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Title: Links: Useful Websites for searching in South Africa
Post by: rutti tutti on Friday 24 December 04 11:48 GMT (UK)

Here are some very useful links:
http://molegenealogy.blogspot.com (http://molegenealogy.blogspot.com)
A very useful site for Natal and Eastern Cape - webmaster very knowledgeable

http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy (http://www.e-family.co.za/ffy)

The First Fifty Years Project
A project to transcribe and make available copies of records relating to individuals who lived at the Cape (de Caep de Goede Hoop) during the first decades of the settlement after 1652

http://www.eggsa.org/links_e.htm (http://www.eggsa.org/links_e.htm)
The website of Eggsa listing links - some contained here plus others

http://whitlock.castlewebs.net/whitsend/tl.htm  (http://whitlock.castlewebs.net/whitsend/tl.htm)
A comprehensive Timeline: South African history at a glance

www.national.archives.gov.za[/url]
The portal to South African genealogy

www.familysearch.org (http://www.familysearch.org)
LDS site; Family History Library Catalogue

http://e-family.co.za (http://e-family.co.za)

http://www.gisa.org.za (http://www.gisa.org.za)
is the Genealogiese Instituut van Suid-Afrika, a library, LDS centre and
publisher of the SAn Family register set of books

The web site of the Genealogical Society of South Africa is:
http://www.GenZA.org.za (http://www.GenZA.org.za)
http://home.global.co.za/~mercon (http://home.global.co.za/~mercon)
Overview and links; instructions on how to subscribe to SA mailing list

www.1820Settlers.com  (http://www.1820Settlers.com)
1820 Settler community site

hhtp://www.findmypast.com for passenger lists

http://rapidttp.co.za/milhist (http://rapidttp.co.za/milhist)
South African Military History Society

http://www.rorkesdriftvc.com (http://www.rorkesdriftvc.com)
Anglo-Zulu War; active forum

http://phonebook.yellowpages.co.za (http://phonebook.yellowpages.co.za)
South African White Pages

www.jewishgen.org/SAfrica  (http://www.jewishgen.org/SAfrica)
Jewish South Africans

www.cwgc.org (http://www.cwgc.org)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

http://www.sagenealogy.co.za (http://www.sagenealogy.co.za)
Cape Passenger Lists

http://www.familytree.co.za (http://www.familytree.co.za)

Please advise if any of these links are not operational.
Ruth

Title: Re: Useful Websites for searching in South Africa
Post by: Berlin-Bob on Wednesday 17 September 08 18:42 BST (UK)

For more links and articles, try the new FamilySearch Wiki Project.

https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/South_Africa

This site  tends to change it's style every few months, as they are still experimenting,
but is still growing, so it's worth visiting often, to see what's new.

Bob