+----------------------------------------------------------------------+ RESEARCHING JEWISH GENEALOGIES IN SOUTH AFRICA - Part 2 of 2 +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ A JewishGen InfoFile SOUTH AFRICAN JEWISH GENEALOGY By: Saul Issroff, London UK NOTE: This InfoFile is a preliminary guide to resources and will be updated infrequently. The major resource on researching Southern African Jewish Genealogy is at http://www.jewishgen.org/SAfrica. This web site is updated regularly and new material is being added constantly. Please notify any errors in URL's, contact names, addresses etc. to: Saul Issroff Roger Harris -- continued: USEFUL ADDRESSES 1. Central Statistical Services, Demographics Private Bag x44 Pretoria 0001 Tel: +27 12 310 8911 Mrs Made Hugo Senior Administrative Officer email: madeh@css.pwv.gov.za Information about specific individuals, relationships, religion, year of arrival and place of birth. 2. The Registrar General (Births, Marriages and Deaths) Department of Home Affairs Private Bag x757 Pretoria 001 Civitas Buildings, c/o Andries and Struben Sts, Pretoria tel +27 12-3148911) 3. The Chief Transvaal Archives Department Private Bag X236 tel: +27 12 3235300 Pretoria 0001 fax: +27 12 3235287 email: arg03@acts2.pwv.gov.za 4. The Chief Cape Archives Department or 72 Roeland St Cape Town 8001 Private Bag X9025 tel:+27 21 4624050 Cape Town 8000 fax: +27 21 452960 5. The Chief records from 1838 Natal Archives Depot Private Bag X9012 Pietmaritzburg 3200 5.1 The Librarian library from 1831. Natal Society P.O.Box 415 Pietmaritzburg 3200 6. The Chief Free State Archives Department Private Bag x20504 Bloemfontein 9300 Lists of private researchers in each province are available from these offices. 7 The Director Human Sciences Research Council (Section Genealogy) PO Box X41 Pretoria 0001 Tel: 012 202911 /012 3022999 Fax 012 3265362 email: ig@legii.hrsc.ac.za 7.1 Master of the Supreme Court, Dept of Justice Private Bag x60 Pretoria 0001. (Sanlamforum Building, c/r Church and Queen st, Pretoria 0001 Tel: 012 3397700) Personal searches are welcomed but enquiries may be made by post on the appropriate form. Deaths in other provinces: consult the Master of the Supreme Court in that province (there are at least nine areas now). Estates prior to 1900: consult the Magistrates Archives of the South African Republic. 7.2 The State Library P.O.Box 397 Pretoria 7.3 The Curator (Newspapers, photos other Africana) Africana Museum, Market Street, Johannesburg 2001 (?new address) 7.4 Johannesburg Public Lib. (Directories,Yearbooks,newspapers etc) Market St Johannesburg 8.1 The Chief (Army personnel after 1912) SA Defence Force Archives Private Bag X615 Pretoria 0001 8.2 The Chief of the Defence Force Private Bag x289 Pretoria 0001 8.3 Chief Archivist, ( no personal records) SA National Museum of Military History PO Box 52090 Saxonwold, 2132 Transvaal tel +2711 6465513 Fax 6465256 (Books, Honour Rolls,Imperial and other War Documentary service graves, Regimental Histories) 9.0 The Librarian South African Jewish Board of Deputies P.O.Box 87557 or Annerley House Houghton 2041 1 Annerley Office Park,7 Annerley Rd, Johannesburg Parktown 2193 Johannesburg tel: +27 11 496 1434 Fax: +27 11 646 4940 email: sajbod@iafrica.com web page http://052.iafrica.com/sajbod 10.1 The Secretary Johannesburg Jewish Helping Hand and Burial Society(Chevra Kadisha) 2 Elm Street Houghton 2196 P.O.Box 1105 Johannesburg 2000 Tel: +27 11 4873480 Fax:+ 27 11 4871318 10.2 