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Welcome to Heimat Adelaide

This is the publication site of the Heimat Adelaide Project. The Project aims to record all instances of German speakers living or working in the City of Adelaide, South Australia, between the years of 1836 and 1920. This is a work in progress. As more information comes to light, pages will be updated.

Within the Wiki are pages for each individual (whether male or female, adult or child), families where multiple members were associated with Adelaide, businesses that were owned or managed by Germans, churches where German was the language of worship, schools where teachers were German, and organisations that were set up predominantly to service the German speaking community.

Project Background

Driven by a personal connection of two German ancestors living and dying in the City of Adelaide

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For a list of individuals, click here, use the search box to search a name.

Animated Timeline Map

Below is an animated map showing where German speakers are recorded as living and working during this period. You can run the animation that shows the changes each year, pause or move between years, zoom in to specific areas, and click on points to get information about the person. From the Information pop-up, you can click through to the relevant Heimat Adelaide Wiki page.

Animated Map Instructions

Get Involved

Unlike other wiki sites, such as Wikipedia, user access is by invitation only (this is to protect the authors' copyright of the various pages). There are, however, a number of ways to be involved in the project:

1. Submit a biography of an individual or a history of a business or organisation to projects@historyhelper.com.au. The following rules must be followed:
   • Biographies must be your own work.
   • All sources must be cited.
   • Biographies should be between 500-800 words. Histories may be up to 1500 words depending on the length of existence of the organisation.
   • Examples of biographies can be found at Australian Dictionary of Biography or Burial and Cremation SA Facebook page.
2. Help indexing Adelaide City Council Assessment Books at CSIndexing. Choose Adelaide, South Australia as the location, join the German-Australian Genealogy and History Alliance Indexing Group and choose a year to index.
3. Submit a information about a German speaker 1836-1920 in the CIty of Adelaide. Or a photo of the person, their family or a building associated with them to projects@historyhelper.com.au.