Artikels van toepassing op die GGSA/e-GGSA as geheel


The newly establishe Southern Cape Branch

IMG 0873The Eastern Cape Branch of the Genealogical Society of South Africa officially joined the fold during 1982.  The first general meeting of the Branch at which minutes were taken was on 13 January 1982.  The East Cape Branch of the GSSA is located in Port Elizabeth. The branch serves the Eastern Cape and surrounding areas.
Port Elizabeth has a history going back many years before the arrival of the 1820 British Settlers.
In 1799 a fort was built by the British and soldiers garrisoned there for the protection of Algoa Bay from attack from the sea.  Even before that Frederick Korsten lived on his beautiful manorial estate which was a haven to all weary travellers. The committee for 2014 was elected during the March 2014 meeting and can be seen here.
An interesting development in the Eastern Cape is the number of separate groups which have sprung up in a number of small towns around the Eastern Cape, which are not affiliated with GSSA.  A regular monthly meeting is being held with a group of researchers from Grahamstown, not all of whom are members of GSSA.  Visits are also planned for Port Alfred and Uitenhage and any other town that contacts us. An English group specialising in the United Kingdom, for which the the contact person is Liz Eshmade, who may be contacted by email at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Our meetings are open to the public and are conducted every third Monday of the month in the Lolly Shtein Hall at the Laubscher Park West Retirement Complex in Villiers Road, Greenshields Park. Meetings start at 19h30.  A variety of speakers address the meetings on a wide range of the aspects of life surrounding our families and the era in which they lived and also on specific surnames. 
East Cape Branch publishes a quarterly journal called "Chronicles."  Should one wish to contact the Branch per snail mail, the postal address of the branch is P.O.Box 1183, Port Elizabeth 6000.

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The story of the Eastern Cape Branch's cemetery project

WELCOME TO THE GSSA NATAL MIDLANDS BRANCH

The Natal Midlands Branch of the Genealogical Society of South Africa is based in Pietermaritzburg, the capital of Kwa Zulu Natal and the location of the Pietermaritzburg Archives.

The branch is currently under the curatorship of the KwaZulu-Natal Family History Society (KZNFHS).

KZNFHS/GSSA meets on first Saturday of every month (except December and  January) at 9:30am for 10:00am, at the Hilton Library, Hilton Ave, Hilton. We alternate between speakers and workshops on all things related to Genealogy.

Extensive research sources are available to researchers at all meetings. Members have a wide range of genealogical interest of settlers to Natal including those from St Helena and India.

We are fortunate to have members who are specialists in their respective fields, such as Shelagh Spencer on early British settlers, Dr Krish Moodley on Indian settlers, Dr Mike O’Connor on Irish ancestry, to name a few.

The Chairman is willing to open the library at other times on request.

WELCOME TO THE GSSA FREE STATE BRANCH

The branch is located in Bloemfontein, the City of Roses in an environment that is conducive to genealogical research. Numerous historical buildings create an atmosphere where the family historian can drown himself in historical documents of inter alia, the Anglo Boer War Museum. In 2010 an Agreement of Cooperation, whereby the GSSA represented by the Free State and the Museum would render support to each other, with various projects, was signed. This led to records such as the Cape and Natal Prisoners of War name lists, the call up lists of burgers for commando service, the names of all the Free State burgers being taken prisoner and sent to numerous off shore POW camps, etc. became available.

The branch meets every second Monday of each month at 16h30 at the Anglo Boer War Museum where topics of genalogical  relevance  are presented.

The branch is proud of the publications of members and former members of the branch. Some examples include: The Malan'S of South Africa by Hecules Malan

1998/9; The Jordaan's in South Africa by M. J.S Jordaan; The Van den(r) Berg from the Cape to Witkraal, Petrusburg, by J.J. Pottas 2005 and more.

The branch members are ready to support newcomers and provide guidance to members that may struggle with particular research problems. Interested members of the public are welcome to join GSSA and can get in touch with the branch secretary. Details can be found in the team members section on this page.

WELCOME TO THE GSSA FREE STATE BRANCH

The branch is located in Bloemfontein, the City of Roses in an environment that is conducive to genealogical research. Numerous historical buildings create an atmosphere where the family historian can drown himself in historical documents of inter alia, the Anglo Boer War Museum. In 2010 an Agreement of Cooperation, whereby the GSSA represented by the Free State and the Museum would render support to each other, with various projects, was signed. This led to records such as the Cape and Natal Prisoners of War name lists, the call up lists of burgers for commando service, the names of all the Free State burgers being taken prisoner and sent to numerous off shore POW camps, etc. became available.

The branch meets every second Monday of each month at 16h30 at the Anglo Boer War Museum where topics of genalogical  relevance  are presented.

The branch is proud of the publications of members and former members of the branch. Some examples include: The Malan'S of South Africa by Hecules Malan

1998/9; The Jordaan's in South Africa by M. J.S Jordaan; The Van den(r) Berg from the Cape to Witkraal, Petrusburg, by J.J. Pottas 2005 and more.

The branch members are ready to support newcomers and provide guidance to members that may struggle with particular research problems. Interested members of the public are welcome to join GSSA and can get in touch with the branch secretary. Details can be found in the team members section on this page.

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Founded in 2004, eGGSA is the virtual branch of the Genealogical Society of South Africa, and provides a virtual home for everyone from the beginner to the most advanced family FBhistorian.

