Award for South African Genealogist

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Award for South African Genealogist

Legg inn av Steve Hayes » 02 mar 2007 09:28:03

Johann Janse van Rensburg, President of the Genealogical Sociey of South
Africa made the following announcement:

The following Award was made at the Annual general Meeting of GSSA in
Pinetown:

A Merit was presented to Mr. Richard Ball for transcribing and making the
following documents available online: . The registers of the NGK in the
Cape to 1695 . Early muster rolls (monsterrollen) of the Cape . The
Drakenstein Church registers He also published a number of genealogy
articles on the early European presence at the Cape, including new
information and interpretations on some of the progenitors (stamvaders) of
the old Cape families. His article on Susanna Claassen provoked much
discussion on the internet lists. He provided guidance and counsel to many
researchers, to consult primary sources and not to rely on secondary and
tertiary sources. In particular, he cautions against repeating inaccurate
information from past publications. As Richard says: " . I began to
discover discrepancies in the published genealogies and I decided to base
my family histories only on original documents and not on any published
works." Richard also contributed enormously to the eGSSA MOOC 13/1/1
project. He individually processed some 700 photos through editing,
improving the photo clarity, establishing an organised layout and sorting
all. He also did the layout thereof. This was a time consuming and tedious
task to edit every photo in the collection and the result of his work is
the product the eGSSA has now made available. As part of his
accomplishments, Richard has been a driving force to publish original
articles and content on the eGGSA website http://www.eggsa.org . (See:
"Contents", then "Transcriptions" and "Articles".) . Finally there is also
a list of articles that was published during 2006 just to round his
accomplishments off.




Dennis Pretorius, Krugersdorp, South Africa/Suid Afrika
Commercial Genealogical Researcher/Kommersiële Genealogiese Navorser
Owner of SAGenealogy E-mail list/Lyseienaar - SAGenealogie poslys
E-Mail/E-pos: krugersdorp@pixie.co.za
Web address/Webadres: http://mzone.mweb.co.za/residents/k75/genealogy.html
Telephone/Telefoon: +27-83-679-8541

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