Chris Carver - 12/21/00 11:17:19
My Email:carver.fam@virgin.net
Genealogy software you use: Family Tree
Families you are researching: van der Sandt, Drake, Wooton
Where you live: England

Comments:
Newly started on research of my mother's ancestors. Fairly complete picture of her relatives from 1909 onwards, but now into more nebulous areas before that.

Adrian M. Rowe - 12/04/00 20:31:46
My Email:rowe@cybertrade.co.za
Genealogy software you use: Ultimate Family Tree
Database software you use: Ms Access
Families you are researching: Field
Where you live: Kloof, KZN

Comments:


Paula de Reuck - 11/30/00 21:33:09
My Email:dereuck@lineone.net
Families you are researching: de Reuck
Where you live: England

Comments:
Trying to trace the history of the de Reuck's in South Africa. Husband's g'father was Peter Benjeman de Reuck, believe there is a Knysna connection. Any help appreciated.

Janko Pavsic - 11/19/00 19:50:21
My URL:http://www.sgcf.com
My Email:jankopavsic@hotmail.com
Where you live: Greenfield-Park, Québec, Canada

Comments:


Stuart D Gottschalk - 11/11/00 23:49:45
My Email:stuartg@iafrica.com
Families you are researching: Gottschalk
Where you live: Cape Town

Comments:
Trying to find information on Software being used in South Africa.

Pamela Mondt - 11/10/00 04:17:26
My Email:mondt_p@hotmail.com
Families you are researching: J.Montagu+decendants
Where you live: Cleveland,Oh. USA

Comments:
Looking for records, and history of John Montagu (1797-1853)Colonial secretary of Cape Town. Need his obituary, and information on his decendants. I am his ggggrandaughter,decended from his son Alfred Worsley Montagu/e. Can anyone assist me in finding re ources? Kind regards, Pamela Mondt

Megan Wight(Shaw) - 11/08/00 16:37:01
My Email:babe999@home.com
Families you are researching: Oosthuizen/van der Berg/du Preez/Fourie(Faure)
Where you live: Abbotsford.BC.Canada

Comments:
I have just started research into the South African connections on my Mother's side. There is a Family Bible which none of the younger siblings of my eldest Aunt have been allowed to see.( I believe it is with her daughter Arlene Shuttleworth) As far as I have been told we are descendants on Mom's side,of France's "Sunking". Any help would be tremendously appreciated...Ouma died a while ago and so did all the history. Thanks.

Christopher A. Vandeloo - 11/05/00 12:12:28
My Email:vandelll@netscape.net
Families you are researching: van de Loo , Traynor
Where you live: Toronto area, Canada

Comments:
just starting could become quite a lot of fun

Ray Lecolle-Brown - 10/15/00 19:59:06
My Email:lecolle@mweb.co.za
Genealogy software you use: Family Tree Maker V7
Families you are researching: Brown (UK), Scott (SA), MacFarlane (SA), Lecolle (France)
Where you live: Gillitts, KwaZulu-Natal

Comments:


susan mattheus - 10/14/00 02:38:19
My Email:byronfamily@zfree.co.nz
Families you are researching: mattheus conry
Where you live: new zealand

Comments:
Both my paternal grandparents lived in the Cape. I have just begun researching them. The Mattheus family would appear to have lived in Somerset and the Conry family in Uitenhage.

Gerhard Whyte - 10/13/00 20:02:36
My Email:gerardwhyte@xsinet.co.za
Families you are researching: Whyte, Cleophas, Laws
Where you live: Kinross

Comments:


Hendrik Doorn - 10/06/00 18:17:10
My URL:http://www.genealiesveld.myweb.nl/
My Email:hdoornnp@superweb.nl
Genealogy software you use: Haza-Data
Families you are researching: Doorn - Monteban
Where you live: The Netherlanda

Comments:
Ziet er goed uit, vriendelijke groet uit Holland

McHarry,Michael Rainsford - 10/03/00 05:57:00
My Email:paper@iafrica.com
Families you are researching: McHarry
Where you live: Durban

Comments:
I am trying to trace our heritage.

