery and Greg Slattery, this CDROM details births and deaths that occurred on the 323 voyages to SA on SA Government-assisted immigration ships between 1848 and 1885.

Information for each voyage includes the port and date of departure, port and date of arrival, number and nationality of emigrants and the ship's surgeon.

A sample voyage report can be found at Gould Genealogy : Sample Voyage Report. Information has also been drawn from surgeon's reports and other sources.

Information on deaths on board include age,sex,date and cause of death. Birth details include date and parents.

Contents also include:

* an introduction by Robin Haines;

* a bibliography;

* an alphabetical list of 323 government-assisted ships arriving in South Australia 1848-1885, summarising births, deaths, and surgeons’ names;

* Summary of voyages (1848-1885), arranged by vessel;

* Summary of voyages (1848-1885), arranged by surgeon;

* 40 pages of illustrations;

Includes links to Acts, Regulations, Bills and Parliamentary Dabates or Hansard.

A gazetteer setting out histories of towns, suburbs,landscape features and other names localities in South Australia.

Most entries describe the circumstances of the naming as well as the derivation of the name itself, and if this is not available, other historical detail is provided.

Contains over 200 photos from the South Australian Glass Negatives Collection held by the History Trust of South Australia and a facsimile of Rodney Cockburn's 'Nomenclature of South Australia'.

The author is Geoffrey H. Manning, superceding his book' Romance of place Names of South Australia'.

Compiled by Graham Jaunay and produced by Gould Genealogy in 2005, the 1840 Cultivators is a return of all property outside of Adelaide proper as conducted in the latter part of 1840.

No records survive giving the precise date of the survey and it may have been partly done in conjunction with the 1841 SA census. Regardless, it gives a picture of rural life in the early days of the colony and names the owners and tenants of cultivated property together with a description of the improvements made to the property.

Consisting of several hundred entries, the information listed contains: District; Section Number/s; Place; Surname; Given Name; Wheat, Barley, Oats, Maize, Potato, Garden (qty in acres); Additional Information (which can consist of dwellings such as house, cottage, hut, barn, stable, pens, dairy, school, brickworks, hotel, brewery, mill, quarry, lime kiln, shop, police, cemetery, fishery or church). The database has added features such as a copy of the population figures for the 1840 census. The information can be browsed or searched, and entries can be looked at in a listing or individually.

The material is divided into the districts proclaimed in the province at the time. These administrative districts were also used for the 1841 Census, as follows:

(1) District A: north of Bay Road (now Anzac Highway) & Greenhill Road excluding Adelaide but including Port Adelaide and west of Mt Lofty.

(2) District B: south of Bay Road and Greenhill Road to 35ƒ10í and west of Mt Lofty.

(3) District C: from 35°10’ [i.e. mouth of the Onkaparinga River] to 35°20’ [i.e. base of Sellicks Hill] and west of Mt Lofty.

(4) Encounter Bay District (including Crrency Creek and Inman valley.

(5) Mount Barker District (including Mr Smillie and Mr Hack and the Angas Surveys).

(6) Northern Districts: included Houghton area, Gawler and the Barossa Valley.

A free, searchable, database of the names in the official returns of the country sections of the colony under cultivation is available at the compiler's website, along with a sample survey entry and a map of the administrative districts. See SA 1840 Cultivators Return.

This CDROM is 1 of 5 in a series on the earliest days of the SA colony, namely, 1841 SA Census, 1840 SA Cultivators and SA Pre-civil registrations for births, deaths and marriages.

This site provides community, commercial and government information for South Australia. It includes links to state and local government information, government directories and provides facts and figures for South Australia.

Compiled by Graham Jaunay and produced by Gould Genealogy in 2002, this CDROM provides the full 1841 SA Census with a searchable index, biographies of many listed people and scanned enumerators' sheets.

It has just over 7000 listings, accounting for nearly 15,500 people. The young colony was 5 years old and this ambitious project was well beyond the resources of the fledgling cash-strapped bureaucracy trying to administer a small population scattered across a huge territory.

A typed index created in 1949 was the only access available to researchers until this CDROM, which has re-indexed the original material as some of the interpretations of hand-written originals were wrong. It has also enhanced the data with many biographies on the persons listed.

