1. De Beer family tree in South Africa. 2. The proginator's roots in Europe/Finland/Russia/Sweden. 3. The history of Geertruida, the slave child, of Matthijs Andriesz de Beer and Maria van de Caab. 4. Maria van de Caab. 5. Hilletjie Smit, wife of De Beer. From the Netherlands. 6. Jan Abraham Jacobus Janse van Rensburg, my mother. 7. Nicolette Aletta Coetzee, my wife, and her progenitor, Dirk Coetzee.
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I’ve noticed that you seem to have South African Roots like me, may I give you some tips for South African research?
In South African research we have a few quirks and rules ~ a particular one is to please use the correct Country Name as was used at the time of the event. Another one is Name fields on profiles.
Perhaps you would like to join the South African Roots Project? Besides links to sources, there are help pages that might also be useful. Many / most of the South African genealogical lines and profiles of the eighteenth and seventeenth periods (and earlier) have already been made. Many have also been validated with primary sources. A few handy links:
(In Afrikaans) - in Suid-Afrika, Nederland en elders word die tussenvoegsel in vanne met klein letters gespel, tensy dit anders op die primêre rekords gespel word, byvoorbeeld van der Merwe, van der Walt, van den Berg, du Preez, de Villiers ens. Die vanne wat aangemaak word met tussenvoegsels in hoofletters (dit gebeur automaties in WikiTree) , kan jy regmaak deur dit in “edit” mode te verander in 'n van met klein tussenvoegsels (met as rede aangee dat dit die konvensie is vir Afrikaanse vanne), en dan weer te “save”.
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I cannot fully complete my registration re the DNA-Y test because the system reads me as a woman.
If Wikiteee is connected to Geni then it might be part of the problem, as I cannot access my Geni account due to a "Eva Luther" that is now showing ip on my page.
Tnx. Arnold
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