Stefan (Van der Merwe) van der Merwe
Honor Code SignatorySigned 16 Nov 2015 | 1,464 contributions | 18 thank-yous | 1,511 connections
Signed 16 Nov 2015 | 1,464 contributions | 18 thank-yous | 1,511 connections
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Stefan van der Merwe formerly Van der Merwe
Born 1970s.
Ancestors 
Son of
[private father (1940s - unknown)]
and [private mother (1950s - unknown)]
Brother of
[private brother (1970s - unknown)] and [private brother (1970s - unknown)]
Father of
[private son (1990s - unknown)] and [private daughter (2000s - unknown)]
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships by comparing test results with Stefan or other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships by comparing test results with Stefan or other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
- Francesco Rootenberg
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Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 831 markers, haplogroup R-M6489, FTDNA kit #631312
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100.00%
100.00%
Stefan (Van der Merwe) van der Merwe:
Living DNA, GEDmatch Z887023 [compare]
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~0.39%
Elizabeth (dù Toit) Theron :
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Featured National Park champion connections: Stefan is 22 degrees from Theodore Roosevelt, 12 degrees from Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, 21 degrees from George Catlin, 24 degrees from Marjory Douglas, 30 degrees from Sueko Embrey, 22 degrees from George Grinnell, 20 degrees from Anton Kröller, 23 degrees from Stephen Mather, 19 degrees from Kara McKean, 25 degrees from John Muir, 18 degrees from Victoria Hanover and 32 degrees from Charles Young on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.
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Would you be so kind as to remove the COGH from this profiles trusted / Manager list please? Thanks in advance R
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The question that was asked: Do Afrikaners (Dutch settlers in South Africa) have distinct surnames from Dutch people?
The answer was: Yes and no. A name like Van der Merwe is rather Afrikaans but when I was a kid our neighbors across the street had that name. I am sure that they never went abroad in their life and spoke nothing but a dialect of Dutch that is now extinct. Sometimes the same name is found in different spelling like Dutch Van Rooijen and Afrikaans Van Rooyen. The capitalization of the preposition van is also different. Jaap van Rooijen would be a Dutchman, but Japie Van Rooyen an Afrikaner. In a telephone directory -do they still exist?- you’d find the first under R, the second under V. In Flanders they side with the Afrikaners on that btw.
There are also a lot of surnames in South Africa that hark back to the French names of the Huguenot ancestors like Labuscagne or Du Toit. You might find Huguenot names in the Netherlands but they are rare. Many of them went to the Cape.
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