SOUTH AFRICAN FAMILY HISTORY and GENEALOGY

 The surname listings here were last updated on  10 August 2018 . There are now  4423  surnames listed. NOTE: Emails are answered as time permits, due to work load. Paid research work takes priority over surname requests. There is currently a backlog of 2007 surname requests to reply to. Please note that this blog is a reference blog only - listing surnames, and information on sources and methods. For my articles on South African history, families and places, see  Bygones and Byways  and  Routes and Roots .

Few people who use a coat-of-arms and/or so-called family crest today have any right to do so. Armorial bearings do not belong to all persons of a given surname but belong to and identify members of one particular family who has the legal right to the coat-of-arms. It is a popular misconception that there is a coat-of-arms for each surname and that everyone bearing that surname is entitled to use those arms. Nothing could be further from the truth. To lay claim to an existing authentic coat-of-arms by inheritance, one must be able to prove direct lineal descent from an ancestor known to have lawfully borne those arms. The applicant's place in the line of descent is also of great importance. A mere similarity in surname is totally irrelevant and even kinship, as opposed to descent, does not give one any claim to a specific coat-of-arms. Coats-of-arms are a form of property and may rightfully be used only by the male-line descendants of the individual to whom they were first gran

PLEASE NOTE: This is ONLY a listing of who is interested in which South African families. I maintain the list. You e-mail me the surnames you are interested in, and I send you the e-mail address(es) of the person(s) who are researching these surnames for their own family history. You contact them to see if you share the same families, and if you do, you share your information with each other. You will not receive your family history all done for you. These are not professional researchers. To get the contact details of the particular surname researcher, please click here to e-mail Anne To ADD surnames click here to e-mail Anne and list your surnames in the e-mail. Z ZAAIMAN ZAAYMAN / SAAIMAN ZABOW ZAGERS ZANDBERG ZEEDERBERG ZEELIE ZEEMAN ZEGERS / SEGERS ZEHMKE ZEILER ZELLER ZERWICK ZETLER ZIEDEMAN ZIEHL ZIETLOW ZIETSMAN ZIETSZMAN ZINN ZIQUBU ZIVERGOEL ZOUTENDIJK / ZOUTENDYK ZWEIG

PLEASE NOTE: This is ONLY a listing of who is interested in which South African families. I maintain the list. You e-mail me the surnames you are interested in, and I send you the e-mail address(es) of the person(s) who are researching these surnames for their own family history. You contact them to see if you share the same families, and if you do, you share your information with each other. You will not receive your family history all done for you. These are not professional researchers. To get the contact details of the particular surname researcher, please click here to e-mail Anne To ADD surnames click here to e-mail Anne and list your surnames in the e-mail. Y YATES YEATMAN YELL YELVERTON YONKERS YOUNG YUDELMAN YZELLE YZELLE / EYSELL

PLEASE NOTE: This is ONLY a listing of who is interested in which South African families. I maintain the list. You e-mail me the surnames you are interested in, and I send you the e-mail address(es) of the person(s) who are researching these surnames for their own family history. You contact them to see if you share the same families, and if you do, you share your information with each other. You will not receive your family history all done for you. These are not professional researchers. To get the contact details of the particular surname researcher, please click here to e-mail Anne To ADD surnames click here to e-mail Anne and list your surnames in the e-mail. W WADDELL WADDINGTON WADE WADMAN WAGENAAR WAGENER WAGNER WAHL WAINWRIGHT WAIT WAKEFIELD WAKEFORD WALBRUGH WALDECK / WALDEK WALDEN WALDPOT / WALDBOTT WALES WALKER WALKERS WALKEY WALLACE WALLER WALLINGER WALLIS WALSH WALTER WALTERS WALTON WANDRAG WARD WARDEN WARDLE WARNER WARNI

PLEASE NOTE: This is ONLY a listing of who is interested in which South African families. I maintain the list. You e-mail me the surnames you are interested in, and I send you the e-mail address(es) of the person(s) who are researching these surnames for their own family history. You contact them to see if you share the same families, and if you do, you share your information with each other. You will not receive your family history all done for you. These are not professional researchers. To get the contact details of the particular surname researcher, please click here to e-mail Anne To ADD surnames click here to e-mail Anne and list your surnames in the e-mail. V VAL DAVIES VALCARCEL VALENTIN VALENTINE VAN AARDE VAN AARDT VAN ANTWERP(EN) VAN ANTWERPEN VAN AS VAN AS(S VAN ASWEGAN VAN BAALEN VAN BEULEN VAN BILJON VAN BLERCK VAN BLERK VAN BLOMMENSTEIN / BLOMMENSTEIN VAN BOESCHOTEN VAN BOVILLON VAN BREDA VAN COLLER VAN COPPENHAGEN VAN DALEN VAN D

PLEASE NOTE: This is ONLY a listing of who is interested in which South African families. I maintain the list. You e-mail me the surnames you are interested in, and I send you the e-mail address(es) of the person(s) who are researching these surnames for their own family history. You contact them to see if you share the same families, and if you do, you share your information with each other. You will not receive your family history all done for you. These are not professional researchers. To get the contact details of the particular surname researcher, please click here to e-mail Anne To ADD surnames click here to e-mail Anne and list your surnames in the e-mail.   U UITENBOGAARDT UNGER UNGERER UNWIN UPHAM UPPINK UPTON URBOSCH URE UREN URIDGE URQUHART URRY USHER UYS