United Chevra Kadisha PO Box 543 Cape Town 8000 11.1 Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies University of Cape Town Private Bag Rondebosch Rondebosch 7700 Cape Town Note: This is an academic research institute and does not do genealogy research 11.2 Curator, Jewish Museum Old Synagogue 84 Hatfield Street Gardens, Cape Town 8001 RSA Tel +27 21 451546 email: jewmus@gem.co.za 11.3 The Librarian The South African Library Queen Victoria Street Cape Town 8001 ( Largest legal deposit library in SA, collectors collections, archive facsimiles of documents,letters , books under name of van Riebeck Society).Almost all newspapers ever printed in SA, Maps, Government Gazettes, telephone books, electoral rolls, directories). 11.3.1 email address for SA Library postmaster@salib.ac.za 11.4 The Curator The Jewish Pioneers Memorial Museum (Raleigh St Synagogue) c/o 601 Villa D'Este, Park Drive, Port Elizabeth 6001 tel: 041 335197 email: effie@iafrica.com 11.5 The Librarian ( Mrs Harradine) Port Elizabeth City Library Main St Port Elizabeth 6000 (Has card index of Jewish notables and some country cemetery details) 11.6 The Curator Albany Museum Genealogy Dept and 1820 Settler Museum Somerset Street Grahamstown 6140 11.7 The Director Kaffrarian Museum 3 Lower Albert Road Kingwilliamstown 5600 11.8 The Librarian (records of Grahamstown Hebrew Congregation and other E. Cape records) The Cory Library for Historical Research Rhodes University Library P.O.Box 184 Grahamstown 6140 fax +27 461 23487 11.9 The Librarian of the Africana Library Du Toitspan Road P.O.Box 627 Kimberley 8300 11.91 Oudtshoorn : The Curator C.P. Nel Museum (The Synagogue) P.O.Box 453 Oudtshoorn 6620 Republic of South Africa 11.92 The Curator (records,newspapers and genealogical collections of 1880's gold mining town) Barbeton Museum Private Bag 1626 Barbeton 1300 12.1 Union of Orthodox Synagogues of South Africa (UOS) and Office of The Chief Rabbi PO Box 27701 Yeoville 2143 Tel:+ 27 11 6489136 Fax: +2711 6484014. (Note: There are 48 Orthodox Religious groups listed in Johannesburg). Marriage and marriage authorisation records. 12.2 South African Union for Progressive Judaism (SAUPJ) PO Box 17696 Hillbrow Johannesburg 2038. Tel: + 27 11 6421514 fax: +2711 6432321 Marriage records. 12.3 The Shalom Independent Congregation (Masorti) 357 Louis Botha Avenue Highlands North , Johannesburg 2192 Tel: +2711 640 3182 fax: +2711 4853105 12.4 Union of Orthodox Synagogues of SA and Beth Din 191 Buitenkant St Cape Town Tel:+27 21 4616310 13. Genealogical Society of South Africa (Secretary; Mrs Nathalie Mostert da Silva) P.O.Box 2119 Houghton 2041 14.1 Chairman Jewish Genealogical Society of Johannesburg PO Box 1388 Parklands 2121 tel +2711 4427048 email: elion@iafrica.com Sec: email hannah@fast.co.za 14.2 The Chairman Jewish Genealogical Society of Cape Town Jewish Museum 84 Hatfield Street Gardens Cape Town 8001 tel +2721 451546 or 4381333 (h) email: jewmus@gem.co.za 14.4 (SA Country Communities Research Project) SA Friends of Beit Hatefusoth PO Box 87557, Houghton 2041 fax: +27 11 880 6273 Ongoing project, questionaire to document country Jews. 15.1 Family History Library, Church of the Latter Day Saints 1 Hunter Street Johannesburg PO Box 33642 Highlands Johannesburg Tel: 2711 618 1890 15.2 Family History Library Mormon Church c/r Main Road and Grove Street Mowbray, Cape Town 7700 Thanks to Debbie Myers, Barbara Yudelowitz and Roy Ogus for helpful additions and corrections. Copyright 1997 Saul Issroff