Eastern Cape Province, South Africa Genealogy

South Africa Eastern Cape

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

Localities
List of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_and_towns_in_the_Eastern_Cape"&gt;cities and towns&lt;/a&gt; in the Eastern Cape

Cemeteries
&lt;a href="http://www.eggsa.org/library/main.php?g2_itemId=1350827"&gt;Adelaide Main Cemetery&lt;/a&gt;

South Africa-Eastern Cape Cemeteries, click &lt;a href="http://www.southafricawargraves.org/lists/southafrica_eastcape.htm"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;a href="http://www.worldvitalrecords.com/singleindexlistview.aspx?ix=findagrave&amp;&amp;qt=l&amp;zplace=Eastern+Cape%2c+South+Africa&amp;zdater=0&amp;zbdater=0&amp;zddater=0&amp;se=Exact"&gt;FindAGrave&lt;/a&gt; records for Eastern Cape, South Africa

Dutch Reformed Church (NGK)
The following list contains the names of the parishes located in the Eastern Cape through 1900, and includes the names of the mother parish.

Civil Registration
A wiki article describing an online collection is found &lt;a href="South Africa, Cape Province, Civil Deaths (FamilySearch Historical Records)"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;

Newspapers
The Cody Library at Rhodes University in Grahamstown has original and microfilm copies of many newspapers, including the Grahamstown Journal (1831-1920) and Grocott's Mail (1872-current). Their website can be accessed &lt;a href="http://www.ru.ac.za/corylibrary/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.

Probate records
See &lt;a href="South Africa Cape Province Death Notices"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; for a description of what death notices are and where they are located.

See &lt;a href="South Africa Cape Province Probate Records"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; for a description of what probates are and where they are located.