Search | Advanced Search | Search Families | Search Site| Title | https://graves.eggsa.org/ | |
| Short Title | eGSSA Gravestones Library | |
| Publisher | Genealogical Society of South Africa | |
| Repository | eGGSA - Virtual branch of GSSA | |
| Source ID | S636 | |
| Text | The Genealogical Society of South Africa (parent body of eGGSA) runs the Cemetery Recording Project whose aim is the systematic recording of gravestone inscriptions in South Africa and there are also a number of local initiatives by other branches of the GSSA. We photograph these gravestones and make them available on our web site firstly because they are a valuable record of the details of many people, now gone, often preserved nowhere else and secondly in order to preserve them, at least as a photograph, since they are subject to weathering over the years. And so many graveyards are now being cleared for re-use, or vandalised, robbed and the gravestones destroyed - we wish to record these for posterity. We see our photo project as an extension and preservation of the monuments in the grave yards all over South Africa. No disrespect is intended and we see our project as honouring those who have gone before us by preserving their memory. | |
| Linked to | Henry Torrance BRAMWELL Lea Sophia BRITS Frederik Reinhard BROOKS Hester Johanna DE VILLIERS Rocco Catorzia DE VILLIERS Joseph Albertus DU PLESSIS Dirk Cornelius JOUBERT Hester Johanna Wilhelmina JOUBERT Generaal Petrus Jacobus JOUBERT Susanna Maria Magdalena (Sannie) JOUBERT Cornelia Elizabeth KOCH President Stephanus Johannes Paulus KRUGER Christian Friedrich Wilhelm SANDOW Frederick Coenraad (Fritz) SCHEEPERS | |