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This article details connections between Colonial India and '''The Cape/South Africa''', with particular reference to emigration/immigration.
A large group of Anglo Indians migrated to Cape Colony in the 1820s.<ref>Lehmkuhl. [https://web.archive.org/web/20180905122810/https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/south-africa-immigrants-british@rootsweb.com/thread/7953433/ Anglo-Indians at the Cape] ''Rootsweb South-Africa-Immigrants-British Mailing List'' 5 September 2003, archived. Anne Lehmkuhl's article in ''Generations - A South African genealogy newsletter'' </ref>
The Cape was also a popular destination for people who were on furlough (leave) from their work in India, who had been obliged to leave India for health reasons, and did not wish to travel all the way back to England.
*[http://www.national.archives.gov.za National Archives & Records Service of South Africa] contains a Search facility. Click on "Search National Automated Archival Information Retrieval System", on the left hand side of the webpage. the databases include “Data of the South African Genealogical Society on Gravestones”.
===Monument inscriptions===
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20180905123556/https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/south-africa-immigrants-british@rootsweb.com/thread/7955433/ Monumental inscriptions at the Cape of Good Hope]<ref>''Rootsweb South- Africa- Immigrants- British Mailing List'' 9 August 2003. Retrieved 29 January 2019, archived.</ref> 1799-1861. Transcriptions, in 1907, of graves in two Cape Town cemeteries extracted from ''General History and Social Life of the Cape of Good Hope'' by C. Graham Botha 1962. Include many with India connections.*Stuart Green transcribed, in April 2003, the following entries from the SA Genealogical Society database at the National Archives of South Africa for the [[Mailing lists| Rootsweb India Mailing list]], archived::*[https://web.archive.org/web/20200812164321/https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india@rootsweb.com/thread/7730330/ Gravestones in South Africa - Bombay Connections ]:*[https://web.archive.org/web/20180905124608/https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india@rootsweb.com/thread/7730871/ Gravestones in South Africa - Madras connections ]:*[https://web.archive.org/web/20180905124349/https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india@rootsweb.com/thread/7730598/ Gravestones in South Africa - Bengal connections]:*[https://web.archive.org/web/20180905124744/https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india@rootsweb.com/thread/7730544/ Gravestones in South Africa - India connections]:*[https://web.archive.org/web/20200808153048/https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india@rootsweb.com/thread/7730612/ Gravestones in South Africa - Calcutta connections ]:*[https://web.archive.org/web/20200812164643/https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india@rootsweb.com/thread/7730882/ Gravestones in South Africa - Burma connections]:*[https://web.archive.org/web/20180905125858/https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india@rootsweb.com/thread/7730271/ Gravestones in South Africa - Ceylon connections]:*[https://web.archive.org/web/20180905125815/https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india@rootsweb.com/thread/7730624/ Gravestones in South Africa - Karachi connections]:*[https://web.archive.org/web/20180905130203/https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india@rootsweb.com/thread/7730315/ Gravestones in South Africa - HEIC connections]
===e-Family===
*[http://www.e-family.co.za e-Family] A free site for those researching their roots in South Africa, with a Search facility for transcribed records. Includes First Fifty Years - a project collating Cape of Good Hope records, a project to transcribe and publish copies of records relating to individuals who lived at the Cape (Cabo da Boa Esperança / de Caep de Goede Hoop / Die Kaap die Goeie Hoop) during the first decades of the settlement after 1652.
