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Available Databases
Ancestry24 is the most comprehensive online information source for South African family history. Here is a list of just some of our databases, which grow daily.
- Birth records
- 14,000+ records from various registers covering 1895 - 1921
- Baptism records
- 1000,000+ records from 1600's until the 1950's
- Death Notice records
- Over 5,000 in a growing collection
- Burials
- 50,000+ from various parish records and cemeteries
- Marriage records
- From Namaqualand, Eastern Cape, Johannesburg, Cape and Natal
- Passenger records
- 50,000+ recorded persons travelling between England and South Africa
- Government Gazettes
- Legal announcements of deceased persons in South Africa 1992 - current
- Deceased Estates Index
- 500,000+ individuals from the Transvaal and Cape from 1838 - 1900's
- Cape Almanacs
- Lists of Inhabitants of the Cape 1813 - 1891
- Military
- various records including indexes to Anglo Boer War, Rhodesian Rebellion and Boer War Prisoners in Bermuda
- Newspaper Domestic Announcements
- Daily birth, marriage, death notices from national newspapers 2005 - current