eGGSA branch of the GSSA - eGGSA branch of the GSSA

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eGSSA serves its members by:

promotion providing information, publications and research education

promotion establishing important links with other groups world-wide.

promotion increasing public awareness of opportunities for discovering family history.

promotion promoting interest in the fascinating field of genealogy.

promotion promoting a number of projects aimed at expanding the availability of South African genealogical sources online.

For many years, there have been people who, for various reasons, could not join a regular GSSA branch. Some of these reasons include living too far from a branch or living outside South Africa. These people still have a need to belong to a branch and to enjoy the benefits of GSSA membership, such as receiving GSSA's journal, Familia. eGSSA has been established to meet these needs. This is an ideal opportunity to become part of GSSA and to step into this exciting era.

At eGSSA we have an Online shop where you can buy the various publications of the Genealogical Society of South Africa, as well as a number of other genealogical, historical and cultural items.

There are indexes to the articles in Familia, the quarterly journal of the GSSA and those in genesis, journal of eGGSA itself. In addition we have a download library with some free books in pdf format, a number of documents from the South African Archives as well as photographs of graves in South African cemeteries.

Document ordering service

We are able to organise the photographing of documents from the South African Archives at Pretoria (TAB), Bloemfontein (VAB), Pietermaritzburg (NAB) and Durban(TBD).

Please read the FAQ for more information.

The eGGSA Library

houses several collections of photographs as well as other information drawn from original sources:

favorite South African gravestone photographs.

Family Bible inscription pages

Postcards

South African Archive Documents

Church Register Transcriptions

Newspaper Extracts

1820 Settler Correspondence

South African Records Transcribed

Passenger List Project

The Stamouers / Progenitors web site

To search the web site, use Search

Stamouers.com

This Web Site, created by André van Rensburg, is now maintained by eGGSA.

It provides details of South African Progenitors / Original Immigrants and their children, as contributed by individual researchers. Please consider adding your Progenitors' details - visit it here: Stamouers.com

Richard Ball