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The 'South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register' was the major South Australian newspaper from 1836. Personal notices from this paper, which became the 'South Australian Register' in June 1839, have been published and indexed in an important series of volumes. Each volume includes:

• the entire text of all birth, marriage and death notices for the period covered
• an index of ALL persons mentioned in the notices
• an index of marriage celebrants
• an index of place names - especially useful to local historians

In addition to the full text from the original notices this volume includes - 17,700 index headings to 37,220 index items - 18,470 place names, 2020 marriage celebrants, 16,730 names. The place index includes several thousand references to names and places in other Australian colonies and some 30 overseas countries - especially Britain and Ireland.