SOUTH AFRICAN INTEREST


  • Time Line for South Africa

  • Making the most of Deceased Estate Files by Rosemary Dixon-Smith

  • Civil Registration: BMDs in South Africa

    Compulsory official registration of Births, Marriages and Deaths commenced as follows:

    Cape: marriages 1700; births and deaths 1895
    Natal: marriages 1845; births 1868; deaths 1888
    Transvaal: marriages 1870; births and deaths 1901
    Orange Free State: marriages 1848; births and deaths 1903

    It's important to remember that if, for example, you are looking for an ancestor's birth record, no certificate will be available if his birth took place prior to the commencement of civil registration in the relevant province. The alternative would be church records.
    (See Beginners Guide)

  • Archives, Repositories, Libraries and Museums in Natal by Rosemary Dixon-Smith

  • Useful South African Websites

  • South African historic publications on CD from Scribes Publishing, Cape passenger lists, Wrecks and Survivors, links to specialist genealogy and South African history related sites and more...

  • Ancestral Visas - Useful South African addresses and Websites

  • At http://surreygenealogist.com/sgdatabase.htm a roll of Natal Field Force Casualties can be found, covering 11,188 casualties of the first part of the Anglo-Boer War, 20 October 1898-26 October 1900. Searchable by surname.

    This is a very useful site, it also carries:

    Casualties of the Zulu and Basuto Wars 1877-1879 1,559 casualties from the book by I T Tavender (ISBN 0-903754-24X)

    South Africa 1853 Medal Roll 10,958 recipients of this medal from the book by G R Everson (ISBN 0-906304-024)

  • LDS FAMILY HISTORY CENTRE

  • Ellen Stanton has kindly offered to assist those of you looking for Natal marriages between the dates 1895 -- 1911. She has indexed the marriages for this period. She is also at present compiling a partial Natal shipping index. If you require her to look up an entry in the marriage or shipping indexes, please *e-mail Editor and your request will be forwarded to Ellen.

  • Natal Marriage Index Project - Summary of Transcriptions

  • The Naming Patterns of the Afrikaans community before the 20th Century

  • The History of SA Rail

  • ST HELENA
    Sources for St. Helena Ancestry by Rosemary Dixon-Smith
    Passengers per Schooner 'Ocean Ranger' from St Helena: Arrived Natal May 5 1874
    Postcard - Logwood Old House - Napoleon's home on the island
    List of names only of Heads of Households from the 1814 Census of the Island of St. Helena

  • SIMON's TOWN MUSEUM
    http://www.simonstown.com/museum/stm_hist_miscellaneous.htm

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