Walter BADGE - 09/13/00 00:02:48
My Email:wjbadge@fasternet.com.au
Genealogy software you use: FTM; LDS various
Database software you use: Family Tree Maker
Families you are researching: BADGE One-Name Society #3419
Where you live: Port Macquarie Australia

Comments:
Searching BADGE who may have migrated from Cornwall and Devon as mineeers and/or Blacksmiths and Builders associated with Mine Works. Will shasre any info and answer every enquiry. Walter BADGE

Stella Sutherland - 08/31/00 21:05:28
My Email:smsutherland@one.net.au
Families you are researching: Aspeling (in SA)
Where you live: Sydney Australia

Comments:


Dawn Davies - 08/31/00 05:31:27
My Email:ddavies@defy.co.za
Families you are researching: Bertha Alice Bolt
Where you live: Durban

Comments:


Karen Tait-Lane - 08/27/00 17:53:50
My Email:karen@tait-lane.org.uk
Genealogy software you use: Family Tree (GSP)
Database software you use: MS Access
Families you are researching: Tait/Kruger/Van Bosch
Where you live: London, England

Comments:
I am researching into the Tait Family, the ascendants of Frederick and Frank Tait (twins) who were born around 1890/1900 in Stellenbosch. They were the youngest of a moderately large family (8-11) two of their older sisters was a Janet and Holly (?) Tait

Leanne Ferreira - 08/17/00 04:38:41
My Email:leannef@bigpond.net.au
Families you are researching: Ferreira, Stirrup
Where you live: Sydney, Australia

Comments:
I am starting out in researching the Ferreira family history in South Africa starting from Ignatio Ferreira being shipwrecked on route from Lisbon to India on the "Chandos" in Table Bay on the night of 16 June 1722. Various marriages include Terblanche,S utte, Cronje, Pohl in 1834, Erasmus in 1862, Pretorius, Stirrup in 1962. I am also trying to get the Ferreira coat of arms. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

PJSG du Plessis - 08/09/00 21:14:21
My Email:pauldupl@mweb.co.za
Genealogy software you use: Corel Family Tree
Database software you use: MS Access
Families you are researching: Du Plessis
Where you live: Kempton Park

Comments:


Marc Olyott - 07/18/00 12:15:00
My Email:marc.olyott@sully.co.uk
Families you are researching: OLYOTT
Where you live: Bristol U.K

Comments:
I am trying to research the appearance of the OLYOTT surname in South Africa. Around 1900 it is believed that two brothers arrived from Ireland from whom the current OLYOTTs living in SA and Zimbabewe may be related. I know that there is are OLYOTT family(ies) living in SA whom I am currently trying to contact. If you have any further information on the surname please send me an E-mail

N J R Booyse - 07/10/00 12:08:02
My URL:http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/b/o/o/Nic-J-Booyse/
My Email:njrb.dmb@mweb.co.za
Genealogy software you use: Family Tree Maker 7.5
Families you are researching: Booyse
Where you live: Pretoria

Comments:


Josephine Smith - 07/08/00 11:48:06
My Email:bigmumajo@hotmail.com
Families you are researching: FRANCIS, AUBERY
Where you live: Australia

Comments:
Am hoping to find a lost family member. Gwendoline May Francis Born 1.5.1894 in Adelaide South Australia married a man with the last name of AUBERY and moved to Durbin South Africa. I am to believe that there son was killed in a uprising date ? 1950's If any one can help with this name would love to hear from you. Josephine

Josephine Smith - 07/08/00 11:47:44
My Email:bigmumajo@hotmail.com
Families you are researching: FRANCIS, ALBERY
Where you live: Australia

Comments:
Am hoping to find a lost family member. Gwendoline May Francis Born 1.5.1894 in Adelaide South Australia married a man with the last name of AUBERY and moved to Durbin South Africa. I am to believe that there son was killed in a uprising date ? 1950's If any one can help with this name would love to hear from you. Josephine

