South Australia Newspapers

The National Library of Australia is conducting an Australia wide program whereby they are digitising surviving newspapers from 1840 to 1954. They are expected to finish the project by the end of 2011, and are currently roughly half way thru (so far over 20 million pages have been digitised with another 20 million + to come).

Main South Australian newspapers are :


 * The Advertiser(Adelaide, SA : 1889-1931)
 * The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1931-1954)
 * The South Australian Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1858-1889)
 * South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register (Adelaide, SA : 1836-1839)
 * South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA : 1839-1900)

It should be noted that the smaller local newspapers as far as has been ascertained, have either sent their archived papers to the local libraries or into the Mortlock Library in Adelaide.

Online indexes to births and deaths
South Australia Newspaper index

•Newspaper Birth Notices Index from 1960 onwards •Newspaper Death Notices Index from 1972 onwards