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(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...
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...
South African Slave Owners In South Africa under Dutch settlement, there was a shortage of labour, especially on the wheat and wine farms. The Dutch, who were already involved in the Atlantic slave trade, imported slaves as the cheapest labour option. Slaves were imported from a variety of places, including the east coast of Africa (Mozambique and Madagascar), but the majority came from East ...
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...
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 . Please follow the guidelines when creating or merging profiles refer to project: Core profiles Friedrich Botha (Both) SV/PROG 1 Samuel Friedrich Botha (Bode) SV/PROG 2 Please note that the descendants of SV/...
“Farm Murders” 1 April 2005 to 31 March 2006 SAPS 2005/06 "official" figures: 88 Murders from 636 Attacks There are 56 victims remembered in this project This figure includes 5 couples (farmer and wife) between 10/07/2005 - 08/02/2006 30 Victims were aged between 60 - 90 2005 April Catharina Elizabeth Ferreira (36) 11/04/2005 Hillcrest, KZN (tortured, stabbed to death) media article...
A mitochondrial DNA test (mtDNA test) traces a person's matrilineal or mother-line ancestry using the DNA in his or her mitochondria. mtDNA is passed down by the female, unchanged, to all her children. Her daughters will pass it onto all of their children, but her sons will not. Your mtDNA-line is therefore your mother's mother's mother etc; and your mtDNA South African Progenitor is the fir...
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, because...
The purpose of this pathfinder project is to serve as a guide for more information on slaves, apprentices and freemen in South Africa and to supply a reference list of death notices to allow a user to find a source. Should you identify the person or create a profile please add the profile to the project. ==Africa== *Semora Mother: Delmina, Deceased left money to: Sophia, James, Maria Louisa Bel...
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...
Croatian Emigration indicates that of the Croatians who were reported to have "emigrated", at least 30% eventually returned to their homeland. Hrvati izvan domovine / Croatians outside the homeland Adresar trgovaca, obrtnika i drugih uglednijih pripadnika iz Hrvatske, Dalmacije i Istre nastanjenih u Americi, Africi, Aziji i Australiji iz popis hrvatskih družtava i hrvatskih novina u Ameri...
Y-chromosome DNA (Y-DNA) is passed from father to son along an all-male line (highlighted in blue in the illustration below). Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is passed from mother to child along an all-female line (See South African mtDNA Progenitors ). Males pass Y-DNA to their sons, but do not pass mtDNA to their children. Your Y-DNA-line is therefore your father's father's father etc; and your ...
“Farm Murders” 1 April 2004 to 31 March 2005 SAPS 2004/05 "official" figures: 82 Murders from 694 Attacks There are 70 victims remembered in this project This figure includes 4 couples (farmer and wife) between 12/04/2004 - 30/10/2004 27 Victims were aged between 60 - 99 2004 April Abel Fernandes Pardau (78) 07/04/2004 Farm Oorbietjiesfontein, Hartbeesfontein, NW (several stab wound...
The amount of mtDNA results coming into public knowledge is increasing by the day, however the amount of profiles covered remains a small proportion of the female progenitors whom arrived to South Africa via ships.When an unknown mtDNA result becomes known, the profiles in this list could help to narrow down to which female progenitor it could relate to.This project is for early arrivals, up to...
The San and KhoeKhoen People .... embracing the Khoi, San, 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! What's in the Name? There is a lot of controversy over the words used to refer to the Stone Age people of southern Africa. The...
“Farm Murders” 1 April 2002 to 31 March 2003 This project is intended to stand as a memorial to the victims of Farm Murders in South Africa. Contributions and any assistance is welcome. Please note that this project is a work in progress. SAPS 2002/03 "official" figures: 103 Murders from 903 Attacks There are 100 victims remembered in this project This figure includes 4 couples (farmer a...
“Farm Murders” 1 April 2003 to 31 March 2004 SAPS 2003/04 "official" figures: 88 Murders from 773 Attacks There are 90 victims remembered in this project This figure includes 8 couples (farmer and wife) between April 2003 - 12/03/2004 41 Victims were aged between 60 - 82 2003 April Johan Kes van der Bank (38) 04/04/2003 Vereeniging, GP (shot dead on his dairy farm) media article ...
Huguenot Ships to the Cape: Project Portal INDEX of the PROJECTS for the ships that brought French Huguenots from the Netherlands to the Cape VRIJHEIJT 23 June 1686 du Toit EEMSLAND 13 October 1687 de Péronne BOSWIJK c1687 Veron VOORSCHOOTEN arrived Saldanha Bay 13 April 1688, arrived on JUPITER in Cape 8 May 1688 Days: 130. People: 192. Deaths: 1 (0.52 %) Mar...
From "Children of the Mist" by Scott Balson: It was in 1613 that a British East Indiaman, the Hector, anchored at Table Bay and took two unwilling hostages including the young local Chief Coree. They were taken back to London where they were shown English ways and taught the English language. The next year Coree was returned to the Cape after his companion died through the cold of the Engli...
Place projects are projects on Geni that are focused of a specific geographical place or region. Places profiles are also the precursor to the upcoming Place Profiles feature. Place project portals Includes countries and kingdoms, and other top level place project. Geographical Australia Canada Europe Al-Andalus Austro-Hungarian-Empire Belarus Czech Republic-Bohemia Croatia
Adolph Jonker Ancestry Puzzle A project to locate the pieces of the research puzzle that have been the subject of debate for two centuries. JONKER Adolph Written by Martina Louw & Jaco Strauss . Posted in H - J of South Africa's Stamouers (June 2015) There has been much controversy for over 2 centuries regarding the origin of stamvader Adolph Jonker . Since the late 18th century Adolph Jonk...