The 1841 SA Census, like its English counterpart, only names the heads of households in the closely settled areas and so the biographies often identify individuals by name rather than just a number in an age column. The presentation features a thermometer which gauges the veracity of the collated material, giving the user some idea of how accurate the biography is to the person identified.

The census material is arranged into the districts proclaimed in the province at the time, as follows:

(1) District A: north of Bay Road (now Anzac Highway) & Greenhill Road excluding Adelaide but including Port Adelaide and west of Mt Lofty.

(2) District B: south of Bay Road and Greenhill Road to 35ƒ10í and west of Mt Lofty.

(3) District C: from 35ƒ10í [i.e. mouth of the Onkaparinga River] to 35ƒ20í [i.e. base of Sellicks Hill] and west of Mt Lofty.

(4) Adelaide Metropolitan villages: Albert Town (Alberton); Bowden; Goodwood; Hindmarsh; Islington; Kensington; Klemzig; Macgill (Magill); Port Adelaide; Prospect; Thebarton; Unley; Walkerville.

(5) Encounter Bay District including Currency Creek and Inman valley.

(6) Mount Barker District including Mr Smillie and Mr Hack and the Angas Surveys.

(7) Northern Districts: included Houghton area, Gawler and the Barossa Valley.

(8) Port Lincoln

A free searchable database will disclose the names listed in the SA 1841 Census at the compiler's website, along with a map of the census districts listed above, at SA 1841 Census.

This CDROM is 1 of 5 in a series on the earliest days of the SA colony, namely, 1841 SA Census, 1840 SA Cultivators and SA Pre-civil registrations for births, deaths and marriages.

This is an index of all birth registrations held by the South Australian Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Office. More details are given than in previous South Australian birth indexes, with the inclusion of information on parents being a major feature.

A fiche version of the SA birth index is available for the period 1842 to 1922, as well as a book version for the period 1842 to 1906 (at NQ929.39423/11), in the Family History Service.

220,000 records of births registered in South Australia, under a compulsory registration system introduced in 1842.

Records provide birth surname (usually father's), given names, birth date, sex, father, mother's maiden name (and sometimes her other married names are added),birth place/residence, district code, book and page reference and sometimes a cross reference to an alternative name (due to legal name change or registration ambiguity).

Search fields include surname, given name, year of birth or year range (ie put 1907 to 1909). Can use asterix (*) to replace portions of names and places when you are unsure of a spelling.Using upper or lower case does not effect the search (ie: not case sensitive).

Results can be displayed as a list using the 'results list'button in the top toolbar menu or one by one using the neighbouring 'results record' button.

The 'print order for certificate' button allows you to print an application for the full certificate from the Birth, Deaths and Marriages Registration Office in SA.

A 'Digger' product, published by the SA Genealogy and Heraldry Society Inc. and Macbeth Genealogical Services Pty Ltd.

A fiche version of the SA birth index is available for the period 1842 to 1922, as well as a book version for the period 1842 to 1906 (at NQ929.39423/11), in the Family History Service.

Produced by the South Australian Genealogy and Heraldry Society in conjunction with Macbeth Genealogical Services in May 2000, this database indexes 225,000 death registrations held by the SA Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Office under a compulsory registration system introduced in 1842.

It includes all death registrations prior to the end of the year 1915, one registration prior to the year 1842, and 604 registrations in January 1916.

Details included are: Name of the deceased, sex, age, date and place of death, informant if a relative and relationship, Registration District, BDM Registry reference.

A fiche version of the SA death index is available for the period 1842 to 1970, as well as a book version for the period 1842 to 1915 (at NQ929.3944/26), in the Family History Service.

Published in 2006, this CDROM indexes over 381,000 SA deaths for the period 1916 to 1972, as well as 131 registrations of people whose deaths occurred before 1916 but were registered later (including one from 1885). It also covers the wars from World War 1 to the Vietnam War, with more than 3,700 designated as war deaths.

Information provided includes:

* the deceased's surname and given names, sex, age and marital status.

* usual residence, death date, and place of death.

* relative's surname and given names and relationship to the deceased.

* registrations district and registrations book and page reference numbers.

