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Links

Ancestry24.com over 9 million records - largest online archive of South African genealogy records
Ancestorfind.net South African based genealogy service who can trace Indian ancestors
British Settlers to South Africa 1820 including passenger lists and settlers names
Cape Town Mailing List created with the aim of establishing a forum to assist anyone researching their ancestors' lives in Cape Town but also the broader Cape Colony
Cyndi's List South Africa / Suid-Afrika largest private collection of genealogy links on the web
Genealogical Institute of South Africa (GISA) has an extensive surname list (see menu to left starting at SAG 1)
Genealogical Society of South Africa
Genealogical Society of  South  Africa
Genealogy World has many South African genealogy links
Haidee Settlers at York 1850
Huguenots who arrived in South Africa 1683-1756
Jewish Genealogy in South Africa  a page of links for Jewish researchers here at genealogylinks.net
National Archives of South Africa
SA Family History on the Web many useful resources here
South African Family History and Genealogy useful regularly updated SA genealogy blog
South African Genealogy personal genealogy site, useful for beginners
South African Genealogy another personal genealogy website
South African Genealogy Look-Ups request volunteers to do free lookups on indexes they have access to
South Africa Geneology Forum share your SA genealogy with other researchers

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South Africans with German Ancestors

Berlin Missionaries and Co-workers in South Africa mostly 19thC
Germans in South Africa personal website
German South African Surnames
Germans in Cape Town in 1886 taken from a business address book of German residents of Cape Town published in 1887
"Germans in Kaffraria" Surname Index from the book
German Immigrants to the Dutch Cape Colony 1652-1806
Hermannsburg Missionaries in South Africa 1854-1960
Moravian Missionaries in SA in the 19th Century
Names mentioned in the book 'Deutsche Wanderung nach Südafrika im 19. Jahrhundert' by Werner Schmidt-Pretoria.
Settlements of the Kaffraria Germans 1858-1859 lists of names for each place
South African Surnames - Natal Germans
Surname interest list for families of German origin in South Africa