27 April 2016

" Genealogical Spin" - Great interpretation of facts

     Judy Rudd an amateur genealogy researcher in south east Queensland , was doing some personal work on her own family tree. She discovered that ex-Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's great-great uncle, Remus Rudd, was hanged for horse stealing and train robbery in Melbourne in 1889. Both Judy and Kevin Rudd share this common ancestor.
    
The only known photograph of Remus shows him standing on the gallows at the Melbourne Jail.

14 April 2016

Ferreira familie

My skoonpa, Daniel Joel Ferreira was die tweede jongste van tien kinders.
Daniel Joel Ferreira met broers en susters en hul gades
Op die begrafnis van die laaste kind, het ‘n niggie, twee neefs, sy vrou en ek bymekaar gestaan toe die een neef nl. Johann Ferreira van Interkaap, die aanmerking maak dat die familie (neefs en niggies) nou seker nie weer mekaar sal sien nie. Die ander neef, Rens Ferreira , se toe: “Hier staan drie vroue. Laat hulle vir ons ‘n Familie-saamtrek reel”.