Joan Delphien Ochoa - 07/02/00 15:51:31
My Email:Joan@jochoa.Freeserve.co.uk
Families you are researching: Brazier,Le Grange.,Osthuizen
Where you live: England

Comments:
Iam looking for links to my South African ancestors.My maternal grandfather being one Thomas Bolyon Brazier,who married Aletta Elizabeth Le Grange .Her father was Johannes Petras Le Grange,mother, Dinoh Cornelia Dorothea Geb.Osthuizen,who in turn was the aughter of Johanna Elizabeth Osthuizen.Thank You

victoria house - 06/23/00 21:25:42
My Email:rainbowcottage@callnetuk.com
Families you are researching: Edmund O'Toole
Where you live: England

Comments:
Edmund OToole won a Victoria Cross in 1879 during Zulu War. Seeking information about his life, where born, death, any recorded information - how ever small, desentants if any. He was a Sergent and then latter a Captian. But he is recorded as serving unde Captian Heany at Mashonaland in 1890 and is also recorded in "The Black and White Budget " magaizine from 1900. He is listed in the book "For Valour - the History of Southern Africa's Victoria Cross Heroes" by Ian Uys in 1973. He is said to have immigrat d to USA after 1890 but was still in South Africa (if source can be believed) in 1900. Any information is vital to research. Thanks.

MARC ANDERSON - 06/20/00 18:25:03
My Email:MarcAn@pgzim.co.zw
Families you are researching: anderson
Where you live: harare zimbabwe

Comments:


Vera Wharton - 05/30/00 21:01:46
My Email:vera.wharton@btinternet.com
Genealogy software you use: Family Tree Maker
Database software you use: Pedigree
Families you are researching: Austen
Where you live: Crowborough U.K.

Comments:
Searching for descendents of Charles John Austen born 26 June 1873. Emigrated to South Africs 1890s or early 1900s. Any information gratefuly received

h. faassen - 05/23/00 10:00:51
My Email:hfaassen@dds.nl
Genealogy software you use: gensdata
Families you are researching: vermooten
Where you live: holland

Comments:
When I send something by post, I never get any reaction. Is anybody willing to find out e-mail adresses from Vermooten families in South Africa? All Vermootens all over the world are related and descendents of Izak Vermooten born in 1672 in Leiden/Holland

Lucille Mootham - 05/09/00 21:20:15
My Email:lmootham&hotmail.com
Families you are researching: Mootham
Where you live: California, USA

Comments:


thomas sara - 05/08/00 16:24:38
My Email:sjthomas@magix.com.sg
Families you are researching: Ruiters,brookes
Where you live: Singapore

Comments:
I would like to know more about my mother's family who were Ruiters and my father's family Brooks. Both my parents lived in Port Elizabeth until approx 1953 when they emigrated to England. My mother's parents were John Percival Ruiters (a Tailor) & Martha Warmington?? I'm not sure of my grandmother's exact name as both she and her husband were illegitimate and so the family haven't been very open about the past. My father's parents were John Henry Brooks & Sophia Richards. I would love to hear from anyone who knew these families and any information would be appreciated. Thanks

N.L. Meiring - 05/05/00 09:53:10
My Email:wouts@netactive.co.za
Families you are researching: Meiring & Du Toit
Where you live: Pta

Comments:
Would like to trace familiy history of surnames as above, do not have any Genealogy Software as present, would like more info on software as well.

