Genealogy researchers and history enthusiasts alike have reason to celebrate: a rich new collection of South African voter rolls from 1925 to 1931 is now accessible via FamilySearch.org, with a detailed guide and index support through the eGGSA website. These digitized films offer a rare and invaluable glimpse into South Africa’s early 20th-century electoral landscape; one that mirrors the country’s evolving social and political dynamics. For the link to the collection, click here.

Access to the People of our Time series

We are pleased to present a new series of articles drawn from the 1906 publication Men of the Times: Old Colonists of the Cape Colony and Orange River Colony, originally published by The Transvaal Publishing Company and printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode, His Majesty's Printers. This remarkable volume captures the lives and legacies of nearly 200 pioneering individuals who played a formative role in the development of the Orange River Colony. To enrich and contextualize these historical profiles, additional research has been conducted by Cornel Viljoen, offering fresh insights into the contributions and personal histories of these early settlers. This series will be continuously expanded over the coming year, shedding new light on the people who helped shape a pivotal chapter in Southern African history.

The eGGSA membership area, with copies of past Genesis and Familia issues, as well as other material, needs to be re-constituted and will be - but the Graves section has taken precedence. That section is now all but complete and work has begun on the new Membership Area.  

Thank you - Richard Ball

At last we have got the new graves website done and available:  graves.eggsa.org

I have done my best with the help of Riana le Roux and Corney Keller.

I have had to transfer all the photos to the new webserver and then, using program scripts, transfer all the captions and descriptions from the old database to the new one. I cannot guarantee that every item has been correctly done but I believe that 98% is correct.

It was quite a job!

The photos are now available grouped by their Province each of which has a search function to help searchers find the grave they are looking for.  We know that many of the images are sideways on and we will be working on correcting those. Please report any other problems you encounter by sending me a link to the problem, Richard Ball

Please do continue sending any edits, as well as new grave photographs to us, we will attend to it as soon as we can, Riana le Roux