Many families in South
Africa have long and proud histories. Find them here!
Exciting new
information has been discovered taking the ancestry of William of
Griquatown back another two generations. See
William of Griquastad Welcome to
OldSouthAfricanFamilies.com
— your comprehensive genealogy resource. Our mission is to
give you the facts you need about South African Genealogy —
fast — so you can get on the road to taking action right
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Griquatown Andersons
Launching this website was
inspired by my father Dr Ralph Anderson who studied his own
family's history for over 15 years. The result is a website he
created
http://www.griquatownandersons.com which records the families
linked to the Anderson family over seven generations and
including over 4,000 individuals. These families span the recorded
history of South Africa from the earliest immigration started by
Jan Van Riebeeck to the modern day.
Symons
Brown Families
Later I received via my wife, a
document prepared by her cousin Merryl Howell (nee Symons) who had
studied the Symons/Brown families who go back to the 1820
settlers.
Billing Hennessy Family
Merryl is also a
granddaughter of George Billing and Tilly Hennessy, another family
of long association with South African history. Here is the
Genealogy of the
Billing Hennessy Family.
The
Lawson Kable Family
My wife's maternal line is to the
Lawson Kable family. Most of
this research was conducted by her cousin, Stan Reid.
The
Iler_Tuck_Charlesworth Family
My son, who married in Canada, married into the Iler family. Nancy Iler,
aunt of my son's wife, Carrie, did extensive research into that
family. Here is that research
in ancestor format.
Navigation and Format
As the family tree grows it is
more and more difficult to do a website that shows everything you
want to show. In the above families, the presentation shows the
descendents of the patriarch or matriarch of a family. This
presentation cuts off other branches of the family For the more
experienced Genealogist, here they are all together in the
Ancestor format
The
Symons Brown Billing Lawson Kable Reid Family
.For a quick how to navigate, go
here
I hope that over time other
families may want to add links to their family histories. I will
facilitate that if they
contact me.
The
South African
History Time Line 1488-2000
was originally produced as:
South African Time Line COPYRIGHT 1999 Anne Lehmkuhl We
have added specific timelines for the families recorded here.
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And again, thank you to those contributing
daily to our Genealogy website.
Mike Anderson - Webmaster
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Resources
The main work of the genealogy in this website
is done on a program called Legacy Family Tree by Millenia.
You can download a free version from their website at
The
Legacy Family Tree Store
The best way to send information for inclusion in this website
is to download that program, enter the information into the
program and then email a file to the webmaster.
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How To Have Your Family
Genealogy Incorporated Into This Website
1 If you already have a website,
just email us a link.
2 If you don't yet have a website
and already use Legacy, or some other genealogy software, just
export a GEDCOM file and attach it to an
email.
3. If you have not used any
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