The Alexandrina Library Service is very pleased to announce that the Library Edition of the Ancestry.com database is now available to members and visitors of the Goolwa Library to search.

The database can be accessed on all 12 of our Public Access internet computers ("pubnets"), as well as the History Room computer. Existing members can use their library card to log on to the pubnets, then double-click on the AncestryLibrary icon on the desktop. Visitors are welcome to join the library or obtain temporary internet access on presentation of suitable identification at the Ask Here desk.

What is included in Ancestry Library Edition?

Product tour

Sample searches

Search guide

Have a look at the help in the Learning Centre Resource  It includes tips on how to use AncestryLibrary, toolbox tools, Family Facts and quick links, along with Learning Centre guides (listed below)

Learning Centre guides

Specifically Australian Guides

Beginners' questions for Australian Research

Finding Your Migrant Ancestor

Convict Records

Using Directories for Family History Research

Do You Have a Criminal Past?

Other guides

For beginners

Beginners' Questions Answered

How to start your family history research

GEDCOM basics

Family History made easy: step by step. Step 1 Getting started

Family History made easy: step by step. Step 1 Living sources

Ten top tips for Family History research

Virtual Ancestors? Internet research tips for beginning genealogists

For more advanced researchers

Plan the attack

Ten common research mistakes and how to avoid them

Interviewing your relatives

On the record - collecting oral histories

Memory as a source

How long is a generation?

Kodachrome or Ferrotype

Finding clues in old photographs