Dáárom het hulle getrek

Piet Retief

Twee dokumente stippel die oorsake van die Groot Trek uit. Die manifes van die Voortrekkerleier Piet Retief wat op die vooraand van sy vertrek in 1837 in die Grahamstown Journal geplaas is, word dikwels aangehaal. Dit is ’n kombinasie van sterk griewe en goeie bedoelinge. Dit klink vreeslik welsprekend, maar is nie reguit of eg nie. Dit klink na ’n draaiboekskrywer se werk, en is waarskynlik die pennevrug van Louis Meurant, ’n jong koerantredakteur. 

Purchase a bit of your Irish ancestral homeland

[Reprinted from Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter - Ed.] 

Irish dirt

Whether you are from Ireland or even if your family emigrated from the island several generations ago, you can now own a wee bit of Irish soil. You don't even have to go to Ireland to see it. You can keep it on the mantlepiece or anyplace else you wish. 

Geslagsregisters van ou Kaapse families

Hieronder verskyn die skakels om die drie bundels van De Villiers en Pama se geslagregisters van ou Kaapse families gratis van die internet af te laai:

• Deel 1 - A tot J – klik HIER
• Deel 2 - A tot O – klik HIER
• Deel 3 - P tot Z en Bijvoegsel – klik HIER

Britain Destroyed Records of Colonial Crimes

[Reprinted from Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter. Click HERE to subscribe. By the way, this is Jaarringe's 100th posting since its inception - Ed.] 

Herinneringe aan Morgenster, Rhodesië

Koba Scholtz 

Koba - as 'n jong vrou

[Die skrywer is op 14 November 1918 gebore en op 15 Oktober 2008 oorlede, ‘n maand voor haar negentigste verjaardag. Sy was die die dogter van eerwaarde en mev. J D Moller, wat ’n sendeling op Morgenster was. Sy het haar herinneringe aan Morgenster enkele jare voor haar dood vir haar nageslag neergeskryf – Red.] 

Cecil John Rhodes se verbintenis met Oos-Kaap.

Emmarentia Ferreira 

Cecil John Rhodes

Bitter min mense weet dat Cecil John Rhodes by verskeie grondtransaksies in die omgewing van Kirkwood betrokke was, maar dat die eiendom op ‘n suster en broer se name was. 

Tussen Sapkamma , Glenconnor, Jansenville en Kirkwood, afgesonder en omring deur berge lê ‘n stuk aarde bekend as “Die Moot”. Dis hier waar ‘n hele bedrogspul volgens oorlewering afgespeel het. 

Johannes Frederik de Lange (1831-1886) het op die plaas Kruisrivier gewoon. Hy het ook transport gery na Kimberley en was bevriend met Rhodes. Hy het 19 kinders gehad. Saam met sy tweede vrou se eerste 2 en sy oorlede suster en swaer se 2, het die egpaar dus 22 kinders grootgemaak. Dit is dus te verstane dat daar soms na “die wilde De Langes” verwys was. 

The terrible laughter of the Afrikaner

Deneys Reitz

A young Boer guerrilla fighter, Deneys Reitz, described the defeated Boer commandos drifting into the camps in May 1902, as a rabble of “starving, ragged men, clad in skins or sacking, their bodies covered with sores, from lack of salt and food…their appearance was a great shock to us, who came from the better conditioned forces in the Cape.” In the aftermath of the South African War (1899–1902), the Afrikaner seemed defeated—the rural economy was shattered, family farms were destroyed and more than 25 000 Boer women and children were dead in the concentration camps. Yet in this apocalyptic post-war world, something strange was happening. Afrikaners were laughing. [The more things change, the more they stay the same – Ed.] 

Hendrik Biebouw – the first Afrikaner?

[It is an extraordinary coincidence that a direct descendant (8th generation) of Hendrik Biebouw's half-sister, Susanna Biebouw, now lives in Jeffreys Bay. His name is Sias Odendaal. An exerpt from the Odendaal family history appeared in Jaarringe on 11 September 2012. Click HERE to read more – Ed.] 

‘n Deernisvolle verhaal uit die familiegeskiedenis van die Odendaals

[Sias Odendaal van Jeffreysbaai het hierdie verhaal aan Jaarringe beskikbaar gestel. Ds. Odie Odendaal (8ste geslag) en Isak Smit (9de geslag) het die navorsing gedoen - Red.]

