The Greeff family tree in South Africa, Germany and USA can be viewed on this web page. The main language of the genealogical web page of the Greeff family is English. The source documents of the Greeff genealogy are mostly in Afrikaans, German or Dutch, and are generally reported in the original language. Visitors to the Greeff pages are welcome to make a contribution in any language. To find your own name in the Greeff Family History site, search at the top of this page. To add your family, please complete the form here for English and email the form, your phone number, and a time that I can phone you to Greeff@Greeff.info. You can also send a Gedcom file.
Is my name in the Greeff Family Tree?
The Greeff genealogy pages are made up of several different family trees. The default is to search "All Trees" located at the top right of the page.
Do you want to search a specific Greeff tree?
Click here for "ADVANCED search". Other helpful sources include, "which family tree" |"rootsweb"
| "Find a Grave" (in Europe, America and Canada)
Greeff Festival
The monument was erected on land that belongs to the Greeff Family Association on 29 January 1978, exactly 150 years after the birth of Hendrik Adriaan Greeff, the founder of Lichtenburg. His entire family had been saved from death at that place by a miracle.
Click more to see who celebrated their 50th or other major birthdays at the place of the miracle tree and how they have honoured God for His grace.
Greeff DNA Project
The Greeff DNA project was started in 2008 and is one of our highest priorities.The Greeff Y-DNA project set out to prove the hypothesis that all members of the global Greeff clan are related. Visit our research project here you can also click on the more link below to download the research.
Rescued family painting
Did you know the only oil painting of Hendrik Adriaan Greeff that exists is over 100 years old! There are numerous family art work, the painting in the picture was painted by Johan Greeff. Do you have art work, family treasures or stories to contribute? Please email us at Greeff@Greeff.info, and we'll add them to the collection. Click on the more link below for historical assets.
Wow! Read these stories!
Whether it's music, sport or art. The Greeff family has talent all over. Discover famous Greeff members and some incredible stories. Are you part of any charity or have a memorable story or achievements to share? Please email them to us Greeff@Greeff.info and we'll add them.
The Greeff Family History Website is the largest, best, and most specialized source of information about the Greeff family in the world. We research the entire Greeff family, all over the world. This site contains a detailed family tree that allows visitors to make ancestral charts and to download data and photos of family members. There are hundreds of photos of source documents on the site. About 80% of the Greeff clan lives in South Africa, and most of them understand Afrikaans and English. Roughly 10% of the clan lives in Germany, and they speak German, and understand English. Another 10%, more or less, live in America, where English has not been spoken since the revolution.
Jan Greeff
The Lichtenburg tribe is a large family related to each other because they are relatives of Commandant Hendrik Adriaan Greeff, the founder of Lichtenburg.
Francois Greeff
This project seeks to record every Death Notice in the South African Archives in the Greeff Main Tree.
Andre Greeff
This project seeks the 'Most Recent Common Ancestor' (MRCA) of all Greeff people in the world.
Viljoen Greeff
Translates the document (Geschichte der Familie Greeff aus der Huckenbach) from German to English and separately transcribes some data from the original book into a Gedcom family tree.
