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A large group of Anglo Indians migrated to Cape Colony in the 1820s. <ref>Lehmkuhl. [httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20180905122810/https://listsearcheslists.rootsweb.com/thhyperkitty/readlist/SOUTHsouth-AFRICAafrica-IMMIGRANTSimmigrants-BRITISHbritish@rootsweb.com/2003-09thread/7953433/1062768187 The 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>.

*[https://familysearch.org/search/collection/location/1927115 FamilySearch: South Africa Indexed Historical Records and Images], part of a '''very extensive''' collection of records for Africawith original images. A free website. You must be signed in to FamilySearch to view the records. See [[IGI]] for more details about FamilySearch.:Refer External links below for a 1976 LDS Church guide, equivalent now to FamilySearch. 

*[httpshttp://www.nationalarchivesnational.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 icon in webpage. the middle databases include “Data of the page, South African Genealogical Society on Gravestones”.===Genealogical Society of South Africa===*[https://www.eggsa.org/index.php/en/ eGGSA] is the virtual or from the menu at online branch of the top Genealogical Society of South Africa, Genealogiese Genootskap van Suid-Afrika . Also referred to as eGSSA. The eGGSA Library (link from the Main page) includes**[https://www.eggsa.org/bdms/ChurchRegisters-inSA.html Transcriptions from Church Registers in South Africa] with links to records elsewhere, select Collectionsincluding online records.**[https://Using the Search Functionwww.graves-at-eggsa.org/main. php?g2_itemId=43 South African gravestone photographs] which also includes a section Worldwide 

*[httphttps://archiverweb.archive.org/web/20180905123556/https://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/thhyperkitty/readlist/south-africa-immigrants-british@rootsweb.com/thread/2003-087955433/1060416919 Monumental inscriptions at the Cape of Good Hope] C<ref>''Rootsweb South- Africa- Immigrants- British Mailing List'' 9 August 2003, archived.</ref> 1799-1861. Graham Botha's transcriptions Transcriptions, in 1907, of graves in two Cape Town cemeteries include 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 in from the SA Genealogical Society database at the National Archives of South Africa for the [[Mailing lists|Roots Rootsweb India Mailing list]], archived::*[httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20200812164321/https://archiverlists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/thhyperkitty/readlist/india@rootsweb.com/thread/2004-047730330/1082208186 Gravestones in South Africa - Bombay Connections ]:*[httphttps://archiverweb.archive.org/web/20180905124608/https://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/thhyperkitty/readlist/india@rootsweb.com/2004-04thread/7730871/1082211570 Gravestones in South Africa - Madras connections ]:*[httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20180905124349/https://archiverlists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/thhyperkitty/readlist/india@rootsweb.com/2004-04thread/7730598/1082213548 Gravestones in South Africa - Bengal connections]:*[httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20180905124744/https://archiverlists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/thhyperkitty/readlist/india@rootsweb.com/2004-04thread/7730544/1082563665 Gravestones in South Africa - India connections]:*[httphttps://archiverweb.archive.org/web/20200808153048/https://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/thhyperkitty/readlist/india@rootsweb.com/thread/2004-047730612/1082564074 Gravestones in South Africa - Calcutta connections ]:*[httphttps://archiverweb.archive.org/web/20200812164643/https://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/thhyperkitty/readlist/india@rootsweb.com/thread/2004-047730882/1082564402 Gravestones in South Africa - St. Helens Burma connections]:*[httphttps://archiverweb.archive.org/web/20180905125858/https://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/thhyperkitty/readlist/india@rootsweb.com/2004-04thread/7730271/1082564796 Gravestones in South Africa - Ceylon connections]:*[httphttps://archiverweb.archive.org/web/20180905125815/https://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/thhyperkitty/readlist/india@rootsweb.com/2004-04thread/7730624/1082564896 Gravestones in South Africa - Karachi connections]:*[httphttps://archiverweb.archive.org/web/20180905130203/https://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/thhyperkitty/readlist/india@rootsweb.com/2004-04thread/7730315/1082565106 Gravestones in South Africa - HEIC connections]

===OtherAncestry===Ancestry is a pay website*[http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/cardcatalog.aspx Ancestry Card Catalogue of all Record Databases] (located as an option under the Search tab). Use Search terms such as Africa, and South Africa. Includes**"South Africa, Church of the Province of South Africa, Parish Registers, 1801-2004" [Anglican records] and**"South Africa, Methodist Parish Registers, 1822-1996"**[http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=1897 "England, Andrews Newspaper Index Cards, 1790-1976"], This is part of Newspapers and Periodicals the Birth, Marriage & Death, including Parish, section of the Ancestry (pay website) database and holds some genealogical information relating to colonial countries including Africa. ===Findmypast===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.**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>===Other records===*See [[General Register Office]] UK*Military related records WW1 and WW2.**For missing or POW soldiers, see the relevant section on the page [[British Army]], including [[British Army#WW1 British Red Cross & Order Of St John Enquiry Lists For Wounded And Missing| WW1 British Red Cross & Order Of St John Enquiry Lists For Wounded And Missing]]**For soldiers who died during WW1 (possibly also those who became disabled) see [[British Army#WFA WW1 pension record cards|British Army - WFA WW1 pension record cards]] as a possible source of records.**See [[Cemeteries]] for Commonwealth War Graves Commission records WW1 and WW2. ===Other records, not online===*See [[Society of Genealogists]], London.*Held at the [[British Library]], London ''The Medical, Dental and Pharmacy Directory of South Africa'', 1924(-1926-7) ... Edited by Ewald Herbert UIN: BLL01000948630 . The 1924 edition is also available at the Society of Genealogists.