* explanatory and supplementary information

The Digger software offers the following search tools:

* it allows the user to search using one or more fields of information

* wildcard searches (ie Je*cott retrieves Jephcott, Jefcott and Jeffcott)

* truncation searches (ie Hall* retrieves Halls, Halloran, Haller)

* reverse truncation searches (ie *Donnell retrieves Donnell, O'Donnell, MacDonnell)

* 'like' (phonetic) searches (ie 'like' Myer locates Mier, Meyer etc)

A fiche version of the SA death index is available for the period 1842 to 1970, as well as a book version for the period 1842 to 1915 (at NQ929.3944/26), in the Family History Service.

This site provides information on the history of the South Australian Flag and includes links to information on South Australian historical flags covering the periods from 1870 to 1876 and 1876 to 1904.

This database indexes marriage registrations held by the South Australian Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Office. It includes all marriage registrations prior to the end of the year 1916.

A fiche version of the SA marriage index is available for the period 1842 to 1937, as well as a book version for the period 1842 to 1917 (at NQ929.39423/9), in the Family History Service.

This database indexes marriage registrations held by the South Australian Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Office.

A fiche version of the SA marriage index is available for the period 1842 to 1937, as well as a book version for the period 1842 to 1917 (at NQ929.39423/9), in the Family History Service.

The information contained in the Police Gazettes can vary from year to year, but overall you will find details of any changes within the police force, such as promotions, demotions, discharges, resignations and deaths, as well as lists of Justices of the Peace.

Information is also given on house break-ins, robberies, arson, murders,lost horses and cattle, deserters from service or from families, court lists, warrants issued, escaped prisoners, prisoners discharged and reports on those released, missing friends, lost and found items etc. Notices from interstate police gazettes are sometimes included.

The information contained in the Police Gazettes can vary from year to year, but overall you will find details of any changes within the police force, such as promotions, demotions, discharges, resignations and deaths, as well as lists of Justices of the Peace.

Information is also given on house break-ins, robberies, arson, murders,lost horses and cattle, deserters from service or from families, court lists, warrants issued, escaped prisoners, prisoners discharged and reports on those released, missing friends, lost and found items etc. Notices from interstate police gazettes are sometimes included.

Compiled by Graham Jaunay and produced by Gould Genealogy in 2005, this CDROM covers pre-civil registration SA births up to June 1842.

With over 2100 entries, the information listed contains: Date of Birth/Date of Baptism (sometimes both are given); Parents (father & mother); Surname; First Names; Occupation Father; Residence/Birthplace; Source. The information can be browsed or searched, and entries can be looked at in a listing or individually.

Civil registration began in SA on 1 June 1842, six years after European settlement began in the State. When civil registration commenced, parents were invited to register children born previously and some 468 born in the colony were thus registered.

While the colony never recognised any Established Church, the Colonial Chaplain was Anglican and very few other churches were represented in the Colony prior to June 1842.

The known surviving church registers include:

* Anglican:Adelaide (Holy) Trinity from 1836

* Catholic:Adelaide circuit from 1839

* Church of Scotland:Adelaide Holy Trinity from 1837

* Presbyterian:Gouger Street Adelaide from 1839

* Society of Friends:Pennington Tce Meeting House from 1841

Other sources include newspaper personal columns, BISA (Biographical Index of South Australians 1836–1885) and published family histories.

This CDROM is 1 of 5 in a series on the earliest days of the SA colony, namely, 1841 SA Census, 1840 SA Cultivators and SA Pre-civil registrations for births, deaths and marriages.

Compiled by Graham Jaunay and produced by Gould Genealogy in 2005, this CDROM covers some 1,200 pre-civil registration SA deaths up to June 1842. Civil registration began in SA on 1 June 1842, six years after European settlement began in the State.

The earliest burial records at West Terrace Cemetery were lost and prior to this cemetery burials were not recorded.

Burial sources are as follows:

* Anglican:Adelaide (Holy) Trinity from 1837

* General:Kingscote from 1836

Other sources include newspaper personal columns, BISA (Biographical Index of South Australians 1836-1885) and published family histories.

