Hello Dunia Welcome to our mailing list - we are here to help you. There are plenty of experience genealogists on this mailing list although many of them are lurkers but it just takes someone like you to pull them out of the cupboard. Please send to the list your query or problem along with as many names, dates and places as possible and we will see what we can do to help you. kind regards Heather - wet, cold and rainy Lakeside Heather's South African Genealogy Help List at www.genealogy.co.za is soon due to be re-vamped and re-launched. This web site will have more content and more surprises.......please keep watching my home page for the latest announcements. Join the Cape Town Family History Society www.genealogy.co.za/society/socweb.htm Join the Cape Town Mailing list at http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/ZAF/SOUTH-AFRICA-CAPE-TOWN.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dunia mcMaster" <duniamac@telkomsa.net> To: <SOUTH-AFRICA-CAPE-TOWN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 12:02 AM Subject: [South-Africa-Cape-Town] New Hi Heather and Members, As a new member [and very new to searching]I shall introduce myself-- my name is Dunia McMaster and I also live back in the Fairest Cape [although wet at the moment] after being a mother and farmers wife in Ladysmith, KZN for 24 years. My maternal grandfather was born in Paneveyzs, Lithuania, went to the UK then came to SA. My grandmother's side, which was German and French but not sure if they came out in 1820 or not. My father's grandfather also came out here from Russia, he landed in PE, went to Bloemfontein where he worked and later married. This is what I'd like to trace and do some searching, so hopefully some kind member will be able to help steer me in the right direction! So far the 'brick walls' don't want to open! So I am also desperate for help. Regards Dunia ==== SOUTH-AFRICA-CAPE-TOWN Mailing List ==== Heather's South African Genealogy Help List www.genealogy.co.za ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237