"This CD set includes the original four volumes of the `Biographical Index of South Australians 1836-1885' as well as the two volumes of South Australians 1836-1885". The Biographical index was originally published in 1986 and is a major biographical work containing approximately 100,000 entries of South Australians who were born or arrived in the colony during this period ... The South Australians 1836-1885 was published in 1990 to compliment the Biographical index and contains and additional 7,500 entries. Entries in both include information on individuals such as parents, spouse, children, birth date, marriage date, death date and place, arrival in South Australia, residence, religion, occupation and more" -- Verso of container.