Project Aim

To provide an Index list of projects relevant to South African users.

Index of SA Projects:

1. SA Projects by PEOPLE

2. SA Projects by HISTORICAL TIMELINE

3. SA Projects by PLACES

Please add all the SA Projects you create or come across below

Working With Projects

• Starter Kit for How to Create A New Project
• Starter Kit for How To Add Text and a Photo to a Project
• Template for a Family Name Project
  • TIP:Select Show All (next to Related Projects on right) to display all South African Related Project Sites. Select Edit and then Select Related Project to check if you follow any projects that are not listed here yet. Select any South African Projects that appear to Add them to the Site Index

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1. SA Projects by PEOPLE:

Progenitors & Settlers in SA

• All Male SA Stam Vaders / Progenitors
  • SA Y DNA Male Progenitors
• SA Progenitors/ Stam Moeders/ Matriarchs
  • SA mtDNA Progenitors
• South African ancestry disconnected due to lack of sources
• South African Stamvaders/Progenitors - establishing the "B" generation
• Progenitors from Southern Africa:
  • *Indigenous People of South Africa (The San and KhoeKhoen People)
    • *Kat River Khoi Settlement 1844
  • Nguni (Zulu, Hlubi, Xhosa, Southern Ndebele, Swazi)
    • amaXhosa Peoples of SA
      • Xhosa Royalty of Southern Africa
        • abaThembu Descent Line
    • Zulu Royalty of Southern Africa
    • Swazi Royalty of Southern Africa
    • Ndebele
    • Hlubi
  • Sotho
    • Basotho (South Sotho),
    • Bapedi (North Sotho)
      • Rain Queens of the Lobedu
    • Venda,
    • Batswana,
    • Tsonga,
    • Kgaga (North Sotho)
    • The Griquas
  • Progenitors from Europe:
    • Mapping The First Arrivals at the Cape of Good Hope
      • Shipwrecked Castaways on the SA Coast
    • South African Settlers - Portuguese
    • Dutch Settlers of South Africa includes Flemish
      • VOC Officials
      • Progs Adriana Tol & Johan Smits
    • French Huguenot Settlers in SA
      • Huguenot Ships to the Cape
      • South African Settlers - French
    • 1820 British Settlers in South Africa
      • South African Settlers- British (other than 1820 Settlers)
      • The Children's Friend Society
      • The Diary of Iris Vaughan
    • German Settlers in South Africa
      • Germans in Kaffraria
      • Passengers of the Victoria
    • Irish Settlers in South Africa
    • Croatian Settlers
    • South African Settlers Swiss
    • South African Settlers - Nordic (Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland)
    • South African Settlers - Other European Austria; Greece; Hungary; Italy; Poland
  • Other Progenitors:
    • Chinese Settlers
    • South African Settlers - Indian
    • South African Stamouers/Progenitors - Slaves
      • DNA Mapping of the Slave Routes to Southern Africa
    • South African Settlers - Jewish
    • Early Settlers in Rhodesia, Nyasaland, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi
      • The Aylmer May Cemetery - Lusaka, Zambia
      • Kabwe Old Cemetery - Kabwe (Broken Hill), Zambia
      • CWGC Ndola (Kansenshi) Cemetery - Ndola, Zambia
      • SWA Stamvaders / Progenitors
    • South African Settlers from Other Countries Russia To include in time Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South American Countries, United States and any other countries that crop up!

DNA Genealogy Projects

• SA Y DNA Male Progenitors
• SA mtDNA Female Progenitors
• SA DNA Testing
• Founder Effects in the SA Population
• Bothas who are DNA Descendants of Ferdinandus Appel
• Adolph Jonker Ancestry Puzzle
• DNA Mapping of the Slave Routes to Southern Africa
• L7a Descendants of Hendrina Smit: the most unique MtDNA Lineage in the world.
• DNA Admixtures of South African Populations

Excellent non Geni FB page for SA DNA matching

Projects about Slaves

• South Africa Slaves History of South African slavery - project to add ALL South African slaves in GENi trees (excluding those listed on the South African Slaves - isolated, unconnected profiles]
  • South African Slaves - isolated, unconnected profiles The purpose of the project is to have a "home" for them in the hope that they will in time be found and incorporated in the big tree.
• South African Stamouers/Progenitors - Slaves - add any slaves (male and female) who were Progenitors of the Cape of Good Hope to this project.
• DNA Mapping of the Slave Routes to Southern Africa
• Adolph Jonker Ancestry Puzzle
• South African Slave Owners

Immigration Projects

• VOC ships arriving in Cape Town 1600s - 1800's
  • Huguenot Ships to the Cape
• British Ships to South Africa in the 1800's
• The Children's Friend Society - Master South African List
• Royal Philanthropic Society Includes listing of children who went to South Africa.

