Ancestry24

Make sure you download our free beginner’s guide to genealogy, aimed at helping you to research your South African family. Here are some more general and useful pointers:

• What is Ancestry and Genealogy?
• How to start your Family Tree
  • What is a Family Tree
  • Create your own family tree
• Writing your Family History
• How to write a Biography

• Adoptions – Where to find information

Almanacs and Year Books

• Baptism records

• Birth Records
  • Birth, Marriage & Death Records
  • Where do I find birth records?
  • Births, Amendments to

• Cemetery Records
  • Avbob
  • Burial Customs
  • Cemeteries + Crematoria in Cape Town
  • Cemetery Contact Numbers
  • Cremations
  • Funeral  Assurance
  • Historical Graves in South Africa
  • Huguenot Cemeteries
  • Muslim Funerals
  • State Funerals
  • Where do I find Cemetery Records
• Census
  • Census & Recorded Souls
  • Census returns, are there any in South Africa?

• Church Records
  • Anglican Church Archives in Port Elizabeth
  • Anglican Church Archives
  • Church Records, where do I find them?

Costumes at the Cape

Deaths

What is a death notice

What is a death certificate

Where can I find my Ancestors wills?

• Deceased Estate Records
  • Deceased Estate & Law of Succession
  • Modern Deceased Estates

  Divorce Records

  • Ex Parte Application
  • Illiquid Case
  • What will I find in them?

Education Records

• Eytomology
  • Etymological Dictionaries online
  • Meaning of NamesNaming Patterns
• Genealogical Numbering System

• Genetic Genealogy

• Heraldry
  • Coat of Arms, how do I trace it?
• Internet Archives
• Links to other websites
• Biographical Dictionaries online

• Marriage
  • Marriage + Divorce Law
  • Marriage Certificates, what will I find on them?
  • Marriage Records, where do I find them?
  • Prohibited Marriages
  • Where can I obtain a copy of a marriage certificate

• Master of the High Court
  • The Master’s business Unit
  • The History of the Orphan Chamber
  • The Orphan Chamber at the Cape

Military Records How do I get them

National Archives

• National Archives & NAAIRS
• NAAIRS, what is it?

• Newspaper Resources

• Passenger Lists
  • Where do I find them?
  • Passenger+ Shipping Records

  Preserve and look after your information

• Police Records
• Prison Records

• Property and Land, Deeds
  • Deeds Registry
  • Deeds, Searching

• Voting Information, 1853 – 1970
• Wills, where do I find?

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