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See Ancestors in Archives for a detailed description of these sources and how to use them.
Arrivals from Overseas Ports
GRG 56/68/4 Lists of passengers arriving in South Australia from overseas ports 1836-1845 (see also companion volume GRG 56/68/4 Chronological list of ships arriving in South Australia from overseas 1836-1849, both available on Research Centre shelves)
GRG 56/68/52 Miscellaneous passenger lists 1837-1839 (available on Research Centre shelves)
GRG 41/8 Manifests of incoming ships at Port Adelaide with lists of passengers and crew 1838-1842 (available on microfilm at Research Centres, indexed by GRG 56/68/5, available on Research Centre shelves)
GRG 56/68/7 Index to persons arriving in South Australia from overseas as recorded in the Adelaide Times, South Australian and South Australian Register newspapers 1846-1887 (available on Research Centre shelves, including key to index)
GRG 35/48/1 Official Assisted Passenger Lists 1847 - 1886 (available on microfiche at Research Centres, indexed by GRG 56/68/3, available on Research Centre shelves and on microfiche)
Accession 1531 Immigrants arriving from Hamburg 1851-1886 (available on microfilm at Research Centres and on Research Centre shelves)
GRG 41/34 Official lists of passengers arriving in South Australia from overseas 1888-1892, 1894, 1896-1940 (available on microfilm at Research Centres, index until 1908 available on Research Centre shelves, see State Records staff at Research Centres for index 1909-1924).
Arrivals from Interstate
GRG 41/36 Inwards passenger lists from interstate ports 1901-1903, 1908, 1910, 1914, 1918-1920, 1922-1923 (order records for viewing at a Research Centre through ArchivesSearch, no index available).
Overseas and interstate Arrivals at South Australian Outports
GRG 41/39 Incoming passenger lists to Port Pirie (1930-1931, 1933-1939) Port Lincoln (1938), Port Germein (1934), Stenhouse Bay (1939) and Wallaroo (1939) (order records for viewing at a Research Centre through ArchivesSearch, no index available).