To read more about us: click on the relevant links belows

Our Management Team

eGGSA

Some of our Projects

bible transcriptions  1820 settlers  newspaper extracts gravestone 1 postcard 
Family Bibles 1820 Settlers Newspaper extracts SA Gravestones

Post Cards

To become a Member

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More VOC Ships' Pay Ledger Accounts (soldijboeken)

Johan Diedericks has extracted from the data at National Archief at the Hague, 123 more of these VOC employees who settle at the Cape of Good Hope, and made them available onthe eGGSA web site. They have now joined those previously extracted by Lizette Svoboda, on the Stamouers.com section of our web site. Our thanks go to Johan and Lizette for making their hard work available. 

VOC (Dutch East India Company) Accounts from Ships' Pay Ledgers, 1662-1805, contain information about many of its employees who settled at the Cape. Below are a number of excerpts from the online links to the Nationaal Archief (The Hague, Netherlands) web sites gahetNA and VOC - Opvarenden which seem likely to refer to those settlers. If you have any to add, please copy to a Word document and email them to the Stamouers editor.

The Nationaal Archief is making a huge effort to digitize the complete collection of the VOC and they hope to have it completed by 2017.

As of May 2016 almost all the Zeeland accounts have been digitized and put online, a large number of the Amsterdam ledgers are currently being scanned and should be available at the end of May or early June; the next batch is already planned.

For an introduction to these Ships' Accounts (soldijboeken) please see Corney Kellers' explanation on the Rekeningen uit de Scheepssoldijboeken 1662-1805 page.

800 000 Gravestone photos on the eGSSA website!!

Congratulations to Riana le Roux and her team of volunteers for this outstanding achievement. It is the product of many years of hard work, patience and dedication.

A big thank you to all of you going out to the cemeteries to take the photos, to those of you doing all the uploads onto the website, indexing the photos and cemeteries, maintaining our website. The project is extremely valuable to us and we appreciate your contributions.

The project is growing so fast that we are looking forward to the next milestone.

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WELCOME TO THE GSSA FREE STATE BRANCH

The branch is located in Bloemfontein, the City of Roses in an environment that is conducive to genealogical research. Numerous historical buildings create an atmosphere where the family historian can drown himself in historical documents of inter alia, the Anglo Boer War Museum. In 2010 an Agreement of Cooperation, whereby the GSSA represented by the Free State and the Museum would render support to each other, with various projects, was signed. This led to records such as the Cape and Natal Prisoners of War name lists, the call up lists of burgers for commando service, the names of all the Free State burgers being taken prisoner and sent to numerous off shore POW camps, etc. became available.

The branch meets every second Monday of each month at the Anglo Boer War Museum where topics of genalogical  relevance  are presented.

The branch meets every second Monday of each month at 16h30 at the Anglo Boer War Museum where topics of genalogical  relevance  are presented.

The branch is proud of the publications of members and former members of the branch. Some examples include: The Malan's of South Africa by Hecules Malan

1998/9; The Jordaan's in South Africa by M. J.S Jordaan; The Van den(r) Berg from the Cape to Witkraal, Petrusburg, by J.J. Pottas 2005 and more.

The branch members are ready to support newcomers and provide guidance to members that may struggle with particular research problems. Interested members of the public are welcome to join GSSA and can get in touch with the branch secretary.

This section for Branch pages in addition to the main Branch blog page.

Noordwes se maandbyeenkomste vir 2013

Die reeks artikels wat in die Potchefstroom Herald gepubliseer word om familienavorsing wyer bekend te stel. Dit is 'n projek van GGSA Noord-Wes

Foto's van Die Bybels in Museum Afrika soos afgeneem deur Neels Coertze

Onder hierdie afdeling verskyn 'n aantal stories wat taklede oor hulself en oor hul navorsing geskryf het.

Die stories word gepubliseer in die taal soos aangebied en ons vertrou dat u dit interessant sal vind.


This section contains a number of stories written by branch members about themselves and their research.

The stories are published in the language as presented and we trust you will find them interesting.

Reports on activities of the branch

Interesting stories for the East Cape

Genealogy Stories from the Northwest Branch

Branch History

Cape Master's OfficeThe digitization of the Index to the Cape Master's Office Estate files was a project undertaken by the GSSA a number of years ago, under the leadership of Albert Semmelink.

The searchable database will appear on this website soon.

 
With Google Earth loaded onto your computer, opening this .kmz file will display the “+”marks representing the cemeteries shown on the 1:50000 maps of SA.. Cemeteries that have already been recorded have been deleted from this display, You can show both this file and the Cemetery Initiative .kmz file in Google Earth at the same time.
This file loaded on 30 November 2020 with 13020 placemarks.

Extra items for particular Project pages - each will have a category.

Name the category whatever you want but start with the project idendifier, eg:

Cemetery_accordian  ...

etc

one of the aternative 'menu' items on this page

Links to items of interest housed on other websites.

Noord-Transvaal Tak se Jeugaksie saam met die Rietvlei Voortrekkerkommando

Tydens die Mei byeenkoms van die GGSA N-Tvl Tak is daar tyd ingeruim om lede van die Rietvlei Voortrekkerkommando onder leiding van Nico Louw, touwys te maak met familienavorsing. ʼn Wye reeks onderwerpe is kortliks bespreek en daarna is hulle na die biblioteek by die Erfenisstigting geneem.   
Hier het hulle kennis gemaak met die bronne wat gebruik word vir genealogiese navorsing en hoe die rekenaar as hulpmiddel ingespan kan word. Die gebruik van die SAG en SAF Volumes is gedemonstreer asook verskeie ander familieregisters is aan die jongelinge beskikbaar gestel

By die Tak se byeenkoms op 4 Augustus het twee van die Voortrekkers kom vertel hoe hulle weggeval het met familienavorsing. Christo Louw en Nel Nieuwoudt het hul ervarings tydens hul navorsing met die lede van die van die Tak gedeel.

Luister na die klanksnitte van Christo en Nel deur op die skakels hieronder te klik.