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World War I ( WWI ) was a global war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. It was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until the start of World War II in 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter. It involved all the world's great powers, which were assembled in two opposing alliances: the Allies (based o...
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. Project Image - "The British Settlers of 1820 Landing in Algoa Bay", by Thomas Baines, 1853 - Albany ...
About the CuZZin Curator Communicate Portal This portal was created in order to facilitate communication between those requiring help adding their profiles to the South African branch of the "World FamilyTree" ('WFT') according to South Africa - Profile Conventions and your CuZZin Curators who have an interest in the SA branch but work for the good of the whole 'WFT'. Please encourage everyon...
The Anglo Boer War (1899-1902) - Prisoners of War This project is an extension of the The Anglo Boer War (1899-1902) . The object of the project is to add information about both British/Colonial and Boer Prisoners of War, to gather profiles of these men who are on Geni and to share interesting tales and anecdotes about individuals. The first sizable batch of Boer prisoners of war taken by the...
Farm Murders in South Africa are a highly politicised issue. Outside of the general concern for homicide in the country, the farm murder rate has been used by many as evidence that South Africa’s white minority is facing victimisation, oppression, and possibly genocide. During a parliamentary debate, the Freedom Front Plus and African Christian Democratic Party quoted farm murder rates of 97 an...
='''This is the sub-project where all profiles of South Africans who participated during World War II can be added.'''= All South African Army, Navy and Air Force soldiers who participated in WWII can be added to this project. Sub-projects for more specialised interests will be added when possible. Collaborators are welcome, and so are suggestions. Under "DOCUMENTS" you will find pages ...
Random Acts of Kindness - South Africa This project is an experimental exercise inspired by the Random Act of Kindness which was widely publicised by Danny Wallace's book Join Me in 2002. A random act of kindness is a selfless act performed by a person or people wishing to either assist or cheer up an individual person or people. Random Acts of Kindness - South Africa is similar to Gener...
Conventions for Profile Management on the South African branch of the "World Family Tree" (WFT) The Naming Conventions outlined in this project conform to: Coalition for the Standardization of GENi Naming Conventions The intention is to minimise data conflicts and optimise consistency in the GENi matching /merging technology & ensure that we do not find ourselves with names in the wrong...
CuZZin Hello!! Welcome to our Community The CuZZin Community is a South African GENi user driven initiative to encourage productive collaboration with the aim of working for the "good of all" and providing links to our most important South African based projects . Please join us, read our letter introducing you to Geni and Introduce yourself here . Tip Click on the 'Follow' button in the t...
This is the umbrella project to which every South African male Progenitor /Stamvader should be added first - ie all first fathers of a line with descendants in SA." A note on the Meaning of the words 'Progenitor,' Stam Vader,' and 'Settler,' as they are used on Geni * A PROGENITOR [PROG] is the start of a bloodline in SA. A Y-PROG is a special PROG who is the first Y chromosome progen...
The South Africa Brickwall ClubHitting a Brickwall searching for family who were born or died in South Africa? Many hands make light work and 2 know more then one.Basic genealogy 101 teaches us that most Brickwalls are due to human error - enumerator mis-spellings, and then there are those records that just seem non-existent.If you would like some help looking for South African ancestors just s...
Project Aim To provide an Index list of projects relevant to South African users. Index of SA Projects: 1. SA Projects by PEOPLE 2. SA Projects by HISTORICAL TIMELINE 3. SA Projects by PLACES Please add all the SA Projects you create or come across below Working With Projects Starter Kit for How to Create A New Project Starter Kit for How To Add Text and a Photo to a Proje...
Frequently Asked Questions/ HELP So you've started your GENi tree & now you have some questions. What is so special about GENi? Geni is different because we work together to build one tree, the 'World Family Tree' (WFT). We do this by collaborating with each other and merging our identical profiles to ensure our tree is the biggest, most accurate family tree in the world today (See the...
South African Progenitors - Matriarchs/Stammoeders The object of this project is to examine the subject of Stammoeders, Matriarchs & Female Progenitors and define how we will use the terms on the South African Geni profiles for the immigrants who arrive in SA and started families. (See South African Progenitors - Stamvaders for Males). This is not as straight forward as it first looks, becaus...
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 for hel...
Early Settlers in South Africa - Other EuropeansThis 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 -...
(PLEASE ADD) A Pte Cyril William Arnot 3rd SAI. Killed in action near Frezenberg on the 20th September 1917 (Ypres Menin Gate Memorial). Recommended for a mention in despatches for his conduct at Delville Wood (no retained). B Pte Robert Norman Barnes 4 SA Infantry KIA 25 Mar 1916 Age 18 Voi cemetery Kenya Henry Daniel Maxwell Barnett , Served in the Cradock Commando during th...
Slavery at the Cape 1658-1834 The Slaves played an integral part in the evolution of the Cape's people. Slaves outnumbered burghers in the Cape Colony for most of the eighteenth century. 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 de...
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) (who might rather be a Walloon) in 1671, Pierre le Febre in 1683, Jean de...
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 be foun...
Farewell Nederland==== 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 with the...
“Farm Murders” 1 April 2013 to 31 March 2014 SAPS 2013/14 "official" figures: 58 Murders from 492 Attacks TAU 2013/14 "official" figures: 61 Murders from 242 Attacks There are 65 victims remembered in this project This figure includes 4 couples (farmer and wife) between 07/10/2013 - 01/03/2014 39 Victims were aged between 60 - 89 2013 April Gert van Wyk (40) 01/04...
This project is designed to collect Research Information, Discussions, Queries etc on the Barnato family.=Core profiles=* Barney Barnato *=Overview of Family History / Progenitor DetailTo be filled in= Queries & Discussion =* QUERY 1: What evidence is there that Phoebe Carlow was Barney's wife? According to Stanley Jackson, a Barney Barnato biographer, Solly married Nellie Ridley around 1889. W...
This is a project I Sharon have been publicly talking about doing for a long long time. It's one of those niche areas of human research that you know someone is going to do a very significant inter-disciplinary PhD on - sometime in the near future. But, until then - it exists as a huge aporia that we need to fill in order to be able to work with the data we're garnering on Geni, in a way that r...
South African Place Names Over Time MAIN PAGE The object of this project is to assemble information about South African Towns and Cities, the dates they were established and where possible record information about the founders and origins of the place names. Where those who were instrumental in establishing the place have a GENi profile please link them to the project in bold . NB When add...