Peter Hyde - 05/05/00 03:34:38
My Email:loftysan@telusplanet.net
Families you are researching: Hyde and Brain
Where you live: Canada

Comments:
I am a resident in Canada. I previously lived in South Africa, Johannesburg. I am trying to trace two of my families. 1) BRAIN Michael. 2) Hyde. Charles

Kemsley Allison - 04/30/00 02:26:58
Families you are researching: Allison's arriving in 1820
Where you live: 24 Barcelona St,Wishart,Brisbane Australia

Comments:
There were three brothers that landed with the 1820 Settlers.I am a direct descendent of one of them

Sandra RANDALL - 04/25/00 00:12:22
My Email:sanran30@hotmail.com
Genealogy software you use: Family Tree Maker
Families you are researching: RANDALL
Where you live: Australia

Comments:
I'm just checking what's available - I am searching details of 1820 settlers from the RANDALL family, of wmom there were several! You have some interesting possibilities for future research.

Van Diggelen, Robert - 04/15/00 15:39:36
My Email:diakt-media@altavista.nl
Families you are researching: Van Diggelen
Where you live: The Netherlands

Comments:
Very informative site; I could not find a heraldry page. Does The Bureau of Heraldry or The Staatsheraldicus have a website? Do you have information on the Van Diggelen (Tromp van Diggelen) family? I would like to hear from you. Regards, Robert van Diggelen

brookstein - 04/11/00 16:39:25
My Email:rodbrook2485@aol.com
Families you are researching: charles garfield pirzenthal
Where you live: united states of america

Comments:
searching for my father who resided in south africa

Linda Buthelezi - 04/04/00 02:59:52
Families you are researching: Buthelezi
Where you live: United State of America

Comments:


heather goode - 03/04/00 00:13:15
Families you are researching: fisher / mcintyre
Where you live: sydney australia

Comments:
looking for relatives with above surnames please write to 219 parker street penrith nsw australia

D M Murphy - 03/01/00 22:10:19
My Email:spud70@hotmail.com
Genealogy software you use: Broderbund
Families you are researching: Murphy's
Where you live: England

Comments:
Just starting on my search will be back

Dereck Petersen - 02/22/00 11:36:47
My Email:dereck@mweb.co.za
Genealogy software you use: Corel Family Tree Master v1
Database software you use: Access
BBSs you call: none
Families you are researching: Howell, Hendricks, Tentinger
Where you live: 19 West Cross Road, Berea, Durban, 4091

Comments:
I did not know that this type of matching system existed. I need someone to help me with it. It sounds far too complicated for my two brain cells. Well done to the people who created it.

Isabel Cilliers - 02/16/00 20:36:42
My URL:http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/Kingdom/1601
My Email:ockissie@mweb.co.za
Families you are researching: I want any Info
Where you live: South Africa, Bloemfontein

Comments:
Please help me with any info or contacts, about South African History of Surnames and their plaques. I need anything I can get my hands on. I am working on surveys. Thanks.

Gert J B de Wet (Gary) - 02/02/00 01:07:49
My Email:gjbdewet@hotmail.com
Families you are researching: de Wet
Where you live: USA

Comments:
Have really enjoyed this web page. Its been very helpful. Keep up the good work maintaining it. Thanks

Peter Filmer - 01/25/00 03:53:41
My Email:filmer@global.co.za
Genealogy software you use: Brothers Keeper
Families you are researching: Filmer, McGeoch
Where you live: East London

Comments:


sheila masterton - 01/09/00 11:31:27
My Email:h.masterton@virgin.net
Genealogy software you use: family tree
Families you are researching: mc gregor christina
Where you live: scotland

Comments:
I found the site in my search for a friends relatives and hopefully it will lead me to her Sheila

Juliana Bester - 12/30/99 11:31:00
My Email:juliebes@tpg.com.au
Genealogy software you use: Family Tree Maker
Families you are researching: Kruger &Petersen/Koorts
Where you live: Melbourne Australia

Comments:
Have some info on Kruger and starting on my dads line. Families being researched are from South Africa and therefore my computer are my right hand! Anyone else following our line?

