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Cemetery Recording Poject
1984 Voters&#39; Roll Project
The 2009 Annual General Meeting of GSSA approved the project. SAGen Mailing list collected close to R 30,000 fort the photographing of the more than 171,000 images making op the 1984 Voters Roll. The project aims to make the contents of the Voters Roll available to members and in particular the indexing of the maiden surnames of married women. Finding a woman to marry is difficult enough finding a woman if only her maiden surname is even more difficult ! The Family Registers are often incomplete because the married women are not listed alphabetically by maiden name on any voters roll.
The original plan was to use very specialized equipment at the GSU/LDS library but the equipment was only available for a few hours a week – it would therefore have taken a decade to produce the required number of digital images. Commercial Scanning equipment was tested and that also did not provide image quality suitable for Optical Character Recognition. Several tests locally an by specialists overseas made it clear that the Scanning would not provide quality sufficient for OCR – It was therefore decided to go the other route of photographing the images from a fiche reader and transcribing the images manually.
The initial photographing is now complete – we now replace the under/over exposed photographs as the need arises.
How does the transcription process work?
The photos are divided into batches. There are 250 photos in every batch (or fiche)
A fiche, with 250 images, will be send to the volunteer
The volunteers transcribe all the names according to the guidelines
Completed transcriptions are uploaded on our Yahoo database. Access to the database is restricted to the volunteers!
A big name count is done on the 7th of every month
The KSL transcribers have their own mailing list
What do we plan to do with the data?
The completed transcriptions will be copied onto DVD and sold as one of GSSA's products.
The decision was made at the 2012 AGM that the DVD will contain the original photos, the Excel transcriptions, as well as Gedcom converted files.
Responsible for photography and distribution
MARTIE DU TOIT
Responsible for quality management
If you should be interested in assisting us with the transcriptions, please contact Dennis Pretorius.
The benefits of working on the KSL
it will keep you busy!! You type at your own pace!
your computer skills will improve and your typing speed will definitely go up, even typing with one or two fingers;
transcribers have access to all the names that has already been transcribed; while the non-transcribers will have to wait until the DVD's with the completed works will be released one day.
August 2013: Now available on sale
DIE GGSA 1984 KIESERSLYSPROJEK DVD
DVD 2 met die data van die 1984 Kieserslys is nou beskikbaar. DVD 2 bevat 572 Excel lêers elk met tot 5271 name. (die totale 1984 Kieserslys). Die lêers word in Excel formaat sowel as in Zip formaat op die DVD verpak. Die data is in die volgorde soos dit in die kieserslys mikro-fiche voorkom maar dit is dan ook soekbaar d.m.v. Windows Explorer Soekfunksie. Daar is net minder as 3 miljoen name met geboortedatums, van en volle name, nooiensvan, adres soos deur Binnelandse Sake aangetoon in 1984 en dan ook die beroep van die persoon.
DVD 2 kos R 280,00 plus posgeld binnelands R 35,00 en R 75,00 buitelands. GGSA Takke kan bestellings plaas vir hulle lede en korting van 15% vir hulle takke verdien. Die data kan ook per Dropbox of WeShare gestuur word – tel net R 35 by vir datakoste (ipv R 35 vir posgeld) aangesien die volume nogal groot is – die data word dan in Zip-formaat gestuur.
Bestellings kan geplaas word by orders@genza.org.za Versending kan ook per Dropbox of WeShare gedoen word. R 35,00 word gehef vir data koste: Totaal R315-00. Korting van R 42, 00 per DVD vir GGSA takke wat bestel
Doen inbetalings by: Nedbank. Rekeningnaam: GGSA-GSSA; Killarney Tak Takkode: 191605; Rekeningnommer: 1916051332. Verwysing: KS+Voorletters en Van. [Voorbeeld: KS-MEduToit].
LW: Volledige afleweringsadres asook bewys van betaling moet verskaf met bestelling.
Cemetery Recording Project
Genealogie- & Familie-Erfenisfees
Sat Nov 18 @ 8:30AM - 12:30PM
Sat Nov 18 @ 2:30PM - 04:30PM
Our DNA can trace our Human Ancestry.
GENEALOGIESIMPOSIUM: SATERDAG 12 AUGUSTUS 2017
Aangebied deur vier takke: Noord-Transvaal, Vaaldriehoek, Johannesburg en Wes-Gauteng.
97 ywerige genealoe het die simposium bygewoon. Die sprekers het hulle baie goed van hul taak gekwyt.
Die onderwerpe was uiteenlopend van aard. Apart from providing well researched family stories intertwined with history a factual
description of the implications of the amendments to the the Copyright Act provided food for thought for the attendees.
An exciting insight into the little known resources of the Police Archives was provided.
Margaret Gundry - Five Women from St Helena - I have been researching Sarah Riley on Tristan da Cunha and St Helena and again and again in my research I came across the phrase “In 1827 Captain Amm/Ham brought five ladies from St Helena as wives for the five bachelors on the Island.” It became my mission to work out who these ladies were by working from the baptismal and marriage records and then to try and trace them back to St Helena. I can’t say that I have been really successful so far although I think I have traced Sarah Riley back to a baptism on St Helena.
