Dear Martina I am glad that I checked the South African rootsweb page today as I was going to download the Afrikaans version of your article to Google translator to read the story in English, though the translations are not very well done. I have no genealogical interest in the Jonker surname, but the story seemed interesting from what I could see in the recent Familia. So all I had to do was download the English version you had already prepared. Thank you Sonia Tkachuk van Heerden Toronto, Canada > > Message: 4 > Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2015 07:27:35 +1000 > From: "Em Lo" <mlouw1@bigpond.net.au> > Subject: [SOUTH-AFRICA] New article about the origins of the JONKER > pregenitor published > To: <SOUTH-AFRICA@rootsweb.com> > Cc: Jaco Strauss <jacostrauss@gmail.com> > Message-ID: <000c01d0a231$f01c0610$d0541230$@bigpond.net.au> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > I am happy to announce that an in-depth article written by myself and fellow > genealogist Jaco Strauss about the (previously) controversial origins of the > South African JONKER progenitor has just been published in the GGSA > publication Familia [52] 2015-2. > > > > We believe the debate around Adolph Jonker's origins has now been settled > once and for all by the facts presented in this article. > > > > We spent a lot of time and effort doing rigorous documentary research, we > also analysed the DNA profiles of two separate lines of descent from Adolph > Jonker and came to the following conclusions: > > . Adolph Jonker was of Indonesian descent in his paternal line > > . Adolph Jonker was the son of free slaves Jonker van Makassar and > Rosetta van Java > > . Jonker van Makassar was not the same person as the so-called > Prince of Ternate, as previously alleged. > > > > An English summary of our article is available on the Stamouers website at > http://www.stamouers.com/index.php/stamouers/surnames-h-to-j/231-jonker-adol > ph > > > > Kind regards, > > Martina Louw. > > (Brisbane, Australia) > > > > > > ------------------------------ >