SA Names Projects (Try our Template for a Family Name Project)

• ABC *Appel*Auret *Barnato *Barry *Berry *Botha *Bree(dt)*Broodryk *Brooks*Churchill *Colyn *Cracknell
• DEF *Dalebout/D'Alebout *Delport *deSavoye *Dadswell *deBuys *DeMeillon *Doubell *Dunn *duPlessis *duToit *Durand *Earle *Faber
• GHI *Gous / Gouws *Hanekom *Hart *Henning *Hulley
• JKL *Jacobs *Jones *Adolph Jonker Ancestry Puzzle *Jordaan *Labuschagne *le Roux
• MNO *MacDonald *Maharaj *Marais *Mare/Maree *Marnewick*Mbedzi *Moore*Nel *Nortje *O'Neill *Ochse * Ogle *Oosthuizen*Oppenheimer
• PQR *Pautz *Pieters * Pitt *Poisson *Potgieter & Potgieter *Rattray *Rossouw *Janse(n) van Rensburg
• STU *de Smidt*Snyman *Steyn*Stokes *Strydom*Smuts *Tait
• VWXYZ *van der Merwe*van der Walt *van die Kaap *van Helsdinge *van Wyk *Venter *Weile *Weyers

Unlinked SA Profiles with Records**Botes Unlinked**Faber Unlinked**Labuschagne Unlinked**South Africa - small trees - not connected to the Big Tree.

Hall of Fame or Infamy

• Famous South Africans
• SA Families Descended From European Royalty [Or Not :-)]
• Governors of the Cape Colony
• Shaka Zulu
• SA Rugby Hall of Fame
• Nelson Mandela's Long Walk to Freedom
• People on South African Stamps
• Comrades Marathon runners
• Trial of Oscar Pistorius for the murder of Reeva Steenkamp
• Lawrence Green Book Index

Professions

• South Africa - Veterinarians

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2. SA Projects by HISTORICAL TIMELINE:

• SA Timeline
• South Africa - Place Names Over Time, MAIN PAGE

Pre-Colonial

• Zulu Kings
• Rain Queens

1600 - 1800

• Shipwrecked Castaways on the SA Coast
• VOC Mapping the First Arrivals to the Cape of Good Hope
  • Progenitor Connections to Europe
• VOC Officials
• South African Slaves
• French Huguenot Settlers in SA
  • Huguenot Ships to the Cape
  • Trial of Gerrit Coetzee for sodomy: 10 September 1733
• South African Settlers - Portuguese
• The Griquas
• Chinese Settlers
• Missionaries in Southern Africa

1800 - 1902

• Nguni Peoples 1700s & 1800s
• Die Groot Trek /The Great Trek
• 1820 British Settlers
  • Post 1820 British Settlers in SA
• Battle of Bloodriver 16 December 1838
• Kat River Khoi Settlement 1844
• Mormon Missionares in SA 1853
• Passengers of the 'Victoria' Hamburg to Cape Town 1859
• Die Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners - 1875
• Germans in Kaffraria
• South African Settlers - Indian
• Diamonds & Dust; Gold & Ganja
  • Gold Prospectors at Pilgrim's Rest
• Anglo-Zulu War 11 Jan - 4 July 1879
  • Battle of Isandlwana - Impi YaseSandlwana 22 January 1879
  • Battle of Rorke's Drift 22–23 January 1879
  • Battle of Ulundi 4 July 1879
• The Diary of Iris Vaughan 1897-1903
• The Anglo Boer War 1899 -1902
  • British Concentration Camps of The South African War 1900-1902
  • Siege of Mafeking (Oct 1899-May 1900)

1900 - Current

• South Africans in WWI
  • SA Soldiers who sank with the SS Mendi in WWI
  • Fort Napier Internment Camp for German Nationals in WWI
• 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic
• South Africans in WWII
  • WWII North African Campaign
  • WWII 2 Squadron SAAF pilots in the Ethiopian campaign 1941
  • Sinking of the Nova Scotia
• The Torch Commando
• Women's Day March 9 Aug 1956
• Nelson Mandela's Long Walk to Freedom
• SA Rugby Hall of Fame and Mandela, Pienaar & the 1995 Rugby World Cup
• The Comrades Marathon
• Trial of Oscar Pistorius for the murder of Reeva Steenkamp
• South African Rugby Tours
• South Africa - Farm Attack Victims
• South Africa - Crime Victims
• 'The President's Keepers' by Jacques Pauw

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3. SA Projects by PLACES:

• South Africa - Place Names Over Time, MAIN PAGE
• SA Place Names Connected to People
• SA Slaves, Blacks & Coloureds Who Owned Farms that Became Wine Estates

