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  • Hugh John Mungo Grant

    Hugh Grant, actually Hugh John Mungo Grant is an extremely well educated chap. He is also a well-known British actor. British to the root, most would say. Well, do I have news for you!
    His roots do not all pass into the soul of Notting Hill or Scotland - it passes deep through our Mother City, [...]

  • 5 Things you probably did not know about South Africa

    It is commonly believed that the first person to land in South Africa from Europe was Jan van Riebeeck. Wrong! It was Bartholomew Diaz in 1486 when he landed at Angra Pequena, nowadays called Luderitz Bay and it is in Namibia. In those days Namibia was legally part of the Republic of South Africa and [...]

  • Mothers Day

    This might be slightly late, however, rather late than never
    Officially it started in the United States, West Virginia to be exact, in 1908. A young lady named Anna Jarvis was the person who got the ball rolling. Anna’s mother was very active in organizing woman’s groups that promoted friendship within the community, [...]

  • So you want to do a family tree of your family?

    In ancient times no such thing existed and since we lived in tiny, closely knitted communities and we believe such information was passed on by word of mouth. Early scrolls provide scant information and as soon as they started showing up, we depended on the census records here. Once we learnt to write, we started [...]

  • The need for written records in genealogy - the KhoiKhoi.

    It is difficult, even impossible, for someone of Khoisan descent to build a family tree that goes back further than two, maybe three generations.
    It is generally believed that the Khoikhoi arrived in the Cape about 2,000 years ago, having migrated South from outside South African borders. A peaceful people they were hunters gatherers.
    In order to [...]

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