Local & Family History
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.
libraries@alexandrina.sa.gov.au
Need help with Family History Research? - Free one on one assistance is available with a genealogist volunteer through our online bookings page
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 local area including local family histories
- Aboriginal historical resources - Ngarrindjeri, Ramindjeri and Yaraldi
- Vertical files on events, places, people in the local area
- Historical maps of the Alexandrina area
- Oral histories – Index of Oral History Transcripts
- Digitised Photographs (Snapshots in Time)
- Digitised Documents
