Welcome to our new blog series.
We'll be sharing stories from the archive and profiling some of the more interesting records we come across.
Over the coming months staff will be sharing some of their favourite records. It might be a set of records that they are fascinated by or a document which helped in their own family history research. We hope you enjoy the read.
Senior Reference Archivist Nick Miller’s favourite records are the Police ‘Mugshot Books’. They contain stories of convicted individuals from the Adelaide area.
Senior Policy Officer Tamara Wenham has discovered her own family history through a hospital admission register recording the death in the South East of an enigmatic ancestor.
State Records’ collection can enrich any research about war events. State and local government agencies were involved in managing domestic impacts from international conflict.
Stories previously written about the interesting records in our collection.
An index of SA Railways employees c1880–1975
Australia loves a Royal visit
World War One recruitment posters and the art of war
'Z Ward’ building at Glenside Hospital
The Somerton Man is an enduring and intriguing mysteries in Australia.
