diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a7ddb80..cd500d4 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -3,6 +3,10 @@
 *Note that versions roughly correspond to the version of mkdocstrings-python that they 
 are compatible with.*
 
+## 1.16.4
+
+* Fix handling of aliases (see bug #47)
+
 ## 1.16.3
 
 * Added `check_crossrefs_exclude` config option 
diff --git a/pixi.lock b/pixi.lock
index b1f48b2..fc18bd0 100644
--- a/pixi.lock
+++ b/pixi.lock
@@ -1738,8 +1738,8 @@ packages:
   timestamp: 1748965218001
 - pypi: ./
   name: mkdocstrings-python-xref
-  version: 1.16.3
-  sha256: 207356af5ea06c13597d5d38455eaa328f5aaba629b2410ff00f85d3d17cd976
+  version: 1.16.4
+  sha256: fcb8e760b689ad912bcffadf901d9984a3505913fd40b332b764877724e4d3a2
   requires_dist:
   - griffe>=1.0
   - mkdocstrings-python>=1.16.6,<2.0
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 9dc20ac..cfc9b73 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ dynamic = ["version"]
 requires-python = ">=3.9"
 dependencies = [
     "mkdocstrings-python >=1.16.6,<2.0",
-    "griffe >=1.0"
+    "griffe >=1.0",
 ]
 
 [project.urls]
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ dev = [
     "mike >=1.1",
     "mkdocs >=1.5.3,<2.0",
     "mkdocs-material >=9.5.4",
-    "linkchecker >=10.4"
+    "linkchecker >=10.4",
 ]
 
 [tool.pixi.workspace]
diff --git a/src/mkdocstrings_handlers/python_xref/VERSION b/src/mkdocstrings_handlers/python_xref/VERSION
index c807441..a232073 100644
--- a/src/mkdocstrings_handlers/python_xref/VERSION
+++ b/src/mkdocstrings_handlers/python_xref/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.16.3
+1.16.4
diff --git a/src/mkdocstrings_handlers/python_xref/crossref.py b/src/mkdocstrings_handlers/python_xref/crossref.py
index 2fb3084..57ed60e 100644
--- a/src/mkdocstrings_handlers/python_xref/crossref.py
+++ b/src/mkdocstrings_handlers/python_xref/crossref.py
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 import sys
 from typing import Any, Callable, List, Optional, cast
 
-from griffe import Docstring, Object
+from griffe import Alias, Docstring, GriffeError, Object
 from mkdocstrings import get_logger
 
 __all__ = [
@@ -318,7 +318,10 @@ def _error(self, msg: str, just_warn: bool = False) -> None:
         self._ok = just_warn
 
 
-def substitute_relative_crossrefs(obj: Object, checkref: Optional[Callable[[str], bool]] = None) -> None:
+def substitute_relative_crossrefs(
+    obj: Alias|Object,
+    checkref: Optional[Callable[[str], bool]] = None,
+) -> None:
     """Recursively expand relative cross-references in all docstrings in tree.
 
     Arguments:
@@ -326,13 +329,21 @@ def substitute_relative_crossrefs(obj: Object, checkref: Optional[Callable[[str]
         checkref: optional function to check whether computed cross-reference is valid.
             Should return True if valid, False if not valid.
     """
+    if isinstance(obj, Alias):
+        try:
+            obj = obj.target
+        except GriffeError:
+            # If alias could not be resolved, it probably refers
+            # to an external package, not be documented.
+            return
+
     doc = obj.docstring
 
     if doc is not None:
         doc.value = _RE_CROSSREF.sub(_RelativeCrossrefProcessor(doc, checkref=checkref), doc.value)
 
     for member in obj.members.values():
-        if isinstance(member, Object):  # pragma: no branch
+        if isinstance(member, (Alias,Object)):  # pragma: no branch
             substitute_relative_crossrefs(member, checkref=checkref)
 
 def doc_value_offset_to_location(doc: Docstring, offset: int) -> tuple[int,int]:
diff --git a/tests/project/src/myproj/bar.py b/tests/project/src/myproj/bar.py
index 9bb80b7..8f85fc2 100644
--- a/tests/project/src/myproj/bar.py
+++ b/tests/project/src/myproj/bar.py
@@ -21,6 +21,11 @@
 class Bar(Foo):
     """See [bar][.] method."""
 
