German South African Surnames

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Walter Volker has collected information on German families living in South Africa for a number of years and has captured this in a database. While he started off with the Natal Germans, who are a relatively homogeneous group for whom genealogical data is reasonably easy to come by, his work has expanded to cover most German-speaking South Africans. A sizeable proportion of such families is covered by the database.

Walter was kind enough to make the overview data available to me for display on this web page. All requests for further information should preferably be directed to him directly:
Walter V. Volker, PO Box 37672, Faerie Glen, 0043, South Africa.
Tel +27-12-991-1772 (H), +27-11-350-5291 (W), +27-11-350-2001 (Fax)

Below you will find


Explanation of Symbols and Column Headings

Symbol or Heading
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Explanation
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c.Approximately
N.N.Name not known
No.Database number
SA AncestorImmigrant to SA
ArrivalSA Ancestor's year of arrival in SA
AncestorEarliest ancestor with this name
GROUP: - D Leg: British-German Legion (Kaffraria)
- H Miss: Hermannsburg Mission
- H Kol: Hermannsburg Colonist
- B Kol: Bergtheil/ Bramsche Colonist
- B Miss: Berlin Mission
- F Miss: Bleckmar Mission
- LMS: London Missionary Society
- R Miss: Rhenish Mission
- R Miss (SW): Rhenish Mission (DSWA)
- M Miss: Moravian Mission
- EC: Eastern Cape (Kaffraria)
- N: Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal)
- SW: Namibia (prev. German Southwest)
- T: Transvaal (now Gauteng, Mpumalanga, North-West and Limpopo)
- WC: Western Cape (Cape Town, Philippi)
- Z: Zululand (now KwaZulu-Natal)
STATUS Completion of family tree:
  *     above 50%
  **   above 70%
  *** above 90%


Development history of the database:

Year   Jan 1992 Jan 1993 Jan 1994 Jan 1995 Jan 1996 Jan 1997 Jan 1998 Jan 1999
Entries   5 000 12 000 22 500 39 700 42 693 44 230 49 150 52 004
Marriages   1 600 4 000 7 700 13 050 14 127 14 678 16 530 17 585
 
Year Jan 2000 Jan 2001 Jan 2002 Jan 2003 Jan 2004 Jan 2005 Jan 2006 Jan 2007 Jan 2008 Jan 2009
Entries 54 556 58 871 63 450 68 100 70 914 74 481 76 192 78 739 79 860 80 207
Marriages 18 609 20 254 21 610 23 095 24 150 25 414 26 074 27 022 27 454 27 572
 
Year Jan 2010 Jan 2011 Jan 2012 Jan 2013 Jan 2014 Jan 2015  
Entries 82 257 82 792 84 435 85 212 86 163 86 393  
Marriages 28 380 28 591 29 212 29 633 29 849 29 927  

Current Status (January 2015):


A Thought on Genealogy

Vergiss du deiner Väter nicht,
Die einst aus Deutschland kamen!
Vergiss du ihre Sprache nicht
Und ihre deutschen Namen!

(Pastor Kehrhahn in the Deutsch-Afrikaner, 8 Dec 1937)


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