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I had two step granddads.nobody ever talked about the first dads.on my fathers side I had met some of my grannies family when I wa a child.I never even knew my grannies names until recently and I am now 66 .to confound it all in 1900 the northern part of south africa was at war with great brittain and out of a small population thousand died or were displaced,
My mother always told us that she was a decendant of the voortrekker leader andries pretorius and I found her dads name as marthinus hermanus pretorius d 1935 brixton gyard.but tracing him further back has led nowhere.
On my fathers side I discovered my granny had been married three times, she was widowed twice but so far that is what I know.first bisschoff,,then willem johannes jacobus smit but that is how far I could go,the last husband was johannes christiaan smit.I know she had brother lambert vos a farmer I the swartruggens area north west province south africa in about 1958 ,she also had a sister who was married to a mr mc or mac donald ,also a cattle farmer in that area.

Surnames: bisschoff lantze pretorius roodt smit tintinger van der merwe
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on 2014-04-08 03:50:57

Researching my lost family,with two step grandfathers I had no idea where my famly came from and who they were

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by stevech63 on 2014-04-10 16:35:41

Christrian,
I went to my local library (it has a subscription to Ancestry.com) and "Googled" your kinsmen, Willem, etc...
Here's a link on what I got for Willem:
http://records.ancestry.com/Johannes_Jacobus_Smit_records.ashx?pid=18903457

and this for Andries:
http://trees.ancestrylibrary.com/tree/13091415/person/12808777030
Google can give you a way to view these pages without a subscription; good thing, too- my Scottish blood is way too cheap, I mean, thrifty, to allow my getting a subscription! LOL!

by christiaan1 on 2014-04-10 17:00:21

Hey that is great so much appreciate any help I get .

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