Ancestry Library

Ancestry Library Edition is provided free of charge through a partnership with Libraries SA. It is powered by Ancestry.com and holds billions of records, including census data, directories and photographs.

You must be logged in to one of the library’s public access computers at either the Freeling or Kapunda branches.

Ancestry Library Edition includes genealogy records from North America, the United Kingdom, Europe and Australia, as well as other resources. New content is added on a regular basis.

Popular collections

United States of America

hundreds of millions of names
federal and U.S. censuses
birth, death, and marriage records
Social Security Death Index
U.S. border crossing and trans-ocean ship records.

Canada

nearly 60 million records
Census of Canada
key vital records including the Drouin Collection (1621-1967)
- nearly 30 million baptism, marriage, and burial records from Quebec

United Kingdom

censuses for England, Wales, Isle of Man, Channel Islands, and Scotland
nearly 200 million records
Births and Baptisms (1834-1906)
Marriage Licenses (1521-1869)
Deaths and Burials (1834-1934)
Poor Law Records (1840-1938) in London

Other international collections

more than 46 million records from German censuses
- vital records
- emigration indexes
- ship lists, phone directories, and more
Chinese surnames in the large and growing Jiapu Collection of Chinese lineage books
Jewish family history records from Eastern Europe and Russia

Military collections

over 150 million records
- includes records from the colonial to the Vietnam era

Multimedia collections

millions of files
- family photos
- gravestone photos
- postcards
- newsreels