About Us
This website was launched on 1 January 1996 after its creation, development and testing in late 1995. The aim was to provide free resources for family history and genealogy research on South Australians and their ancestors at home and abroad.
In the early years, information included:- A timeline of 19th century South Australian history,
- South Australian family tree resource directory including the Leadbeater family,
- South Australian genealogy resource directory including local history groups,
- Australian genealogy resource directory by state,
- Worldwide genealogy resource directory by country, and a
- Family tree software resource directory.
- Starting your family tree,
- Searching for SA cemetery burials,
- Accuracy of family history sources, and
- Genealogy database design and its genetic basis;
And maps of the world, the UK, Australia, South Australia and Adelaide;
And most importantly, the following free searchable databases have been added:- South Australian cemeteries and burials together with a directory of other SA cemetery resources and a facility to search external cemetery sites for burals,
- Early SA births, marriages, and deaths including those prior to civil registration, together with a directory of other SA birth, baptism, marriage, death & burial resources,
- Early shipping arrivals in South Australia & their passenger lists together with a directory of other SA shipping and migration resources, and
- a combined database of passenger arrivals, births, marriages and deaths in South Australia.
The passenger lists are continually being revised and expanded.
Affiliations
This site is entirely non-commercial and has no affiliation, formal or informal, with any genealogy society or other commercial or non-commercial organization. In particular, there is no affiliation of any kind with the familyhistorysa dot com website. We do, however, host the Adelaide Co-operative History site (see below), the content of which complements our own.
Disclaimer
Use of this site and its data and information is entirely at the user's risk. Any data required for a critical application should be thoroughly checked by the user for accuracy and suitability to that application.
Unsolicited testimonials
"... Your website is outstanding and has been extremely helpful to me in building a picture of my early family in SA. Thank you."
NSW user 29-7-2010
"Thankyou for your site. Your search engine is impressive. Thanks to the results you gave me ... "
Victorian user 18-6-2010
"Dear Barry, ... Many thanks indeed. I was astonished at your wonderful site. Congrats. It must have been a labour of love and commitment."
NSW user 6-6-2010
"Congratulations and well done to all involved in creating this website. I just wanted to say how easy and pleasant it was to search through. The colours and layout are extremely inviting and encourage one to search. I am so pleased there are no distracting blinking areas. Have bookmarked it for future use."
21-12-2009
"First may I say a big thank you. A seminal family moment occurred today courtesy of a simple search on your wonderful website."
Victorian user 5-8-2009
"l love your site, it is so easy to use and find people. The history references are extremely helpful. I was very, very pleased to finally learn something about ... "
29-5-2009
"Thank you so much for your excellent website - I've used it many, many times!"
ACT user 28-5-2009
"Dear Barry, Congratulations on your website which I refer to quite often. You certainly have created a most comprehensive resource."
SA user 6-10-2008
"My husband's family is from South Australia so I use your site a lot. I found a possible arrival for ... just recently, something I have been hunting for over 20 years.
Keep up the good work. You are doing a great job."
ACT user 5-6-2008
"My first visit, great site, very clear, and it's rare to get so much vital data free of charge. Thank you."
Victorian user 23-3-2008
"Just dropping you a line to let you know how I appreciate your website. I have been using your shipping - love the information and all the references - which has saved me many hours of work. Still waiting for you to get to 1852 - I'm still looking for my ... who had arrived here by 1852. I also have been making good use of the WW1 data. Now that I have had time to have a good look at all the various databases on your site I realise all the hard work and many hours that you put into it and I would like to congratulate you on an excellent job and please keep it up."
SA user 22-1-2008
"Hello Barry, what a wonderful job you have done for those of us who are researching our families."
6-12-2007
"Your site has been tremendously helpful to my family history research. Though Perth-born, and now residing on the east coast, my heritage is entirely of 19th century South Australian immigrants, and I have learnt more from your site than any other source on the web."
NSW user 29-10-2007
"I just wanted to say Thank You for putting together such an informative site. Please continue doing a great job. I have only just recently started to research my family history and found your site to be fantastic. It is definitely in my favorites. I will be back again."
SA user 17-10-2007
Barry Leadbeater
Site Owner
leadbeater@ozemail.com.au
Adelaide SA
About Adelaide Co-operative History
The Adelaide Co-operative History website is hosted by Family History South Australia. It was created in March 2006 to assist with South Australian history research including local and family history. The Co-op is an informal group which uses the resources of the State Library of South Australia, State Records of SA, National Archives of Australia and other repositories to provide readily available free databases and informative history articles.
The conditions of use, disclaimer, specifications and privacy policy are identical to those for Family History South Australia.
Maureen M Leadbeater
leadbeater@ozemail.com.auAdelaide SA