The information listed contains: Death Date/Burial Date, Surname, First Name/s, Occupation, Age, Cause, Residence, Death Place, Cemetery Celebrant, and Source. The information can be browsed or searched, and entries can be looked at in a listing or individually.

This CDROM is 1 of 5 in a series on the earliest days of the SA colony, namely, 1841 SA Census, 1840 SA Cultivators and SA Pre-civil registrations for births, deaths and marriages.

Compiled by Graham Jaunay and produced by Gould Genealogy in 2006, this CDROM covers some 600 pre-civil registration SA marriages up to June 1842 obtained mainly from the Holy Trinity Adelaide Register, the SA Gazetter & Colonial Register, the Biographical Index of South Australians 1836-1885 and published family histories. A few entries are registered (in the GRO Marriage Register), even though the marriage occurred before introduction of civil registration.

Information listed contains: Marriage Date, Couple (Groom/Bride), Age, Occupation, Residence (Groom/Bride), Fathers, Mothers, Marriage Place, Celebrant, Status (Bachelor/Widower, Spinster/Widow), and sources.

The information can be browsed or searched, and entries can be looked at in a listing or individually. The residence column lists many from various counties in England, Ireland and Scotland, and a few from elsewhere.

The CDROM defaults to a 'List all' alphabetical list of husbands but you can 'sort' chronologically or alphabetically on date, groom, bride, groom's occupation or groom's residence. Click on top 'find' tab to enter your search into one or more fields(ie:farmer in 'occupation' field finds 3 marriages).

Each marriage entry can provide event date, groom & bride,age,occupation, residence,marriage place, celebrant,status (b=bachelor,s=spinster,w=widower) and source.

The Colonial Chaplain (incumbent of Holy Trinity Adelaide) the Rev. Charles Beaumont Howard is the predominant celebrant as he was the only clergyman for much of this period, had accompanied the first settlers to the colony, conducted marriage services regardless of the couple's denomination and maintained a register. The Rev. James Farrell, initially an assistant priest, arrived in 1840. Further information on S.A.marriage celebrants of the period can be found by clicking on the top 'help' tab and then the bottom 'notes' tab.

Apart from the Colonial Chaplain, some civil officials also conducted marriages. A small number of marriages were performed by other denominations:

* Anglican:Adelaide (Holy) Trinity from 1836

* Church of Scotland:Scotch Church from 1841

* Congregational:Stow Church from 1837

* Lutheran:Hahndorf from 1839; Klemzig from 1838

* United Presbyterian:Gouger Street from 1839

* Society of Friends:Pennington Tce Meeting House from 1841

This CDROM is the fifth of a proposed series on the earliest days of the S.A. colony, namely, 1841 Census, 1840 Cultivators and Pre-civil registrations for births, deaths and marriages.

'Sources for South Australian Shipping Records 1836 to 1842' is a database designed to provide the researcher with a collection of all the sources of records available for each voyage into South Australian waters, together in the one listing and totals over 1500 voyages.

The period covered holds the most comprehensive listing of assisted arrivals into South Australia, and the names of all the applicants of thousands of them, including those who eventually did not take up the offer are also included.

Information listed gives the vessel name and voyage details, the sources, and a listing of passengers 'as recorded in the 'Register of Emigration Labourers Applying for Free Passage'.

Although no convicts were transported directly to South Australia from Britain, some convicts were tried in South Australia and transported to other colonies. This alphabetical list provides details of convicts including name, alias, crime, date and length of sentence. Produced by Graham Jaunay.

Although no convicts were transported directly to South Australia from Britain, some convicts were tried in South Australia and transported to other colonies. This alphabetical list provides details of convicts including name, alias, crime, date and length of sentence. Produced by Graham Jaunay.

Compiled by Graham Jaunay and published by Gould Genealogy in 2004, this CDROM is a collection of some 800 unregistered deaths found in various SA sources (ie: newspapers) that do not seem to have been registered with the Principal SA Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages in Adelaide. It is therefore a useful resource when a death is known to have occurred in SA but was not officialy registered. However, about 200,000 deaths were registered in SA in the 19th century and the compiler estimates that unregistered deaths probably amounted to less than 1% of that total.

