Free State Province, South Africa Genealogy

Africa South Africa  Free State

Guide to  ancestry, family history and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, parish registers, and military records.

History
Free Statia: reminiscences of a lifetime in the Orange Free State - Available on microfilm at the Family History Library and some Family history centers.

Localities
List of cities and towns in the Free State.

Maps and gazetteers
A comprehensive set of maps of the Free State, South Africa.

Cemeteries
Bloemfontein (Hamilton) Was Cemetery grave listings

Free State, South Africa Cemeteries - War graves project.

Bethelem Cemetery - Van Heerden Family Tree listings

Grave yards in Free State (The Genealogical Society of South Africa)

Find A Grave records for Free State, South Africa

Dutch Reformed Church (NGK)
The Dutch Reform Church records collection on FamilySearch includes records from 1848 to 1956.
 * 1690-2011 - at FamilySearch — index and images

Catholic
Parish registers, Catholic Church, Mission, Tempe (Orange Free State), 1869-1930 - microfilm available at the Family History Library and some Family history centers.

Civil Registration
Births, marriages, and deaths began to be registered in 1902.

Deaths

 * Civil registration (deaths), Orange Free State, 1902-1954.

Marriages

 * Civil registration (marriages - blacks), Orange Free State, 1931-1955.
 * Civil registration (marriages - whites, coloureds and Indians), Orange Free State, 1931-1955.
 * Civil registration (marriages), Orange Free State, 1848-1899.
 * Civil registration (marriages), Orange Free State, 1929-1930.

Land records
[https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/557414?availability=Family%20History%20Library Orange Free State (South Africa). Registrar of Deeds, 1848-1934.]

Orange Free State (South Africa). Land Board - Property claims, confiscations and forfeitures, 1853-1866.

Probate records
See here for a description of what death notices are and where they are located.


 * 1951 - 2006 at FamilySearch — Images of estate files from The Master of Supreme Court in Bloemfontein.


 * Index of Surnames for complete files in the 1951 Free State Estate Files collection on familysearch.org


 * The Family History Library has microfilm of Estate files, Orange Free State, 1832-1989.

Websites
Microfilm available at the Family History Library