Genealogical Research
Original DR Church Registers This link will take you to all the original registers of the DR Church since 1665. An indication is given whether a register is available as…
The Sabinet African Archives portal currently offers an index to collections within academic institutions of South Africa. We are busy expanding this index. Sabinet also offers a hosting and digitisation solution to online collection holders to make it more discoverable to researchers globally.
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Rapeport Meyer Collection
The Opeskin-Fleish family arrived in South Africa at the end of the 1920s. They joined a family member, Clement Fairly in Swartruggens, Western Transvaal. They subsequently moved to Berea Johannesburg.…
Leon Rubens Collection
The Leon Ruben Collection contains Photographs and several documents including letters, certificates and portraits relating to the Rubens family. A page from Cavalleria Rustica, an opera in one act is…
Kentridge Family Collection
The Kentridge Family Collection is made up of a number of photographs, was gathered by Mark Lewis (JHB), and traces the history of several generations of the Kentridge family
Judith Kramer Collection
The Judith Kramer Collection comprises a number of photographs of the Kramer Family, taken in the early 20th century in Poland and then after the family had moved to South…
Joan Fried Collection
The Joan Fried Collection comprises a number of images of Jewish family life dating from the late 1800s to the early 1920s as well as a few images of the…
Jessica Sherman Collection
The Jessica Sherman Collection comprises a number of photographs and documents pertaining to David and Bertha Sherman and their family
Brozin, Collis and Finger Families Collection
The Brozin, Collis and Finger Family collection consists of a number of photographs with various links and relationships between the three families
Kestell, Truida (Trudie)
The collection focuses on Ms Kastell's work as an author on historical clothing, as well as the Kastell family. The collection consits of correspondence, speeches, notes, diary, programmes and memorial…
C. G. S. de Villiers Collection
The collection contains correspondence and photos of Scandinavian and Italian authors and South African statesmen ; correspondence about a visit to the USA ; manuscripts of plays ; radio programmes…