Death details (when known) are:

(1) Name of deceased; (2) age; (3) occupation; (4) address; (5) place of death; (6) cause of death; (7) source of the information; (8) any extracts from publications. The 'extracts from publications' field has the entry in its context, sometimes a small note, sometimes a lengthy article/report.

While the system of death certificates and burial orders were designed to account for all deaths, the size of the SA colony and remote deaths made the system quite difficult to administer. There is no rule of thumb to determine if a deceased person's death was registered but clearly it was quite indecent to leave a body unburied in the heat of summer while waiting to the arrival of someone with the appropriate authority to authorise the burial.

There are examples in the records of police being notified of a remote death by letter from a pastoralist and of police attending a remote burial and requiring an exhumation to certify the death. Many wandering men lay where they died for many years before being discovered. Some skeletons found in the outback were registered and others not. Some accident victims, the subject of an inquest, were registered and others not. There are also examples of persons lost at sea having their deaths registered when their body was never recovered and others suffering the same fate not being registered.

This CD presents an index to the inscriptions on headstones and plaques in the South Brisbane (Dutton Park) cemetery, Brisbane. The original transcriptions were published on microfiche.

Australian National University (ANU) database of serials relating to Southeast Asian history and culture.

Full text accounts of South Pacific exploration. James Cook's journals are linked to an interactive map of his voyage.

The Southern Cross Resource Finder (SCRF) is a web-based resource that enables users to discover collections from British libraries, archives and museums which hold resources useful for the study of Australia and New Zealand. It has been produced by and is maintained by the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, King's College London.

Full text literature study guides for a range of classic novels and most of Shakespeare's plays. Includes chapter plot summaries and criticism.

Resources for history teachers.

SPORTDiscus is a comprehensive, bibliographic database covering sport, physical fitness, exercise, sports medicine, sports science, physical education, kinesiology, coaching, training, sport administration, officiating, sport law & legislation, college & university sport, disabled persons, facility design & management, intramural & school sport, doping, health, health education, biomechanics, movement science, injury prevention rehabilitation, physical therapy, nutrition, exercise physiology, sport & exercise psychology, recreation, leisure studies, tourism, allied health, occupational health & therapy, public health and more.

With full bibliographic coverage, this database includes records with journal and monograph coverage going back to 1800; dissertations and theses and reference to articles in 60 different languages. The content also consists of international references from journal and magazine articles, books, book chapters, conference proceedings, etc.

An international photographic encyclopedia of athletes, cricketers, footballers, golfers, rugby players and tennis players.

This site provides a complete catalogue of Australian Standards which can be searched by reference number or keyword. The standards are available electronically and can be ordered from this site.

This site provides a searchable full-text edition of the encyclopedia. An expert or group of experts in the field maintains each entry. The site also contains an archive of earlier editions.

This site (formerly known as the Archives Authority of NSW) contains information on useful resources such as the Colonial Secretary's papers. Several searchable databases can be accessed on this site, including many indexes such as convicts and assisted immigrants, deceased estate files, 19th century child welfare records and naturalisation records.

This site (formerly known as the Archives Authority of NSW) contains information on useful resources such as the Colonial Secretary's papers. Several searchable databases can be accessed on this site, including many indexes such as convicts and assisted immigrants, deceased estate files, 19th century child welfare records and naturalisation records.

This site, run by the State Transit Authority of NSW, contains information about Sydney buses and Newcastle buses and ferries. It provides timetables, route maps and information about tickets. The site is linked to a trip planner for the Sydney bus, train and ferry network.

This site contains a list of links to international statistical agencies. The list is arranged by world region.

Full colour maps each showing a single Statistical Local Area as current at the 2001 Census of Population and Housing.

Full colour maps each showing a single Statistical Local Area as current at the 2001 Census of Population and Housing.

This site provides access to reports prepared by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade. Subjects covered include imports and exports, major trading partners and major economic indicators.

This site contains an alphabetical list of principal United States federal statistical agencies and international statistical agencies.

New Zealand's official statistical agency, providing recent information and a statistical profile of New Zealand.

This site provides stories from the cultures of Indigenous Australians and have been collected from all over Australia. The stories are available in video, audio and text-only formats.

