Project: South African Roots/Sources

South African Roots Project Resources

Sources and Pre 1700 Profiles

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Reliable Sources

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Death Records

NAAIRS

Contains a searchable index of records. Some records are photographed and can be found on the FamilySearch servers below although they have not all yet been indexed by FamilySearch. Here you can see which collections has images or has been indexed. Currently being indexed FamilySearch Indexing

Browse only published collections on FamilySearch

Wills

Inventories

Death Notices and Probate files

Civil Death Notices

Church Records on FamilySearch

An excellent collection of links to and breakdown of South African church (and civil) records on FamilySearch can be found at My People Puzzle.

A refined version (work still in progress) of the above baptism and marriage indexes can be found at SA Quick Links

Some Images in these collections

Birth and Baptisms

Baptisms Cape 1652-1800

The records of the Dutch Reformed Church (NGK) have all been indexed as far as I can tell and are spread over three searchable databases with duplication in some cases.

• Familysearch for the Cape. To note, a few hard to read pages were skipped and not indexed.
• eGGSA Baptisms
• eGGSA Cape and Stellenbosch

Drakenstein	1695-1717	1718 -1732	1732 - 1775	1775 - 1785	1809-1810

Ring registers 1845-1899

Index to surnames. First find the family member in this index. Note the town, register number and page. Next to that index link is the baptism records for the Cape link. Unfortunately Family Search did not index them by register number but by Rings up to about 1888 Thereafter alphabetically by town. With the Rings, take the year you are looking for and open the collections. At the back of the collections, usually the last or second/third last or so exposure gives a list of what was filmed in that collection. There are register numbers as well. Make a note of how many exposures were in each register. Now work back from the exposure count on the left top to find the right register where it starts. You have the page number now browse to the right page.

Note A new index of the Familysearch Collection of these Ring registers can be found under the town names at My People Puzzle

NG Kerk Ring indexs registers according to surname

Please note, although the indeks appears complete for the period, some years in some towns were not indexed.

Baptisms Transvaal

Baptisms Namibia

Marriages

Marriages Cape

Marriages Transvaal

Marriages Namibia

Immigration

Cape

Graaff Reinet Passe

Pasregister

Passenger Lists

Emigration

Other Information

Plekname/Place names South Africa, South West Africa, Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland

GSSA

1820 Settlers

British Concentration Camps of the South African War 1900-1902

Voortrekkers

Dorslandtrekkers

Opgaafrolle

Slaweregister

1826 Eienaars indeks

Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope