On 21 Nov 2011, at 3:42 PM, Michele Cocker wrote: > You guys may want to add some ASIAN and AFRICAN to the mix. > > Have a look at The Cape Melting Pot by HF Heese I quite agree -- these would be particularly applicable to my Afrikaans grandmother (but not the other three grandparents, who came of some rural and some newly-academic Scottish stock, without any marine connections I have ever heard of, which means less scope for such mixtures), and to three of my wife's grandparents, one called Smith but possibly descended from a St Helena family, and two Afrikaans (Beelders and van Graan) with a "v.d.Kaap" showing up here and there in their lines. That's why I covered both settlers and slaves in my previous comment. Anyone with Heese and Lombard can look these names up; I got them from a friend's copy. Andrew Rodger rodgera@audioio.com