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Search this database of over 1600 prolific people who lived in Natal in 1933. Details includes where possible: surname, first name, place of birth, date of birth, where educated, spouse name, date of marriage, place of marriage,  Father's surname and first name, address , number of children and other important information. Find out more about Who's Who of South [...]

Search our database of over 350 young men who joined up as cadets in the Army from 1905 – 1913 from various schools and institutions in South Africa. Some of the schools included are Marist Brothers Cape Town , Normal College Cape Town, Gill College , Graaff-Reinet College, Grey Institute Cadets, Heidelberg Volksschool Cadets, Jeppe Central Government School Cadets, Kroonstad Secondary School Cadets, South African College [...]

Search our over 500 burials from Diocese of St. Andrews Bloemfontein covering the years 1900 – 1906. This new database of primarily military burials highlights the hundreds of soldiers who died during the 2nd Anglo Boer War. Some children and a few nurses are included too. If you want to find out more about the Boer war we [...]

Ancestry24 has over 37 000 records from Maitland Cemetery transcribed.  Start searching now. When did it start? The very first burial in Maitland Cemetery was on the 16 January 1886. With over 100 000 souls buried in this huge cemetery covering 100 hectares. This graveyard is now nearing its capacity and needs to be retained as a haven of remembrance [...]

Did your Ancestors immigrate to South Africa in the past 100 years? Search our thousands of records of people who applied for citizenship here from Europe, the America’s and Rhodesia. Were they a speculators or skin dressers? And are you proud to have a wattle planter as an ancestor? Names like Adler, Archer, Baker, Barclay, Bereletowitz, Bloch, Blumberg, Brenner, [...]

Were your ancestors "Free Blacks" in South Africa"? Start searching this amazing collection of names of Free Blacks from 1807 . This database has Census of the Free Black Community on the Eve of the Abolition of the Oceanic Trade. This census is important for when it was taken, the year before the importation of slaves into the Cape [...]

On the 15 th September 2010 Ancestry24 in co-operation with the City Parks Cape Town will embark on the mammoth project of photographing every headstone in the Cemetery. As part of their civic duty and preservation of National Heritage these headstones once photographed and tagged will be available to the public for free on the Ancestry24 website’s gallery. [...]

How Ancestry24 helped me As an adopted child in South Africa and having very little information about my birth parents and my adoption, meant that tracing my ancestors and living relatives was proving to be impossible. Before 1987, the Social Welfare Services would not divulge any information whatsoever to an adoptee about the circumstances of his/her adoption – even if [...]

Over 600 marriages from Diocese of St. Andrews Bloemfontein covering the years 1850 – 1955 These marriage records cover the Parishes of Chapel of St. Patrick, the Native Church, St. Philips Waaihoek, Cathedral of St. Andrew and St. Michael, English Church Building. The Wesleyan Chapel, buildings of the Government School, private dwellings and the  All Saints Church. [...]

Over 1000 new marriages for St. Marks District Six. Covering the years June 1925 – November 1939 Start searching now to find out if your ancestor was Abraham the Rat Catcher, Christian Paulsen the Bioscope operator, Ryno Verster the petrol inspector or George Plaatjies the Asylum attendant. This database with a variety of surnames and occupations is another vital [...]

Were your ancestors in the medical profession? Start searching our new database of our over 1,700 over registered doctors, dentists, druggists, chemists, midwives & nurses. Find there names, date of registration as well as maiden names for women. Other data includes last known address and qualification. Find records of famous people such as Karl Bremer and Sir Kendal Franks. [...]

Looking for your great grandfather’s pension number? Was he wounded in action? Search our latest acquisition of over 3, 600 military men + women's pension cases and numbers. These were pension disabilities assessed by the Imperial Pensions Board You might also be interested in the Cape Corps 1st Battalion 1915 – 1919 with over 6,000 records and [...]

Birth Certificates, where do I find them? Search for birth records in our databases Search our baptisms records to find dates of birth Contribute your birth certificate to Ancestry24 to get your records online faster for future generations. Birth announcements are also published in the press and Ancestry24 aggregates many of these records. Below  is a list of handy databases that also [...]

Betekenis: Dorp in Noord-Holland (Nederland). Stamvader: Johannes Oosthuyzen of Oosthuysen, van Weert (Nederland). In 1691 burger in Drakenstein. Trou met Johanna Maartens, van Grypskerk in Groningen (Nederland) (7 kinders). Wapen: In 1946 is 'n nuwe wapen ontwerp, wat 'n onderdeel van die wapen van die Nederlandse familie Van Oosterhuizen insluit, nl. drie rose, maar waaraan ter onderskeiding 'n skildhoof [...]

Blogs vs Forums Did you know that a creating a blog is like being a journalist for your own newspaper and reporting and telling stories about you and your family? And Forums is where you post queries and ask for help like the classified section of the newspaper. Our   Forums have 13 different categories such as Adoption, Cape Slavery , Cemeteries, Contributions Q + A , [...]

Find out if any of your family were members of this  Cape Town club. Over 900 members listed

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Did any of your ancestors get a Medal in 1853 Frontier War ? Search over 10 000 free records The South Africa Medal (SA 1853 Medal) was a campaign medal approved in 1854, for issue to participants in the South African frontier wars of 1834 – 1853. These include officers and men of the Royal Navy, the [...]

Find out who the people were that employed your Indian Indentured Migrant Ancestors.
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