A friend shared this site with me a little while ago, and it is definitly one of the best kept secrets of the web. You can translate words or portions of text from numerous languages into English or from Engligh into many languages. This is very helpful as a genealogist doing research in other counties [...]
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October 11, 2006
South African History Online
I discovered this site the other day while doing a research for one of my history classes. SA History is a wonderful site that I highly recommend. I love its layout too, very cool. This is a great place to start some back ground research on place or things in South Africa’s past. Make sure [...]
October 4, 2006
World Biographical Information System Online
The WBISO is an absolutely wonderful site. I have used it and found biographies of South African ancestors. It is a great resourse. You wont be dissapointed, check it out.
September 17, 2006
German Genealogy in South Africa
I found a great site on Germans in South Africa and how to go about such research if this is something you are interested in. One of my lines originated form the Berlin Missionaries. I found a link on this site that points right to information on my ancestor. Check it out you may get [...]
September 14, 2006
South African Ancestry 24
Ancestry24 is a great site I came across a little while ago. There is alot of great information on this site about South African Family History, Genealogy and help for working on your family tree. Enjoy!
August 7, 2006
SA incoming Passenger Lists
I discovered this site searchforancstors.com today.You can search a collection of Passenger Lists of people going to South Africa covering the years 1687-1923. Of course not all incoming passenger lists will be indexed here, nonetheless this is a very useful source. To begin you search click.here
July 21, 2006
Archives & Repositories
This is a wonderful site by the University of Idaho. It lists websites for archives and libraries all over the world that are associated with genealogy. To see the links to some libraries and archives in South African click on “Africa and Near East” and select South Africa.
July 9, 2006
South Africa on Cyndis List
Cyndis List is a useful website that contains links sites pertaining to Family History and Genealogy. It is organised into differents categories and separated by countries. It contains a large list of links for South African genealogy. I have found it useful and it has saved me searching time on a search engine. Obviousy, it does not list ALL the possible sites, but a [...]
