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

Meetings take place in the auditorium of the Anglo Boer War Museum on the second Saturday of each month at 16:30 pm. Visitors pay R20.00 pp

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.