:: Websites to be viewed

The best page for links to all aspects of genealogy including e-mail lists and newsgroups is Cyndi's List

Another fine page to find out if anyone else is researching your family and to add your own details can be found at Rand Genealogy Club

The International Internet Genealogical Society
is another site that should be visited.

The Genealogical Society of South Africa
also has a website.

The Genealogical Institute of South Africa (GISA) site
can be found here.

If your ancestors were French Huguenots, why not visit the Hugenote Society Website

To see a Timeline covering some of the important dates in South African History, Please visit the Timeline Link

To find out a bit more about South African Heraldry, Please visit the Heraldry Page

Chamber of Mines
has a web site to find out more about gold mining in South Africa.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
(LDS) has a searchable web site with access to the IGI and other sources.
The National Monuments Council has a Cultural Heritage search database


The War Museum of the Boer Republics
- also called the Anglo-Boer War Museum has a web site

Pat Smith has created a Passenger List Website
dealing with Natal Settlers.

There is now a website devoted to South African 'Stamouers' or the Progenitors of South African families

If you're looking for information on the graves of your ancestors killed during the World Wars, visit the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website


You can vist the Rijksarchief in The Hagueor email hr. V. van den Bergh at http://home.global.co.za/~mercon/ara@rad.archief.nl


If you want to trace your UK Ancestors, the Website at Genuki
is a must

Try the official Demarcation Board Website
for maps on South Africa showing information on all the small towns, farms and places in South Africa.

The Afrikaans email discussion list at GenForum also has a Surname Interest List
that you may want to check out.

The e-Family website
comprises data donated by volunteers from NAAIRS, which is the NASA (National Archives of South Africa) database. There is also a Pathfinder to the National archives which will assist in identifying archive locations, database acronyms and contact details. This site is well worth a visit and all involved are to be congratulated.

The National Archives of South Africa now has the NAAIRS database on line 
at their website


If you have 1820 Settler blood, why not visit Len Staffords 1820 Settler Website

International Coats of Arms can be found by following this link.

For those of you with Jewish Roots here in South Africa, why not visit the Southern African Jewish Genealogy


The South African telephone directories, (White Pages)
are on line.

Heather MacAlister has an Interesting South African genealogical website
that supplements this website and has a number of interesting links.

Try the Cousin Connect Website to post South African related queries and find answers.

For online Museums in South Africa try the http://www.museums.org.za
website or the website at Wits University linking to various museums

To find the location of places in South Africa visit the South African Geographical Names System
website.
To see a dynamic family tree of nearly 30,000 persons all linked by marriages, etc, and covering a lot of the 1820 Settlers, visit tantrem.com

Another site dealing with the 1820 Settlers is at 1820settlers.com

To obtain Birth, Marriage and Death Certificates from the UK, contact the following web site http://www.bmd-certificates.co.uk

To visit the Parish Chestuse this link.

Do you have Welsh Ancestors? If yes, visit Cenquest

For UK adoptions, visit Born to be Found.

Here is a new site called Family Trackers