South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives) - FamilySearch Historical Records: Difference between revisions

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This collection dates from 1660 through 1970 and includes records of baptisms, marriages and membership records. The Dutch Reformed Church records have been maintained in good condition. Baptisms and marriages are found in different registration formats, usually in bound registers, which are kept at the local church archives in care of the registrar.   

Since 1928 the registrar sends the registries to be archived at the Central Archive of the Dutch Reformed Church in Cape Town, South Africa.  

   

===General Information about the Dutch Reformed Church===

The Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa consists of three separate churches: the Nederduitse Gereformeede Kerk (the largest and usually called the Dutch Reform Church; the Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk (largely restricted to the Transvaal); and the Gereformeede Kerk in Suid Afrika (the Doppers). During the 17th and 18th Centuries the Dutch Reformed Church (Nederduitse Gereformeede Kerk) was the only officially recognized Church denomination in South Africa and many white residents of the Cape belonged to it. In later years other church denominations were created in Cape, leaving a decline in the membership of the Dutch Reformed Church.  

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Baptism records usually contain the following information:

*Names of persons giving consent

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You can search the index or view the images or both. Before using this collection it is helpful to know:

===Search the Index===

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=== How Do I Analyze the Results? ===

These records are in Afrikaans, Dutch and English. For help reading the records, see the following wiki articles:  

==What Do I Do Next?==

                        

*Use the age to find an approximate birth year to begin your search in civil records.                             

*[[South Africa Church Records|Church Records]] often were kept years before government records were required and are a good source for finding ancestors before 1900.     

                      

                              

*Switch to a different record collection. Depending on the time period, either Civil Registration records or Church Records may be more useful.                                   

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