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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 everyone...
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 to...
='''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 ...
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 ...
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...
Iris Vaughan is the author of the South African classic Diary of Iris Vaughan , written when she was between 7 & 16 years old (1897 -1906). " Every one should have a diery. Becos life is too hard with the things one must say to be perlite and the things one must not say to lie ". Aim of the Project: To create, for posterity, an accurate genealogical record of her family and her li...
“Farm Murders” 1 April 2008 to 31 March 2009 TAU (Transvaal Agricultural Union) 2008: 79 Murders from 184 attacks No official SAPS figures released for 2008/09 There are 88 victims remembered in this project This figure includes 2 couples (farmer and wife) between 12/04/2008 - 17/03/2009 40 Victims were aged between 60 - 86 2008 April Phillip Engelbrecht "Flip" (59) 02/04/2008 G...
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...
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 M...
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 adding...
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 progenit...
Burgher People of the Cape of Good Hope ~ Suid-Afrika Please add all those Burgher People at the Cape. EN: Free Burghers ~ NL: Vrij-burgher ~ AF: Vry-burger DE: ?? -- were early European settlers at the Cape of Good Hope in the 18th century. . . . internet:sources-references-information-documentation-books-illustrations-etceteraa--> ...supplements WELCOME! Countries / Places...
SA Progenitors: Adriana Tol & Johan Smits : Their Story Jan Smits' Background Jan Smit b Maastricht - d 10/11/1696 in Stellenbosch, Cape, South Africa (of injuries sustained after a fight with Jacob Cloete) Maastricht became a garrison town in the 16th century. Today it is in the southeastern Netherlands bordering Belgium] Adam Frans van der Meulen- The Siege of Maastricht, 1673 - Nation...
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...
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 cen...
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 d Togu
The SS Mendi was a passenger steamship that was built in 1905 and, as a troopship, carrying largely black South African troops, sank after collision with great loss of life in 1917. In 1916 during the First World War the UK Admiralty chartered the SS Mendi as a troopship. On 21 February 1917 a large cargo steamship, Darro, collided with her in the English Channel south of the Isle of Wight. Men...
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 Trending now World Famous Notable SA Personalities Christiaan...
(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 the camp...
Ferdinandus Appel 's first child is Theunis Botha , b bef 15 April 1686: Called Botha after his mother, Maria Kickers ' , 1700 divorce from Jan Cornelisz (who is shown as his father on the birth certificate). At which time she said her 7 children were Frederich Botha 's. However, a recent DNA study by the University of Pretoria - sampling Botha and Appel descendants - reveals him to have been t...
Background The VOC fitted out some 4,700 ships, nearly 1,700 in the seventeenth century and a good 3,000 in the eighteenth. Between 1602 and 1700, 317,000 people sailed from Europe on these ships, while between 1700 and 1795 this total reached 655,000. Although some of it is missing, a huge amount of information is available through various sources about arrivals and departures to and from th...
Jonkershoek Valley in Stellenbosch - Earliest owners Roelof Pasman of Rustenberg Gerrit ‘Grof’ Visser of Blaauwklippen Anthony van Angola and Manuel van Angola Angola Louis van Bengalen Leef-op-Hoop, Marquart and Jan ‘Luij’ van Ceylon Oude Nektar (now Stark-Condé Wines ) then Jonkershoek
South African Genealogical Reference Centre Getting Involved Free to follow, request to collaborate To join the project use the request link under "actions" at the top right of the page. Active Curators working on the South African Tree Alexander Armenis Chris Steyn Daan Botes Don Penaluna Drummond Corrie Herman Booysen
Project Objective Identify and add the slaves who were Progenitors of the South African population to this project. For all other slaves please add them to the connected project South African Slaves . 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), Guin...
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...