Preparing tourtiére My ancestry is French-Canadian on my mother's side of the family so one dish we had every Christmas was tourt...

Steve Hayes The Last Tram ceremony, 18 March 1961 The Johannesburg Transport Department was a new name for what had previously be...

Ann Rabinowitz

Chief Rabbi Louis Rabinowitz, better-known for his stirring sermons and political outspokenness, was also a keen historian.

SA-SIG is the acronym for the Southern Africa Jewish Genealogy Special Interest Group, which aims to bring together Jewish genealogy resear...

Kommando’s het hul beslag gekry toe die Kompanjie soldate of burgers op ekspedisies uitgestuur het om gesteelde vee terug te kry. Die heel e...

Melissa Strojek, Mansfield News Journal , 9 December 2012

Women of South Africa - 1913 lists over 1500 Biographies of prominent Women of South Africa for the year 1913.

Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew; if the transmission should be interrupted for one c...

Die oudste bekende geslagsregister in Suid Afrika is in 1832 opgestel deur Magdalena Christina Marais, 'n gehoorgestremde. ...

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Genealogy is the study of the descent of families and persons from an ancestor or ancestors, while Family History applies to biographical r...

Graaf Caledon Daar was twee eeue gelede reeds kommer oor die talle padongelukke in Kaapstad, en oor verkeersgeraas. Graaf Caledon, di...

It wasn't always like this! 200 000 years ago dental care was less efficient In the olden days, man had to get creative to cle...

Jan van Riebeeck Van Riebeeck het ’n eenvoudige opdrag gehad: lê ’n groentetuin en vrugteboord aan, bou ’n fort en hospitaal, en ruil...

Dick Eastman, Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter   It is the second day of the month. It's time to back up your genealog...

Piet Butler [ Hierdie berig bevat uittreksels uit ‘n gelyknamige artikel wat Piet in 1988 geskryf het. Belangstellendes kan ‘n afskrif...

A force of slaves called ‘Caffers’ acted as the executive arm of the Fiscal, or state prosecutor. In his work on Cape slavery, Children of...

Naas Olivier   Die Jeffreysbaaise Genealogiese Geselsgroep het Woensdag, 28 November, sy aktiwiteite vir die jaar met ‘n vleisbraai...

Dick Eastman,  Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter Pierre Clouthier of Progeny Genealogy has written an excellent article that ...