+    attribute: str = "attribute"
+    """
+    See [`foo`][(c).]
+    """
+
     def bar(self) -> None:
         """This is in the [Bar][(c)] class.
         Also see the [foo][^.] method and the [func][(m).] function.
diff --git a/tests/project/src/myproj/pkg/__init__.py b/tests/project/src/myproj/pkg/__init__.py
index 9e30385..e18a461 100644
--- a/tests/project/src/myproj/pkg/__init__.py
+++ b/tests/project/src/myproj/pkg/__init__.py
@@ -15,6 +15,13 @@
 A module
 """
 
+from .dataclass import Dataclass
+
+__all__ = [
+    "Dataclass",
+    "func",
+]
+
 def func() -> None:
     """
     A function
diff --git a/tests/project/src/myproj/pkg/dataclass.py b/tests/project/src/myproj/pkg/dataclass.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2ef7dce
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/project/src/myproj/pkg/dataclass.py
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+"""
+Dataclass example
+"""
+
+from dataclasses import dataclass, field
+
+@dataclass
+class Dataclass:
+    """
+    Test dataclasses
+
+    See [content][(c).] for an example attribute.
+
+    See [method][(c).]
+    """
+    content: str = "hi"
+    """some content"""
+
+    duration: float = field(default_factory=lambda: 0.0)
+    """
+    example: [`content`][(c).]
+    """
+
+    def method(self) -> None:
+        """Example method."""
diff --git a/tests/test_crossref.py b/tests/test_crossref.py
index 501ef0e..fa3a768 100644
--- a/tests/test_crossref.py
+++ b/tests/test_crossref.py
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 from textwrap import dedent
 from typing import Callable, Optional
 
+import griffe
 import pytest
 from griffe import Class, Docstring, Function, Module, Object, LinesCollection
 
@@ -264,3 +265,18 @@ def test_doc_value_offset_to_location() -> None:
 
     assert doc_value_offset_to_location(doc3, 0) == (2, 5)
     assert doc_value_offset_to_location(doc3, 6) == (3, 3)
+
+def test_griffe() -> None:
+    """
+    Test substitution on griffe rep of local project
+    Returns:
+
+    """
+    this_dir = Path(__file__).parent
+    test_src_dir  = this_dir / "project" / "src"
+    myproj = griffe.load(
+        "myproj",
+        search_paths = [ test_src_dir ],
+    )
+    substitute_relative_crossrefs(myproj)
+    # TODO - grovel output
diff --git a/tests/test_integration.py b/tests/test_integration.py
index 42661ac..db04c42 100644
--- a/tests/test_integration.py
+++ b/tests/test_integration.py
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ def check_autorefs(autorefs: List[Any], cases: Dict[Tuple[str,str],str] ) -> Non
     Arguments:
         autorefs: list of autoref tags parsed from HTML
         cases: mapping from (<location>,<title>) to generated reference tag
-            where <location? is the qualified name of the object whose doc string
+            where <location> is the qualified name of the object whose doc string
             contains the cross-reference, and <title> is the text in the cross-reference.
     """
     cases = cases.copy()
@@ -123,4 +123,17 @@ def test_integration(tmpdir: PathLike) -> None:
         }
     )
 
+    pkg_html = site_dir.joinpath('pkg', 'index.html').read_text()
+    pkg_bs = bs4.BeautifulSoup(pkg_html, 'html.parser')
 
+    autorefs = pkg_bs.find_all('a', attrs={'class':'autorefs'})
+    assert len(autorefs) >= 3
+
+    check_autorefs(
+        autorefs,
+        {
+            ('myproj.pkg.Dataclass', 'content') : '#myproj.pkg.Dataclass.content',
+            ('myproj.pkg.Dataclass', 'method') : '#myproj.pkg.Dataclass.method',
+            ('myproj.pkg.Dataclass.duration', 'content') : '#myproj.pkg.Dataclass.content',
+        }
+    )