Isabel Groesbeek - Die sinergie tussen genealogie en godsdiens (500 jaar na Reformasie. As genealoog sedert 1988, eers as navorser by Genealogie-Inligting, RGN en later as private navorser, het ek ‘n besondere waardering vir kerkregisters ontwikkel. Vanjaar vier die Protestantse kerke regoor die wêreld 500 jaar Reformasie en met die viering in gedagte het ek gedink dat ek graag oor die sinergie tussen genealogie en godsdiens met u wil gesels.
Charline Wentzel -Ouma vertel ons bietjie....... 'n Reis deur ou kiekies om met die kleinkinders te deel hoe interessant en gevarieerd hulle voorgeslagte se geskiedenis was. Eenvoudige mense tot die met meer aansien, tog is nie een se verhaal minder belangrik nie . Ouma se verhaal het as 'n jong dogtertjie op die plaas tydens die Anglo-Boereoorlog begin. Glashelder kon sy die verskillende gebeure verhaal. Ouma Catharina Magdalena Vorster (x ZA de Beer) het hulle wedervarings opgeteken en aan elkeen van haar kleinkinders n boekie oorhandig. Dit bly n baie kosbare besitting. Daarmee saam het talle foto's behoue gebly.
Robert Bush - Sometimes it is Easy. Researching my maternal grandfather, Jasper Bradley Hall lead me to a very interesting lady Catherine Hall (Wager). The Wirksworth.Org.UK web site, run by John Palmer provided a one stop research site for the Wirksworth area and I obtained a lot of interesting information on Catherine. ……. and …….. Sometimes it is Not So Easy. The second lady that I discussed was my paternal great-grandmother Emmah Miller (Hannah) 1861 to 1893, Graaff-Reinet, my oldest South African born ancestor. She is my one of my three brick walls and I have not been able to research her line any further.
Erna Buber-de Villiers - Formidabele Vroue/ Unsung heroines. Ek bespreek die elf lede van my pa se matriargale lyn in Suid-Afrika vanaf stammoeder Margaretha Geertjen/Grietje GERRITS (mtDNA T2b3-C151T) tot by my my ouma, Johanna Barbara Frederika BUITENDAG. Hul stories strek vanaf 1662 tot 1980, vanaf lewe in e vroeë Caeb en die latere ontberings tydensdie Suid-Afrikaanse Oorlog, tot die omswerwinge van ‘n Spoorwegman se se vrou in die eerste helfte van die 20e eeu.
Neels Coertse - Voorgestelde wysiginge aan die Outeursregwet - Die voordrag het in hooftrekke oor die wysigingswetontwerp oor outeursregte gegaan. Oa voorgestelde wysigings t.o.v. musiek, videos, literatuur, kunswerk & rekenaarprogrammatuur ens word gedek. Die outeursreg van tabelle hoewel nie die inhoud nie, maar die samestelling is ook bespreek. Die filosofie van wetsopstelling het verander en daar word gesorg vir die minderbevoorregtes
Brig. Hennie Heymans Onderbenutte Genealogiese Polisiebronne. Misdaad is so oud soos die mensdom self. Polisie hou oog oor gemeenskap. Daar is wettige bedrywighede, onwettige bedrywighede of versuime en algemene verdagte optrede. Bronne sluit dinge in soos medaljes - soldaat en polisieman se CV wat hy op sy bors dra, nommer, rang en naam rede vir toekenning. Die SAP se magsorders sluit aspekte in soos sterftes, eervolle vermeldings, toekenning van medaljes, dekorasies en ordes. In ou magsorders is sterftes, attestasie, bevordering, eervolle vermeldings, sportkampioene, eksamenrade, In die ou polisie argiewe is daar verdagtes se leggers, bekende moordenaars die diamanttak – oudste aaneenlopende polisie-eenheid. En meer.
Die simposium is opgeneem op video en kan besigtig word by hierdie skakel: The symposium was recorded and can be viewed at this link.
Afri Live Stream het hierdie fasiliteit beskikbaar gemaak.
There are two options to choose from should you wish to become a member of the GSSA.
1)Decide on the branch that you would like to join by visiting the GSSA website http://www.genza.org.za. Then on the page of the branch of your choice select “contact us” and forward your completed form to the membership committee member. 2) You can join via the eGSSA branch. Visit this page: http://www.eggsa.org/sales/eshop_e_dc_membership.htm and follow the instructions. The membership fee of the eGSSA consists of three elements, viz. membership of the GSSA; membership of the eGSSA and optional member of a land based branch as well. Download the apllication, complete the form and submit the form to the branch of your choice as described above.
Application/Aansoek (Scroll down on the page for the Afrikaans version)
Many people pass idly by cemeteries and little graveyards next to the roadside. Very few people realise that on headstones a wealth of information lies to be exploited. Many genealogists will go out of their way to visit graveyards and cemeteries, Information such as birth and date of death, full names of the deceased and in some cases the name of the spouse can be found. This may lead to a breakthrough in the family researcher's quest. Over the years the members of the GSSA photographed thousands of headstone. These have been uploaded to eGSSA website.
There are basically three types of DNA tests: Y-DNA – Y-DNA is passed on from father to son along a direct paternal line and it is therefore possible to track the paternal surname from one generation to the next. For this reason, only men are eligible for this test. mtDNA – All children inherit mtDNA from their mothers and since mtDNA traces generation after generation of one's direct maternal ancestors, both sexes are equally able to determine the origin of their maternal line. Autosomal DNA – this ‘Family Finder’ test literally hundreds of thousands of possible SNPs for precise DNA correlations/matches with others across all of one's genetic lines. This test is therefore also available to both sexes