Norman Walker - 12/29/99 04:46:21
My URL:http://www.alphalink.com.au/~hockeyv
My Email:hockeyv@alphalink.com.au
Genealogy software you use: Brothers Keeper
Families you are researching: Walker
Where you live: Melb, Vic, Australia

Comments:


Tim Collard - 12/28/99 14:58:28
My Email:timcollard@ashwold.freeserve.co.uk
Genealogy software you use: Family Tree Maker
Families you are researching: Corbet Browne
Where you live: Colchester, England

Comments:


Dawn Anderson - 12/03/99 18:51:10
My Email:bilcraig@iafrica.com
Genealogy software you use: Familytree Maker and Generations
Families you are researching: Anderson,Ferreira,Ryce,Brown,Steyn,Powell,Hardy,Loxton
Where you live: Melville Johannesburg South Africa

Comments:
Just starting to research and I do have half of my immediate familys birth and death certificates

Trusson - 11/03/99 16:04:51
My URL:http://members.aol.com/dtrusson/trusson.htm
My Email:dtrusson@aol.com
Families you are researching: Trusson
Where you live: United Kingdom

Comments:
The family legand talks about a Thomas Edward Trusson (Born in 1876 in Middlesbrough, United Kingdom) who went to South Africa and became involved with mining. The family now living do not know what happened to him. Any information would be most helpfull. Thanks.

Bas Parson - 10/26/99 18:55:59
My Email:parso777@wirehub.nl
Families you are researching: Janson
Where you live: the Netherlands

Comments:
Searching for members of the "Janson" family. Johannes Henricus Janson and Bastiaan Willem Janson came about 1900 from Amsterdam to SA and settled in Dullstroom and Machadodorp.

Bas Parson - 10/26/99 18:54:18
My Email:parso777@wirehub.nl
Families you are researching: Janson
Where you live: the Netherlands

Comments:
Searching for members of the "Janson" family. Johannes Henricus Janson and Bastiaan Willem Janson came about 1900 from Amsterdam to SA and settled in Dullstroom and Machadodorp.

William Hipperson - 10/14/99 18:17:32
My Email:w@taxspec.net
Families you are researching: HIPPERSON
Where you live: UK

Comments:
I am seeking members of my family who emigated to South Africa in early 1900s

- 10/09/99 12:00:50
My Email:menhenscha@gironet.nl
Families you are researching: LE ROUX
Where you live: Netherlands

Comments:
I'd love to get in contact with/about South Africain (branch of) LeRoux family, share information on the German/Dutch branch of family who probably are related.

Cor Basson - 09/27/99 06:27:30
My Email:cbasson@mweb.co.za
Genealogy software you use: Generations Family Tree
Database software you use: Word, Generations Familie Tree
Families you are researching: Basson, McDonald, Bezuidenhout, Prinsloo
Where you live: Pretoria, Rep of South Africa

Comments:
I am a beginner and will appreciate help. Thanks !!

John Barran - 09/11/99 00:05:35
My Email:john.barran@sweetsol.demon.co.uk
Genealogy software you use: Family Tree Maker
Families you are researching: King/Beall
Where you live: Bournemouth UK

Comments:
Looking for details on Beryll Beall King or her Father Frederick Beall King. We believe Beryll was born 1899 in SA probably Johannesburg. Any help appreciated. . . . thanks

Jan & Rita Bronkhorst - 08/06/99 08:27:13
My Email:janrita@ak.planet.gen.nz
Genealogy software you use: Family Tree Maker 4.0
Database software you use: Win98
Families you are researching: Bronkhorst, Jacobs, Schoeman, Jordaan, Steyn, Roos
Where you live: Auckland, New Zealand

Comments:
Keep it up and keep the good work for the future of our people going Regards Jan & Rita

Jeni Kirk - 08/02/99 06:20:06
My Email:jenikirk@yahoo.com
Families you are researching: Kirk and Davis
Where you live: Sydney Australia

Comments:
As it is very hard to search for details on South African ancestry from Australia, I am always looking for any sites which may be of some help.

