Local and Family History

Have you hit a roadblock in your local or family history research?
Are you researching the history of a building within the Alexandrina district, or are you researching your family tree?

Alexandrina Libraries has a great collection of resources aimed at helping customers with their local and family history enquiries. Local and Family History Rooms are located at both Goolwa and Strathalbyn Libraries.

Staff and History Room volunteers are available to assist with any questions you may have. Send us an email to libraries@alexandrina.sa.gov.au with your contact details and a summary of your research enquiry and we will try our best to assist.

To book a specific time for free assistance with one of the library’s volunteers, including those who specialise in family history research, please give us a call on 8555 7000 or send us an email to libraries@alexandrina.sa.gov.au

Local and family history resources include free access to:

• Ancestry Library Edition - Search births, deaths and marriages, passenger lists, census records
• Findmypast - Contains census, directory and historical records with a British and Irish genealogy focus; also contains Australian birth, death and marriage records.
• Online access to the statewide Cemetery burial database
  Books on the Alexandrina district area including township histories and local family histories
• Aboriginal historical resources - Ngarrindjeri, Peramangk, Ramindjeri and Yaraldi
• Vertical files on events, places, people in the local area
• Index of Goolwa Library Local History vertical files
• Index of Strathalbyn Library Local History vertical files
• Historical maps of the Alexandrina area
• Index of Maps at Goolwa Library
• Index of Maps at Strathalbyn Library
• Oral histories – Index of Oral History Transcripts
• Digitised Photographs (Snapshots in Time)
• Digitised Documents