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South African Civil registrations on FamilySearch (not on NAAIRS)

Please also look at the collections catalogued here: https://familysearch.org/search/collection/list?page=1&region=AFRICA

Matthew Bode has a YouTube channel for South African research: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCryl0vgdTEYX0zb1QxEOxiQ

All provinces

  • Civil registration (marriages - whites, coloureds and Indians), South Africa and South West Africa, 1956-1960 https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/1022616
  • Civil registration (deaths - whites, blacks, and coloureds), South Africa (various locales), 1895-1984

https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/1048929

 

  1. Transvaal

 

  1. Cape

 

  1. Natal

(Lee McGovern)

 

 

  1. Free State

https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/543629

  • Free State Lijst van stemgerechtigde burgers: 1884-1902

https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/543638

  1. Namibia

 

  1. Transkei

 

  1. Angola

 

  1. Zimbabwe/Rhodesia

 

  1. Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk (Dutch Reformed Church)

https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/results?count=20&query=%2Bkeywords%3ANederduitse%20%2Bkeywords%3AGereformeerde%20%2Bkeywords%3AKerk

  1. Catholic church records

 

  1. Other church records

 

 

  1. Boer war
  2. Burger lists https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/188331

 

  1. Opgaafrollen (tax census lists), 1787-1847:
    https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/221850
    https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/17063
  2. Register of slaves 1762-1838: https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/543577
    Register of slaves 1833 – 1845: https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/2030765
  3. Cape inventories: 1692-1713.
  4. MOOC Cape Death Registers - These registers contain one line entries for deaths before certified death certificates were introduced in 1894.

Cornel: https://southafrica.mypeoplepuzzle.net/DeathRegisters1758_1833.html

https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/25423

 

 

 

 

 

  1. Passports and permits to remain/ immigration:
  2. Military records 1904-1911: https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/986085

 

  1. Court of Justice of the Cape Colony, 1652-1827, criminal sentences
    https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/468242

 

  1. Pupillen registers, 1825-1833 (Register of wards of the state (mostly orphans) including birthyear or date, parentage, and sometimes marriage partner MOOC 16/1-16/22)
    https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/85248

 

  1. Archives inventories: https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/102425

 

  1. Inventories: Cornel - https://southafrica.mypeoplepuzzle.net/InventoriesAuctionRolls.html

 

  1. 1820 Settlers' centenary genealogical records, 1820-1920: https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/305287

 

  1. Cemeteries

 

 

  1. Collections about the archives and government departments https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/102425

There is an interesting one on genealogical research in this collection:  https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C919-Q38T-R?i=4&cat=102425

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