ʼn Klein dorpie, Odenthal naby Keulen in Duitsland is die bakermat van die Odendaals in Suid-Afrika. “Oden” was die antieke hoofgod van die Germane en “thal” die dal waar Oden aanbid is. Ons stamvader, Wilhelm Odendaal (ook gespel Odendal, Odendall of Odendahl), afkomstig van Odenthal, arriveer in 1706 as soldaat in die Kaap met ʼn vyfjaarkontrak ten tyde van goewerneur Willem Adriaan van der Stel. 

New studies about “junk DNA”

[Reprinted from Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter. Click here HERE to subscribe - Ed.]

The DNA chromosomes used by genealogy tracking have been referred to as "junk DNA." 

Die Olivier-familiebybel

Naas Olivier 

Die Olivier-familiebybel

Dié Bybel was die eiendom van my agter-oupagrootjie, Ignatius Petrus Hendrik Olivier (*1823 op die plaas Mynhardtsrivier in die Olifantsriviervallei tussen Calitzdorp en Oudtshoorn; = 20/4/1823 in Gamka). Hy is op 9 November 1846 met Susanna Dorothea Magdalena Jacoba Potgieter te Calitzdorp getroud. Hulle was eie neef en niggie. 

Agter-oupagrootjie-hulle het 15 kinders gehad - 6 seuns en 9 dogters.  Voor in die Bybel was die kinders se  name, geboorte- en doopdatums aangeteken. Die skrif in die Bybel is vermoedelik sy handskrif en dié van sy vrou. 

The Archival Platform

The Archival Platform bevat interessante inligting m.b.t genealogiese goete. Klik HIER om toegang te verkry - Red.

19th century beauty tips

[Reprinted from Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter. Click here HERE to subscribe - Ed.]

Record Transcripts

Click HERE to access the records listed below.

Amsterdam Classis 

• De Stael Letters 
• Slave Baptisms
• Cabo Church Board
• Drakenstein Church Board 

Muster Rolls of free men 

Church Registers

• Cape Town Baptisms 1653-1664
• Cape Town Baptisms 1665-1695
• Cape Town Baptisms 1695-1712
• Cape Town Marriages 1656-1662
• Cape Town Marriages 1665-1695
• Cape Town Marriages 1696-1712
• Drakenstein baptisms 1694-1713 

Stellenbosch baptisms  

A sticky wicket?

Roberta Estes

[The following posting recently appeared in SA Genealogie. If you have not yet visited this outstanding website, click HERE to find out how to access a valuable source of genealogical information. 

Click HERE and HERE to read previous postings in Jaarringe dealing with the use of DNA to trace ancestry  - Ed.] 

I've been thinking about whether or not I should publish this posting. As I write and rewrite it, I still haven't made up my mind. It's one of those sticky wickets, as they are called. 

Wat die briewe alles onthou

Danie Marais, BY (bylaag tot Die Burger), 1 September 2012 

Bernard du Plessis by die uitstalling van sy lewenswerk – “’n posgeskiedenis van die Boereoorlog”. 

Foto: Michael Hammond 

Hy het “mal geraak” toe hy briewe uit die oorlog begin versamel, en vandag is sy versameling sowat R15 miljoen werd. Maar wat gaan tog daarvan word? vra Bernard du Plessis omgekrap vir Danie Marais. 

Some South African Genealogy Milestones

This article was published earlier this year by

Since the earliest days at the Cape far sighted individuals recognised the need for recording genealogical information of the new arrivals to the Cape since 1652 From 1652 there were exceptional milestones reached by the recording of genealogies. Genealogy in South Africa today is the hobby of many South Africans and a growing science. It would be unfair to say that the following list is comprehensive but it still reflects the growth and development of genealogy in South Africa. 

Boer maak toe wél ‘n plan!

Barry Vosloo 

Op 28 Junie 2012 het Jaarringe ‘n storie geplaas oor Gerrit Vosloo (1768 – 1860) wat in 1799 tydens die Van Jaarsveld-opstand op Graaff-Reinet ‘n houtkanon gemaak het. Klik HIER om toegang te verkry.