Media: USB flash drive - 1 USB (93 years, 39,576 pages)
Year: 2025
ISBN: 9781925135725
Publisher: Archive Digital Books Australasia

Police Gazettes are a unique, useful and extremely fascinating resource for local, family and social historians and researchers in other fields throughout Australia. Compiled to be distributed amongst the Police Force only, these Gazettes therefore contain details and information that cannot be found anywhere else.

They include court lists, lists of warrants issued, appointments and changes in the Police Service, lists of arrests and discharges (which include descriptions), escaped prisoners, and sometimes missing persons. Arson, convict records, deserters, highway robbery, horse and cattle theft, inquests, licences, lost and found items, murder are also mentioned. There are plenty records that don't relate to criminals, such as missing persons, people applying for licenses, lost and found items, houses and shops broken into, horses and cattle stolen, and much more. Notices from Police Gazettes from other states are also often included.

You’ll also find that they provide details on the crime, the victim and the suspect, aliases used, ages, race, native place, address as well as physical descriptions, details of sentences, and more.

This USB contains 93 years of South Australian police gazettes (35,576 pages, approx. 3.1 million names). The dates range from 1862 and go through until 1955. It contains high quality scans of the originals, and is fully searchable.

• 39,576 pages
• 3.1 million names (estimate)
• retail price for products if purchased separately $1498
• supplied on USB flash drive with master index enabling searching the entire collection in a single search
• supplied as fully searchable PDF files - scans of the original pages, with underlying searchable text
• Unlike many products available from international data providers, these files are searchable on every word, not just select names (as far as the original text quality allows conversion to searchable text files)
• should there be significant additions to this product in a later version a low-cost upgrade option will be available to those who have purchased this collection

Products included in this collection can also be puchased separately - as ebook downloads