The Van Rooyen family
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This database continues to make the Van Rooyen research available, and now also includes work on other Natal families, building on the work of Ben Cilliers and his book Genealogieë van die Afrikaner Families in Natal.
Please email additions to the database, and family photographs you would like featured, to research@vanrooyen.africa.
With thanks, Gina Shepherd
Free download · 2026 edition · English
Genealogies of the Afrikaner Families in Natal
Ben Cilliers's register of the Afrikaner families who settled in Natal from the Great Trek onward, revised and extended. Released while updating continues.
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