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Dutch Reformed Church Records Online 1

The Dutch Reformed Church has partnered with Family Search It’s amazing!!! They have digitized almost half a MILLION images of the Dutch Reformed Church all over Africa. The countries it covers, is… Botswana Malawi Namibia South Africa Zambia Zimbabwe Specifically for South Africa, these cover 3 provinces… South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Records, Stellenbosch Archive ...

SA History {Abridged}

Although South Africa has only been a union since 1910 and an independent country since 1961 its immigrant history spans three and a half centuries. South Africa’s historical birth is 1652, when the Dutch landed at the Cape of Good Hope to establish a way-station to assist ships en-route to the East. From these humble beginning South ...

1820 Settlers 3

The British 1820 Settlers were immigrants from the United Kingdom - who came to South Africa for various reasons and opportunities. Many South African’s today have ancestors who originated from this early immigrants – arriving in SA almost 200 years ago! To learn more about the ships and passengers there are some great books you can Google and also There are two ...

South African Indexing 1

You can now search the THOUSANDS of South African records and names that have been indexed on familysearch.org. You could also sign up as a volunteer to INDEX or TRANSCRIBE (a fancy word for basically typing what you see on a record). Like this? Share! Tweet

Family Search Indexing ~ South African Records 2

Family Search Indexing is currently preparing the Cape Province Dutch Reformed Church records to be indexed!!!! YEAH! I was recently a PM tester and added suggestions before they make it available to the general public. Soon it will be available for all volunteers to index. Keep checking on their Current Projects list. Please volunteer to ...

Library of Congress Country Study

This is awesome! Lots of good stuff! http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/zatoc.html Like this? Share! Tweet

New Search Engine- Cuil

I love Google, but this is a different kind of search engine you may want to check out! http://www.cuil.com/ Like this? Share! Tweet

SA family history on the web 1

Written in 2004 by Sharon Marshall for SouthAfrica.info. This is a little summary of sites and history of SA genealogy and the wave of online resources is useful for the beginners in genealogy. Like this? Share! Tweet

South African War Graves Project

Came across this website today: SA war graves project. Here are over 9000 names in the Country and almost 7000 specific South African names. Click here to search for more countries! Like this? Share! Tweet

Genealogy World

Rosemary Dixon-Smith does a great job at writing a beginners guide for South African researchers. Furthermore, I found she wrote a list of sources for St Helena ancestry research. I highly advise that those interested in SA research spend some time exploring this site as there are many great links and resources. http://www.genealogyworld.net/ Like this? ...