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• Albany Museum Ancestry Research - Genealogy

• Anglo-Boer War Museum

  Bloemfontein, South Africa.

• Archives

  • Genealogical Organisations

  • National Archives

  • Provincial Archives

• Archives Repositories, Libraries & Museums in Natal: Rosemary's Guide

• Department of Home Affairs

• Ditsong Museums Of South Africa - National Museum of Military History

• Family History Library Catalog

  From the FamilySearch web site, an online catalog to the holdings of the LDS Church in Salt Lake City, Utah. Also search for other localities by place name.

  • South Africa

• FamilySearch Centers in South Africa

  From the FamilySearch web site. Includes address, telephone number and hours of operation.

• Hill Monastic Manuscript Library

  Collegeville, Minnesota. At St. John's University.

  • The Collections at HMML

    • South Africa

• LibDex - The Library Index - South Africa

  A worldwide directory of links to library homepages and web-based OPACs (Online Public Access Catalogs).

• National Archives of South Africa

  • Genealogical Research

  • National Automated Archival Information Retrieval System (NAAIRS)

    Online searchable finding aid to identify and locate archival material. NAAIRS does not contain actual scanned documents.

    • Select and Search A NAAIRS Database

      • Database: All Archives Repositories and National Registers of non-public records

      • Database: Cape Town Archives Repository

      • Database: Cape Town Records Centre

      • Database: Data of the Bureau of Heraldry on registered heraldic representations

      • Database: Data of the South African Genealogical Society on Gravestones

      • Database: Durban Archives Repository

      • Database: Free State Archives Repository

      • Database: National Archives Repository (Public Records of Central Government since 1910)

      • Database: National Archives Repository (Public Records of former Transvaal Province and its predecessors as well as of magistrates and local authorities)

      • Database: National Register of Audio-Visual Material (NAROM)

      • Database: National Register of Oral Sources (NAROS)

      • Database: National Registers of Manuscripts and Photographs (NAREM and NAREF), National Archives' cartographic and library material, microfilms and copies

      • Database: Pietermaritzburg Archives Repository

      • Database: Port Elizabeth Archives Repository

  • The Bureau of Heraldry

• Repositories of Primary Sources - Africa & the Near East - South Africa

  A list of links to online resources from the Univ. of Idaho Library, Special Collections and Archives.

• Rhodes University Library: Cory Library for Historical Research

  Genealogical services within a Southern African historical research library and archive centre.

• The Huguenot Memorial Museum

  Museum in South Africa focusing on the Huguenots of the Cape Settlements.

• The South African National Museum of Military History

  Saxonwold, Gauteng.

  • Information Centre and the Lt. Gen. Aml Masondo Library

• The Western Cape Oral History Project