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South African look ups?

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Tawny

Tawny Report 6 Dec 2013 23:38

Can anyone on site do look ups for South Africa? As this involves possible living relations (1934) I would rather not post the details on the open forum.

Tawny

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No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled. Nor will we proceed with force against him except by the lawful judgement of his equals or by the law of the land. To no one will we sell, to no one deny or delay right or justice.

JoonieCloonie

JoonieCloonie Report 7 Dec 2013 01:59

Not very much is accessible for South Africa ...

a site that will show deaths and divorces up to a certain point (and I'm afraid I don't know what that is) is

http://www.national.archsrch.gov.za/sm300cv/smws/sm300dl

click on

All Archives Repositories and National Registers of non-public records

and then search for names

The site is horribly temperamental in my experience, including just now. I did find divorce records in the 1970s though, after that it just kept giving me error messages.

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You remember me. :)

Tawny

Tawny Report 7 Dec 2013 08:09

Thank you. I will try the site and see what I find

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No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled. Nor will we proceed with force against him except by the lawful judgement of his equals or by the law of the land. To no one will we sell, to no one deny or delay right or justice.

AnnCardiff

AnnCardiff Report 7 Dec 2013 10:17

this is an easy free site - www.familysearch.org - and it covers the world

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Breakspears of Berkshire and Cardiff, Williams and Harman of Whitchurch, Melingriffith &Tongwynlais,Glamorgan WE HAVE NO CONNECTION Do not share your tree with me

Tawny

Tawny Report 7 Dec 2013 13:48

Thank you will check that site too.

Researching:
No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled. Nor will we proceed with force against him except by the lawful judgement of his equals or by the law of the land. To no one will we sell, to no one deny or delay right or justice.

JoonieCloonie

JoonieCloonie Report 7 Dec 2013 16:52

I had never investigated what familysearch has for SA ... here is a listing

https://familysearch.org/search/collection/list#page=1&countryId=1927115

Records seem to be kept by province/state as they are in Australia, Canada and the US, so it could be hit and miss.

I did a simple search for Smith, marriage, South Africa, and got 5,334 results :-)

Then I did a search for the name of a branch of one of my families that I know ended up in SA and sure enough, there are marriages in the 1930s and 1940s ... I had found the relevant divorces earlier at the national archives site (well before familysearch had all these records available) back when I just suspected that was where the family went.

More there than I had realised so it is certainly good to know, thanks AnnCardiff for pointing that out.

Researching:
You remember me. :)

AnnCardiff

AnnCardiff Report 8 Dec 2013 12:45

my pleasure :-D

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Breakspears of Berkshire and Cardiff, Williams and Harman of Whitchurch, Melingriffith &Tongwynlais,Glamorgan WE HAVE NO CONNECTION Do not share your tree with me