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<blockquote data-quote="Quid est Veritas?" data-source="post: 70303251" data-attributes="member: 385144"><p>I have been following my ancestors back to their arrival in my country. I am trying to build my entire tree back to all the first arrivals in South Africa. My direct paternal line came in 1692. My direct maternal line in 1743. I have other ancestors that came with the first permanent European presence in 1652. </p><p></p><p>I am white with blue eyes and blond hair yet I have discovered Indonesian, Indian (Tamil and Bengali), Chinese, Arabic, Angolan, Khoisan, Danish, Italian and Malaysian ancestry in addition to the expected French, Dutch, German and English ancestry. This is because the first generations tended to marry their slaves or freedman's daughters before marrying European immigrants thereafter.</p><p></p><p>Interestingly, my grandmother did much of the groundwork, but doing so during the height of Apartheid, whenever she saw a non-white, she either stopped that line or fudged a white ancestor.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Quid est Veritas?, post: 70303251, member: 385144"] I have been following my ancestors back to their arrival in my country. I am trying to build my entire tree back to all the first arrivals in South Africa. My direct paternal line came in 1692. My direct maternal line in 1743. I have other ancestors that came with the first permanent European presence in 1652. I am white with blue eyes and blond hair yet I have discovered Indonesian, Indian (Tamil and Bengali), Chinese, Arabic, Angolan, Khoisan, Danish, Italian and Malaysian ancestry in addition to the expected French, Dutch, German and English ancestry. This is because the first generations tended to marry their slaves or freedman's daughters before marrying European immigrants thereafter. Interestingly, my grandmother did much of the groundwork, but doing so during the height of Apartheid, whenever she saw a non-white, she either stopped that line or fudged a white ancestor. [/QUOTE]
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