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http://whitlock.castlewebs.net/whitsend/tl.htm
A comprehensive Timeline: South African history at a glance
www.national.archives.gov.za/
The portal to South African genealogy
http://home-affairs.pwv.gov.za/
Dept of Home Affairs; downloadable forms
www.familysearch.org/
LDS site; Family History Library Catalogue
http://www.ggsa.info/
Genealogy Society of South Africa; includes details of a new
virtual branch (eGSSA) founded in 2004
http://www.sun.ac.za/gisa/home.asp
Genealogical Institute of South Africa
www.genealogy.co.za
Links galore; selected passenger lists
http://home.global.co.za/~mercon/
Overview and links; instructions on how to subscribe to SA
mailing list
http://www.genealogyworld.net
Natal, Eastern Cape; beginners' tips; maritime pages, Natal
passenger lists
www.1820Settlers.com
1820 Settler community site
http://sa-passenger-list.za.net/
Cape ships, Huguenots 1683-1756, Natal ships 1845-1858; the tip
of the iceberg
http://www.union-castle-line.com/
History of this famous line, but no passenger lists
www.rhodes.ac.za/library/cory/
Cory Library for Historical Research, Grahamstown
http://khozi2.nu.ac.za/kafricana.htm
Campbell Collections Durban; photographs
www.ru.ac.za/affiliates/am/geneal.htm
Albany Museum, 1820 Settlers
http://home.global.co.za/~afrilib
Kimberley Africana Library, diamond mining, Anglo-Boer War
http://www.militarymuseum.co.za/
South African National Museum of Military History
http://rapidttp.co.za/milhist/
South African Military History Society
www.1879group.com
Researches Anglo-Zulu War, contacts descendants of participants;
Living History section
http://www.rorkesdriftvc.com/
Anglo-Zulu War; active forum
http://media1.mweb.co.za/mosa/find.asp
South African Museums' contact details
http://196.15.219.249/
South African White Pages
www.geocities.com/Heartland/Valley/8140
Huguenot Society
www.jewishgen.org/SAfrica
Jewish South Africans
http://redcoat.future.easyspace.com/
Officers who died in Anglo-Boer War
www.sahra.org.za/f5.htm
Anglo-Boer War casualties
www.cwgc.org/
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
http://www.sagenealogy.co.za/
Cape Passenger Lists
This is SA Gen Forum http://genforum.genealogy.com/southafrica/
http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ifetch2?/u1/textindices/S/SOUTH-AFRICA-IMMIGRANTS-BRITISH+2003+14695074988+F
Fine-wool farming was introduced by the Settlers DANIELL and WHITE, and was the forerunner of Uitenhage's present woolwashing industry. There were at one stage 11 large woolwashiers lining the banks of the Zwartkops River.
Roots Chat
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?board=291.0
Note that this specific link takes you immediately to the section of RootsChat of which Ruth Archer is Moderator i.e. Emigrants to South Africa (which is one of many sections under RootsChat general site).
Benade Page is at http://tinyurl.com/482hz
www.cdbooks-r-us.com
New ebook e-store which contains 27 books and compilations on Cd (and in some instances for download). These books are of a genealogical, cultural-historic or biographical nature, and includes items such as:
Biographies of Louis Botha, De La Rey, Pres Steyn, PJ Joubert, Sandile, Paul Kruger, Family registers: Pretorius, Van Heerden, Du Plessis, Coetzee, Boshoff, Smuts Cultural-historic: Old Cape Colony, Edenburg, Personalia, Voortrekkers.
Some of the improvements include an online ordering system (shopping cart), more currencies are catered for, better descriptions and graphics of the cd's as well as automated invoice generation and checkout facilities.
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