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Many people overlook the importance of cemeteries - gravestones and burial registers in family history. Apart from the valuable information such as birth, death and burial date, you can also gather information about relatives, age of death, social structure and even living relatives through the use of gravestones, burial registers and cemeteries. We are busy with a graveyard or cemetery project in Pretoria (Tshwane), Centurion, Cullinan and surrounding areas in Gauteng, as well as towns such Pilgrims Rest on all the graves, headstones, footstones, burial registers etc. You can purchase full colour pictures or photographs of gravestones (in original size and smaller sizes) with their full information and even burial register information from this site.

Gravestone inscriptions and tombstone pictures or photos, family history, death notices and burial register information.

 

  • Find your ancestors or family burial sites in Pretoria South Africa as well as other burial sites.
  • Locate your family gravestones, tombstones, memorials and pictures from cemeteries and burial sites in Pretoria or Tshwane, Gauteng.
  • Not only can you find the gravestone pictures, but the inscriptions on the headstones and burial register information for cemeteries in Pretoria and other areas in South Africa.
  • This site has been established to help you in your family history research and genealogy in South Africa.
  • Request a search for death notices, burial register information, newspaper articles, obituaries and any documents available in the National Archives, State Library, Museums, Military Records and Family History Centres in Pretoria, South Africa.
  • Search according to surname (gravestones) and Cemeteries.
  • Learn how to restore graves, conduct family history research, and how to use the Internet for genealogy. Find tips on genealogy for beginners.
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Using Cemeteries and Gravestones in Family History Cemeteries offer two important secondary sources for genealogical information, namely gravestones and burial registers. These sources are especially helpful to locate information about a person, for whom there is not a death notice or death certificate, but where the place of burial is known....read more

Accuracy of information on tombstones and in burial registers Although both tombstones and the burial registers are excellent sources of genealogical information, it should be noted that they can contain errors. The accuracy of the information is dependent upon several factors....read more

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