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Extension of effective dates - GDS 15 (8th Edn.) for State Government Agencies of SA and GDS 18 (4th Edn.) for Ministerial OfficesExtension of GDS Effective Dates
The State Records Council has approved GDS 32 for Records of Relevance to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.GDS 32 Approved by the State Records Council
Family history is a popular area of archival research.
State Records of South Australia has a number of publications that can help get you started. They are described in the Guides for Family History section of this web site.
Other Finding Aids, and access to the records held by State Records, are available through our two Research Centres.
To help with your family history research we have also compiled lists of:
Records not held by State Records
Agencies in South Australia that hold family history and genealogical sources of information (Other Sources of Family History).
identify the people you are attempting to trace by full name, approximate birth and death dates and place of residence, if known
prepare specific questions - what is it that you want to know about these people? General requests for all the information on these people are too broad and you need to identify a specific area to research
note the resources you have already seen, so we do not recommend them again.
