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GERMAN MILITARY SETTLER MARRIAGES 1857 - was your ancestor a German Military Settler? Find out if they married in this year, the name of their spouse and where they married. 

SHIPS & PASSENGERS - find your ancestors amongst these passengers arriving or departing from South African ports.  

WRECKS & SURVIVORS - was your ancestor involved in a dramatic adventure or misadventure at sea? 

BOOKS & CDs - South African Colonial books and documents digitally captured, indexed and put onto easily navigable CDs.

MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS in the Cape Colony -1863 - Find out if your ancestor was licensed to practice as a Doctor, Apothecary, Chemist or Druggist at the Cape.

"The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there."     L P Hartley