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The Martin Trek (1894) To partake in any project - you do need to first be a collaborator - so join the project. Sharon Doubell has set up a discussion Project Help: How to add Text to a Project - Starter Kit to get you going! There is a very full account of this trip in “Many Treks Made Rhodesia” by S.P. Olivier. Marthinus Jacobus Martin , (Member of Parliament of the FreeState), of ...
This project is designed to collect Research Information, Discussions, Queries etc on the Botha family of South Africa. Please also come and join us on our Botha Facebook Page . Core profiles Friedrich Botha (Both) SV/PROG 1 Samuel Friedrich Botha (Bode) SV/PROG 2 Please note that the descendants of SV/PROG 2 can be identified by their genealogical number example: SV2b3c2d7e6 . Desc...
South Africa – Genealogical Reference Centre To participate in a project you do need to first be a collaborator. Project Help: How to add Text to a Project - Starter Kit to get you going! If you haven't yet visited the Geni Wiki pages please do so - there is a lot of information and guidance there. This a reference project and so no profiles are to be added unless they are people of...
Objective The purpose of this project is to record as many of the ORIGINAL settlers (Heads of the family groups) so that researchers can identify family lines and descendants. Secondly, current researchers who are descendants of the 1820 Settlers will be able to identify fellow researchers. Historical Summary Encouraged by the British government to emigrate to the Cape colony, the first...
This is the 'umbrella' Progenitor Project that every SA Progenitor should be added to first. See list of countries in alphabetical order below for projects for particular countries or people! South African Progenitors The intention of this project is to be a hub of information on the South African people who were Progenitors of today's South African population. The aim is to give informat...
Hello!! "Welkom Cuzzins" is the SA Master Page, providing links to all the other South African based projects as a Site Map, Historical Timeline and Communication portal. Click on the 'Follow' button in the top right hand corner of the page if you want to join the SA Geni cuzzin community. We've also got a FACEBOOK PG FOR SA GENI as a Newsletter idea that you can check once a month or so - to k...
A project intended to record all the famous South Africans on our Geni tree: from writers, to statesmen & women, to sports heroes. Hierdie Projek is bedoel om al die bekende Suid-Afrikaners aan te teken op ons Geni boom: van skrywers, tot staatshoofde en vroue, tot sport helde. (1) How to Add a Profile to a Project Page (2) Suggested Letter to Profile Managers of Profiles added to this Pr...
Early German Settlers of South Africa This project is devoted to the German Settlers in South Africa. Please only add the profiles of the Stamvaders/Progenitors who came from Germany. It is also a place where you can share links to online resources, tell other users where records etc. can be found and make queries or ask for help through the discussion facility. To participate in any projec...
Mahony's Party Main References - The Settler Handbook by MD Nash and 1820 Settlers.com The aim of this project is to link profiles on Geni to the names in the list, and to expand notes about individuals - mostly on the Profile page in the "About Me" field, or here if no profile exists. To take part in any project - you do need to first be a collaborator - so join the project. See the ...
South African Soldiers in WWI (PLEASE ADD) Starter Kit for How To Add Text to a project Christoffel Johannes Jooste Gen. Jan Smuts Gen. Louis Botha Lieutenant Douglas Bayley de Bruyn Royal Lancaster Regiment, transferred to 35 Squadron Royal Flying Corps. Killed in a flying accident in Thetford, 27th May 1916, aged 20. Lance Corporal Dudley George Hedding 7th Regt, South African I...
Early Settlers in South Africa - Other Europeans This project is for Early Settlers in South Africa who came from European countries other than Britain, Germany, Holland, France and the Nordic countries which have their own projects. If in time individual countries get to be too large to be included in these pages we can move them to projects of their own. The project is a work in progress ...
Farewell Holland Aim of this project This project functions as a research tool for users with relatives who originated from the Netherlands but also as a collection of profiles of the people who did leave to start a new life abroad. Please feel free to add profiles of the Dutch families or descendants to the project, ideally with a small note in the about section of the profile ...
They came by ship mostly from Europe but also from all ports on the VOC's trade routes and made the wild, abundant and beautiful southern point of Africa the Cape of Good Hope their home. Their descendants populated the Cape and 'trekked' northwards by ox wagon spreading across the region. Today they are the whitish tribe of South Africa and continuing their adventures, they have spread in smal...
The Children's Friend Society (CFS) was founded in London in 1830, as "The Society for the Suppression of Juvenile Vagrancy through the reformation and emigration of children". The CFS was founded by Captain Edward Pelham Brenton and run by a group of wealthy philanthropists with the cooperation of the British Government. Their stated objects was "to reclaim and provide for vagrant children...
