These geneology links provide more information on Jewish origins, migration and settlement in South Africa.

SA Jewish Rootsbank: The South African Jewish Database at the Centre for
Jewish Migration and Genealogy Studies. This is now the major resource for
study of South African Jewish Families.
http://chrysalis.its.uct.ac.za/CGI/CGI_ROOTWEB.EXE

The Poor Jews' Temporary Shelter Database has extensive records of many of
the Jews passing through en route to South Africa between 1896-1914.
http://chrysalis.its.uct.ac.za/shelter/shelter.htm

The South African National Archives has many details of individual Jews in
their archives and their databases can be searched easily.
http://www.national.archives.gov.za/

South African Special Interest Group (SIG) has a lot of information about SA
Jewry, some databases and also runs a discussion group online.
http://www.jewishgen.org/safrica

The major resource for study of Jewish Genealogy is JewishGen.
http://www.jewishgen.org

Litvak SIG and especially the All Lithuania Database has many records of the
ancestors of S.A. Jewry.
http://www.jewishgen.org/Litvak

Latvian SIG covers many of the other parts of the Baltics, especially
Courland, where SA Jews originated.
http://www.jewishgen.org/latvia

Belarus SIG covers Minsk Guberniya and other Belarus areas.
http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/

History of the Zimbabwe Jewish community.
http://www.zjc.org.il

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