South African Genealogy?

answers1: You had better consult the embassy and to take advice from them. <br>
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They will teach you some useful information such as library and so on. <br>
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Some cost will be needed.
answers2: You need to provide us with more specific details to get a
good answer, e.g. were your grandparents from South Africa? <br>
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There is not much online for South Africa specifically compared with
other countries. You could start with ancestry24.com which is a site
specifically developed for South African genealogy but still quite
new. You could also post your specific queries in their forum. <br>
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You could also have a look at genesreunited.co.uk, ancestry.com and
awt.ancestry.com (Ancestry World Tree), with a bit of luck you might
find someone else has already done some work on your family they can
share with you. <br>
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You might be able to get some info for free but as a rule it will cost
you something, the more info you want the more it will cost you.
answers3: It depends on what kind of genealogy research you wish to
conduct. <br>
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South African universities have a very good reputation when it comes
to genetic lineage traces. Not the least of which because it is one of
the probable areas where humans first evolved. If you want to pinpoint
where your ancestors came from, they will give you a DNA test, send it
to Witswatersrand, and return the results to you within a month. Tests
cost around 2,000 rands, so this information does not come cheap. Many
paternity testing services, such as EasyDNA, can do ancestry tests as
well. So that's where I would start if you want to go through that
route. <br>
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When it comes to tracing your last name, however, South Africa is
spotty at best. Centuries of war and regime changes have destroyed
many of the relevant records. Data from the early censuses are pretty
much gone for good. The Department of Home Affairs has fairly accurate
records of births, marriages, and deaths from around the 1890s onward
though. If you have your grandparents' names, you can request a full
certificate for them and proceed from there. Other areas you might
want to look into are court records. property transfers, church rolls,
and military records. Your provincial "Masters of the Supreme Court"
will have documents about wills and estates. You can request service
records from the SANDF if you have names and dates. But don't expect
them to have anything from before 1910. <br>
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You can contact the Genealogical Society for their advice as well: <br>
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