Jean Prieur du Plessis Stamvader/Progenitor (c.1638-1708) Birth Jean Prieur du Plessis was born circa 1638. (Pieter Coertzen, The Huguenots of South Africa 1688-1988 (28 Wale Street, Cape Town: Tafelberg Publishers Limited, 1988), pp. 156, 160) Married x Madeleine Menanteau circa 1688 Married xx Marie Buisset on 29 August 1700 at Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Family - Madeleine Menant...
This project is designed to collect Research Information, Discussions, Queries etc on the van der Merwe family of South Africa. Core profiles Willem Schalk van der Merwe Overview of Family History / Progenitor Details If you have it; add it here, otherwise delete this section until you've got enough to put into it. Queries & Discussion To participate in this project Firs...
Fleeing religious persecution of Protestants in France after the 1685 revocation of the Edict of Nantes (which had guaranteed their rights), 200 000 French Huguenots emigrated to countries such as Switzerland. Germany, England, America, and South Africa. Amongst the first Huguenots to come were Francois Villion (Viljoen) and the du Toit brothers, François and Guillaume . Actually, the very fi...
A project intended to record all the Comrades Gold medal winners on our Geni tree (but not limited to Gold medal winners): Heroes are usually associated with fanfares, limelight and maximum exposure, which is generally the case with Comrades Marathon, with the winners, especially in the modern age, being accorded huge worldwide TV and media coverage. We remember all past "Heroes" and not just t...
A project intended to record all the early pioneers and gold prospectors connected to Pilgrim's Rest who are on our Geni tree. Several South African families have their roots in Pilgrim's Rest when the gold rush in the late 1800's attracted diggers from worldwide. Brief History Mining in this region of Mpumalanga dates back many centuries, when unknown miners worked quartz reefs in the area...
This project is designed to collect Research Information, Discussions, Queries etc on the 'Mare / Maree' family of South Africa. BUT RIGHT NOW (AUG 2012) WE ARE USING IT TO TRY AND SORT OUT THE 'ROMPLSLOMP' ON THIS LINE, SO WE CAN CREATE A TEMPLATE TO DEFER TO. SEE BELOW & DISCUSSIONS : Core profiles Paul Mare IS HE ACTUALLY THE FATHER? Ignace Mare i (b c1670) Catherina Mare (b c1690)...
Early Nordic Settlers in South Africa This project is for Early Nordic Settlers in South Africa who came from the countries in the Scandinavian Peninsula - Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland and Faroe Islands (the latter two to a lesser extent) It is also a place where you can share links to online resources, tell other users where records etc. can be found and make queries or ask fo...
Family Trees White Sands & Port Beaufort A Genealogical background of some of the families during the early days of White Sands and Port Beaufort. ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ----------------------- Part 2 of a booklet written by John McGregor - no ISBN number and no copyright. To read the booklet you must look at the 2 PDF...
Birth numbering only approximate; confounded by dearth of dates and polygamous practices meaning that numbers of mothers can all birth half-siblings within the same time span; and by the occasional tendency to position the heir - son of the Great Wife - as the first son, when he is often amongst the youngest. Descent line from Tshawe a Tshawe b c1675 b Ngcwangu c Sikhomo ...
Slavery at the Cape 1658-1834 The Slaves played an integral part in the evolution of the Cape's people. Their Genes contributed to the physical evolvement of the population, and also brought diverse cultures, cuisine and traditions from their widespread countries of origin. They contributed enormously to all descendants of South Africa and deserve to have special recognition and homage paid t...
History of the amaXhosa The amaXhosa people are Bantu speakers living in south-east South Africa, and in the last two centuries throughout the southern and central-southern parts of the country. Xhosa people currently make up approximately 18% of the South African population. By number: in 2008: Botswana 9,900; Lesotho 22,000; South Africa 7,529,000; Zimbabwe 29,000 During the seventeenth c...
Zulu Kings Mageba kaGumede c1667-c1745 Zulu Chief c 1727 – c1745 Ndaba kaMageba Zulu Chief c 1745-1763 Jama kaNdaba c1757-1781 Zulu Chief 1763 -1781 Mkabayi kaJama c1760 – c1840 Daughter Regent Senzagakhona kaJama c1762-1816 Zulu Chief 1781-1816 Shaka kaSenzangakhona c1787-1828 Zulu King 1816 -1828 Dingane kaSenzangakhona c1795-1840 Zulu King 1828-1840
Collecting profiles of people who were exiled or worked on the infamous Robben Island penal colony off the Cape Coast of South Africa Looking for help adding profiles and text. Just request to collaborate. If you want to add text to this or any project; here's how: Starter Kit for How To Add Text to Projects Robben Island From Wikipedia UNESCO World Heritage Site Coordinates 33.80...
The San and KhoeKhoen People .... embracing the Khoisan, Bushmen, Khoikhoi, !Kung Information gleaned from a number of sources - see listing at the end of the project The project is a work in progress and will be expanded in time - please participate if you can! To participate in any project...... ...... you do need to first be a collaborator - so join the project. Look at the discu...
