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*[https://familysearch.org/search/collection/location/1927115 FamilySearch: South Africa Indexed Historical Records and Images], part of a collection of records for Africa. A free website. See [[IGI]] for more details about FamilySearch.
===National Archives of South Africa===
*[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 icon in the middle left hand side of the page, or from webpage. the menu at the top databases include “Data of the page, select Collections/Using the Search FunctionSouth African Genealogical Society on Gravestones”.
===Monument inscriptions===
*[https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/south-africa-immigrants-british@rootsweb.com/thread/7955433/ Monumental inscriptions at the Cape of Good Hope] C<ref>''Rootsweb South- Africa- Immigrants- British Mailing List'' 9 August 2003.</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]]:
:*[https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india@rootsweb.com/thread/7730330/ Gravestones in South Africa - Bombay Connections ]
:*[https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india@rootsweb.com/thread/7730871/ Gravestones in South Africa - Madras connections ]
==Historical books online==
*[https://archive.org/details/genealogist2919selb/page/n361 "Extracts from registers of deaths at the Cape of Good Hope 1795-1815"] by C Graham Botha. Page 170 ''The Genealogist'' 29, 1913. Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/genealogist3219selb/page/n115 "Extracts from the register of deaths at the Cape of Good Hope 1816-1826"] by C Graham Botha. Page 47 ''The Genealogist'' 32, 1915. Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/genealogist3019selb/page/n631 "Extracts of marriages at the Cape of Good Hope 1806-1821"; and "Extracts of Baptism at the Cape of Good Hope 1810-1821"] by C Graham Bortha. ''The Genealogist'' 30, 1914. (digital page 632/744).These are separately numbered sections towards the back of the book. Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/stream/extractsofmarria00both#page/n5/mode/2up Alternative version: Marriages and Baptisms] from ''The Genealogist Volume 30, Supplement 11, 1913-1916'' by Colin Graham Botha. Archive.org.
: The writings of C Graham Botha were re-published in 1962 as ''The Collected Works of C. Graham Botha'', in three volumes, being Volume 1 ''General History and Social Life of the Cape of Good Hope''; Volume 2 ''History of law, medicine, and place names in the Cape of Good Hope'' and Volume 3 ''Cape Archives and Records''. It appears that at least volumes 1 and 3 include genealogical transcriptions.
*''Geslacht-Register der Oude Kaapsche Familien'' by Christoffel Coetzee De Villiers c 1894 Archive.org (in Dutch/Africaans). Gives details/trees for families who settled in the Cape area of South Africa.
:[http://archive.org/stream/OudeKaapscheFamilienPart1/OudeKaapscheFamilien-1#page/n1/mode/2up Part 1 A-J], with index. [http://archive.org/stream/OudeKaapscheFamilienPart2/OudeKaapscheFamilien-2#page/n1/mode/2up Part 2 A-O], with index, [http://archive.org/stream/OudeKaapscheFamilienPart3/OudeKaapscheFamilien-3#page/n0/mode/2up Part 3 P-Z], unfortunately index missing, with some [http://archive.org/stream/OudeKaapscheFamilienPart3/OudeKaapscheFamilien-3#page/n665/mode/1up additional entries at the end]
:This [http://archive.org/stream/OudeKaapscheFamilienPart3/OudeKaapscheFamilien-3#page/n24/mode/1up page] mentions the East India Company.
*[https://archive.org/stream/extractsofmarria00both#page/n5/mode/2up '"Extracts of marriages at the Cape of Good Hope, 1806-1821"] from ''The Genealogist Volume 30, Supplement 11, 1913-1916'' by Colin Graham Botha. Also contains some baptisms 1810-1821.
*[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 the Cape of Good Hope''] 1842. Google Books. Part of the official series ''Historical Records of the British Army''.
*[https://archive.org/details/b21505019 ''Hilda's "Where is it?" of recipes : containing, amongst other practical and tried recipes, many old Cape, Indian, and Malay dishes and preserves: also directions for polishing furniture, cleaning silk, etc. and a collection of home remedies in case of sickness''] by Hildagonda J Duckitt 1908 edition Archive.org. First published 1891
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