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Our website is undergoing necessary repairs and upgrades to serve you better.
We do not yet have an estimate of how long this will take.
Most parts of the website are still available but the Graves collection is not available at the moment and the ordering section is not working.
If you need immediate assistance or would like to place an order, please reach out to us at Aviva Kleingeld eGGSA Treasurer:
We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience.
providing information, publications and research education
establishing important links with other groups world-wide.
increasing public awareness of opportunities for discovering family history.
promoting interest in the fascinating field of genealogy.
promoting a number of projects aimed at expanding the availability of South African genealogical sources online.
For many years, there have been people who, for various reasons, could not join a regular GSSA branch. Some of these reasons include living too far from a branch or living outside South Africa. These people still have a need to belong to a branch and to enjoy the benefits of GSSA membership, such as receiving GSSA's journal, Familia. eGSSA has been established to meet these needs. This is an ideal opportunity to become part of GSSA and to step into this exciting era.
At eGSSA we have an Online shop where you can buy the various publications of the Genealogical Society of South Africa, as well as a number of other genealogical, historical and cultural items.
There are indexes to the articles in Familia, the quarterly journal of the GSSA and those in genesis, journal of eGGSA itself. In addition we have a downloadable archive document section, as well as photographs of graves in South African cemeteries.