Stories from the cultures of Indigenous Australia. Stories available in video, audio and text formats. From the Australian Museum.

This site provides stories from the cultures of Indigenous Australians and have been collected from all over Australia. The stories are available in video, audio and text-only formats.

A guide to the law relating to succession law and practice in NSW. Includes case references and legislation. Formerly Wills Probate & Administration Service NSW.

A database of nearly 10,000 convicts transported to Western Australia from 1850 to 1868. Includes details such as birth date, crime, where tried, years served, ticket of leave and certificate of freedom dates, and occupation. Searchable by name and ship. Produced by the Fremantle Prison.

Switchboard provides a fast and easy way for people and businesses to find each other on the Web. Each day, millions of consumers find the businesses they need through Switchboard.

This site includes maps and information on tours and events at the Trust's Gardens in Sydney, Mount Annan and Mount Tomah, and information on plants, conservation and research.

This site provides up to date details of courses available at the college. The search facility allows for searching by keyword, category, suburb and time of day.

This site, run by Sydney Ferries Corporation, contains information on timetables and fares for ferries on Sydney Harbour and Parramatta River. It includes information about harbour attractions. The site is linked to a trip planner for the Sydney bus, train and ferry network.

This site provides daily news, features and the computers and metro sections of the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper. It also includes access to archived material and a ‘breaking news’ section available from mid-morning on weekdays. Free registration required to view some pages.

The SMH archives contains 820,000 pages in almost 13,000 issues from January 1st, 1955 to December 31st, 1990. The contents of all issues are fully text searchable including advertisements, captions and birth, death and marriage notices.

Full-text results are returned in an exact digital reproduction of the printed pages as they were originally published.

This site provides a searchable archive of the following Fairfax publications: Sydney Morning Herald, Australian Financial Review, Business Review Weekly, Personal Investment, Shares, The Age, Sun Herald, Illawarra Mercury and the Newcastle Herald. Fees are charged to view the full text of the articles.

Astronomical information, research and events from Australia's oldest observatory.

Sydney Star Observer is a Sydney gay newspaper providing gay-relevant news, current affairs, venue information, arts, film, book reviews. The site contains a searchable archive of the past year's issues.

This is a Society of Australian Genealogists index, compiled by the late Harry Freeman, which enables you to find out which Sydney Federal Electoral Division and Subdivision(s) a particular Sydney street is located in for the period 1903 to 1984.

City, state and federal electoral rolls can be very useful when researching Sydney ancestors, but finding your ancestor in the electoral rolls of a city as large as Sydney can be a lengthy process. The first step is to find your ancestor's address at a relevant date - for instance, in birth, marriage & death records or Sands Postal directories (to 1933). However, street names can change, along with street numbering systems and the boundaries of the various electoral wards, divisions or subdivisions. Often there was no alternative to undertaking a systematic search through each subdivision of each available roll.

SAG's online index to Sydney streets in 20th century federal electoral rolls allows search by street name - starting with the initial letter of street name - and will respond with a list of divisions/subdivisions in which the street is listed, in year order. In some cases street names have changed - sometimes as the result of removing duplicate street names. Check the 'Streets General' heading, which deals with cross references, name changes etc. at the top of each street search result list.

In a number of cases more than one answer will be provided, because the street crossed (sub)division boundaries. In 1903 and 1906 the listing arrangement was by polling place rather than subdivision; in a few cases in those years it was difficult to be sure of the correct subdivision and the field was left blank - it will be necessary for you to check all subdivisions. The names of 'divisions' (i.e. electorates) and subdivisions often provide few clues to their geographic coverage.

It is worth adding that the NSW State Library Family History Service has a place or suburb name card index to NSW electoral districts for 1859 to 1899 and for NSW Federal electoral districts for 1903 to 1969. Additionally, there are some state electorate guides by streets, roads and localities for limited years and a Federal electoral district atlas entitled ' Commonwealth of Australia 1901-1988 electoral redistributions '.

The NSW State Library has a comprehensive collection of electoral rolls, particularly for NSW, and a guide to this collection at Getting Started : Electoral Rolls.

This site contains articles on more than 2500 western signs, arranged into groups according to their graphic characteristics.