Hi there, family of South African Progenitors
Does anyone want to help with tracking the genealogy and especially the descendents of Jan Smuts? The ancestors are mostly Dutch/ French, as far as I can see (And his great grandfather was a VOC employee who I've added as one of the original progenitors arriving at the Cape.)
This is the profile I've created (and appended in About Me the stuff I can find on the net, with sites) - but it is infernally difficult to track his 6 children and then grandchildren - apparantly because the name died out on the paternal side.
But his genes didn't!
It seems to me to be a profile we SA Geni trackers should have accurately documented for ourselves, but don't.
I could do with some help, though. Anyone game? (I know there's a genealogy doc at his house/museum in Irene) but someone needs to go there and get it, because it's not on the net! (There's a great Irene monthly market at the site, if you want to combine the two - search google for the dates.)
Warm regards
Sharon Doubell (upwardspiral@iburst.co.za)
