The “ancestral chart” / “pedigree chart” together with an “Ahnentafel” report are suitable formats to document family lineage and  history. It is available in most genealogical software packages, such as Legacy, MyHeritage and RootsMagic. Below some clarification of the Concepts, Examples (which can also be downloaded together with a blank set of MSWord forms) and a nifty Planning Tool.

• Data will be kept confidential within the Genealogy community
• Participation is not confined to GSSA branch members. Send this to your friends and acquaintances
• Select any #1 person (yourself, an ancestor, whomever) for your ancestral charts
• Commit to document at least 5 generations (31 individuals) or more

• MS Word document
• MS Excel file
• PDF document
• Genealogy file, preferably exported to GedCom format

(Submit the Ancestral Chart and/or the entire database for safekeeping along with accompanying document(s))

• Remember to list bibliography and sources, where applicable.

Submit your results by email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.on or before 31 May, or otherwise 30 November.

This year marks the fifteenth edition of “Ons Storiewa”. This is a platform for all branch and non-branch members to write and publish a story about their research and their genealogical journey.

All articles have been written to fulfill the personal requirements of the researchers and is published ac-cording to their own style of writing. It has always been story-based, fact or fiction with the emphasis on the idea that it is “your story” to tell. Most of the articles are well researched and it has given many a platform that ensures their story is preserved.

If you look at the publications, you will soon realize that these are not formal, rigorous research publications. It's just fun reading stories and anecdotes and then one realizes the value of "What is Genealogy?"

The Vaal Triangle Branch meets at the NG Fontein Church in 58 Van Wouw Street, Sasolburg. We serve the Meyerton, Sasolburg, Vanderbijlpark and Vereeniging areas, but members from as far away as Heilbron and Alberton also attend. Anyone who would like to attend our meetings is most welcome. Each December we have our year end function and in January we start the new year with our AGM.

One of the benefits of GSSA membership is the opportunity to attend a monthly talk by a knowledgeable speaker. Each presentation is in the language of the topic. For a summary of each presentation, see below.