> How did you find all this evidence? What sources are available to > find these ancestors? > > "Evelyn Bayna" <ebayna@ucsd.edu> Those of us with ancestors dating from the foundation of the cape Colony are lucky - the Dutch East India Company (correctly, the VOC) and the Dutch Reformed Church kept excellent records. The data from the registers has been published twice - an early version by de Villiers et al had assorted errors in it, and the material was checked, extended and republished at the end of the 20th century by Heese at al. Add to that the fact that I live very near the dutch National Archives, which contains most of the original documents (most things were kept in duplicate, one set left at the Cape and the other shipped back to Europe). The contribution of slaves of assorted origin to the Afrikaner gene pool was the subject of a PhD thesis some time back - a copy of this is also available in the Hague. My Khoi Khoi ancestor, Eva Krotoa, has been very well researched, and a great deal has been published about here. (Before anybody asks, looking stuff up at the Archives requires me to take a day off work). If you're really interested in this, take a look here http://home.global.co.za/~mercon/index.htm It's the central web page for S.African genealogy. Lesley Robertson Lesley Robertson <l.a.robertson@tnw.tudelft.nl>