

'==Purpose - to document all the families of the area of Overberg here.==
The area has always been considered as the breadbasket of the Cape and is largely given to grain farming — mainly wheat. The wheat fields are a major breeding ground for South Africa's national bird, the Blue Crane. Another important food farmed in the Overberg is fruit with the Elgin Valley being the second largest supplier of fruit in South Africa.
Nestled in the Overberg, one can find the Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve (recognised and registered with UNESCO) populated with a large diversity of flowering plants not found anywhere else in the fynbos biome.
The major towns are Hermanus, Caledon, Bredasdorp and Swellendam and the region includes Cape Agulhas, the southernmost point of Africa. The landscape is dominated by gently to moderately undulating hills enclosed by mountains and the ocean.
The name, derived from Over 't Berg, means "over the (Hottentots-Holland) mountain" and is a reference to the region's location relative to Cape Town. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overberg
Abrahamson
Ackerman
Ackhurst
Adam
Alberts
Avenant
Ballot
Belshaw
Beneke
Buchner
Cordier
Franken
Haarhoff
Hart
Henn
Hull
Klink
Kreisch
Kuun
Lumley
Malherbe
Maree
Marx
Ollewagen(Olwage)
Patinger
Pieters(e)
Pohl
Puren
Roos
van Dyk
van Eck
van Graan
Vigne
Volschenk
von Molendorf
Voortman
Wienand
Ziegler
Zietsman
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