Pigot's Party Main References - The Settler Handbook by MD Nash and 1820 Settlers.com The aim of this project is to link profiles on Geni to the names in the list, and to expand notes about individuals - mostly on the Profile page in the "About Me" field, or here if no profile exists. To take part in any project - you do need to first be a collaborator - so join the project. See the d...
The Early Dutch Settlers of South Africa This project is devoted to the Dutch Settlers in South Africa. Please only add the profiles of the Stamvaders/Progenitors who came from The Netherlands/Holland. Although not Dutch settlers from Belgium are included in this project - see below. It is also a place where you can share links to online resources, tell other users where records etc. can ...
Project Objective See South African Slaves as well Identify and list as many as possible of the slaves of the Cape of Good Hope. The VOC brought slaves to the Cape of Good Hope from mainly the Indian Ocean Basin, but also elsewhere. Countries included: Abyssinia, Angola, Bangladesh (Bengal?), East Indies(Indonesia), Guinea, India, Japan, Madagascar, Mozambique. They are a special bunch wh...
This project is one which will link the prisoners of Rbben Island from 1673-1834 to profiles on Geni. The information is from the transcriptions of documents of The Court of Justice at the Cape of Good Hope regarding convicts, exiles and prisoners. The documents have been transcribed by TEPC (Transcription of Estate Papers of the Cape of Good Hope). It was a joint project of the Universities ...
Hello new SA Geni user: (please scroll down for Afrikaans - & if you're more bilingual than me - please help with my translating & add in other SA languages you speak. ) So you've started your Geni tree; & if you got stuck, you followed the demo. Now you want to know what more there is, & who to ask; & if you can even risk making mistakes. This is our letter to you from the South African ar...
Early French Settlers of South Africa This project is devoted to French Settlers in South Africa OTHER THAN those who were of the French Huguenot settlers between 1688 and 1689. Please only add the profiles of the Stamvaders/Progenitors who came from France. This is also a place where you can share links to online resources, tell other users where records etc. can be found and make queries ...
Under construction. Link the indigenous peoples who are our links to the the indigenous peoples of South Africa This project is about the San and Khoe Khoe that the colonizers found and shared life with on their arival at the Cape of Good Hope as well as any other Indigenous peoples that became Stamouers Resources
Poisson Family Introduction This project aims at mapping out the full family tree of the South African Poisson family, and then hopefully tracing the routes back to Maritius, Reunion Island and finally to France. There is an extensive Poisson family tree built extending back to 1600's in France, with notable Poisson's such as Jeanne Antoinette Poisson , also known as Madame de Pompadour. Un...
An initial team of 112 athletes to represent South Africa at this year's London Olympics was announced by South Africa's Olympic governing body SASCOC on 6 June. Medals Gold Cameron van der Burgh - 58.46 Men's 100m Breaststroke - New World Record. AQUATICS Men's Team; 5th 3:13.45 Men's 4x100m Freestyle Relay Jean Basson, Charl Crous, Heerden Herman, Chad le Clos, ...
Early Croatian Settlers in South Africa There are about 7000-8000 Croatians in South Africa. From the review of the book by Tvrtko Andrija Mursalo] Hrvati na jugu Afrike (1757-1997) / Croatians in the South of Africa Portrait with Keys is a poetic work by Ivan Vladislavić dedicated to Johannesburg, written in English and published in the Republic of South Africa in 2007. It’s author, well...
Early Quakers in South Africa (Work in progress - most hyperlinks take you to external information pages - Wikipedia etc. Bold links relate to Geni Profiules) To participate in any project - you do need to first be a collaborator - so join the project. If you're new to Geni, take a look at: If you want to add text to this or any project; here's how: Starter Kit for How To Add Text...
Countries so far included - Australia; Canada; Indonesia; Russia, Lebanon. Please add to the list as necessary This project is for Early Settlers in South Africa who came from countries not yetincluded in other projects. If in time individual countries get to be too large to be included in these pages we can move them to projects of their own. The project is a work in progress - contribut...
Early Indian Settlers in South Africa This project is for Early Indian Settlers in South Africa. It is also a place where you can share links to online resources, tell other users where records etc. can be found and make queries or ask for help through the discussion facility. To participate in any project - you do need to first be a collaborator - so join the project. Project Help: How...
Invictus Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years ...
Nobel Laureate Nelson Mandela (fondly known by his amaXhosa clan name, ‘Madiba’), served 27 years in an Apartheid Prison on Robben Island, emerging to become South Africa’s first democratically elected president in 1994 I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons will liv...
South Africa is mining country (it's also 'farming' country, but that's a different project :-) Mining Greats Barney Barnato Cecil John Rhodes George Harrison - prospector (dates unknown) who discovered the gold bearing Main Reef on the farm Langlaagte in 1886, which lead to the gold rush on the Witwatersrand and the creation of Johannesburg. Harry Oppenheimer (1908-2000). Businessm...