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This page collects under one umbrella free-space pages and external sources that provide quick links into heavily-used South African primary sources. By "quick" is meant that a very compact notation, such as just a letter or a year, is used as the text of the link, and the link takes you right into the hurly-burly of a large PDF file or FamilySearch film to where just that data can be found.
The majority of the "Geskiedenis" links go to Afrikaans Wikipedia pages, which sometimes might offer links to abridged English versions. The rest go to the church's own history website (also in Afrikaans). This link takes you to a list of links to pages of all the Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk parishes, not jut the ones listed here.
Some of the pages to which this page refers, are still under construction. The red links refer to pages that have been named but do not exist yet, mostly because no online records could be found for them yet.
Note, the following are common abbreviations for some months in some of the older registers:
7ber, VIIbr - September 8ber, VIIIbr - October 9ber IXbr - November xber, Xbr - December
See also UL06 Keeping the gate of Hell... (PDF), page 15, for a list with explanations of commonly appearing words in the old records, e.g. Lijfeigen, Halfslagh, Heelslagh, etc.
Links that can help with finding places/areas:
- Where is this place?, e.g. Bosjesveld, Groenkloof, Sneeuberge, Zuurveld, etc.
- What other parishes exist(ed) nearby? - a PDF file containing a map showing congragations and their years of establishment.
- Google Map: A map showing South African church parishes whose records are available on FamilySearch, with links (click on the flag) to either the record set, or to a summary landing page created by Cornel Viljoen.
- High Resolution Map of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope and neighbouring territories 1895 (under Creative Commons Licence: CC-BY) [1]
Contents |
Original Dutch Reformed Baptism Registers
By Parish or Year Founded
- (Sort by either year or parish)
By Founding (Afstigting) Relation
- The list below organises the baptism records of parishes into a tree structure denoting which parishes were formed out of which parent parish. In principle it is not possible to be precise: some parishes were formed from wards of more than one parent parish (in which case it is placed under the youngest parent), the official founding date is in some cases not the same as the date on which separate church records was started to be kept, etc. The information about parent parishes and founding dates comes from the history references.
- Onderstaande staande lys organiseer die gemeentes se dooprekords in 'n boomstruktuur met dogtergemeentes dieper ingekeep onder die moedergemeente, Dis in beginsel nie moontlik om presies te wees nie: party gemeentes is uit wyke van meer as een moedergemeente gevorm (in daardie geval is dit onder die jongste een geplaas), die amptelike afstigtingsdatum is in party gevalle nie dieselfde is die datum waarop begin is om aparte kerkrekords te hou nie, ensovoorts. Die inligting oor moedergemeente en stigtingsdatum kom van die "Geskiedenis"-verwysing.
- 1686 Stellenbosch Geskiedenis
- 1691 Drakenstein, tans Paarl Geskiedenis
- 1743 Roodezandt, tans Tulbagh Geskiedenis
- 1792 Graaff-Reinet Geskiedenis
- 1819 Beaufort-Wes Geskiedenis
- 1825 Worcester Geskiedenis
- 1843 Kruisvallei (Tulbagh) Geskiedenis
- 1855 Ceres Geskiedenis,
- 1798 Swellendam Geskiedenis
- 1819 Hottentots-Holland, tans Somerset-Wes Geskiedenis
- 1826 Tijgerberg, tans Durbanville Geskiedenis
- 1829 Wynberg Geskiedenis
- 1843 St Stephens Geskiedenis,
Registerafskrifte (Ringboeke) / Register Copies (Presbetery Books)
- We here at the Archive don't know the geaneologists' terms of Presbytery Books or Presbytery Copies ;). We call it Register Copies. [2]
- "Every year-end every congregation must send us a copy of their membership- and baptism registers. Register Copies are copies of the baptism- and membership registers of the DR Congregations. In the Cape the sending in of copies started in 1843 and they were bound per Presbytery up unto 1889. (Hence the use of the term Presbytery Books). Since July 1889 they are, however, bound alphabetical per year. In the Transvaal church they started [with the copies] in 1892 and were bound alphabetical per year from the start."[2]
- See Project S A Roots Resources page for more information, or just use the indexes at MyPeoplePuzzle.
- Ons hier by die Argief ken nie die genealoë se term van Ringsboeke of Ringsafskrifte nie ;). Ons noem dit Registerafskrifte. [2]
- "Elke jaareinde moet elke gemeente vir ons ‘n afskrif stuur van hul lidmaat- en doopregister. Registerafskrifte is afskrifte van die doop- en lidmaatregisters van NG Gemeentes. In Kaapland begin die instuur van afskrifte in 1843 en word in Ringsverband gebind tot en met 1889. (Vandaar die gebruik om dit Ringsboeke te noem). Sedert Julie 1889 word hulle egter alfabeties per jaar gebind. In die Transvaalse kerk begin hulle daarmee in 1892 en dit is van die begin af alfabeties per jaar gebind." [2]
- Sien Projek S A Roots se bronneblad vir meer besonderhede, of gebruik die indekse te MyPeoplePuzzle.
Ander Gemeentes / Other Parishes
Sources
- ↑ Source:
- Standford's Geographical Establishment. 1895. Map of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope and neighbouring territories. Scale 1:800 000. London: Standford's Geographical Establishment. Available: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/53856. Provided via http://vital.seals.ac.za/ by Cory Library for Humanities Research, Rhodes University Library, Grahamstown, South Africa, South Africa. Added by Philip van der Walt Jan 8, 2022 with the kind help of Wynand van der Walt on 2 July 2017.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 E-mail communication from Dr Andrew Kok, Manager: Archive, Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa, Synod of Western Cape to Riël Smit. Added 2022-07-18.
Acknowledgements
- With thanks to
- The late Dirk Laurie for starting this page.
- Cornel Viljoen for creating the indexes at My People Puzzle. The creation of the majority of the pages linked to from here were made so much easier by those indexes.
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It is wonderful to see others can also use this. And thank you in advance for recommending it to others.