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eGGSA — Genealogical Society of South Africa
Volunteer photographs of South African gravestones and transcriptions of Dutch Reformed Church registers and newspaper notices. Free, and for the Cape before 1895 it is often the only index there is.
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The ground it holds
Record regions whose registers are filed here, and for which years.
- 1652–1795 Dutch East India Company — Cape of Good Hope
- 1795–1803 First British occupation
- 1803–1806 Batavian Republic
- 1806–1910 Cape Colony — THE TRAP. There is no general civil registration of births and deaths at the Cape until 1895, and it stays patchy after. Hunting for a birth certificate is hunting for something nobody wrote. What names a family instead is the ESTATE FILE — the Master of the Supreme Court's MOOC series, indexed on NAAIRS — together with the Dutch Reformed Church register and the death notice inside the estate file, which lists the parents and the children.
- 1910–1961 Union of South Africa
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