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**The FamilySearch databases include many records from The Anglican Church of Southern Africa, previously known as the Church of the Province of Southern Africa. The original records are held at the Historical Papers Research Archive, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, where the records are also [http://historicalpapers-atom.wits.ac.za/anglican-church-of-southern-africa available online]. It seems likely that all the parish registers are also available on FamilySearch, but possibly there may be additional databases which are not parish records on the University of the Witwatersrand website, but this is unclear.
:Refer External links below for a 1976 LDS Church guide, equivalent now to FamilySearch.
:Some of the FamilySearch records are also available on the pay website Findmypast.
===National Archives of South Africa===
Findmypast is a pay website.
*Under the tab "Search records" is a category [https://search.findmypast.co.uk/historical-records?SearchedRecordsetRegion=World&sourceID=13&utm_source=affiliate&utm_content=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wiki.fibis.org&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=%20fmp_uk&awc=2114 "A-Z of record sets"] which is a listing of all the record databases. Use Search terms such as Africa, and South Africa.
** Includes 3 sets of FamilySearch records called South Africa Baptisms, South Africa Marriages, South Africa Burials which appear to be derived from Dutch and Afrikaans church records, but exact details are not provided. (Introduced c 9 February 2024. It would be expected these are available on the FamilySearch website (for free)
**[https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-records/anglo-boer-war-records-1899-1902 Anglo-Boer War Records 1899-1902] located in Military, Armed Forces & Conflict/Boer Wars. All the records appear to be transcripts, without images, from a variety of sources, including medal rolls from The National Archives, Kew in the series W0 100. Also see [[Medal Rolls]]. Medal Rolls are also available as free downloads from TNA , and from the pay website Ancestry.
**First World War database [https://search.findmypast.com/search-world-records/south-africa-roll-of-honour-1914-1918 South Africa Roll Of Honour 1914-1918], located in Armed Forces & Conflict/First World War. These records appear to be classified by Findmypast as "Great Britain". Most of the data will also be on the CWGC database, but additionally may include cause of death. Includes data to the official end date of the war, 31 August 1921.<ref>[https://southafricaremembers.wordpress.com/2015/04/06/south-africas-roll-of-honour-for-the-first-world-war/ South Africa’s Roll of Honour for the First World War] southafricaremembers.wordpress.com.</ref> The most likely source of this database is a South African publication, ''Roll of Honour 1914-1918 Ererol'' [the latter word is Roll of Honour in Africaans].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20190419034222/https://www.ebay.ie/itm/Roll-of-Honour-1914-1918-Ererol/183508108527?hash=item2ab9ef84ef:g:z4sAAOSwIBpb1fJd ''Roll of Honour 1914-1918 Ererol''], archived page from eBay. </ref>
