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My ma het dikwels as ons begraafplase besoek, gaan staan om 'n grafsteen te lees, saggies geprewel en dan gesê: "Ek wonder of sy familie van so of so was?" Ons kinders het goedig daarmee gespot omdat sy so lief vir begraafplase was.

My mother often when we visited cemeteries, stopped at a tombstone to read, and then muttered softly, "I wonder whether her family was so or so?" Our kids good-naturedly teased about her love for cemeteries.

I, for some or other reason, suddenly developed this strange affinity to photograph graves, link it to somebody which someone, sometimes myself, put on Geni and save that photograph under "gekoppelde grafstene" (identified tombstones).

Waarom is die dokumente in argiewe skielik verskriklik interessant en voel ek deel van die sterfbrief as ek die persoonlike besonderhede en datums lees? Waarom praat die joernale van reisigers oor die Londense Sendinggenootskap so met my as ek andersins as Afrikaner so 'n renons in die politieke inmenging van die LMS se sendelinge in die vroeë SA geskiedenis gehad het?

Suddenly I am part of my ancestors' history and of others who I know will soon become ancestors of somebody on Geni who I dont know now, but will soon invite me into their family tree. To find all my family and be able to leave something to my descendants, I feel all pieces of information must be documented, researched and checked for accuracy and properly communicated to the descendants. Databases, like the information contained in Geni, must speak to our children in posterity.

Jou voorgeslagte se inligting, vorm deel van jou kultuur en die navorsing, opteken, verifikasie en kommunikasie daarvan, val so in my kraal as analitiese gestruktureerde logiese denker wat elke leidraad wil opvolg, ontleed en in 'n gestruktureerde vorm dokumenteer. Die ontginning van argiewe, begraafplase en stories van my ou familielede en ook ander helder ooms en tantes, bied oneindige plesier, veral as ek kan sê : Eureka, hier het ons nou die ware storie! Die saamwerk en gesels met ander met dieselfde liefde vir ons "lewende" gestorwe voorgeslagte, is uiters bevredigend.

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My ma het dikwels as ons begraafplase besoek, gaan staan om 'n grafsteen te lees, saggies geprewel en dan gesê: "Ek wonder of sy familie van so of so was?" Ons kinders het goedig daarmee gespot omdat sy so lief vir begraafplase was.

My mother often when we visited cemeteries, stopped at a tombstone to read, and then muttered softly, "I wonder if her family was so or so?" Our kids good-naturedly teased about her love for cemeteries.

I, for some or other reason, suddenly developed this strange affinity to photograph graves, link it to somebody which someone, sometimes myself, put on Geni and save that photograph under "gekoppelde grafstene" (identified tombstones).

Waarom is die dokumente in argiewe skielik verskriklik interessant en voel ek deel van die sterfbrief as ek die persoonlike besonderhede en datums lees? Waarom praat die joernale van reisigers oor die Londense Sendinggenootskap so met my as ek andersins as Afrikaner so 'n renons in die politieke inmenging van die LMS se sendelinge in die vroeë SA geskiedenis gehad het?

Suddenly I am part of my ancestors' history and of others who I know will soon become ancestors of somebody on Geni who I dont know now, but will soon invite me into their family tree. To find all my family and be able to leave something to my descendants, I feel all pieces of information must be documented, researched and checked for accuracy and properly communicated to the descendants. Databases, like the information contained in Geni, must speak to our children in posterity.

Jou voorgeslagte se inligting, vorm deel van jou kultuur en die navorsing, opteken, verifikasie en kommunikasie daarvan, val so in my kraal as analitiese gestruktureerde logiese denker wat elke leidraad wil opvolg, ontleed en in 'n gestruktureerde vorm dokumenteer. Die ontginning van argiewe, begraafplase en stories van my ou familielede en ook ander helder ooms en tantes, bied oneindige plesier, veral as ek kan sê : Eureka, hier het ons nou die ware storie! Die saamwerk en gesels met ander met dieselfde liefde vir ons "lewende" gestorwe voorgeslagte, is uiters bevredigend.