ABC

• Allesverloren Wine Estate
• Battle of Bloodriver 16 December 1838
• Groot Constantia Wine Estate

DEF

GHI

• Gamkaskloof
• Battle of Isandlwana Impi YaseSandlwana 22 January 1879

JKL

• Jeppe High School for Boys
• Kaapsehoop
• Germans in Kaffraria
• Kat River Khoi Settlement 1844

MNO

• Maraisburg - now called Hofmeyer, Pearston, Grahamstown, Fort Beaufort, Adelaide in 'The Diary of Iris Vaughan'
• Siege of Mafeking (Oct 1899-May 1900)
• Fort Napier - South African Internment camp for German nationals during World War I
• Oranje Vrystaat

PQR

• The Griquas of Philippolis and Kokstad
• Pilgrim's Rest
• Robben Island
• Battle of Rorke's Drift 22–23 January 1879

STU

• Table Mountain - South Africa
• Battle of Ulundi 4 July 1879

VWXYZ

• Witsand (White Sands) and Port Beaufort

GENERAL

• DNA Mapping of the Slave Routes to Southern Africa
• Anglo Boer War Concentration Camps
  • Eshowe** Brandfort** Pretoria & van der Hoven's Drift** Orange River & Orange River Main** Kabusie** Aliwal North** Vryburg**Heidelberg**Volksrust**Doornrivier**Howick**Pietermaritzburg** Harrismith** Wentworth Natal** Nylstroom** Jacobs Siding** Bethulie** Middelburg** East London** Howick**Pietersburg** Mafeking** Uitenhage** Meintjeskop** Vereeniging** Springfontein** Norvalspont** Kimberley** Edinburg** Winburg** Durban** Barberton** Irene** Johannesburg** Heilbron** Pinetwown** Vredefort Road** Krugersdorp** Potchefstroom** Balmoral** Kroonstad** Leydenburg** Klerksdorp** Colenso** Ladysmith** Merebank** Doornkop** Bloemfontein** Standerton** Belfast**Small & Odd Camps** Harrismith Native** Bloemfontein Native
• South African Stamouers/Progenitors - ZA Locations Project in development stages - the objective could be to define a South African location list for the location fields in Geni.
• French Huguenot Settlers in SA- section on Huguenot Farms
• SA Wine Estates - Project Portal

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4. Reference & Help Projects

• GENEALOGICAL REFERENCE CENTRE is there to help with SA genealogical nitty gritty; naming conventions and language usages.
• Random Acts of GENI Kindness - South Africa
• CuZZin - Stray Sources
• The Genealogical Proof Standard
• Suid Afrikaanse Gemeenskap - vanaf 1652 aanverwant Reference centre in Afrikaans.
  • Found a mistake in the SA Genealogy? Irregularities in SA Genealogies / Geslagregisters
• CuZZin - Brickwall Club
• CuZZin - Profile Image Library
• Need help to fix a tree issue?:
  • Please complete my merge request Discussion.
  • Tree Confirmation Set up as a place to ask for help on establishing links on the South African tree.This project has not been used enough – users need to take advantage of it.
  • Looking for help to confirm if part of the tree is correct:Afrikaners is Plesierig: Saam Stamboom Bou
  • Track profiles not linked to parents or family in the 1600 - 1800 period:Tree Issues
  • Making that connection
• South African Stamouers/Progenitors - ZA Locations Project in development stages - the objective could be to define a South African location list for the location fields in Geni.
• FAMILYSEARCH - Dutch Reformed Church Records have added a large selection of the Registers of the Dutch Reformed Church Record from 1690-2007. These are not indexed, but Lea Herbst has made a start on explaining which registers can be found where in A Guide to FAMILYSEARCH which is and admirable document of enormous help.

Other Projects and Sites of Interest

• The First Fifty Years Project
• SA Genealogy
• French Huguenot World Diaspora
• African Kings
• African Queens
• Africa Egypt
• Emigration from Europe Ports of Departure
• All That Glitters - MINING the world
• International War & Military Portal
• Ebook History of South Africa under the Administration of the Dutch East India Company (1652-1795) Vol I (See under Photos and Documents)
• Ebook History of South Africa under the Administration of the Dutch East India Company (1652-1795) Vol II
• The Gold Miners - A.P. Cartwright
• The Historical Monuments of South Africa - J. J. Oberholster
• 'Dictionary of South African Place Names' - free online book
• Ngwato Royal Family of Botswana
• Dutch names' Pronounciation & Transliteration
• Mansell Upham - Uprooted Lives Series: Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope’s Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713)
• http://www.genza.org.za/index.php/en/publications-62725/family-regi...

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