Janita Mason Ponze - 07/21/99 22:42:32
My Email:ponze@huskynet.com
Genealogy software you use: Family Tree Maker
Families you are researching: Schultz, Boyeens
Where you live: Washington DC, USA

Comments:
I am just starting to research my family in South Africa. My mother, Maria Katrina (Maude) was the first immigrant to the USA. Sugestions on resources on-line and in SA very much appreciated. Sorry, I don't know the best way to send my address; i.e., if I needed to add USA or US at the end of my e-mail address. This is a first for me. Thank you: Janita Mason Ponze . Descendants of Charles Schultz 1 Charles Schultz ......... 2 Jacob John Emitt Schultz b: June 1 in South Africa d: in South Africa ............. +Maria Boyeens b: August 30 in South Africa d: in South Africa .................... 3 Maria Katrina Schultz b: September 18, 1927 in Port Elizabeth, South Africa ........................ +Second Husband: G. Quackenbush (3 children) .................... *First Husband of Maude Catherine Schultz: ........................ +James Burch Mason b: July 20, 1922 in Buffalo, NY d: February 21, 1992 in Bradenton, Fl m: December 19, 1944 in Cape Town, South Africa ............................... 4 Janita Louise Mason b: November 24, 1947 .................... 3 George Stephen Schultz b: June 13, 1925 in Port Elizabeth, South Africa d: 1973 in Mt Pleasant, Port Elizabeth, South Africa ........................ +Minnie ............................... 4 Johnny Schultz ............................... 4 Danny Schultz .................... 3 Martin Schultz b: February 25, 1930 in Port Elizabeth, South Africa ........................ +Marta .................... 3 Eric Nemjamin Schultz b: 1936 ........................ +Arletta ......... 2 Ann Schultz .................... 3 Stephen Schultz ......... 2 Anna Marie Schultz .. +Edith b: in Devonshire, England ......... 2 Beatrice Schultz ......... 2 Leslie Schultz ......... 2 Charles Schultz ......... 2 Norman Schultz

Margaret E. Truter - 07/11/99 06:06:28
My Email:margaret_truter@hotmail.com
Families you are researching: Truter
Where you live: California, USA

Comments:
I am the author of the Truter Family Register, always looking for "more" information. Contact me at my e-mail address. Thank you.

Ruth Maughan - 07/10/99 13:58:01
My Email:minna@cfu.net
Genealogy software you use: FamilyTreeMaker
Families you are researching: Witthoft or Witthoeft
Where you live: Iowa, USA

Comments:
Hoping to find the brother of my grandfather from about 1900 or eariler. His first intials were H. C.

Brian Morris - 06/07/99 16:45:14
My Email:bernadet@netactive.co.za
Genealogy software you use: none
Database software you use: none
BBSs you call: I'm new
Families you are researching: Morris & Partington
Where you live: Durbanville

Comments:
I'm just starting to study family history. I know I'm 1820 and diamond rush stock but that's all.

stanley thurston - 05/23/99 18:06:45
My URL:http://stan@currant bun
My Email:bun0199633
Families you are researching: john moore
Where you live: stanley england

Comments:
hope to find lost brother

Sharon Lloyd - 05/17/99 23:51:07
My Email:shazineire@tiner.ie
Families you are researching: Chapman/Roome/Pringle
Where you live: Republic of Ireland

Comments:
Interesting. Will make much use of your site when my computer research programme arrives.

Steve Hayes - 05/12/99 07:17:46
My URL:http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7734/steve.htm
My Email:methodius@bigfoot.com
Genealogy software you use: Family History System, PAF 2.2, Family Edge, Family Origins for DOS v 2.0
Database software you use: Paradox, askSam, Inmagic
BBSs you call: Unisa Editorial (Pretoria), Al's Place (Durban), NUG Pretoria
Families you are researching: Vause, Growdon, Decker, Green, Beningfield
Where you live: Pretoria, Gauteng, RSA

Comments:
I'm the Webmaster and I'm testing this guest book! I'd also like to invite you to call Unisa Editorial Department BBS which has a section devoted to family and local history, community affairs and so on. The phone number is (012) 429-8641, and we welcome genalogists, family and local historians etc.