:Information about the database African Newspapers, Series 1 and 2, 1800-1925; and African Newspapers: The British Library Collection, both part of Readex World Newspapers Archive, both of which are available at the British Library. Also information about a database containing a collection of African ''Blue Books'' from thirteen colonies across Africa, including Cape of Good Hope, 1821-1909, also available at the British Library.

*Information about [https://web.archive.org/web/20191229030028/http://www.archivalplatform.org:80/registry/entry/documentation_centre_department_of_defence_force_archives/ Documentation Centre (Department of Defence Force Archives)] which holds military records, including personnel records. archivalplatform.org, now archived. '''Note''', contact details have changed as follows::'''Update''': July 2018. Email address has changed to '''<nowiki>archive@dod.mil.za</nowiki>''' and other contact details have also changed.<ref> Chris_Baker. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/262976-south-african-service-papers-ww1/?do=findComment&comment=2666411 South African Service papers WW1] ''Great War Forum'' 27 July 2018. Earlier posts mention a researcher. Retrieved 28 July 2018.</ref>*[http://www.southafricawargraves.org South Africa War Graves Project] The goal of the South Africa War Graves Project is to archive photographs of every single South African & Rhodesian war grave located in countries worldwide, from the 2nd Anglo-Boer War onwards, including WW1 and WW2. Currently a work in progress. Includes a database to Search.

===Mailing Lists=== *All Rootsweb Mailing Lists (part of Ancestry) have been discontinued from 2 March 2020, but the Archives will remain available. [httphttps://lists.rootsweb.ancestrycom/listindexes Search all Rootsweb Mailing List Archives].<br>The Ancestry Message Boards remain active and there may be a relevant Message Board.com[https:/index/intlwww.ancestry.co.uk/ZAFboards/ Rootsweb South Africa Mailing ListsSearch all Ancestry Message Boards] includes. Freely available - you do not need to be an Ancestry member, but must register to post.**Past [httphttps://listsmlarchives.rootsweb.ancestry.com/indexlistindexes/intl/ZAF/SOUTH-AFRICA-IMMIGRANTS-BRITISHoverview?findlist=South%20Africa Rootsweb South Africa Mailing Lists].html Details no longer appear for**South-Africa-Immigrants-British-L]Mailing List::A mailing list for the discussion and sharing of information regarding the immigrants from the United Kingdom to South Africa prior to 1900. However, Archives are Searchable as follows::[https://mlarchives.rootsweb.com/listindexes/emails?listname=south-africa-immigrants-british Search South-Africa-Immigrants-British Mailing List Archives]*Past [httphttps://listsmlarchives.rootsweb.ancestry.com/indexlistindexes/intl/AFR overview?findlist=Africa Rootsweb Africa Mailing Lists] also include some South Africa Mailing Lists:[https://mlarchives.rootsweb.com/listindexes/emails?listname=south-africa-orange-free-state Search South Africa Orange Free State Archives]

*[https://archive.org/streamdetails/biggameshooting01philiala/extractsofmarria00both#page/n5n7/mode/2up '"Extracts 'Big Game Shooting, Volume I''] by Clive Phillipps-Wolley 1894 Archive.org. Part of ''The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes''.*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=VT5YAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA1 ''History of the Cape Mounted Riflemen [1796-1841<nowiki>]</nowiki>; with a brief account of the colony of marriages at the Cape of Good Hope''] 1842. Google Books. Part of the official series ''Historical Records of the British Army''.*[https://archive.org/details/africanlibraries Africa Libraries Collection] Archive.org. includes **[https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Record+of+South+Eastern+Africa%29 ''Record of South Eastern Africa'', 1806volumes 4-1821"7, 9] (as catalogued) by GM Theal 1899-1903. Full title: ''Records of South-Eastern Africa collected in various Libraries and Archive Departments in Europe''. **[https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Records+of+the+Cape+Colony%29&sort=-date&page=1 ''Records of the Cape Colony. Copied for the Cape Government, from the manuscript documents in the Public Record Office, London''] by George McCall Theal. 1897-1905. 35 volumes were published, together with [https://archive.org/details/recordsofcapecol36theauoft/page/n3 Volume 36 ''Register of the Contents Volumes I to XXXV''] 1905*[https://archive.org/details/storyof1stbattal00diffuoft/page/n3 ''The Genealogist Volume 30Story of the 1st Battalion Cape Corps, 1915-1919''] by Captain Ivor D Difford [1920] Archive.org. Includes service in [[East Africa (First World War)|East Africa]], and [[Egypt, Supplement 11Palestine, 1913-1916Syria (First World War)|Egypt and Palestine]].*[https://archive.org/details/oldcapehighways00moss/page/n5 ''Old Cape Highways''] by Dr E E Mossop 1927 Archive.org*[https://archive.org/details/TheresASecretHidAway/page/n1/mode/1up ''There's a Secret Hid Away: Memories of Unusual Experiences and Mysteries in Southern Africa and African Isles...''] by Lawrence G Green, first published 1956. Archive.org*[https://archive.org/details/historyofnatal0000broo/page/n7 ''A History of Natal'' ] by Edgar H Brookes and Colin Graham Bothade B Webb 1965. Archive. Also contains some baptisms 1810-1821org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.